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Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Joseph Ross

Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

"If she wanted to play, I probably would have done oral and that's about it." ―Joseph Ross At the time of the sting, Joseph Ross resided in Marquette City, Michigan.  Ross was communicating with a fifteen-year-old decoy run by the Marquette County Sheriff's Office. During his chat with the decoy, he requested that she wear a thong, a halter bikini top, and pigtails and informed her that he was into fetish play. He requested a phone call with the decoy so that he could hear her voice. After the decoy told Ross over the phone that she wanted to have sex, Ross asked how many times she would "like to play." He then asked what she would charge and asked the decoy, "how much do you wanna be a little fuck slut?"  During the phone call, Ross asked the decoy what her age was. He said it was "A-Okay" that she was young.  Ross arrived at the sting house and immediately asked if it was setup upon entering. Once again assured that it was not, Ross took out $150 to pay the decoy, much less than the agreed upon $500. The decoy left and Chris walked out to meet Ross. Sponsored by:  AirDoctor: Breathe cleaner air every day with AirDoctor—get up to $300 off at https://AirDoctorPro.com using promo code HANSEN  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 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  Get your official Have A Seat 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

0:07.4

assault.

0:07.7

Oh, Cody, I'm Chris Hansen.

0:09.2

I'm not who you are.

0:10.0

I tried to get into their heads and understand why.

0:13.4

But you have it on your phone.

0:14.9

That's true.

0:15.5

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.

0:22.4

I want the truth.

0:23.6

These are the predators I've caught.

0:26.8

I'm Chris Hansen.

0:30.3

Imagine living in a small town.

0:35.4

And you go into the grocery store once or twice a week and you have an interaction with

0:40.2

the grocery store manager, nice guy, 37 years old, single. You don't know much about him, but

0:48.9

you interact and you pay him no attention. But you find out that that man is actually a stone cold predator,

1:05.0

living in that community, interacting with people every day,

1:10.0

watching children come and go from the grocery store,

1:13.6

driving around town, getting on the internet.

1:18.6

What do you really know about this guy?

1:21.6

Well, in the case of Joseph Ross, we now know a lot because Joseph surfaced during one of our predator sting operations,

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