Christopher Edward "Chris" Hansen (born: September 13, 1959) is an American journalist, reporter and author. He has contributed to Dateline NBC, Investigation discovery, and Crime Watch Daily.
Content[]
Formerly the host of NBC series To Catch a Predator, Chris Hansen's YouTube channel is dedicated to exposing pedophiles and other sexual predators such as Onision and Dahvie Vanity. He often invites hosts to his channel to discuss/expose them.
Personal Life[]
Hansen was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 13, 1959 and grew up in West Bloomfield Township and Birmingham, Michigan. He attended Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
In 1981, Hansen graduated from the Michigan State University College of Communication Arts and Sciences with a bachelor's degree in telecommunication.
Hansen is married to his wife Mary Joan and has two sons. It was reported that in June 2018, Mary Joan filed for divorce after nearly 30 years of marriage. However, Mary Joan began making frequent appearances on Hansen's YouTube channel during May 2020, suggesting that the couple was still together. The family resides in Stamford, Connecticut.
Career[]
Hansen has hosted a number of shows, including
- DatelineNBC
- To Catch a Predator
- Killer Instinct
- Hansen vs Predator
- Crime Watch Daily
- Have A Seat With Chris Hansen
- The Investigation of Peter Nygaard
- Takedown with Chris Hansen
Controversy[]
Mishandling of Onision case[]
Chris, despite being praised for exposing pedos in the past, handled the Onision case very badly. He deliberately sabotaged the case because he wanted profit and stole money from his subscribers[1]. When people like CreepShow Art[2] and JaclynGlenn called him out, he called them criminals[3] and basement dwellers. All because of Chris' meddling, Onision did not face any consequences.
Hansen also produced an original documentary on Onision, but it was full of so much misinformation that it was negatively received, and even Blaire White, one of the people who exposed Onision, turned down being in it[4]. The victims did not want to be in it, but Chris forced them to anyway.
Doxxing John Swan[]
On January 26, 2021, John Swan released a documentary[5] Chris Hansen's Hitman: The Anon Gene Files chronicling the harassment and abuse he received from Chris Hansen's associate, "Anonymous Gene". Gene and Chris were close, so much that he texted him more than his own son. When John Swan dared to criticize Hansen, "Gene" responded by doxxing John Swan, revealing his real full name, his address, pictures of his sister, his school (even trying to get in contact with his classmates) and other sensitive information.
Before this, Gene had sent several doxx threats to John, saying this would happen if he did not delete his videos[6] critical[7] of Chris Hansen. He was also leaking private text messages between himself and Chris around this time, even leaking Chris's number in the process. In the past John Swan called out[8] Chris' involvement with Gene, asking why Chris would involve himself with someone who gloated about doxxing others on Twitter. Gene had also made false accusations like John botting his subscribers and engagement. However John proved this was false[9].
John and 5 more accounts were suspended a week after the accusation of botting. What did John and the 5 accounts all have in common? They were critical of Hansen. Later in a live[10] stream[11], Hansen made comments about "drama channels spreading misinformation" and "drama channels using bots". In the same live stream he denies knowing Gene and said he "was acting on his own to support our effort". He said if he knew what Gene was doing, he would tell him to stop and he did not agree with doxxing as he himself had been a victim of it. He also denied his role in getting the Twitter accounts suspended. However, John also uncovered messages right before the suspensions between Hansen and his former TCaP collaborator Del Harvey who was now the director of trust and safety at Twitter who had direct oversight on suspensions and bannings. After John was unsuspended, Gene spammed Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, saying he wanted to talk with him as Hansen had been on the receiving end of harassment by several people, even attempting to seduce Dorsey's mother.
He also spammed multiple other Twitter employees asking why John Swan and other accounts were still allowed up[12], and a week later, even Hansen joined in in trying to get the attention of Marcia Dorsey, almost exactly how Gene did before.
The same year, Del Harvey stepped down from her position at Twitter and took an “advisory” role, which may or may not have been a result of the suspensions.
Gene then began lying that John Swan was on a pedophile list on Queensland despite the fact that John has never been there.
After the doxxing of John, John was disheartened and announced he resigned. At the same time his friend Ay Star was doxxed[13], by Gene pretending to be a fan of his dad's music and begging to meet him irl. After he was doxxed, his dad's Facebook page about his band got a like. It wasn't from Gene. It was from Hansen's personal Facebook account. It couldn't be a coincidence because the page was inactive and his father hadn't uploaded music in a year. And its not like Ay Star had collaborated with his father. This happened a day after he was doxxed, and that meant Chris had both their first names and residences.
In the ending of the documentary, John theorized that Chris came back to YouTube because he wanted money to pay off his debt and the criticisms made by him and others could hurt that.
The documentary was praised by BriZ and SomeOrdinaryGamers.
Trivia[]
- His show To Catch a Predator ended because one of the pedos that was caught killed himself
- In January 2019, Hansen was charged with larceny after a check bounced with a vendor who delivered promotional items. The charges were later dropped.
- He has received eight Emmy Awards, four Edward R. Murrow Awards, three Clarion awards, the Overseas Press Club award, an IRE, the National Press Club award, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Award; as well as awards for excellence from the Associated Press and United Press International.
- He was inspired to be a journalist after the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL9wgwBALp4&ab_channel=CreepShowArt
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNYHWUa0IE4&ab_channel=CreepShowArt
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNYHWUa0IE4&ab_channel=CreepShowArt
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D92v0vSYvc&t=1s&ab_channel=BlaireWhite
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLQ2QkLZuA&ab_channel=JohnSwan
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZU7JRu8J64&ab_channel=JohnSwan
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ZzriCRhrc&ab_channel=JohnSwan
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMc0ozYdZs&ab_channel=JohnSwanling
- ↑ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0241045
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMc0ozYdZs&ab_channel=JohnSwanling
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR48Wn44XvY&ab_channel=JohnSwanling
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjPUaEPWOx8&ab_channel=JohnSwanling
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77yfanVSQn0&ab_channel=JohnSwanling
