About this season
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)
1. The Buyer
Aired 12 March 2026 • 22 min
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.
2. The Actor
Aired 12 March 2026 • 22 min
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.
3. The White Knight
Aired 19 March 2026 • 22 min
SOSA exposes how predators often disguise harmful intentions as concern and protection.
4. The Apostle
Aired 19 March 2026 • 22 min
SOSA investigates a predator who cloaks his actions in religion and moral authority.
5. The Switcher
Aired 26 March 2026 • 22 min
The SOSA team makes a disturbing discovery: a predator they believed had already been caught and jailed has resurfaced online.
6. The Addict
Aired 26 March 2026 • 22 min
SOSA and law enforcement uncover a disturbing case involving a man whose escalating addiction has drawn him deep into a trafficking network.
7. The Professor
Aired 2 April 2026 • 22 min
The SOSA team closes in on an offender, only to face a sharper threat as evidence disappears and the hunt intensifies.
8. The Scout
Aired 2 April 2026 • 22 min
SOSA teams up with Louisiana Vice in a double decoy operation, leading to an arrest as evidence exposes a suspect's false claims.
9. The Triple Threat
Aired 9 April 2026 • 22 min
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.
10. The Nudist
Aired 9 April 2026 • 22 min
Two cases collide in Shreveport when a suspect called The Mentor raises alarms and SOSA scrambles to find The Nudist before he strikes again.
11. The Phantom
Aired 16 April 2026 • 22 min
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.
12. The Delivery Man Part 1
Aired 16 April 2026 • 22 min
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.
13. The Delivery Man Part 2
Aired 23 April 2026 • 22 min
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.
14. The Photographer
Aired 23 April 2026 • 22 min
See the sting unfold as SOSA targets a former teacher whose online obsession spirals toward a dangerous meet up at a skate park.
15. The Agent
Aired 30 April 2026 • 22 min
A 15-year-old decoy is used to expose a trusted figure hiding a dangerous double life.
16. The John
Aired 30 April 2026 • 22 min
A dangerous man is identified online and investigators use a decoy to expose his true intent.
17. The Grandfather
Aired 7 May 2026 • 22 min
A suspect uses a grandfatherly image to conceal his sinister intentions
18. The Exhibitionist
Aired 7 May 2026 • 22 min
A decoy is employed to expose a suspect whose online behaviour escalates into dangerous intent