1 00:00:02,069 --> 00:00:03,203 The following program documents 2 00:00:03,303 --> 00:00:04,838 real law enforcement investigations 3 00:00:04,938 --> 00:00:07,274 of child sexual predators. This deeply disturbing content 4 00:00:07,374 --> 00:00:10,244 may be triggering for some viewers. Please watch with care. 5 00:00:11,278 --> 00:00:13,914 Next, the team targets an all-American dad, 6 00:00:14,781 --> 00:00:18,418 who expects to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex. 7 00:00:23,223 --> 00:00:26,994 Then, Detective Tony Godwin tracks a predator 8 00:00:27,628 --> 00:00:30,797 who uses Facebook to target an underage student. 9 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:40,307 And one of Tony's officers 10 00:00:40,474 --> 00:00:43,544 goes above and beyond to get the job done. 11 00:00:44,444 --> 00:00:46,880 Tony tells me he needs me to decoy. 12 00:00:50,784 --> 00:00:51,919 Get on the ground! 13 00:00:52,019 --> 00:00:53,820 A team of police professionals 14 00:00:53,987 --> 00:00:55,856 in North Dallas has one goal-- 15 00:00:56,023 --> 00:00:57,157 Get out of the car! 16 00:00:57,257 --> 00:00:59,192 take down online predators 17 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:02,162 before they harm a real child. 18 00:01:02,663 --> 00:01:04,498 Child predators are everywhere. 19 00:01:04,665 --> 00:01:07,467 Online predators pose the biggest danger 20 00:01:07,634 --> 00:01:09,469 to America's children today. 21 00:01:09,937 --> 00:01:12,572 Kids are being targeted at an alarming rate. 22 00:01:13,273 --> 00:01:15,342 This team is opening its case files 23 00:01:15,509 --> 00:01:18,612 for the first time to show you how it tracks them down. 24 00:01:20,180 --> 00:01:21,882 All right, he's coming this way. 25 00:01:21,982 --> 00:01:25,986 And brings them to justice by any means necessary. 26 00:01:26,653 --> 00:01:28,021 Put your hands on the car! 27 00:01:29,222 --> 00:01:32,526 This is Detective Tony Godwin, and his team is... 28 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:35,462 the Predator Hunters. 29 00:01:37,664 --> 00:01:40,300 Detective Tony is on a case that stands out. 30 00:01:41,201 --> 00:01:43,303 He's hunting a predator with a good job, 31 00:01:43,470 --> 00:01:46,106 a family, and a house in the suburbs. 32 00:01:47,507 --> 00:01:50,544 But this all-American dad is living a double life. 33 00:01:51,712 --> 00:01:55,315 And what Tony uncovers leaves him speechless. 34 00:01:55,916 --> 00:01:57,551 I'm, like, at a loss for words. 35 00:01:57,651 --> 00:01:59,753 This is, like, the absolute first time I've ever seen this. 36 00:01:59,853 --> 00:02:03,023 He sends Tony some of the most disturbing images 37 00:02:03,190 --> 00:02:04,591 he's ever seen. 38 00:02:05,559 --> 00:02:06,660 First unit's out. 39 00:02:06,827 --> 00:02:08,462 We need someone to get on the front of him. 40 00:02:09,529 --> 00:02:13,967 And the deeper the team looks, the darker it gets. 41 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:23,644 Sometimes a case comes along that really hammers home 42 00:02:23,744 --> 00:02:26,713 just how destructive a predator's behavior can be. 43 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,715 Take this guy, Jeffrey Toth. 44 00:02:28,815 --> 00:02:31,618 His actions leave his family in ruins. 45 00:02:39,026 --> 00:02:41,028 This case takes place in 2010. 46 00:02:42,195 --> 00:02:44,698 Chat rooms like Yahoo! Chat were all the rage. 47 00:02:44,865 --> 00:02:47,768 If you're a predator, these are the places you want to hang out. 48 00:02:47,868 --> 00:02:48,969 If you're a predator hunter, 49 00:02:49,069 --> 00:02:50,704 it's an even better place to hang out. 50 00:02:52,272 --> 00:02:55,876 Catfishing is simply posing online in an undercover capacity 51 00:02:56,043 --> 00:02:57,210 with a fake identity. 52 00:02:57,544 --> 00:02:59,546 The secret behind catfishing is to have 53 00:02:59,713 --> 00:03:01,515 a really good, developed profile. 54 00:03:01,615 --> 00:03:02,916 So this particular profile, 55 00:03:03,016 --> 00:03:05,786 I'm a 14-year-old girl, and my name is Alecia. 56 00:03:06,186 --> 00:03:08,722 Photographs used come from coworkers. 57 00:03:09,022 --> 00:03:10,791 And they have given me permission 58 00:03:10,891 --> 00:03:13,360 to use their photographs for these types of investigations. 59 00:03:13,460 --> 00:03:15,495 The only thing I require is that the photographs 60 00:03:15,662 --> 00:03:19,166 are actual photographs from 12 to 14-ish, 61 00:03:19,266 --> 00:03:22,002 the ages that I'm purporting to be online. 62 00:03:23,870 --> 00:03:25,505 When I enter the Yahoo! chat rooms, 63 00:03:25,672 --> 00:03:28,308 I enter into a room called Romance. 64 00:03:28,475 --> 00:03:30,610 Typically, I go into rooms that are heavily populated. 65 00:03:30,911 --> 00:03:34,314 I immediately get a private message from a user named JT. 66 00:03:34,414 --> 00:03:35,716 "Hey, Alecia. Jay here. 67 00:03:35,882 --> 00:03:38,785 I'm a 54-year-old male from Texas. What about you?" 68 00:03:38,952 --> 00:03:40,987 "Hey, I'm 14-year-old female." 69 00:03:41,421 --> 00:03:45,058 Jay replies back, "What you doing? Getting in trouble? LOL" 70 00:03:45,892 --> 00:03:49,963 A normal guy who has no interest or preference in children 71 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:51,631 would have never even messaged. 72 00:03:51,798 --> 00:03:54,634 I got red flags waving all over the place with this guy. 73 00:03:57,604 --> 00:03:59,372 Within days, he messages me back. 74 00:03:59,473 --> 00:04:01,007 "Do you have a computer in your room? 75 00:04:01,108 --> 00:04:03,076 Or is it a public computer?" 76 00:04:05,579 --> 00:04:07,114 "I'll bet your mom would not approve 77 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:08,748 of your chatting with an older guy." 78 00:04:09,149 --> 00:04:11,184 Really typical predator behavior. 79 00:04:11,351 --> 00:04:13,920 What kind of seed is this guy planting in my head, right? 80 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:16,723 He's trying to just keep this thing a secret, 81 00:04:16,823 --> 00:04:18,959 all about manipulation of this kid. 82 00:04:21,094 --> 00:04:23,830 I'm really concerned that he could be 83 00:04:23,997 --> 00:04:26,766 currently talking to other kids. I'm really just going to play 84 00:04:26,867 --> 00:04:28,768 into the role of this 14-year-old. 85 00:04:28,869 --> 00:04:31,872 I just ask him, "What does JT stand for?" 86 00:04:32,873 --> 00:04:34,207 He responds back and says, 87 00:04:34,307 --> 00:04:37,878 "Jeffrey's my first name, but Jay is my nickname." 88 00:04:37,978 --> 00:04:40,046 Jay doesn't have a picture in his profile. 