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Midwest Monster

By: Francey Hakes, James Bruce, Josh Sanburn, Peter McDonnell
Narrated by: Paget Brewster
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  • Midwest Monster Trailer

    Midwest Monster Trailer
    Jul 27 2022
    Midwest Monster releases July 28, 2022 This is a true story. For twenty years in the heart of Kansas, a serial rapist has been preying on female students at two large universities—Kansas State and the University of Kansas. He has stalked them to their off-campus apartments and in the middle of the night appeared in their bedrooms. The “Kansas College Rapist” has committed at least 15 attacks, but after years of investigations and over a thousand leads he is still at large. Now and for the first time, survivors of his attacks are stepping forward to tell their stories and publicly expose details about his crimes. Together, with the local police in Kansas and the U.S. Marshals, the series Midwest Monster is working to help to identify and capture the Kansas College Rapist.
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  • Episode 1: A Monster Reveals Himself

    Episode 1: A Monster Reveals Himself
    Jul 28 2022
    After a student at Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas, is brutally attacked in the middle of the night in her off-campus apartment, she learns she is the sixth student to be sexually assaulted by the same unidentified man police call the Kansas College Rapist. A KSU psychologist steps forward to help the survivors.
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  • Episode 2: An Aura of Safety

    Episode 2: An Aura of Safety
    Jul 28 2022
    One month after Beth was attacked, police respond to the sexual assault of a student at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, about 85 miles west of Manhattan. Authorities quickly identify the attacker as the Kansas College Rapist and are alarmed to discover that he has expanded his range.
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Paget Brewster
Francey Hakes
James Bruce
Josh Sanburn
Peter McDonnell

About the Performer

Paget Brewster is best known for her role as Special Agent Emily Prentiss in CBS’s long running series, Criminal Minds. She has most recently appeared in Hulu's How I Met Your Father as well as Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Hollywood and the CBS comedy Mom. Paget starred in Comedy Central’s Another Period and in Fox’s comedy series Grandfathered, opposite John Stamos. She appeared on NBC’s acclaimed show Community and two Emmy Award-winning series: Showtime’s Huff and Fox’s Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Paget’s extensive voiceover work includes Family Guy, American Dad, and Tuca & Bertie. She was nominated for an Emmy for her voice work in Ducktales and most recently for the Disney+ series Behind the Attraction-. She has appeared in the films Welcome to Happiness, My Big Fat Independent Movie, The Specials, The Big Bad Swim, The Adventures of Rocky and Bulwinkle, Desperate But Not Serious, and Man of the House.

About the Creator, Executive Producer, and Writer

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.

About the Executive Producer and Writer

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+.

About the Writer

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.

About the Executive Producer and Writer

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.

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Extremely well done, respectful, not retraumatizing

I love true crime, but am completely done with podcasts / documentaries that over-focus on the crime itself and overshadow the survivors/victims' stories and the investigation. This podcast was a perfect balance of voices and perspectives — the survivors were especially empowering and compelling. Just WOW.

Emphatically recommend.

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Riveting

I was attending school at KSU during the majority of these cases and remember being aware of this happening. I had friends that eventually lived in the same complex he was hitting. It’s really scary to think any of them or myself could have fallen victim. Thank you to these survivors for being so brave to relive and share their stories. Here is hoping we can find this guy and prosecute him!

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Absolutely and horrifyingly real life

Wonderfully written and read. I'm a true crime junkie and have never heard this terrifying unsolved crime! Much respect to all the survivors I hope you can find your peace and healing you need and deserve! To the attacker.....better run loser it's only a matter of time before you're caught!!

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Outstanding

This sensitive subject matter was handled so well and with so much compassion, victims' voices were heard, narrated beautufully.

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excellent podcast

this is a podcast on true events. you are hooked from the very beginning. I definitely recommend it

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Definitely worth it…

I enjoy watching true crime on TV, and this definitely kept my attention from the beginning to the end. Such a horrible situation, hopefully they’ll catch this perpetrator soon.

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Copycat?

This rapist’s modus operandi seems nearly identical to that of Marc Patrick O'Leary, the Washington & Colorado serial rapist who was convicted in 2011 (reported by Ken Armstrong and T Christian Miller, and portrayed dramatically in the ‘Unbelievable’ mini-series). Just an admirer? Connected person? Weird.

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Catch him!

Narration was a little dreamy, at times, like she was reading a bedtime fairytale. 😑

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Good presentation

The authors and narrators have a good presentation of this story and the synopses of the investigation. The story might strike the interest of someone with good information. Best wishes.

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Insightful and powerful

I am glad I listened to this podcast. It was very informative and helped me to understand the history and current process for reporting rape. The interviews with the two very articulate and strong women were so inspiring. Their bravery and vulnerability of truth is to be commended. The only small negative aspect of this story was the narrator. Her voice and rhythm of speech was unnatural. She seems more suited to children’s stories. Overall, would highly recommend.

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