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[dramatic music]

[Narrator] Next,

Detective Tony Godwin faces an all or nothing choice

as he races to take down a child predator.

[Tony] We have yet to get 100% visual on his face.

I have a decision to make. Do we stay or do we go?

[Narrator] After Tony's team arrests him,

he reveals his devious intentions.

[Agent] FBI, open the door!

[Narrator] Then someone at this house downloaded

child sexual abuse material.

- [Narrator] Was it the father? - Yes, ma'am.

[Narrator] Or the son?

[Narrator] The truth is more disturbing

than Tony could ever imagine.

[dramatic music continues]

And the team scrambles to identify the owner

of child sexual abuse material dumped outside a church.

Very disturbing images of very young girls...

The guy's a monster.

[Narrator] When Tony finally catches up with him,

he presents an unusual defense.

Unbelievable!

This guy has got a serious problem.

- [Officer] Get on the ground! - [dramatic music continues]

[Narrator] A team of police professionals

in North Dallas has one goal.

[Officer #2] Get out of the car!

[Narrator] Take down online predators before they harm

a real child.

Child predators are everywhere.

[Narrator] Online predators pose the biggest danger

to America's children today.

Kids are being targeted at an alarming rate.

[dramatic music continues]

[Narrator] This team is opening its case files

for the first time to show you how it tracks them down.

[dramatic music continues]

[Tony] All right. He's coming this way

[Narrator] And brings them to justice by any means necessary.

- [dramatic music continues] - Get your hands on the car.

[Narrator] This is Detective Tony Godwin, and his team is...

the Predator Hunters.

[suspenseful music]

December 13, 2012:

Tony's team pursues a suspect along a highway in North Dallas.

[siren blares]

Tony believes the driver of this pickup is a determined predator

that he first encountered just hours earlier.

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But he's been unable to make a positive I.D.

Is this Tony's suspect,

or is the real predator still on the loose?

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[Tony] Rodney Thompson.

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This is the fastest takedown I've ever conducted.

From first contact to his arrest was under four hours.

We didn't know we had the right guy till we

actually arrested him.

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We had to act rapidly

and really think creatively to catch this predator.

[suspenseful music continues]

- [gentle music] - [keyboard tapping]

[Tony] It's Christmas time of 2012,

and I'm on the internet trolling around, looking for somebody

to hit on me.

In 2012, all the kids were in these Yahoo chat rooms just

to talk to people and do so with a bit of anonymity.

Problem was, these rooms were littered with predatory types.

I set up a profile under the name Britany,

a 14-year-old girl from Texas.

I use images of a colleague of mine who has provided me consent

to use her photographs in these undercover cases.

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Once I get the profile established,

I go into a room called Texas Two, and I just sit and wait.

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Within a couple of minutes, I get a direct message.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

The user's name is Ryche0426.

Imagine my surprise. What does he wanna know from me?

How old I am.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

I let him know right away I'm 14, but I'll be 15 soon.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

This is where he should say, "Hey, I'm really sorry.

"You're too young. Thanks for your time.

Be careful. There's a lotta weirdos here."

But that's not what happens. He replies back that he's 38.

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He doesn't seem to have a care in the world

that he's talking to a child.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

I don't think his name is Mike.

It's a big difference from the username,

so I'm guessin' that's probably not true.

He sends a request for me to accept his webcam.

I accept; I might get a good visual of what he looks like.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

He's a white male, late 30s, early 40s, kinda goin' bald.

He's got wire-rimmed glasses on.

But the weird thing is,

this guy has no shirt on right off the bat.

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I'm not gonna turn my webcam on,

but I said I would give him a photo.

So I send pictures of Britany as I promised.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

He then escalates, saying, "Send me a sexy picture."

[suspenseful music continues]

I'm not doin' that. Nice try.

[suspenseful music continues]

I need him to be very clear what his true intentions really are.

So I send him a message and he replies right back.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

Typically, an investigation like this can go

on for several weeks,

but we're 40 minutes into this conversation.

This guy's askin' if we can meet up and go shopping together.

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This guy's on fire.

I've never had one move this fast.

[tense music]

Over the next hour, things escalate pretty quickly.

- [tense music continues] - [computer beeps]

He asks if I have any interest in penises.

- [tense music continues] - [computer beeps]

I'm a grown man, a big dude, married with kids.

No, I don't wanna see your penis,

but I'm gonna go ahead and play along with you, sir.

- [tense music continues] - [computer beeps]

Thank you very much, sir. You've just committed a crime:

transfer obscene material to a minor.