89 00:04:46,453 --> 00:04:48,388 He sends me three photos of himself. 90 00:04:49,823 --> 00:04:52,926 He looks like the average middle-aged man. 91 00:04:54,027 --> 00:04:56,997 When I've been talking to Jay for a little over three weeks, 92 00:04:57,097 --> 00:04:58,465 then he sends me this message. 93 00:04:58,632 --> 00:05:01,601 "I've collected some fun things for you to see. LOL" 94 00:05:04,070 --> 00:05:05,806 "You have to save it to your desktop 95 00:05:05,906 --> 00:05:07,674 and then delete it afterwards, OK?" 96 00:05:09,075 --> 00:05:10,677 Now I'm really curious. 97 00:05:10,777 --> 00:05:14,514 Now I'm thinking, "What the heck is this guy going to send me?" 98 00:05:19,719 --> 00:05:23,523 What he sends are three very sexually explicit photographs. 99 00:05:23,890 --> 00:05:27,127 I'm looking at the faces of the girls in these photos, 100 00:05:27,227 --> 00:05:28,828 and what's happened is he has 101 00:05:28,929 --> 00:05:31,898 superimposed my Alecia girl profile 102 00:05:32,065 --> 00:05:35,802 onto these images to make it look like 103 00:05:35,902 --> 00:05:38,405 Alecia is engaged in these sex acts. 104 00:05:39,206 --> 00:05:41,041 And I'm like, at a loss for words. 105 00:05:41,141 --> 00:05:43,844 This is like, the absolute first time I've ever seen this. 106 00:05:44,377 --> 00:05:47,881 Jeffrey is trying to just totally desensitize me, 107 00:05:47,981 --> 00:05:50,684 playing this profile, to the thought and idea 108 00:05:50,784 --> 00:05:53,086 of having sex with someone like him. 109 00:05:54,988 --> 00:05:57,824 This guy is revealing his absolute true colors, 110 00:05:57,991 --> 00:06:00,627 what a predator he is, plain and simple. 111 00:06:00,794 --> 00:06:03,430 What he just did is a felony in Texas. 112 00:06:06,099 --> 00:06:08,868 Tony needs a positive ID to move forwards. 113 00:06:09,669 --> 00:06:12,239 He calls in Detective Clint McNear. 114 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,510 Tony and I started the academy together about 30 years ago. 115 00:06:18,311 --> 00:06:21,181 Spent our whole career together, raised our kids together. 116 00:06:21,915 --> 00:06:25,318 He's been a brother I've never had for the last 31 years. 117 00:06:26,419 --> 00:06:29,055 This is the subpoena that was sent to Yahoo, 118 00:06:29,222 --> 00:06:31,324 trying to identify JT. 119 00:06:31,424 --> 00:06:35,161 And what we get in return is whatever blanket information, 120 00:06:35,795 --> 00:06:38,632 in this case Yahoo, has on that person. 121 00:06:38,798 --> 00:06:40,166 The results aren't great. 122 00:06:40,267 --> 00:06:42,068 Not a lot of useful information in there. 123 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:46,239 We get an IP address, and we get a location that he is in Austin. 124 00:06:46,706 --> 00:06:50,644 However, the name on the subpoena came back as Mr. JT. 125 00:06:51,978 --> 00:06:53,847 For all we know that's a made-up screen name 126 00:06:53,947 --> 00:06:57,350 - that he may have been using. - We know where he is, 127 00:06:57,517 --> 00:07:00,020 but we're no closer to finding out who he is. 128 00:07:03,156 --> 00:07:05,191 Knowing how these cases lay out in court, 129 00:07:05,292 --> 00:07:07,260 I know I have the elements, but what I really need 130 00:07:07,427 --> 00:07:09,496 is for him to set up a meeting in person. 131 00:07:09,663 --> 00:07:11,431 Then he pops this question on me-- 132 00:07:11,698 --> 00:07:13,833 "What's your schedule like on Thursday?" 133 00:07:17,804 --> 00:07:20,640 "OK, I'll be driving through Dallas on Thursday." 134 00:07:22,309 --> 00:07:25,946 Bam, we got this. This guy wants to meet in person. 135 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:29,349 We're confident in where he's wanting to go 136 00:07:29,516 --> 00:07:32,319 with this communication he's having with Alecia. 137 00:07:32,419 --> 00:07:34,788 He sent pornographic images, 138 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:36,790 he's sharing about his sexual fantasies. 139 00:07:38,358 --> 00:07:40,327 With all that has taken place so far, 140 00:07:40,427 --> 00:07:42,429 clearly, he intends to harm a child. 141 00:07:42,529 --> 00:07:44,097 We need to bring the guy in. 142 00:07:49,069 --> 00:07:50,437 I decide I'm going to push 143 00:07:50,537 --> 00:07:52,205 to one of my favorite takedown locations. 144 00:07:52,305 --> 00:07:54,007 It's kind of a U-shaped driveway, 145 00:07:54,107 --> 00:07:56,309 which gives us the tactical advantage. 146 00:07:56,476 --> 00:07:58,278 It's one way in and one way out. 147 00:07:58,378 --> 00:08:00,647 There's a lot of team members, and I have to place them 148 00:08:00,747 --> 00:08:02,582 strategically from an outer perimeter 149 00:08:02,749 --> 00:08:05,585 to an inner perimeter so that when the target, 150 00:08:05,752 --> 00:08:08,188 Jeffrey, arrives, we know that ahead of time, 151 00:08:08,288 --> 00:08:10,990 we see him ahead of time, and then it gets passed off 152 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:12,992 to Clint, sitting close by. 153 00:08:13,093 --> 00:08:15,395 Yeah, you staged me just outside, 154 00:08:15,495 --> 00:08:17,864 so no matter which angle he approached from, 155 00:08:18,031 --> 00:08:20,266 he was going to have to drive right in front of me, 156 00:08:20,433 --> 00:08:23,403 and then I could pull out and trail him right inside. 157 00:08:23,503 --> 00:08:25,638 The reason we want to be able to control it is 158 00:08:25,739 --> 00:08:28,074 that he doesn't get out and harm the public, 159 00:08:28,241 --> 00:08:30,243 or if they see another child, 160 00:08:30,343 --> 00:08:32,645 to harm them, or it turns into a car chase. 161 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:34,914 So this is the best ability 162 00:08:35,081 --> 00:08:37,784 for us to control a very dangerous situation. 163 00:08:41,087 --> 00:08:43,456 Just days before the takedown, 164 00:08:43,623 --> 00:08:45,525 Jeffrey starts to back off. 165 00:08:46,059 --> 00:08:48,228 I really think the gravity of what's going on 166 00:08:48,328 --> 00:08:49,796 is kind of setting in with him, 167 00:08:49,896 --> 00:08:52,165 and it's kind of weighing on his shoulders, because he says, 168 00:08:52,265 --> 00:08:53,833 "I'm a little nervous." 169 00:08:53,967 --> 00:08:57,470 And I respond back, "Me too. I'm really nervous." 170 00:08:57,637 --> 00:08:59,205 So then Jeffrey hits me with this. 171 00:08:59,305 --> 00:09:00,640 "I could land in jail. 172 00:09:01,441 --> 00:09:04,411 I have visions of the police scooping me up as I walk out." 173 00:09:05,912 --> 00:09:08,915 What they're doing is obviously a crime. 