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He bought two Happy Meals. He wasn't meeting an adult. 62-year-old John Coughlin walked up a quiet driveway in Iron Mountain, Michigan carrying kids' meals and a jar of marijuana for what he believed was a 14-year-old girl. What he found instead was Chris and the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office. In this episode, Chris takes you inside his sting operation in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that netted seven predators, and Coughlin's case is the one that rattled him. A laundromat manager and one-time country club cook, Coughlin sent explicit videos to the decoy, asked if she was "420 friendly," and showed up ready. And here's the chilling part: he'd ALREADY been caught once. A live warrant from a Shelby Township sting was sitting in the system while he trolled other underage girls' photos online. His excuse? "Bored and lonely." His admission? "I knew better than this." He did. He came anyway.

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Two Happy Meals and a Jar of Weed: The 62-Year-Old
Who Knew Better

He bought two Happy Meals. He wasn't meeting
an adult. 62-year-old John Coughlin walked up a quiet driveway in Iron
Mountain, Michigan carrying kids' meals and a jar of marijuana for what he
believed was a 14-year-old girl. What he found instead was Chris and the
Dickinson County Sheriff's Office. In this
episode, Chris takes you inside his sting operation in Michigan's Upper
Peninsula that netted seven predators, and Coughlin's case is the one that
rattled him. A laundromat manager and one-time country club cook, Coughlin sent
explicit videos to the decoy, asked if she was "420 friendly," and
showed up ready. And here's the chilling part: he'd ALREADY been caught once. A
live warrant from a Shelby Township sting was sitting in the system while he
trolled other underage girls' photos online.
His excuse? "Bored and lonely." His admission? "I knew
better than this." He did. He came anyway.

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On this episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen is joined by Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd to discuss a recent arrest that will shock you! It involves a Wal-Mart, a man with a lengthy criminal history of sexual deviancy and his brother, who is known for playing the local Santa Claus. You're not going to believe what you hear!

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He took an oath to do no harm. Then he drove to a house where he believed a 15-year-old girl was waiting alone. Dr. Mansoor Ahmed spent his days as a trusted nephrologist in New Orleans. But when Chris's team set up a sting in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, a very different man walked through the door. The chat logs were explicit. The intent was unmistakable. And when confronted, Ahmed reached for an excuse Chris had never heard in decades of these investigations: he claimed a child had bullied him into coming. In this episode, Hansen walks through the decoy conversations line by line, exposing how Ahmed leveraged his medical credentials to groom his target — and dismantles every deflection the doctor throws at him. "You're sorry because you got caught," Chris tells him. The story doesn't end at the confrontation: after his arrest, Ahmed self-deported to Pakistan, raising hard questions about accountability,
prosecution, and whether a predator with a passport ever really faces justice.

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On this special and emotional episode of Have a Seat, Chris Hansen and three victims-turned-survivors of Jeffery Epstein take the stage together for CrimeCon 2026 from Las Vegas, Nevada. Hear from Courtney Wild, Jena-Lisa Jones and Haley Robson on how they came to meet Epstein, become his target, and how they have, and still must, fight for truth and justice. To support the victims of Epstein and victims of sexual assault and human trafficking, please visit www.theSurvivorsinc.org

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Iron Mountain, Michigan. The Upper Peninsula. Postcard country: pine trees, quiet streets, the kind of place where nothing bad is supposed to happen. But in three days, seven men came knocking at one unassuming sting house. This is the story of one of them. Kelsey Burbank is 29. He coordinates online orders at the local Walmart. By day, he's just another face in a small town. By night, he's "Two Googly Eyes" on Grindr, and he's been messaging someone he believes is a 15-year-old boy. He knows the age. He says he wishes he didn't. He keeps typing anyway. On the other end of his explicit two-hour chat? An undersheriff. What follows is a raw confrontation with Chris: the excuses, the deflection, the claim he was "just looking for friends." From first message to handcuffs to an 18-month sentence, this is the predatornext door - exposed.

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