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Teen Predator/Online Killer

  • 2024
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • 1 season
  • 6.0/10

How does a Northern Irish teen become one of the world's worst online child sex abusers? Victims, families and police share how catfish killer Alexander McCartney was caught.

Latest: Season 1 · 2024

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  1. E1. Uncovering a Predator

    Nov 11, 2024 · 28m

    Twenty-year-old Alexander McCartney from Northern Ireland is questioned by police after a 12-year-old girl in Scotland reports serious catfishing online.

  2. E2. A Race Against Time

    Nov 12, 2024 · 29m

    A huge discovery on McCartney’s devices triggers an international investigation as the race to identify thousands of victims across the world gets under way.

  3. E3. Justice

    Nov 13, 2024 · 28m

    Homeland Security discovers an obituary page for a 12-year-old girl in West Virginia. Police in Northern Ireland connect the death to McCartney, opening a manslaughter investigation.

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