174 00:09:09,082 --> 00:09:12,352 They know that they're coming to meet a child, 175 00:09:12,452 --> 00:09:13,987 and so they get cold feet. 176 00:09:15,989 --> 00:09:17,390 I try to reassure him. 177 00:09:18,158 --> 00:09:20,226 At the end of the day, I've still got him. 178 00:09:20,994 --> 00:09:22,829 We're about to put our hands on him. 179 00:09:22,996 --> 00:09:25,198 Now I just need him to show up. 180 00:09:30,470 --> 00:09:33,039 So April 22nd at 9:30 a.m., 181 00:09:33,139 --> 00:09:37,143 I text him, and I let him know what the address is, 182 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:38,545 and where he's coming. 183 00:09:38,711 --> 00:09:40,814 This guy potentially could be armed. 184 00:09:40,914 --> 00:09:43,683 My number one priority is that nobody gets hurt. 185 00:09:43,783 --> 00:09:45,185 I'm setting up on surveillance, 186 00:09:45,351 --> 00:09:46,920 waiting for a traveler to come in. 187 00:09:47,020 --> 00:09:50,590 He's identified himself as J or Jeffrey. 188 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:52,225 If it goes accordingly, 189 00:09:52,392 --> 00:09:54,794 he will pull in on the east side of the complex, 190 00:09:54,894 --> 00:09:57,230 which is this location that I have on video. 191 00:09:57,397 --> 00:09:58,798 You're sitting out there, 192 00:09:58,898 --> 00:10:00,800 then you start thinking, "OK, this guy's not going to show up. 193 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:02,368 "Is this going to really go down, 194 00:10:02,469 --> 00:10:04,370 or are they going to get nervous and bail?" 195 00:10:04,471 --> 00:10:06,172 I'm getting a text message right now. 196 00:10:06,272 --> 00:10:07,874 Said he's caught in some construction, 197 00:10:08,041 --> 00:10:09,876 taking a little longer than expected. 198 00:10:09,976 --> 00:10:11,878 We don't know if he's gaming Tony. 199 00:10:11,978 --> 00:10:14,848 We don't know if he already may be there doing a heat run, 200 00:10:14,948 --> 00:10:16,449 driving by looking for us. 201 00:10:16,783 --> 00:10:18,585 I just received this a few minutes ago. 202 00:10:18,751 --> 00:10:19,986 "Yes, all OK. 203 00:10:20,153 --> 00:10:21,754 About 45 minutes outside of Dallas in Waxahachie." 204 00:10:22,755 --> 00:10:26,593 I responded back, "OK, I'm getting excited." 205 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:28,895 And he sent back, "Me too." 206 00:10:29,896 --> 00:10:32,031 All I want to hear is one of my spotters say, 207 00:10:32,132 --> 00:10:33,366 "I have eyes on him." 208 00:10:34,033 --> 00:10:36,202 11:18 a.m., I just received a text 209 00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:39,205 from the suspect who said he is ten minutes away. 210 00:10:44,244 --> 00:10:47,213 Tony's team is ready to take down a child predator 211 00:10:47,313 --> 00:10:49,749 in a North Dallas apartment complex. 212 00:10:50,183 --> 00:10:51,584 I'm setting up on surveillance, 213 00:10:51,751 --> 00:10:53,152 waiting for a traveler to come in. 214 00:10:53,319 --> 00:10:56,589 He's identified himself as Jay or Jeffrey. 215 00:10:56,689 --> 00:10:59,058 These operations take a huge amount of resources, 216 00:10:59,225 --> 00:11:01,060 because I have to have covert vehicles, 217 00:11:01,227 --> 00:11:03,229 covert detectives, uniform people. 218 00:11:03,396 --> 00:11:05,064 There's a lot of moving parts 219 00:11:05,231 --> 00:11:07,467 and a lot of risk that is involved. 220 00:11:09,335 --> 00:11:11,037 He's in front of the complex right now. 221 00:11:13,873 --> 00:11:16,876 Stand by. I got a visual on him. This is him. 222 00:11:21,180 --> 00:11:22,649 He's parking. Come in, come in, come in. 223 00:11:22,749 --> 00:11:25,318 First unit's out. 224 00:11:25,418 --> 00:11:27,220 We need someone to get on the front of him. 225 00:11:33,626 --> 00:11:35,261 They do a textbook takedown, 226 00:11:35,428 --> 00:11:37,030 they approach Jeffrey. 227 00:11:37,397 --> 00:11:38,464 They've got him. 228 00:11:39,432 --> 00:11:40,633 He does comply. 229 00:11:41,267 --> 00:11:43,436 Here's our suspect. 230 00:11:44,070 --> 00:11:45,638 When the police are running up, 231 00:11:45,738 --> 00:11:47,874 banging on the window, 232 00:11:48,041 --> 00:11:50,677 I think it's just an overwhelming surprise. 233 00:11:50,843 --> 00:11:53,279 These people are so focused on this fantasy 234 00:11:53,379 --> 00:11:55,248 that they think is going to play out. 235 00:11:55,348 --> 00:11:58,785 When we click the cuffs on is really satisfaction. 236 00:11:58,952 --> 00:12:01,921 Today, this person won't harm a child. 237 00:12:08,595 --> 00:12:10,096 They search him and his car. 238 00:12:10,863 --> 00:12:14,968 The team finds a webcam, a digital camera, 239 00:12:15,068 --> 00:12:17,904 a laptop, and a bottle of lubricant. 240 00:12:20,506 --> 00:12:21,641 I'm not shocked, 241 00:12:21,808 --> 00:12:24,244 but I wasn't anticipating finding that at all. 242 00:12:24,911 --> 00:12:26,346 They recover his driver's license, 243 00:12:26,512 --> 00:12:29,315 which identifies him as Jeffrey Blaze Toth. 244 00:12:31,184 --> 00:12:34,087 I do a search on him and determine that Jeffrey 245 00:12:34,187 --> 00:12:35,488 is married with two children. 246 00:12:36,823 --> 00:12:38,558 Toth is transported to the police station, 247 00:12:38,658 --> 00:12:41,828 where he's booked in for online solicitation of a minor. 248 00:12:54,307 --> 00:12:55,808 What most people don't understand 249 00:12:55,908 --> 00:12:57,844 is there's an interview, and there's an interrogation. 250 00:12:57,944 --> 00:13:01,481 And during an interview is when I'm just building rapport. 251 00:13:01,648 --> 00:13:04,684 But once I feel like I'm in that zone is when I will trigger 252 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:06,286 and switch over to an interrogation. 253 00:13:25,638 --> 00:13:27,974 He opens up and makes admissions. 254 00:13:29,075 --> 00:13:31,711 Jeffrey has no idea that I played the role of Alecia. 255 00:13:31,878 --> 00:13:33,212 I want them to believe 256 00:13:33,312 --> 00:13:35,715 the entire time this was a real child. 257 00:13:36,516 --> 00:13:40,420 I do that because I want to have success in the interview. 258 00:13:40,586 --> 00:13:43,389 I want them to be very, very transparent and open with me. 259 00:13:43,489 --> 00:13:45,925 And oftentimes, when these predators 260 00:13:46,025 --> 00:13:47,860 believe that it's a real child, 261 00:13:48,027 --> 00:13:50,029 it puts them in a different mindset. 262 00:14:27,066 --> 00:14:29,902 You kind of see a little deflection in his demeanor. 263 00:14:30,069 --> 00:14:32,071 He's like, "I know, I know," like the head nod. 264 00:14:32,238 --> 00:14:35,208 The acknowledgment that, "Yeah, I really screwed up." 265 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:39,112 He also understands he is in deep trouble. 