John Wesley Hunter

Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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"I told them pacifically... that thank God... that y'all was the cops. Because I woulda been callin' the cops." ―One of John Hunter's nonsense statements. John Wesley Hunter is a predator caught in a Polk County, Florida investigation of Takedown with Chris Hansen. He is notable for his various excuses that make no sense. At the time of the sting, Hunter lived in Davenport, Florida and worked for Budget Auto Parts as a mechanic and a contractor for the Polk County Sheriff's Office to fix it's cars. He was also a self-proclaimed "traveling cowboy." Hunter answered an ad for "family fun" and talked with a decoy posing as a mom to a fourteen-year-old girl. The decoy was run by the Polk County Sheriff's Office as a part of its Operation Cyber Guardian II. Hunter asked the decoy how old her daughter was, to which the decoy said that her daughter was fourteen and "loves family time" (a euphemism for incestual sex). Hunter replied, "That's awesome." Hunter expressed that he might want to have sex with the both of them but asked the mother if she would be willing to be naked while she watched him rape her daughter. Hunter arrived at the hotel used for the sting. Police entered the hallway and pointed a gun at him for several seconds. He was taken to the police station and attempted to hide his face from the cameras. That is until Chris walked in the interview room with an entire camera crew. Hunter protested, saying that he "ain't doin no cameras." Sponsored by: TruthFinder.com. To get the answers you’re looking for about the new people in your life, and to discover information on potential predators, go to www.TruthFinder.com/predators OneSkin daily face moisturizer: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code HANSEN at https://www.oneskin.co/HANSEN #oneskinpod Home Title Lock: Go to https://hometitlelock.com/chrishansen and use promo code HANSEN to get a FREE title history report and a FREE TRIAL of their Triple Lock Protection! For details visit https://hometitlelock.com/warranty Get your official Chris Hansen merchandise at https://haveaseat.dashery.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've confronted hundreds of men over two decades, men online looking for children to sexually assault.
0:07.7	Oh, Cody, I'm Chris Hanson. I'm not who you are. I tried to get into their heads and understand why.
0:13.4	But you have it on your phone. That's true. And ultimately, make sure they face justice.
0:19.5	Can I just give you some money on me?
0:21.4	I don't want money. I want the truth.
0:23.6	These are the predators I've caught.
0:26.8	I'm Chris Hanson.
0:30.3	We just finished night one of another predator sting, a take-down predator sting, in Blunt County, Alabama.
0:40.8	You've seen some of the previous episodes.
0:44.6	And I'm speaking to you from my hotel in Alabama after working late last night.
0:52.8	I can tell you all about this because you won't hear it or see it
0:58.0	until the sting is over. But once again, we have decoys in a house, chatting with men who will
1:08.8	travel great distances to explode a child.
1:12.9	It's also interesting that this is all happening as Congress and Senate voted to release all of
1:23.4	the Epstein files. I'm very mindful of that. And I get a lot of comments from people who want me to investigate Epstein to do something about the Epstein files. I'm very mindful of that. And I get a lot of comments from people who
1:27.7	want me to investigate Epstein, to do something about the Epstein files. And as we speak, I'm working on
1:35.1	booking interviews with some of the survivors of the Epstein tragedy. And we expect to have announcements on those interviews, which will appear,
1:50.0	at least initially, on my other podcast, have a seat with Chris Hansen.
1:57.0	And we've gotten some commitments.
1:59.0	I think it's way overdue that these files are released,
2:02.7	and I'm quite mystified, actually, as to why it's taken so long.
2:07.9	There needs to be transparency here.
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