Tales from To Catch a Predator: the forgotten married couple who appeared on the show together to have a threesome with an underaged boy

Maurice Ruiz and Gregory Diederich were both caught in the Riverside sting after they had planned to have a threesome with a decoy pretending to be a 13 year old boy. They simultaneously groomed the decoy and tried to drill into the decoy's head that they were the good guys and that the decoy was lucky he ran into them and not a "creep".

This is how their conversation started:

Maurice was especially weird trying to push the decoy to drive around with him naked in his car:

Both Gregory and Maurice both told on themselves as well mentioning how they both had met minors offline before and talked to them:

Gregory decides to teach the boy a quick math lesson. He is an exceptional tutor:

Maurice chooses an interesting moment to drop on the boy what his desires are. If they hadn't fled immediately and had been interviewed by Chris he would have definitely made a crack about Maurice needing to go to church instead:

Finally they agree to meet in person but Maurice and Gregory have some reservations. Thankfully they remembered the golden rule of asking if they are a cop:

They arrived at the sting house together carrying food after asked the decoy to meet them outside. When Del from Perverted Justice came out (before Dateline started hiring actresses and actors to play the decoys Del would act as the decoy usually out of sight both male and female since she could pitch shift her voice to sounding somewhat masculine) Maurice and Gregory realized she looked nothing like the decoy pictures they had seen even with her wearing a jacket and baseball cap to obscure her features and both turned around and tried to leave...just to get stopped and arrested by the Riverside PD so unfortunately there is no interview with Chris.

Maurice was eventually pled guilty to a charge of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age in exchange for the dropping of two other felonies. He received six months in jail, three years probation, and lifetime registration as a s*x offender. Gregory not only plead guilty to the exact same crime as Maurice, he also received the exact same sentencing. How cute. Couple goals.

Here is Gregory's Megan's Law page:

And here is Maurice's:

Apparently he only has his right nipple pierced. If someone lives in San Diego and wants to verify if he does, be my guest.

They later got married and despite both of them being registered s*x offenders for life they gained custody of Maurice's children which is...something. Especially since Maurice said this line in a chatlog where he was planning a threesome with his now husband and a pubescent 13 year old:

Hopefully at least the sleepovers ended after their arrest.

I can't link a segment because there only very briefly shown and mentioned in the Riverside episode for about ten seconds, which makes it so fascinating. If you don't know, across their weekend long investigation a shocking 52 men arrived all looking to hook up with a minor. So that episode is absolutely jampacked with predators and I can see how these two would escape total awareness and infamy considering the sheer number of guys for the episode to talk about.

Lorne Part 3

Don't worry it's coming, but from here on out the research and writing gets a lot more tedious and confusing, so it'll take some time. I just thought I'd share this in the meantime.