Trivia

Hansen has stated that what inspired him to want to become a journalist was when he was 14, Jimmy Hoffa was kidnapped in a restaurant less than two miles away from where he lived and he would ride his bicycle to the crime scene and watch the police and FBI working on Hoffa's disappearance and the reporters covering the big story - watching all of this had a profound effect on him.

Has a new show, a spin-off from his hit show To Catch a Predator (2004), titled Hansen vs Predator and it will air its first episode on September 12, 2016, on the television show Crime Watch Daily (2015).

Attended Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield, MI, class of 1977.

Hansen tampered evidence related to the Gregory Jackson investigation.

His YouTube channel targeted other YouTubers by using YouTube's copyright policy, even though Hansen doesn't own To Catch a Predator (2004). Hansen and his colleagues would also target YouTube videos unrelated to catching child predators.