![]() Morales said that authorities investigated dozens of potential suspects. I want to know who did it and I wasn't going to trust you." "I don't care if it was a friend of a friend. “Everybody was on my radar, I don't care if it was a friend," she said. And with no arrests, she was paranoid that whoever had done this to her daughter could come back again. That's not me,’” she said.Īfter the attack, Marcell never returned to live in her home again. “I've seen pictures of me in the first 24 hours, after everything had happened, and I was just like, ‘That's not, that's not me. Her medical team covered the mirrors in her hospital room, afraid of how she’d react to her own reflection. They implanted it in her abdomen where it healed naturally before putting the skull piece back into her head. Her doctors removed part of her fractured skull to ease the swelling in her brain. You were beaten traumatically, with a shovel, in your house.’ It was hard to take in.” They're like, ‘That's far from what happened to you. “It was scary after they told me what had happened,” she told “20/20.” “I thought I was in a bad car accident. It would ultimately take years of rehabilitation to get the young woman back to a place where she could function on her own. The damage to her brain had robbed her of her ability to speak, walk, and swallow. She had no recollection of the attack or much else. While police were fielding tips from the community about that composite sketch and running down leads, Brittani finally came out of her coma after ten days. In the trailer, Hansen explained to one of the adult suspects that sex with a 13-year-old is illegal.Diane Marcell went to the police station to help make a sketch of the suspect to release to the public. Yesterday, a trailer was released showing Hansen's latest investigation. “Our community is safer today as a result of this operation,” MacNamara told the paper. The city's police chief Gary MacNamara credited Hansen's investigation for making the area safer. To Catch a Predator was also the target of intense media scrutiny as some claimed the program lacked journalistic ethics.Īs part of Hansen's first investigation under Hansen vs Predator, 10 men were arrested in Fairfield, Connecticut in October, according to the Fairfield Citizen. Following the settlement, NBC stopped producing To Catch a Predator. Hansen would then read transcripts of conversations the men had with Perverted Justice volunteers posing as children often using graphic language.Īfter Hansen's interview with the suspect, the man would leave the house with police waiting with guns drawn, ready to arrest the suspect.įollowing the suicide of a Texas prosecutor who was the subject of Hansen's investigation, NBC was sued by the man's family. Instead of finding a child, Hansen would enter the room and interview the suspects. Dateline NBC partnered with a group called Perverted Justice and law enforcement to arrest adults intending to meet children aged 12-15 for a sexual liaison. Hansen hosted To Catch a Predator on NBC from 2004-07. Though Hansen has since been released from NBC and the "To Catch a Predator" series, Hansen is planning to announce his new series "Hansen vs Predator" next week.ĭespite not having a network to produce Hansen vs Predator, Hansen managed to raise $90,000 from more than 1,200 donors, and has already completed its first investigation. Former "Dateline NBC" reporter Chris Hansen, with the help of donors on Kickstarter, is restarting his series of investigations aimed at finding and arresting adults looking to meet children online for sex.
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