I feel almost obligated to reply back.

And so I make some sort of compliment about the size.

- [tense music continues] - [computer beeps]

The next thing I know, he starts masturbating.

All unbelievable evidence

because I'm screen recording everything that he's doing.

[tense music continues]

Then he tells me somethin' that really changes everything.

- [suspenseful music] - [computer beeps]

He's got access to kids?

The urgency of this thing just went up big time.

I wanna know more. So I asked him about his family.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

He has a son and a daughter. His daughter is 14.

[suspenseful music continues]

This guy's talking sexually

to this 14-year-old profile of mine

when he has a daughter the same age.

That's a big problem.

I need to act fast to make somethin' happen

and get this guy in custody.

I know that if we're friends on Yahoo chat rooms,

there's a chance I could see more biographical information.

So I suggest we add each other. Boom. He accepts it.

And I was right.

I get to see now a full name, Mike Johnson.

I need to try to find out some information.

So I ask him, "What's your favorite car?"

- [tense music continues] - [computer beeps]

Very nice information. Thank you for that.

[tense music]

[Narrator] Tony enlists Detective Clint McNear

to unmask Mike Johnson.

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We have some very important pieces of information.

We have an age.

He's 38 years old.

We know that he has two children.

Their ages are 12 and 14.

We know we have a possible name, Mike Johnson.

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And lastly, he drives a Chevy.

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I take all the information that we have,

I put it in the police database, and I end up

with a big fat zero,

which tells me Mike Johnson is probably a fake name.

Our predator's lied to us.

[tense music continues]

[Tony] I'm kinda hunting blind.

In my mind, this guy is an immediate danger to children.

I have no idea who this guy is, where this guy is,

but his enthusiasm is something I think I can really exploit.

[suspenseful music continues]

[computer beeps]

I suggest the movie theater.

It's a really good location

because it's got a lotta visibility

and it's easy for him to find.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

12:30. Only gives me, like, 90 minutes

to put together an operation.

That's probably the fastest this has ever happened

in my entire career.

[dramatic music]

[Narrator] Clint races to devise the takedown plan.

[Clint] This is a satellite view of the theater.

There's a sporting goods store next door.

Tony is parked in an unmarked vehicle here where he can get

to the theater quickly,

as well as see the entire front view.

I only have a picture of this guy,

and I have what I believe is a vehicle he uses,

but not much else to go on.

There are so many things

that can go wrong with this takedown.

He could spot one of our covert cars.

He could see some of our surveillance.

He could just get spooked and chicken out.

[Clint] We have this entire theater surrounded

to manage the situation and to get him into custody.

We're in place. We're waiting.

We're takin' him down.

[suspenseful music]

[Narrator] Tony's team prepares a high-risk takedown

at a North Texas movie theater.

All Tony has to go on is a grainy image of the predator...

- [suspenseful music continues] - [computer beeps]

...and a description of his vehicle.

[Tony] I don't see this guy out in front of the theater.

Then I get a report from my surveillance team.

A person matching the suspect's description has gone inside

the sporting goods store.

My first thought is,

is he tryin' to lure us out from where we're sitting?

We've got to process this quickly.

Still, while being concealed and not getting burned.

You're tryin' to make split second decisions.

I could order a team to move in,

but we have yet to get 100% visual on his face

to confirm he's the guy in our photo.

It could be anybody.

And so we just sit and wait.

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[Narrator] The man makes a purchase and heads for the exit.

[Tony] The surveillance team see him leaving the store

and walking back towards the truck.

I don't know what is goin' on at this point.

[Clint] And then the worst case scenario happens.

His truck drives off and he leaves.

I have a decision to make. Do we stay or do we go?

Tony tells us, "Go get him."

[intense music]

[Narrator] Tony and Clint follow the suspect's vehicle

onto the highway.

[Tony] We still don't know at this point if it's

an innocent civilian or a dangerous predator.

We can't just simply pull this guy over.

We have to have a reason,

and then we get a stroke of luck.

He's got a brake light that's out.

Bam!

We've got a lawful reason to get this guy pulled over.

[Tony] We're getting pulled over on this traffic violation.

But is this the guy that we've been lookin' for?

[suspenseful music]

They ask him to step out.

[Clint] It's the guy in the photo that Tony sent.

[suspenseful music continues]

He's not askin'...

you know, "What the hell's goin' on?

Why are you stoppin' me?"

I get his driver's license.

We finally have a real name. Rodney Thompson.

This is the fastest meet

and takedown I've ever had my entire career.