266 00:14:53,159 --> 00:14:55,128 Officers take Toth to jail 267 00:14:55,228 --> 00:14:56,863 after his interview with Tony. 268 00:14:57,697 --> 00:14:59,465 Toth then calls home. 269 00:15:00,266 --> 00:15:01,734 Please continue to hold 270 00:15:01,834 --> 00:15:04,237 while the operator attempts to connect your call. 271 00:15:53,986 --> 00:15:58,324 When I hear the call, I feel so much empathy for his wife, 272 00:15:59,258 --> 00:16:02,995 because her world literally just shattered. 273 00:16:03,496 --> 00:16:04,997 And so it's a bittersweet moment. 274 00:16:05,097 --> 00:16:07,166 I'm super grateful that he's never going to have 275 00:16:07,266 --> 00:16:09,135 an opportunity to harm another kid. 276 00:16:09,268 --> 00:16:11,470 But I know it comes at a price for someone else. 277 00:16:12,271 --> 00:16:14,841 The next day, a team from Austin PD 278 00:16:15,007 --> 00:16:17,076 searches Jeffrey Toth's home. 279 00:16:17,176 --> 00:16:23,149 It seizes over 150,000 images of child sexual abuse material. 280 00:16:24,450 --> 00:16:29,322 The size of this collection is unbelievably large. 281 00:16:30,389 --> 00:16:33,259 It's unfathomable that somebody would have this much. 282 00:16:35,094 --> 00:16:38,598 Every one of those are real victims somewhere. 283 00:16:38,698 --> 00:16:41,267 This guy had everything going in his life. 284 00:16:41,434 --> 00:16:43,903 Like, he had wealth and a family. 285 00:16:44,070 --> 00:16:46,072 And he threw it all away. 286 00:16:56,516 --> 00:16:58,184 It's 2012. 287 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:02,355 Tony is tracking a man who used Facebook 288 00:17:02,522 --> 00:17:04,590 to target an underage girl. 289 00:17:06,626 --> 00:17:08,194 To catch him, 290 00:17:08,361 --> 00:17:11,264 Tony must take over the identity of a real child, 291 00:17:13,332 --> 00:17:15,001 and switch takedown locations 292 00:17:15,167 --> 00:17:17,770 when the predator throws a curveball. 293 00:17:19,071 --> 00:17:20,706 OK, I got eyes on him. 294 00:17:21,340 --> 00:17:23,609 Suspect's coming up to Travis. 295 00:17:23,709 --> 00:17:25,945 When Tony finally sets the trap, 296 00:17:26,112 --> 00:17:28,514 the predator walks right into it. 297 00:17:29,382 --> 00:17:32,184 Every once in a while, we get notified that there's a predator 298 00:17:32,351 --> 00:17:34,554 that has contact with the child right now. 299 00:17:35,922 --> 00:17:39,525 That's what the scenario was with this guy, Andrew McKee. 300 00:17:39,625 --> 00:17:41,727 My team and I, we had to act really fast 301 00:17:41,827 --> 00:17:43,663 on a developing situation. 302 00:17:51,938 --> 00:17:54,507 April 23rd of 2012, I got a phone call 303 00:17:54,674 --> 00:17:56,609 from one of our school resource officers. 304 00:17:56,709 --> 00:17:59,478 This guy's job is to keep middle school students safe. 305 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:02,448 So the SRO tells me that a 14-year-old student 306 00:18:02,548 --> 00:18:04,951 had come to him at the school and told him 307 00:18:05,051 --> 00:18:07,553 she got some really unsolicited messages on her phone. 308 00:18:10,823 --> 00:18:13,826 So the messages were really sexual in nature, 309 00:18:13,993 --> 00:18:15,561 really troubling to this kid, 310 00:18:15,661 --> 00:18:17,697 why she came to the school to report it. 311 00:18:17,863 --> 00:18:19,365 There's a real sense of urgency, 312 00:18:19,465 --> 00:18:21,500 because I'm a father and I have daughters. 313 00:18:21,667 --> 00:18:25,972 I tend to put that victim in the sense of being my own child. 314 00:18:26,072 --> 00:18:28,007 If something like this happened to my daughter, 315 00:18:28,107 --> 00:18:29,809 I'm going to flip the world upside down 316 00:18:29,909 --> 00:18:31,010 to make it get right. 317 00:18:36,449 --> 00:18:38,317 Tony is tracking a predator who used Facebook 318 00:18:38,417 --> 00:18:40,319 to target an underage girl. 319 00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:44,423 The question really is, "Why is this adult reaching out 320 00:18:44,590 --> 00:18:48,394 to a kid who he doesn't know on any level whatsoever?" 321 00:18:50,196 --> 00:18:51,597 So I tasked one of my teammates, 322 00:18:51,697 --> 00:18:53,799 David Galvan, to start this investigation. 323 00:18:54,033 --> 00:18:55,668 This is a file on the victim. 324 00:18:56,636 --> 00:18:59,572 So Tony, we met in the academy in 1994. 325 00:18:59,672 --> 00:19:01,073 He's a great cop. 326 00:19:01,540 --> 00:19:04,076 He's one of those guys that you could depend on on the street. 327 00:19:04,243 --> 00:19:06,278 Definitely one of the best in his field. 328 00:19:07,713 --> 00:19:09,348 When it comes to the sexual abuse, 329 00:19:09,515 --> 00:19:13,152 any type of abuse of a child takes toll on you, 330 00:19:13,252 --> 00:19:15,788 because you carry the weight of the children in your heart, 331 00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:17,790 and what has happened to them. 332 00:19:20,059 --> 00:19:22,795 I go to the school and I do talk with the young girl. 333 00:19:22,962 --> 00:19:24,497 She's distraught about it. 334 00:19:24,664 --> 00:19:27,233 She feels like, of course, like she's done something wrong, 335 00:19:27,733 --> 00:19:31,437 like she's in trouble for this when actually she's the victim. 336 00:19:33,305 --> 00:19:35,374 So what she tells us is that ten days earlier, 337 00:19:35,474 --> 00:19:37,643 she got an unsolicited friend request 338 00:19:37,743 --> 00:19:40,513 from this guy named Andrew McKee, which she did accept. 339 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,048 And then he immediately sends her a message, 340 00:19:42,148 --> 00:19:43,716 says, "Hey, how are you?" 341 00:19:44,650 --> 00:19:46,118 But she ignored this. 342 00:19:47,420 --> 00:19:49,555 Online, kids will friend everybody, 343 00:19:49,655 --> 00:19:51,357 whether they know them or not. 344 00:19:51,457 --> 00:19:53,459 And they're divulging information that shouldn't be 345 00:19:53,626 --> 00:19:56,629 divulged about themselves, where they live, phone numbers 346 00:19:56,796 --> 00:19:58,197 and things like where they go to school. 347 00:19:58,297 --> 00:19:59,598 It's a very dangerous place. 348 00:19:59,999 --> 00:20:02,168 Mistakes will be made. This child happened to 349 00:20:02,268 --> 00:20:04,236 have a lot of information on her Facebook page, 350 00:20:04,403 --> 00:20:05,905 one of which was her phone number. 351 00:20:06,072 --> 00:20:08,107 So a week later, the student's in class, 352 00:20:08,274 --> 00:20:10,476 and she gets this message on her phone that says, 353 00:20:10,643 --> 00:20:12,244 "This is Andrew from Facebook. 