Chasing Shadows
Show Description – Chasing Shadows Predators thrive in the shadows. Parents can’t protect what they don’t see. Chasing Shadows is a podcast hosted by Sean Lacy, a Digital Forensic Examiner and Special Investigator who has spent years uncovering crimes of online child exploitation. Drawing from real cases and frontline experience, Sean pulls back the curtain on how predators operate in digital spaces most parents have never even heard of.
Episodes
Shadow Debrief #1: The Chatroom Admin
Shadow Debrief #1: The Chatroom AdminIn this Chasing Shadows: Shadow Debrief, Sean Lacy takes listeners inside a North Carolina case that exposes one of the most dangerous positions online — the chatroom administrator.Twenty-four-year-old N…
Episode 4 – Paltalk: Behind the Chat Rooms
Episode 4 – Paltalk: Behind the Chat RoomsMost parents have never heard of Paltalk. Predators have.In this episode of Chasing Shadows, Sean Lacy takes you inside one of the internet’s oldest chat platforms — a space where anonymity, video c…
Episode 3 - The Traveler
Episode 3 – The TravelerDescription:Some offenders don’t just hide behind a keyboard — they show up.Sam Smith was already a convicted sex offender when he entered an online chat room and began talking to who he thought were two 14-year-old …
Episode 2 – The Peer-to-Peer Predator
Description:Brad Roberts wasn’t caught in a dark alley — he was caught online. A repeat offender, he used a peer-to-peer program called Shareaza to download and trade child sexual abuse material. When his case went to trial, the jury handed…
Episode 1- The Major and the Manifesto
Episode 1 – The Major and the Manifesto: Grooming ExposedDescription:When a CyberTip leads investigators to the home of an Air Force major, the discovery isn’t just shocking — it’s a window into how predators think. Buried on one of his dev…
Episode 0 - Welcome to Chasing Shadows
Episode 0 – Welcome to Chasing ShadowsPredators thrive in the shadows. Parents can’t protect what they don’t see.In this introduction to Chasing Shadows, host Sean Lacy, a Digital Forensic Examiner and investigator, explains why he created …