Francey Hakes (Creator/Executive Producer) 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.

Keith D. Billiot (Creator/Executive Producer) is a proud member of the United Houma Nation, a Native American tribe located in the southern region of Louisiana. Keith is a retired Supervisory Special Agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), whose career spanned more than thirty years, in locations such as New Orleans, Chicago, and Kabul, Afghanistan where he worked for nearly two years. He worked short assignments in Central and South America, and the Caribbean. His investigative roles spanned everything from street-level undercover work to pursuing some of the world’s most notorious drug traffickers, Colombian and Mexican cartels, and transnational criminal organizations. Keith also served as Team Leader and Supervisor for DEA Chicago’s Special Response Team (SRT), and Incident Commander for DEA Chicago’s Quick Response Team (QRT). He held instructor certifications in such disciplines as Firearms, Tactical Operations, Defensive Tactics, Vehicle Involved Arrests, and Physical Fitness. He has been recognized as a subject matter expert in warrant planning and execution, and as an Expert Witness in Drug Trafficking Methods and Operations. During his time in Afghanistan, he served as Director of the Regional Training Team (RTT), with the mandate of training Afghan police officers through a joint program between the DEA, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the U.S. Department of State. Post retirement, Keith put his career’s experience to good use by founding his own company, Fearless Security Solutions & Consulting, and by advocating for under-served people throughout the world. He partnered with XG Productions to bring awareness to the injustices still faced by Native Americans.

Peter McDonnell is the creator, writer, and producer of the Audible Originals Evil Has a Name ( New York Times Best Seller), Call Me God (an Audible "Best Listen"), and The Riddle of Emmon Bodfish (an Audible"Best Listen") and a forthcoming scripted audio series. His Audible Original Brooklyn North investigates a series of homicide cases in early 1990s Brooklyn in which four Black men were wrongfully convicted of murder, exposing patterns of police and prosecutorial abuse. After the Fall chronicles the FBI’s investigation into the 9/11 attacks – the deadliest crime in modern US history – through the voices of agents who worked the case. Miles to Go tells the inspiring story of women’s fight for the right to run road races, anchored by the story of Joan Benoit Samuelson, winner of the first women’s Olympic marathon, which was run in LA in 1984. All the Gory Details explores the grisly industry of body donations. Out of Bounds looks at how changes to NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) rules affect college sports. A Devil in the Valley uncovers a series of unsolved murders in Northern California. Midwest Monster spotlights a series of connected and unsolved rape cases near two universities in Kansas, and the hunt for the elusive perpetrator. Darkness of the World follows a whistleblower’s harrowing journey as she exposes crimes by the leader of what some have called the world’s largest cult. Criminal Network ventures into the underworld of Russian cybercrime and cyberespionage against the US. Peter is also a co-executive producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary science series, Pandemic, and the NBC documentary series, The Forgotten West Memphis Three.

Marie Giorda is a writer and musician from Austin, Texas. She made her first venture into the audio space as Story Producer for XG’s Audible Original series Shootout: The Battle for North Hollywood and After the Fall. Marie holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. Her plays include Roadkill, Strip, Waiting for River Phoenix, Uninvited, The Bacchaettes, Dark Time of Day, and Mixed Feelings. After years in NYC, Marie swapped the East Coast for the West and pursued her passion for complex and engaging characters working in both scripted and nonscripted television. She currently lives in Austin.