354 00:20:13,112 --> 00:20:16,348 So what girl do you know that will want $100?" 355 00:20:17,716 --> 00:20:19,351 He sends a third message to her. 356 00:20:19,518 --> 00:20:21,353 And this time, he sends a picture. 357 00:20:21,454 --> 00:20:23,689 And this is a picture of a man and woman's genitals 358 00:20:23,823 --> 00:20:25,191 that are touching. 359 00:20:25,291 --> 00:20:27,827 So now this student, like she's totally confused. 360 00:20:27,993 --> 00:20:31,197 He's offering her $100 to go find another girl to have sex. 361 00:20:32,865 --> 00:20:34,567 How disgusting is this guy? 362 00:20:34,667 --> 00:20:37,002 So when you have somebody that is that upfront 363 00:20:37,103 --> 00:20:38,504 about things like that, 364 00:20:38,671 --> 00:20:40,673 especially when it comes to money and other children, 365 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,809 it's very concerning. We need to do something quickly. 366 00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:47,646 We need to figure out who this person actually is 367 00:20:47,746 --> 00:20:49,014 and get more information on them, 368 00:20:49,115 --> 00:20:50,516 more intelligence on that person. 369 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,555 I have to figure out if this is a real guy 370 00:20:56,722 --> 00:20:58,190 or this is a fake profile. 371 00:20:58,290 --> 00:21:02,394 So I do some database searches on Andrew McKee. 372 00:21:02,561 --> 00:21:05,064 I get some DMV information from Oklahoma. 373 00:21:05,231 --> 00:21:08,134 And included in that is a driver's license photo. 374 00:21:08,367 --> 00:21:11,237 And that photo matches up 100% to the photo 375 00:21:11,337 --> 00:21:14,173 that was used on the Facebook profile. 376 00:21:18,978 --> 00:21:21,080 We've got to find him. And I've got an idea. 377 00:21:21,747 --> 00:21:24,450 The victim, in this case, along with her parents, 378 00:21:24,550 --> 00:21:26,752 gives me permission to do a takeover 379 00:21:26,852 --> 00:21:28,487 of this Facebook account. 380 00:21:28,587 --> 00:21:32,591 To become that child, use her phone, 381 00:21:32,691 --> 00:21:36,061 use her accounts, and target Mr. McKee. 382 00:21:36,896 --> 00:21:39,098 It's a really dangerous area to operate in, 383 00:21:39,265 --> 00:21:41,901 but I don't have any other alternatives at this point. 384 00:21:43,269 --> 00:21:46,238 I send a text message to McKee. 385 00:21:47,806 --> 00:21:49,842 I just play along with him at this point. 386 00:21:52,244 --> 00:21:54,914 So I give him some details of the girl I've allegedly found. 387 00:21:58,584 --> 00:21:59,952 So Britany is me, right? 388 00:22:00,052 --> 00:22:01,554 I'm playing, now, my undercover role. 389 00:22:02,054 --> 00:22:04,824 And so I give McKee the phone number I use 390 00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:07,726 on my undercover phone so that we can keep things going. 391 00:22:11,297 --> 00:22:12,832 And he replies back immediately. 392 00:22:12,932 --> 00:22:15,834 "Your friend gave me your number. How old are you?" 393 00:22:16,101 --> 00:22:19,104 So I just confirm with him. "Well, I'm 14. Is that cool?" 394 00:22:19,271 --> 00:22:21,307 He tells me, "Yeah, I'm cool with that." 395 00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:27,446 This guy is a big problem, and he could really harm a real kid. 396 00:22:33,385 --> 00:22:37,022 So on April 24th, I text McKee as Britany, 397 00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:40,192 and we talk for hours. And it gets really pornographic. 398 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,394 I mean, some nasty stuff starts happening. 399 00:22:44,029 --> 00:22:45,698 The majority of the things that he sent 400 00:22:45,864 --> 00:22:49,868 were so highly sexually graphic and disgusting 401 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:52,371 that we're not able to show that type of material. 402 00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:55,808 We're not willing to expose other people to his depravity. 403 00:22:56,108 --> 00:22:57,476 He's a sick guy. 404 00:22:59,078 --> 00:23:03,215 In order to make this case a more solid case in court, 405 00:23:03,315 --> 00:23:07,152 he has to offer up or make a substantial step 406 00:23:07,253 --> 00:23:09,288 for a meeting in person for a sex act. 407 00:23:09,989 --> 00:23:13,158 Eventually, McKee does suggest a meeting in person. 408 00:23:14,426 --> 00:23:15,995 And we are on. 409 00:23:16,362 --> 00:23:18,497 So I give McKee an address to the apartment complex 410 00:23:18,664 --> 00:23:20,032 where Britany lives. 411 00:23:20,132 --> 00:23:22,334 I'm going to use that to lure him in. 412 00:23:28,674 --> 00:23:30,509 McKee says he's traveling on the train 413 00:23:30,676 --> 00:23:32,411 and he wants Britany to meet at the station. 414 00:23:32,511 --> 00:23:33,879 The idea that we could do a takedown 415 00:23:33,979 --> 00:23:35,414 at a public train station 416 00:23:35,514 --> 00:23:38,284 is not something that would get even approved up my chain. 417 00:23:38,384 --> 00:23:40,586 There's too many people, innocent bodies. 418 00:23:40,753 --> 00:23:42,121 They have no idea what's going on. 419 00:23:42,221 --> 00:23:44,189 We have no real control, tactically. 420 00:23:44,823 --> 00:23:47,393 So as Britany, I just ask him to stick to the plan. 421 00:23:47,493 --> 00:23:49,828 Just come to the apartments like he suggested. 422 00:23:51,897 --> 00:23:55,334 So I post two people at the train station. Both are covert. 423 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:57,636 Their job is just to blend into the crowd, 424 00:23:57,803 --> 00:24:00,172 and wait until they get a visual on McKee, 425 00:24:00,272 --> 00:24:02,274 and notify us on the radio that he's arrived. 426 00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:10,749 Tony lies in wait for Andrew McKee. 427 00:24:12,051 --> 00:24:15,554 The predator thinks he's about to meet a 14-year-old girl. 428 00:24:16,989 --> 00:24:21,727 April 26th, 2012. The current time is 10:06 a.m. 429 00:24:21,827 --> 00:24:25,964 This is Detective Godwin. We are set up to meet a traveler 430 00:24:26,065 --> 00:24:28,968 in an online solicitation of a minor case. 431 00:24:29,435 --> 00:24:31,203 The suspect we are looking for 432 00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,172 is identified in this photograph. 433 00:24:34,073 --> 00:24:38,477 His name is Andrew Dale McKee. He's a 35-year-old male. 434 00:24:39,712 --> 00:24:42,881 At 10:16 a.m., my covert officers at the station 435 00:24:43,048 --> 00:24:44,516 tell me that McKee has arrived. 