Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen is a television journalist, presenter, and YouTube personality best known for hosting Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which used sting operations to expose online predators. Over a career spanning since 1981, he has covered major events like the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing, later hosting Killer Instinct, Crime Watch Daily, and Takedown with Chris Hansen. Hansen has won multiple Emmys, five Edward R. Murrow Awards, three Clarion awards, the National Press Club Award, and co-founded the TruBlu true-crime service.

Chris grew up in Bloomfield Township and Birmingham, attended Brother Rice, and graduated from MSU.