It's only been a total

of four hours since I initially communicated with this guy.

And here he is in handcuffs. It's a really good feeling.

[intense music continues]

[suspenseful music]

[Tony] Going into this interview,

I have no idea if this guy's gonna lie to me

or tell me the truth.

Man... You don't get that very often.

A guy who tells you the law almost verbatim for what it is.

Wow. It's like it's not a big deal.

It's just like, "Yeah, I did this."

And he's very open about it,

which is really kinda throwin' me.

The next thing he says really alarms me.

[Tony] This probably explains why he's so calm

and so cooperative.

And I guess it sort of explains how he knew what the law was

and quoted it back

to me when I asked him initially.

He's been here before. He just can't stop.

[intense music]

[suspenseful music]

[Narrator] May 2022: Tony joins the FBI on a dawn raid.

[Agent] FBI! Sam Allen, open the door!

[Narrator] The feds have Intel that someone living

at this property downloaded hundreds of images

of child sexual abuse material.

They must find out...

Was it the father...

- [Officer #3] Mr. Allen. - Yes, sir.

[Narrator] Or the son?

[Officer #3] I'm with the task force.

Can you come with me?

The reality turns out to be more twisted

than Tony could ever imagine.

[suspenseful music continues]

Usually we focus in on one suspect.

But this case, unbelievably, this was a father and son duo:

Samuel Allen and his son, Christopher Allen.

We had solid evidence that one of these guys was responsible

for downloading child sex abuse material.

But figuring out which one was a real challenge.

[suspenseful music continues]

I get cases a number of ways.

Sometimes I'm out there seeking a predator to hit on me

in an undercover capacity.

Sometimes I get a tip from the public.

In this case,

it came to me through Jen Mullican,

my contact at the FBI.

Jen works on the Child Exploitation Unit.

It's a real pleasure to work with her because she is in it

to win it and it doesn't matter what the sacrifice is.

[dramatic music]

In May 2022, I get a notification that somebody

in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is downloading child

sexual abuse material via a peer-to-peer platform.

Peer-to-peer file sharing is where two particular users share

direct computer-to-computer without having

to go through another platform.

Some of the images are of children under ten years old.

It's horrendous to look at.

It's horrendous to know that it's being produced.

[suspenseful music]

I subpoenaed the service provider for the IP address.

I get an address and I get a name: Samuel Allen.

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He's 58 years old.

I run the name through the DMV database and I get an address.

And that address is the same on the IP address information.

That tells me that I definitely have the right place.

I also get his vehicle information, a black 2014 Mazda.

And I find out that Samuel Allen lives at that residence

with a wife, a daughter, and a son.

[suspenseful music continues]

The son's name is Christopher Allen.

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Predominantly this kind of activity is conducted by males.

So I'm gonna focus my investigation on Samuel

and Christopher Allen.

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A check of further database records shows

that Samuel Allen is an engineer.

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Christopher is a teacher.

He could be producing images and videos depicting any

of the students in his classes.

This becomes a top priority case.

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I have got to find out what's going on at this house.

[tense music]

I get a search warrant,

and we pick a date to approach the house and knock on the door

and see what's goin' on in there.

[suspenseful music]

[Agent] FBI! Sam Allen, come to the door!

We have a warrant!

I've done hundreds and hundreds of these raids.

You never lose that kind of excitement.

[Agent] FBI!

[Agent] FBI! Open the door!

Suddenly somebody comes to the door.

It's Samuel Allen. He has no idea what's goin' on.

- [Tony] Mr. Allen? - Yes, ma'am. I mean, yes, sir.

All right, listen, we're gonna take these handcuffs off you.

I just need you to cooperate with me.

- Yeah, sure... Yes. - [Tony] Okay? All right.

[Tony] I know we got you outta bed, and you're all little--

Yes. I don't know what the heck's--

[Tony] We're gonna walk over to this truck.

I want to have a conversation with you, okay?

Yes, sir.

- [Tony] Okay, come with me. - Yes.

[Tony] Let's get in the front seat, Sam.

[Tony] As it turns out,

this is gonna

be an interview unlike anything I've ever done before.

[suspenseful music]

[Narrator] Detective Tony Godwin interviews Samuel Allen

to unlock the mystery of who, at his home,

downloaded child sexual abuse material via

a peer-to-peer network.

I am on what's called the Northern Texas

Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

- Okay... Okay. - [Tony] Okay?

[Tony] What I'm here today about specifically is...

child pornography.

