95: Chris Hansen

True Crime Binge

Bob Ruff

True Crime

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest is the one and only Chris Hansen, longtime host of “To Catch a Predator” on Dateline NBC, and host of the follow-up podcast “Predators I’ve Caught with Chris Hansen.” Bob chats with Chris about growing up in Michigan, his early career, and the beginnings of “To Catch a Predator.” They also discuss the case of Ronald Lloyd Bailey, a predator lurking around Detroit, MI in the 1980s.

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0:00.0	The internet's full of true crime podcasts.
0:05.7	More and more are added to the list every day.
0:08.7	Figuring out where to start or where to go next can be overwhelming.
0:12.3	But have no fear.
0:13.5	I'm Bob Ruff, and this is the place to find your next true crime binge.
0:20.9	Thank you. The place to find your next true crime binge.
0:36.6	All right. I'm joined today by a man.
0:38.4	Most of you are probably very familiar with from his TV series to catch a predator.
0:44.0	It's Chris Hansen.
0:45.1	And you've done a ton of work besides that, including your latest podcast, which we're
0:50.6	to talk about today, which is a podcast called Predators I've Caught
0:54.4	with Chris Hanson. Chris, thanks for joining me. I appreciate it. Well, Bob, thank you very much.
0:59.4	So Chris and Erica, of course, is on our call today. We're all, we're all Michiganers. So you're,
1:04.4	now, you were born, you weren't born in Michigan, right, but you grew up there? No, I was actually born in Chicago.
1:13.3	Both folks grew up in the Chicago area.
1:16.1	My dad got transferred to Detroit.
1:18.4	He was in the auto industry in about 1968.
1:21.4	So I grew up in Michigan pretty much thereafter.
1:22.2	Nice.
1:24.7	And you still keep a home there, even though you're working. Oh, yeah.
1:25.2	Yeah, we'll always have a presence in Michigan.
1:27.5	I love it here.
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