Predator Files
Season 1
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Network: A&E, Crime + Investigation, A+E Networks UK
Season aired: 2026-03-12
Overview
Predator Files takes viewers onto the front lines of the fight to apprehend the world’s most dangerous online child predators. Led by Roo Powell, law-enforcement consultant, survivor advocate, and founder of SOSA (Safe From Online Sexual Abuse), the series documents high-stakes undercover operations conducted in direct partnership with ICAC task forces, vice units, and district attorneys across the United States.
Episodes · 18
The Buyer
On their first day in OKC, SOSA's undercover sting exposes online predators as decoys lure suspects into a motel meet, leading to a swift arrest.
The Actor
SOSA tracks a manipulative predator who targets a 12-year- old decoy through explicit video calls, shifting personas to groom, threaten and disappear at will.
The White Knight
SOSA exposes how predators often disguise harmful intentions as concern and protection.
The Apostle
SOSA investigates a predator who cloaks his actions in religion and moral authority.
The Switcher
The SOSA team makes a disturbing discovery: a predator they believed had already been caught and jailed has resurfaced online.
The Addict
SOSA and law enforcement uncover a disturbing case involving a man whose escalating addiction has drawn him deep into a trafficking network.
The Professor
The SOSA team closes in on an offender, only to face a sharper threat as evidence disappears and the hunt intensifies.
The Scout
SOSA teams up with Louisiana Vice in a double decoy operation, leading to an arrest as evidence exposes a suspect's false claims.
The Triple Threat
Posing as a 16-year-old, Ariel Winter helps SOSA draw four male suspects to a motel where timing is critical as officers move in.
The Nudist
Two cases collide in Shreveport when a suspect called The Mentor raises alarms and SOSA scrambles to find The Nudist before he strikes again.
The Phantom
As SOSA hunts The Mentor and The Phantom in an intense operation, a last minute message from The Graduate sends the case in a new direction.
The Delivery Man Part 1
A pizza delivery driver becomes dangerously obsessed with decoy Siena, and SOSA race to respond when he uses photo data to pinpoint their safe house.
The Delivery Man Part 2
Hold your breath as police close in on The Delivery Man, racing to secure a safe house before lies and danger spiral out of control.
The Photographer
See the sting unfold as SOSA targets a former teacher whose online obsession spirals toward a dangerous meet up at a skate park.
The Agent
A 15-year-old decoy is used to expose a trusted figure hiding a dangerous double life.
The John
A dangerous man is identified online and investigators use a decoy to expose his true intent.
The Grandfather
A suspect uses a grandfatherly image to conceal his sinister intentions
The Exhibitionist
A decoy is employed to expose a suspect whose online behaviour escalates into dangerous intent