Illicit material is being shared back and forth from here

at this house, uploaded, downloaded.

Is that something you've ever done or participated in?

[Tony] Regular porn?

[Tony] Okay.

Do you do anything related to file sharing?

Like what, music, movies, that kinda stuff?

[Tony] Okay.

This is an image of a young girl performing an oral sex act

on a male.

Does that look familiar to you at all?

All I'm doing is watching him and his expressions.

He did his... like a "Ooh" face. Like...

Like, "Uh..." He was in disagreement.

And that was a very immediate response, so it seemed genuine.

He's clearly denying that it's him.

I do think I need to have a chat with the son as well.

[suspenseful music continues]

[Narrator] FBI agents are detaining Christopher Allen

in another vehicle.

As Tony approaches,

one of the agents hands him Christopher's phone.

Now I wanna know, "What's on this device?"

Hey, Christopher. Hey, I'm Tony Godwin.

I'm with the task force. Can you come with me?

We're gonna switch trucks over here,

and I'm gonna have a conversation with you

about some stuff.

This is... That's my body cam. We gotta have that goin'.

That's... part of our process.

Look at the guy's face. He literally looks sick.

Maybe you were right when you were thinkin'

that. Maybe it wasn't the dad that was doin' it.

When I tell you that everybody here

on this task force is here related to child exploitation,

does it give you any indication why we would

be havin' a conversation with you?

[suspenseful music continues]

[Tony] Tell me about it.

[Tony] Okay... And related to kids?

As we talk about child pornography...

Have you seen those types of images and videos?

[suspenseful music continues]

[Tony] Are you talkin' about anime

or are you talkin' about somethin' else?

[Tony] Drawings...

There is some very,

very sexually graphic, deviant material that's anime-related.

It's cartoon-related or AI-generated.

There is a charge that can be levied against somebody

that looks at that.

But that's not what I'm there to investigate.

I'm there to investigate specific child sex abuse

material I know was downloaded from that home.

He just looks like a balloon ready to pop.

We just need to stick with it

and see what else he's gonna come up with.

Do you look at child pornography on this specific device?

There's like, I think... over 13,000...

items in here.

Do you utilize file sharing programs?

Have you ever?

[Tony] Christopher does not know what file sharing is about.

Even though what he's got is a problem, he's not our guy.

All right, sir. Come on out.

[gentle music]

I need to go back and talk to his dad.

So what I'm thinkin'

at this moment is the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree.

If I was gonna go out on a limb and say, who's our guy?

I'm pointin' to Samuel.

He's the only one that's even made any admission

to file sharing.

And that is why we're here.

[Narrator] Detective Tony Godwin questions Samuel Allen

for a second time.

Here's the thing.

Your son doesn't know anything about file sharing.

- Okay. - Nothing.

I know you said you look at adult pornography.

- Mm-hmm. - Is it possible

that you downloaded child pornography in that process?

What a weak-ass denial.

"If I did, it was an accident." [chuckles] Okay.

[Jen] You've been investigating child sexual abuse

material for years.

Have you ever accidentally downloaded child porn?

Never. Not one time. It just doesn't happen.

Exactly.

[Tony] It's an excuse that gets brought up in court

by so many defendants.

- It doesn't happen. - [Jen] No.

If he's being accused of child pornography,

he should be angry with you. But he's not.

[Tony] This is definitely gonna

be the guy who did the file sharing.

No question in my mind.

He's just struggling with admitting it.

[Narrator] Since Sam Allen refuses to confess,

Tony calls in a canine assistant.

We're bringing what's called an electronic service dog

to your house. - Mm-hmm.

[Tony] He's on his way.

It'll be about 15 minutes, and he'll be here.

That dog is very,

very specifically trained to sniff out SD cards, SIM cards,

memory cards, thumb drives, that kind of stuff.

- Yeah. - [Tony] The ESD dogs help us

locate devices that could have been missed during

a physical search.

[Narrator] The dog locates Samuel Allen's laptop.

Digital forensic specialists scan it for illegal material.

[Tony] On that laptop,

they found multiple images and videos

of child sex abuse material.

The material found was what initially triggered the FBI

investigation into the Allen family.

So all along, it was the father.

When Jen takes him down to the federal jail,

Samuel changes his position.

[Jen] He confesses that he was involved

with child sexual abuse material and obtained these files

from the internet.

[Narrator] A forensic analysis

of Christopher Allen's phone finds

child sexual abuse material,

as well as the illegal anime that he described to Tony.

With one search warrant,

we got two offenders, so a two-for-one per se.