436 00:24:49,922 --> 00:24:51,557 But McKee is lost. 437 00:24:52,191 --> 00:24:55,194 Tony steps in to keep the takedown on track. 438 00:24:56,295 --> 00:24:58,998 So I come up with a plan to shift everything 439 00:24:59,098 --> 00:25:00,966 by over a half a mile. 440 00:25:02,568 --> 00:25:04,336 I send him a message and say, "Hey, there's a store 441 00:25:04,436 --> 00:25:06,705 about halfway between you and me, I'll meet you there." 442 00:25:08,540 --> 00:25:12,044 The fact that we have to move from Plan A to Plan B, 443 00:25:12,144 --> 00:25:13,679 it elevates the risk level. 444 00:25:14,179 --> 00:25:18,550 Because the traffic concerns, the public safety concerns. 445 00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:21,220 Logistically, it's a nightmare for me. 446 00:25:25,491 --> 00:25:27,593 We have changed the takedown location 447 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:32,631 to the SandK Food Store next door to this tire shop. 448 00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:35,968 We do have undercover officers inside this location right now. 449 00:25:39,238 --> 00:25:41,040 Is that him at Travis? 450 00:25:45,577 --> 00:25:48,213 I thought, "Man, I lost this dude." 451 00:25:48,313 --> 00:25:50,149 And all of a sudden, I get this message back. 452 00:25:54,586 --> 00:25:56,355 OK, I got eyes on him. 453 00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:01,827 I'm expecting McKee to sort of bolt in a direction. 454 00:26:01,994 --> 00:26:03,395 It's not like he's not going to see 455 00:26:03,562 --> 00:26:06,598 these cars and squad cars screeching up on him. 456 00:26:09,234 --> 00:26:11,603 So I give the team the order to take him down. 457 00:26:12,504 --> 00:26:13,772 10:55. 458 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,775 Get on the ground! 459 00:26:17,342 --> 00:26:20,279 This is the arrest of Mr. McKee. 460 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,616 Who arrived to have sex with what he believes 461 00:26:24,716 --> 00:26:26,418 to be is a 14-year-old child. 462 00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:46,438 I realized he suffers from a hearing loss, 463 00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:48,173 a very significant hearing loss. 464 00:27:12,097 --> 00:27:14,266 McKee says he's been talking to a girl, 465 00:27:14,433 --> 00:27:16,435 but she didn't really let him know how old she was. 466 00:27:16,602 --> 00:27:19,671 I need him to know I know everything about this case. 467 00:27:19,838 --> 00:27:21,306 Now I'm going to give it to him. 468 00:28:24,403 --> 00:28:28,574 He knew exactly that this kid was underage. I mean, come on. 469 00:28:28,674 --> 00:28:30,309 He wants me to believe all this crap? 470 00:28:30,475 --> 00:28:31,877 I don't buy it for a second. 471 00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:36,281 McKee's admission gives me every bit of evidence 472 00:28:36,381 --> 00:28:39,017 that I need to put him away for a very long time. 473 00:28:46,024 --> 00:28:48,393 The McKee case shows that parents shouldn't rely on 474 00:28:48,493 --> 00:28:50,362 social media platforms to protect their kids. 475 00:28:50,462 --> 00:28:51,863 Parents need to police 476 00:28:52,030 --> 00:28:54,566 their kids' privacy settings themselves. 477 00:28:54,666 --> 00:28:56,401 Kids really shouldn't have their full names, 478 00:28:56,501 --> 00:28:59,371 their direct cell phone number, or anything about their address 479 00:28:59,471 --> 00:29:00,973 on their social media. 480 00:29:02,674 --> 00:29:04,376 To lure the next predator, 481 00:29:04,476 --> 00:29:07,145 Tony uses one of his officers as a decoy. 482 00:29:08,313 --> 00:29:11,049 That's when the nerves kicked in. 483 00:29:11,350 --> 00:29:13,785 This case is about grooming, 484 00:29:13,952 --> 00:29:16,355 control, and the long game. 485 00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:20,959 Put your hands up! 486 00:29:21,059 --> 00:29:23,362 But when this predator lands in custody, 487 00:29:23,462 --> 00:29:24,630 he denies everything. 488 00:29:30,402 --> 00:29:32,004 You know, I depend on my coworkers 489 00:29:32,104 --> 00:29:33,905 to help me bring predators to justice. 490 00:29:34,072 --> 00:29:36,808 That was the case with this predator, Marty Taylor. 491 00:29:37,276 --> 00:29:40,045 I had to think outside the box to catch this guy. 492 00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:49,187 This case took place on the website Backpage. 493 00:29:50,589 --> 00:29:53,625 Backpage was a unique place. You can buy and sell, 494 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:55,794 you can apply for jobs, find a house, a rent. 495 00:29:55,961 --> 00:29:59,965 But there's a real deviant side to Backpage in the personal ads, 496 00:30:00,065 --> 00:30:02,034 and that's where we tend to focus our attention, 497 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,369 because that's where we see predatory behavior. 498 00:30:04,903 --> 00:30:10,709 I navigate over to the Backpage Dallas area for men seeking men. 499 00:30:11,343 --> 00:30:13,011 What I'm looking for is those ads 500 00:30:13,111 --> 00:30:15,847 that appear to be a little ambiguous, 501 00:30:15,947 --> 00:30:19,551 looking potentially for kids, versus a consenting adult. 502 00:30:20,152 --> 00:30:22,754 I've only been on the site for just a couple of minutes, 503 00:30:22,854 --> 00:30:24,890 and "Sugar Dad looking for his son" 504 00:30:24,990 --> 00:30:26,725 really catches my attention. 505 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:29,328 "Looking for a younger guy for companionship, 506 00:30:29,428 --> 00:30:33,598 he must be 18 to 30-ish." He wants love. In return, 507 00:30:33,699 --> 00:30:36,401 he's offering up a nice place, three meals a day. 508 00:30:37,102 --> 00:30:38,804 This ad, in my experience, 509 00:30:38,904 --> 00:30:41,840 tells me that this is someone who's got some wiggle room 510 00:30:41,940 --> 00:30:45,544 in what they're looking for, meaning most likely younger, 511 00:30:45,711 --> 00:30:47,679 knowing they can't put that onto that ad 512 00:30:47,779 --> 00:30:50,315 without getting it flagged or removed. 513 00:30:51,316 --> 00:30:53,585 This is a predator that's looking for a kid. 514 00:30:58,156 --> 00:30:59,624 Tony devises a plan 515 00:30:59,791 --> 00:31:01,760 to lure in the Backpage Sugar Daddy. 516 00:31:04,663 --> 00:31:08,800 He creates a profile for a 14-year-old boy named Bryan. 517 00:31:09,434 --> 00:31:12,337 The email address I set up is BryanBoiCurious, 518 00:31:12,437 --> 00:31:14,606 and I'm painting the picture that he is curious 519 00:31:14,706 --> 00:31:16,908 about where he is in his sexuality. 