A cyber twilight zone in Ft. Myers, Fla.

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The man whose sister was waiting outside in a car (with her two kids)
21-year-old David Schumacher, screenname “freebird_72000,” has been chatting online with a decoy posing as a young teen named Bea.

Our 19-year-old actress playing Bea the decoy invites him in.

Actress, decoy (hidden camera footage): You can try some of my cookies, they’re good.
David Schumacher: Did you make them?
Decoy: Yeah I made them myself.
Schumacher: Alright I’ll eat one. I like chocolate chip.

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Online he invites the girl, who told him she was 14 and a virgin, to a birthday party. And from his online chat it appears that he has his sights on a party for two.

freebird_7200 (chat log): i want be your first baby
diamondinthe.rough: ok
freebird_7200:u gonna put my (blank) in ur mouth
freebird_72000: cus i like that
diamondinthe.rough: i guess i can try it
freebird_72000: just let me drive baby
freebird_7200: ill show u heaven

He goes on to talk about having different kinds of sex with the virgin and then gets almost poetic.

freebird_7200: do u wanna make love or f*** for ur first time?
dianmondin the.rough: what’s the difference?
freebird_7200: f***ing is just raw passion and makin love is a connection of bodies iguess

Schumacher (hidden camera footage): You didn’t tell me your parents was rich. What do they do for a living?
Chris Hansen (walks in): Why don’t you have a seat right over there?
Schumacher: How you doing?
Hansen: Good. How are you? What’s happening?
Schumacher: It’s good.

Like so many of the men who walk into this house the man sits and answers questions—he can’t figure out if I’m the girl’s father or a police officer. And remember he has no idea he’s being videotaped.

Schumacher: What’s going on?
Hansen: You tell me what’s going on.
Schumacher: You her dad or something?
Hansen: What are you doing here?
Schumacher: Chillin. Birthday party, you know.
Hansen: So the girl here was gonna go with you to the birthday party?
Schumacher: Who are you?
Hansen: I’ll get to that in a minute. What’s your date’s name for the party?
Schumacher: Bea.
Hansen: Bea. And how old is Bea?
Schumacher: I don’t know, she didn’t really tell me.

But she did tell him. Online she typed her age, typing “14, female, South Florida.” And he said “What would your parents say about you talking to someone as old as me?”

Then “freebird” seems to worry I’m a cop.

Schumacher: You seem like law enforcement. I happen to know law enforcement when I see it.
Hansen: You do. So you’re an expert in this area?
Schumacher: No, no. I’m just saying you come off as law enforcement.
Hansen: Really, you know how you come off?
Schumacher: How’s that?
Hansen: As somebody who’s very nervous.
Schumacher: I—
Hansen: Somebody who came over here to have sex with a 14- year-old girl.
Schumacher: 14-year-old?

Then I read to him some of what he said online.

Hansen: (reading chat log) “Are you sexy naked? Have you ever played with yourself? You gonna put my * in your mouth?”
Schumacher: And? I like to talk dirty?
Hansen: “’Cause I like that, I’ll teach you.”
Schumacher:     And you’re trying to say?
Hansen:    I’m trying to say it makes it look like—
Schumacher:     Yeah. I didn’t come here... I came to pick her up.
Hansen: You came here to have sex with an under-aged girl.
Schumacher: We were in a role playing chat room, dude.
Hansen:    And what role were you playing exactly here?
Schumacher:    It’s people play roles man. Role playing. People just talk. My God dude. Is this some kind of hold up man? You got a warrant. ‘Cause, I mean, if the girl don’t want to come, and if you got a problem—
Hansen:    A warrant? What are you a defense lawyer now?
Schumacher: I’m saying man. You don’t got no cause to hold me. I got—ain’t no problem sitting here to talk to you.

He sticks to the story that he’s here to take the girl to a party, but it turns out he didn’t come here alone. Waiting outside in the car was his sister, and her two young children. He says his sister was going to drive them to the party.

Hansen: Your poor sister’s waiting outside with two babies in the car?
Schumacher: Yeah. So—
Hansen: Because you had to come over here and have sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Schumacher: I didn’t come over here to have sex. I come over here to get the girl and go to the party dude.

We learn his sister apparently didn’t know he was trying to meet an underage girl. (We'll hear more from David later.)

The man who drove four hours on a motorcycle
There are more potential predators to confront. The palm tree cam picked up another man headed our way— but this time he’s riding a motorcyle.

Frag: He’s parking right by the door. He’s nervous, he’s sitting on his bike.

Instead of coming in right away, he stays outside and smokes a cigarette. Our actress tries to get him to come inside.

He’s 45-year-old Dennis Ramsey, a truck driver, screenname “blugrsruls.” He drove four hours to meet a girl who told him online she was 14, home alone and willing to have sex with him. Online “blugrsruls” brings up the idea of having sex with her in a roundabout way.

Blugrsruls (chat log): i said we cant have sex but thats up to you
briana_jade14: it might be ok
blugrsruls: if we do u have to assure me noone will ever find out
Dennis Ramsey (hidden camera footage): Where are you?
Actress, decoy: Oh, hey. I’m just picking out a jacket to wear on the bike, just take a seat.
Ramsey: This is quite a place.
Hansen (walks in): Glad you like it.
Ramsey: (turns around) jeez.
Hansen: What are you up to?
Ramsey: Well, I knew this was gonna happen.

He tells me has kids of his own and drove four hours simply to warn our teenager about the dangers of talking to strangers on the Internet.

Ramsey: I came here to let her know that when you do that, it could be anybody.
Hansen: So you came here to help her out of the goodness of your heart?
Ramsey: Well I know that sounds stupid. But maybe you could say that.

And what about his chat log?

Hansen: You ask her what size her boobs are. She say 32B. You say “yummy.” And you get somewhat suspicious, you say, “You’re not trying to set me up are you? Are you a cop? If anyone knew about this I would go to jail.”
Ramsey: I’m so ashamed of myself right now.

CONTINUED : The man who demanded for ID from the decoy; the deaf potential predator

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