Dateline Season 16, Episode 41: The Santa Strangler

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It's our twelfth "To Catch A Predator" investigation and this time we're set up in a 6,000- square foot home in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It's a town of about 50,000 people an hour north of Nashville, Tennessee. Each one of these investigations has its own rhythm and Kentucky is no different. Within hours I am struck by the fact that fewer men are showing up at our hidden camera house than in past investigations. Looking back I think this at least partially because the Kentucky Attorney General's office and the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation, along with local law enforcement, have been actively pursuing online predators in the past year. Before Dateline's investigation in Bowling Green, the Attorney General's office with the help of the online watchdog group Perverted Justice had conducted two previous sting operations without us, making 20 arrests. One of them was a 59-year old criminal justice instructor at an Ohio college who used to be an elementary school teacher.

43 min

To Catch A Baby Broker

Some children offered for international adoption are exploited, even kidnapped -- forcing families into a desperate battle to save them

43 min

Murder by the Sea; The Runaway Bride

An American man set up for murder in Nicaragua, or did he actually do it?

43 min

Appointment for Murder

Mistaken Identity

To Catch a Baby Broker

Murder by the Sea; The Runaway Bride

43 min

10 Scariest Escapes from Death

43 min

Appointment for Murder

A doctor was found dead in his Chicago office -- and he'd been the focus of an obsession that had lasted for years

43 min

A Twist of Fate

10 Amazing Crimes Caught on Tape

Chris Hansen (Catching A Predator)

Murder in the Family

The Comic Book Murder

Seventeen years after a murder at a comic book store, a detective re-opens a cold case.

45 min

The Terror at the Mall

Deadly Arrangement

The Comic Book Murder

Mystery at Bootlegger's Cove

The disappearance of 21-year-old Bethany Correira, who vanished just days after arriving at college in Anchorage, Alaska, prompts a detective's determinaton to solve her case.

45 min

The Detective's Daughter

A kidnapped detective's daughter called 911. So did her husband. So did witnesses. They all thought help would be on the way. They were wrong.

45 min

Mystery in the Deep Blue Sea

A honeymoon scuba dive ends up being one woman's final trip.

45 min

Obsession (2008)

No one could figure out why a college student died in her bed - until a tiny spot launched an epic investigation.

The Many Faces of Clark Rockefeller

Christian Gerhartsreiter, who posed as Clark Rockefeller and abducted his daughter.

45 min