520 00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:21,813 I reply to the ad, "Well, I'm 14. I'll be 15 in November." 521 00:31:21,913 --> 00:31:23,949 Any adult that saw a response like this 522 00:31:24,116 --> 00:31:26,752 would know immediately, "Hold up, this is a kid, 523 00:31:26,918 --> 00:31:28,754 this is illegal," and they would walk away. 524 00:31:29,154 --> 00:31:33,458 I get a reply, and it says, "No, I'm not OK with it. 525 00:31:33,625 --> 00:31:36,428 "You can be absolutely gorgeous, but it isn't worth jail 526 00:31:36,595 --> 00:31:40,298 to be with a hot young stud. Sorry, I'm Marty, by the way." 527 00:31:40,866 --> 00:31:43,068 On one side of this, he's acknowledging, 528 00:31:43,235 --> 00:31:44,569 "I know this is wrong, 529 00:31:44,669 --> 00:31:46,772 I know this is illegal, I could go to jail." 530 00:31:46,872 --> 00:31:49,674 But on the flip side of it, he's very interested. 531 00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:52,911 When you see the messages from these predatory types, 532 00:31:53,245 --> 00:31:54,813 they know it's wrong, 533 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:57,682 and they know they have to be very cryptic in what they say. 534 00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:00,952 Marty brings up that he wants to transition 535 00:32:01,052 --> 00:32:02,621 from email over to text messaging, 536 00:32:02,788 --> 00:32:05,624 and that is absolutely a home run for me. 537 00:32:06,625 --> 00:32:08,527 Now, I've got his phone number. 538 00:32:08,627 --> 00:32:10,796 He fully believes I'm a 14-year-old boy, 539 00:32:10,896 --> 00:32:15,500 and we go from there. 540 00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:16,802 As soon as we start texting, 541 00:32:16,968 --> 00:32:18,603 Marty sends me a picture of himself. 542 00:32:19,638 --> 00:32:21,306 And knowing what Marty looks like, 543 00:32:21,473 --> 00:32:24,009 or is purporting to look like, is a big advantage for me. 544 00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:25,844 The flipside to getting a picture from Marty 545 00:32:26,011 --> 00:32:27,479 is that within a few hours, 546 00:32:27,579 --> 00:32:29,414 he wants to know what Bryan looks like, 547 00:32:29,514 --> 00:32:32,317 and he needs validation that this is a real kid. 548 00:32:33,318 --> 00:32:35,720 Tony enlists Officer Bobby Taylor 549 00:32:35,821 --> 00:32:37,756 to bring the character of Bryan to life. 550 00:32:38,990 --> 00:32:41,359 I first met Tony in the academy. 551 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:43,728 He came to teach us about 552 00:32:43,829 --> 00:32:45,864 the Internet Crimes Against Children unit. 553 00:32:46,031 --> 00:32:49,601 During that time is when he asked if 554 00:32:49,768 --> 00:32:51,036 any of us would be willing 555 00:32:51,203 --> 00:32:53,238 to work with him once we finished training. 556 00:32:53,338 --> 00:32:54,873 I was 23, 557 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,009 I still looked pretty closely to what I did in high school, 558 00:32:58,109 --> 00:33:02,480 and so I took him some of my pictures from when I was a kid. 559 00:33:03,682 --> 00:33:06,318 So the profile picture that I send him of Bryan, 560 00:33:06,484 --> 00:33:08,286 which is actually Bobby at that age, 561 00:33:08,386 --> 00:33:10,121 is a really big hit with Marty. 562 00:33:10,222 --> 00:33:12,357 Right off the bat, he escalates things. 563 00:33:19,197 --> 00:33:22,801 Marty's tone and what he's saying is his way 564 00:33:22,901 --> 00:33:24,736 of trying to normalize the deviance 565 00:33:24,836 --> 00:33:27,806 that he wants to interject, and that's just another example 566 00:33:27,906 --> 00:33:30,375 of the grooming process and his power and control. 567 00:33:33,445 --> 00:33:36,481 September 17th of 2014, Marty sends me a message. 568 00:33:36,581 --> 00:33:38,950 He says to me "We'll only do what you feel up to. 569 00:33:39,117 --> 00:33:40,919 "I don't think kissing is illegal. 570 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:43,388 We can go back to my place and kiss and talk." 571 00:33:44,322 --> 00:33:46,024 He wants to come across like it's innocent, 572 00:33:46,191 --> 00:33:49,060 but it doesn't really emphasize what he's really wanting to do, 573 00:33:49,227 --> 00:33:52,597 and how wildly inappropriate something like that would be 574 00:33:52,697 --> 00:33:54,833 between a guy in his fifties and a 14-year-old kid. 575 00:33:55,934 --> 00:33:58,203 Marty's really clear in the messages about meeting, 576 00:33:58,303 --> 00:34:00,171 to make sure that I don't tell any adults. 577 00:34:00,605 --> 00:34:03,174 "Your mom will never find out about me." 578 00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:05,777 But he's still nervous, so he messages me. 579 00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:08,713 "OK, I have to ask this to protect myself-- 580 00:34:09,180 --> 00:34:12,250 "you're not a cop, and you don't work for the police, right? 581 00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:15,287 Because I'm not a cop, and I don't work for them." 582 00:34:16,221 --> 00:34:17,956 I just reassure him. 583 00:34:19,658 --> 00:34:21,860 I mean, this is really classic predator behavior, right? 584 00:34:22,027 --> 00:34:24,796 This guy is scared, obviously. 585 00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:26,831 He's having some very rational thoughts, 586 00:34:27,432 --> 00:34:28,833 but that doesn't deter him. 587 00:34:31,803 --> 00:34:34,005 So I need to get Marty identified. 588 00:34:34,105 --> 00:34:36,675 I kick off legal process to the cell provider, 589 00:34:36,841 --> 00:34:38,977 and while I'm waiting for that to happen, 590 00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:42,280 Marty messages me just after 6 o'clock the next morning. 591 00:34:42,747 --> 00:34:45,483 "Good morning, my boy. I hope you slept well. 592 00:34:45,584 --> 00:34:47,085 "I thought about you a lot last night, 593 00:34:47,185 --> 00:34:48,553 and this morning when I woke up," 594 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:51,289 and just really out of nowhere, he sends me a picture 595 00:34:51,389 --> 00:34:52,991 of his white Chevy Silverado. 596 00:34:53,425 --> 00:34:54,793 There's this gotcha moment 597 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,429 because his license plate's in the actual photo. 598 00:34:57,596 --> 00:34:58,997 I run this plate through the DMV, 599 00:34:59,164 --> 00:35:00,565 and I come back with a full name. 600 00:35:00,665 --> 00:35:04,069 Jack Marty Taylor, 59-year-old male from Dallas, Texas. 601 00:35:04,235 --> 00:35:05,236 So Taylor's not married. 