[intense music]

This is really a pretty extraordinary case.

You have a father and a son,

both looking at deviant material involving kids,

both of them possessing material that's terrible.

And neither one of them knows about each other?

Like, that is, like, mind blowing to think about.

[suspenseful music]

[Narrator] December 2009: Tony interrogates the owner

of one of the largest collections

of child sexual abuse material he's ever discovered.

[Narrator] Tony is used to predators twisting logic

to justify their depraved fantasies,

but this offender takes it to a whole new level.

[suspenseful music continues]

This guy, William McBurney?

His addiction to child sex abuse material is so prolific,

he must have spent every waking moment

looking at it, storing it.

When we did find this guy,

the size of the collection shocked me and my entire team.

[suspenseful music continues]

In 2009, I was contacted by a Dallas detective.

A church janitor handed him a bag with a laptop

and two hard drives that were found inside of a dumpster.

Thinking these might have been taken in a burglary,

he searched one of the devices

to figure out who they belonged to.

What he actually found was a huge amount

of child sex abuse material, and I mean a huge amount.

[tense music]

That detective handed off everything to me

because this is the crime type that I work every day.

The three devices were a laptop

that had an 80-gigabyte hard drive,

an external hard drive that was 250 gigs,

and then a third hard drive that was 16 gigabytes.

In 2009, that... that was a big amount of data.

We were used to much smaller devices.

So what I do is submit these to a lab for analysis.

And what I get back is absolutely staggering:

24 gigabytes, 16,922 images,

1,442 videos

containing child sex abuse material from the ages

of two months old,

things that I'm never going to be able to unsee.

Babies...

I am absolutely determined to figure out who this is

and put him in jail.

[suspenseful music]

[Narrator] Detective Tony Godwin analyzes hard drives containing

child sexual abuse material for clues

that will reveal who dumped them.

[Tony] There's an ocean of material on these drives.

There's just image after image after image.

I don't wanna have to see it, but I have to do it.

It pays off.

I'm able to find some photos that are not pornographic,

and they're dated back to 2004.

This middle-aged white male with a mustache...

Maybe this is our guy.

The photos are in a folder with the name of William.

[suspenseful music continues]

One of the photos shows a woman and a young child that looks

to be about five years of age.

This could be a family photo.

Or this could be, you know,

a guy with his daughter and his grandkid.

It's really kinda hard to determine.

Now there's a child involved. It just ups the ante.

It just raises the priority level and the importance

of figurin' out who he is and where he is.

I find some other pictures of motorcycles, a car,

and a van.

In one of the photos, I can see a license plate.

[suspenseful music continues]

This I can use. I take the information I found.

I pass it on to my colleague Clint McNear,

see what he can find.

[suspenseful music continues]

[Clint] I run the license plate through the DMV here in Texas,

and I get a name: William Turner McBurney.

And the date of birth? September 14th, 1952.

The photo in the driver's license matches the photo

that Tony had found during the evidence search.

The address on his driver's license is one mile

from the church where the evidence had been dumped.

- [camera clicks] - [suspenseful music]

[Tony] On December Eighth of 2009,

I'm watchin' the house like a hawk.

I sit there for basically a whole day

and I don't see any signs of life.

I try again. I go back for a second day.

I sit there the whole day, I see nothing.

On day three, I get a little luck.

I see a woman and child leave the front of the residence,

and they turn around to say goodbye.

And I see her kiss

and embrace a white male that's in the doorway.

It's William McBurney.

[dramatic music]

It's confirmation that he's got a child.

What that does is make this the biggest priority I have.

We have to act fast.

We put together a search warrant and an arrest warrant.

And within two hours, we're back at this residence,

knockin' on the door of this predator.

[suspenseful music]

[Narrator] Body worn cameras are yet to become standard issue

for Texas police officers.

Tony and his team do wear audio recording devices.

- [suspenseful music continues] - [knocking on door]

What we found behind this door...

is somethin' I'm never gonna forget.

He really does sound pretty harmless and pretty friendly,

but it's gonna go one of two ways.

Either he's gonna clam up

or he's gonna open up like a book,

and he's just gonna tell me everything.

Wouldn't it be nice if all predators,

when they throw their computer away,

they just stop preying on children?

That would be kind of a rare thing.

That doesn't happen very often.

Those computers were under your name.

Those are your files.

Just because you throw it away didn't mean

the crime didn't happen.

And, clearly, he can't grasp that.

[tense music]

[Tony] William McBurney's arrested for possession

of child pornography for the material found in the dumpster.

