Francey Hakes was a prosecutor for 16 years, serving first as an Assistant District Attorney and then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with a variety of assignments including national security and child exploitation matters. Francey also served a special detail to the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review presenting FISA warrants to the FISA Court in counterterrorism and counter-espionage cases and assisted in the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui. She was also the country’s first National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, a post appointed by the U.S. Attorney General. Hakes oversaw all child exploitation efforts at the Department of Justice, testified before the U.S. Congress and the United States Sentencing Commission, and briefed senior officials at the White House, Congress, and the Department of Justice on child exploitation issues. She is CEO of her own consulting firm, providing advice, counsel and expert witness services to firms, law enforcement, schools, governments, industry, non-profits, Hollywood firms and others on national security and the protection of children. Francey has appeared as a legal analyst on Fox News, CNN, NBC Nightly News, and other news series, and is an opinion contributor for The Hill and the Washington Examiner. Francey was a Senior Producer of America’s Most Wanted and a producer of the Audible Originals Call Me God and Shootout: The Battle for North Hollywood. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia, a juris doctor from Ohio Northern University College of Law, and an honorary doctorate from Ohio Northern University.

James Bruce started his career as Louis Malle’s protégé. During his tenure with Malle, Bruce worked in production on Atlantic City and My Dinner with André, and then edited Alamo Bay and the documentary God’s Country. Bruce directed several independent films, Headless Body in Topless Bar, Den of Lions, and Case 219. Bruce produced the feature film Oka! which was filmed in the Central African Republic and premiered at the Telluride Film Festival (on Kino Lorber). Bruce also directed episodes of the television shows Highlander, America’s Most Wanted, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Survivor (Emmy Nomination), The Apprentice (2 Emmy Nominations), and Army Wives. In 2021, Bruce Executive Produced the reboot of America’s Most Wanted for FOX and in 2022, directed the six-part documentary series, Indivisible: Healing Hate for Paramount+.

Josh Sanburn is a writer and development producer for Gimlet Media. Josh co-produced the Audible Originals Brooklyn North, which followed the stories of four men wrongfully convicted of homicide in New York, and The Riddle of Emmon Bodfish about a 1999 cold case in the Bay Area. He recently co-produced To The Moon, a special series for The Journal podcast about the GameStop trading frenzy, and wrote features for Vanity Fair about a funeral home during COVID-19 and one of the most prolific graverobbers in modern American history. Before that, Josh was a staff writer for TIME Magazine where he covered crime, policing, rural America, and social and demographic change across the U.S. He wrote TIME's cover stories on the Flint water crisis and the construction of One World Trade Center. Sanburn is originally from Linton, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife Claire and daughter Kate.

Peter McDonnell heads the audio department at XG Productions. Peter created, co-wrote, and executive produced Evil Has a Name (a New York Times bestseller), Call Me God (an Audible Best Listen of 2019), The Riddle of Emmon Bodfish (an Audible Best Listen of 2021), Shootout, Brooklyn North, A Devil in the Valley, and After the Fall, about the FBI’s investigation into the 9/11 attacks. He is also the creator, producer, and writer of Miles to Go, which tells the story of Joan Benoit Samuelson’s 1984 groundbreaking win at the first women’s Olympic Marathon; a creator and executive producer of Am I Dating a Serial Killer?!, which tells stories of early red flags in modern relationships; and a creator and executive producer of Out of Bounds, about a recent revolution in college sports.

Peter is a co-executive producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, Pandemic, and the NBC documentary series, The Forgotten West Memphis Three. He’s a graduate of New York University and has an MFA from Oregon State, where he also taught writing. Peter lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Sarah, and his children Angus and Anna.