602 00:35:05,403 --> 00:35:07,205 He has no criminal history I can find, 603 00:35:07,305 --> 00:35:09,708 and he has no access to kids that I can find. 604 00:35:11,276 --> 00:35:12,978 In order for this case to move forward 605 00:35:13,078 --> 00:35:15,080 and me to put a charge onto Taylor, 606 00:35:15,246 --> 00:35:16,848 I need a couple of things to happen. 607 00:35:16,948 --> 00:35:20,885 One, I need him to set up a specific date and time 608 00:35:20,986 --> 00:35:22,520 for when this meeting will happen, 609 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:25,724 and then two, I need him to show what his intentions are. 610 00:35:25,991 --> 00:35:28,793 Does he want to have a sexual relationship with this child? 611 00:35:28,893 --> 00:35:30,996 And if so, it's game on. 612 00:35:32,764 --> 00:35:34,566 It takes about three months, 613 00:35:34,666 --> 00:35:38,003 but eventually, Marty gives me exactly what we're looking for. 614 00:35:39,471 --> 00:35:40,839 Marty's message 615 00:35:41,006 --> 00:35:43,375 reveals his true intentions towards Bryan. 616 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,815 This guy's a real danger to minors. 617 00:35:50,915 --> 00:35:52,584 I need to lock in a date for him to meet, 618 00:35:52,751 --> 00:35:54,519 so I can arrest him, and charge him, 619 00:35:54,619 --> 00:35:56,921 and eventually get him convicted and put in prison. 620 00:36:03,194 --> 00:36:06,231 Tony prepares to take down predator Marty Taylor, 621 00:36:06,398 --> 00:36:09,134 using a fellow police officer as bait. 622 00:36:10,568 --> 00:36:14,372 The use of a live decoy is not such a hurdle to get over 623 00:36:14,472 --> 00:36:16,474 because the person that we're using is a police officer. 624 00:36:16,641 --> 00:36:17,842 The biggest threat to that 625 00:36:18,009 --> 00:36:20,612 is if our bad guy shows up and kind of realizes, 626 00:36:20,712 --> 00:36:22,714 "Wait a minute, that's not a real kid." 627 00:36:23,381 --> 00:36:25,050 Marty needs validation 628 00:36:25,150 --> 00:36:27,719 that what he believes in his mind right now, 629 00:36:27,819 --> 00:36:29,554 which is he's got the pot of gold, 630 00:36:29,654 --> 00:36:32,424 which is why I asked Bobby to help me in this case. 631 00:36:36,227 --> 00:36:38,663 Tony tells me he needs me to decoy, 632 00:36:38,830 --> 00:36:41,266 and he's going to need me to dress up as a kid, 633 00:36:41,433 --> 00:36:45,203 because this guy is very eager, but very cautious. 634 00:36:47,472 --> 00:36:49,207 This is the spot where I tell Marty 635 00:36:49,307 --> 00:36:50,708 to come over and meet Bryan. 636 00:36:51,643 --> 00:36:54,112 My intention is to put him right out in the middle of this field. 637 00:36:54,779 --> 00:36:57,749 You wanted me on this side of the field, 638 00:36:57,916 --> 00:36:59,551 so there was distance between us 639 00:36:59,718 --> 00:37:01,486 where you thought he was going to park. 640 00:37:01,586 --> 00:37:04,089 The advantage of having Marty meet Bryan over here 641 00:37:04,189 --> 00:37:05,690 is a bunch of things. 642 00:37:05,790 --> 00:37:08,793 The drive to come in, just a one way in and one way out. 643 00:37:08,893 --> 00:37:11,396 We have good coverage for surveillance units. 644 00:37:11,563 --> 00:37:14,666 If Marty starts to freak out, he has nowhere to go. 645 00:37:14,833 --> 00:37:17,602 The moment you said, "Hey, he's en route," 646 00:37:17,702 --> 00:37:20,038 that's when the nerves kicked in. 647 00:37:20,205 --> 00:37:22,474 And all I could think of was, 648 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,576 "I am the most junior guy in this operation. 649 00:37:24,676 --> 00:37:26,411 I can't mess this up." 650 00:37:32,617 --> 00:37:35,754 Marty's pickup pulls in at 4:15 p.m. 651 00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:41,226 Marty starts flashing his lights at me to let me know it's him. 652 00:37:41,392 --> 00:37:42,927 And I remember freezing. 653 00:37:44,863 --> 00:37:47,465 Tony tells me, "Pretend you're texting." 654 00:37:47,632 --> 00:37:50,602 As I'm walking towards him, I get about halfway. 655 00:37:50,768 --> 00:37:52,971 And at that point, as I see red and blue lights, 656 00:37:53,071 --> 00:37:55,573 I take off running and I hide. 657 00:37:55,673 --> 00:37:57,976 So I give the team the order to take him down. 658 00:37:58,810 --> 00:38:01,279 Two squad cars race across the parking lot 659 00:38:01,446 --> 00:38:02,947 to block Marty's escape. 660 00:38:12,624 --> 00:38:16,027 I think he's in a degree of shock at that moment 661 00:38:16,194 --> 00:38:18,196 because of everything that's happened, 662 00:38:18,296 --> 00:38:21,366 the culmination of this, the gravity of this now. 663 00:38:21,466 --> 00:38:23,401 He's in handcuffs, he's in the back of a squad car. 664 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:27,839 And so his mind is racing a million miles an hour. 665 00:38:46,357 --> 00:38:49,227 When Marty gets into custody, he's sort of 666 00:38:49,394 --> 00:38:51,729 pleading his innocence and that he's a nice guy, 667 00:38:51,830 --> 00:38:53,832 just trying to help. Nothing's happened. 668 00:38:53,998 --> 00:38:58,469 The reality is, he knows full well what he was doing. 669 00:39:37,008 --> 00:39:40,511 So he's sort of minimizing things with partial truths, 670 00:39:40,678 --> 00:39:42,313 but he's also telling partial lies. 671 00:40:01,032 --> 00:40:03,935 The reality is that's an online solicitation of a minor. 672 00:40:37,235 --> 00:40:40,538 Marty tells me in his confession that he lost control. 673 00:40:40,638 --> 00:40:43,174 Ultimately, he was doing what it is 674 00:40:43,274 --> 00:40:45,610 he really, truly wanted to do, 675 00:40:45,710 --> 00:40:48,880 and would have done had there been no police intervention. 676 00:40:56,254 --> 00:40:59,691 The Taylor case shows that boys as well as girls are at risk 677 00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:01,426 from online predators. 678 00:41:01,592 --> 00:41:06,230 In fact, one in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse. 679 00:41:07,098 --> 00:41:10,201 Parents need to show their kids that they're approachable, 680 00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:13,771 and that their kids can talk to them about important life stuff. 681 00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:17,308 Because if a kid feels different or lonely, 682 00:41:17,475 --> 00:41:19,877 like my undercover identity Bryan did, 683 00:41:20,044 --> 00:41:23,014 their mixture of vulnerability and curiosity 684 00:41:23,114 --> 00:41:24,682 puts them at a higher risk 685 00:41:24,849 --> 00:41:27,118 of being targeted by an online predator.