He's really chill. Pretty laid back.

Like, his only real concern is, like, wantin' to change clothes.

[Narrator] Tony's team searches McBurney's residence.

A number of devices were found at McBurney's residence,

which were all seized to be examined at the forensic lab.

[Narrator] One device is a thumb drive found inside the pocket

of the shorts that McBurney removed when he was arrested.

Tony interrogates McBurney at the police department.

[Tony] In nearly 20 years in this line of work,

I've listened to predators use all manner of excuses

to justify their behavior,

but nothing as weird as what McBurney's about to tell me.

[tense music]

- [cackling] - [Tony] You would guess.

The material involves the sexual abuse and rape

of young children, some infant age.

I don't really think Jesus would be too condoning

of that kind of behavior.

The fact that he threw it away means nothing.

He's gonna have to suffer the consequences for his actions.

[tense music continues]

[Narrator] McBurney is charged with five counts of possession

of child pornography.

[Tony] The next day, on December 11th, 2009, much to my surprise,

there's bad news.

William McBurney is able to make a $25,000 bond,

and he's released until we go to trial.

[tense music continues]

It's not somethin' I was expecting.

I didn't necessarily agree with it, but the law is the law.

[tense music continues]

Usually I don't hear from a suspect once they make bond,

but with McBurney, it's different.

[tense music continues]

This dude's all over the TV.

I think it's something that he's hopeful that will be used

in court to kinda help his plight.

That dog just not gonna hunt with me.

[Narrator] Detective Tony Godwin digs into the background

of William McBurney,

the self-confessed hoarder of child sexual abuse material.

We put out a press release and let the public know.

If you have any information about William McBurney

or his activities,

please reach out to us so we can investigate it.

Several members of the public did provide information,

and there were allegations of sexual abuse with kids

in the past,

as well as allegations about sexual tourism,

but none of those allegations were ever proven to be true.

[Narrator] One person tells Tony's team

that it should search McBurney's former residence.

There was an allegation that William McBurney drilled a hole

from an attic space through the wall into a bathroom

that was used by a child in the home,

that he was possibly recording while she was in the shower.

We searched McBurney's former residence.

Behind the wall, above the bath,

we find evidence that a peephole has been drilled

and then filled in.

It should be noted that the allegations did not involve any

of the current family members

that were in the home when he was arrested.

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We also learned of a storage facility kind of off site

from his property.

And in that location was a van.

And in that van were a laptop computer, 13 CDs, and books,

all of which were also seized.

The lab can follow up and figure out what exactly we have.

[Narrator] The team also sends to the lab the thumb drive

from the shorts that McBurney removed when he was arrested.

We discover 34,764 more images

of child pornography.

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This large a quantity... I've never seen this before.

The extreme young age of 'em... The guy's a monster.

Then on the USB device found in his shorts,

there's 11 images and 55 videos

of children engaging in horrible, horrible sex acts.

[Narrator] This discovery suggests that McBurney was

in the process

of downloading child sexual abuse material when Tony

and Clint knocked on his door six days earlier.

When Clint comes and tells me the enormity

of child sex abuse material found on the seized devices,

I'm tellin' you, I'm speechless.

But the most important factor is the thumb drive

that was in his pocket

tells me that all of that rhetoric

that William McBurney spouted on the TV is a complete lie.

[Narrator] Investigators find no evidence

that William McBurney's wife and child feature in any

of the child sexual abuse material recovered

from the electronic devices.

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[Tony] On December 17th of 2009,

we re-arrested William McBurney on five additional counts

of possession or promotion of child pornography.

I get to interview McBurney a second time.

[Narrator] Tony asked McBurney about the spy hole discovered

in one of his former residences.

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[Narrator] Next, Tony grills McBurney about the huge haul

of child sexual abuse material found at the storage unit

and the files on his thumb drive.

Unbelievable!

It really makes sense to me now why he was so adamant

about wantin' to change his pants before he left his house.

He's trying to put on an act to show

that he has turned his life around,

but his actions speak much louder than his words.

He can't get away from this stuff.

He's got a problem.

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You know, McBurney's addiction to child pornography

and child sex abuse material was a dark, hidden secret.

friendly guy next door who looks

like a good Christian man is, in fact, that type of person.

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McBurney keeps maintaining he's never done anything

'cause the reality is he's done a buncha things

and they're all right here in front of him.

He's just got this mental block to think

that he's been transformed when he hasn't.

I feel better because kids are gonna be saved as a result

of this guy goin' to prison.

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