Rachel Brown
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1,519 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Rachel Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This one call would set off a years-long manhunt, one of the most expensive in Wichita history, for a mysterious character who would spread fear throughout this Midwestern city.
It's a story about a seemingly normal middle-aged woman
Targeted by a monster.
Whose story would become a media sensation.
From Sony Music Entertainment and Newmetric Media, this is The Poet.
I'm Rachel Brown.
Episode 1, The Call.
The Call.
I'm an investigative reporter.
I cover cases dealing with cults, serial killers, all things true crime.
And the story of Ruth Finley and her tormentor caught my attention because of how strange and extreme it got.
It's the 1970s, at the dawn of the serial killer era, when criminal profiling has just been invented.
A middle-aged woman from middle America has a stalker, a stalker who writes her poetry.
But then the story twists and turns and gets caught up in a media tornado that goes well beyond Kansas, even ending up on the Oprah Winfrey show.
But Ruth's peaceful life was disrupted when an unknown man vowed to kill her.
I'd been trying to untangle this whole thing from my home in Toronto, but I knew I had to go see where it all happened to really understand it, even though nearly 50 years had passed since that first threatening phone call.
Andy, is your phone on?
Yes.
So I hopped on a plane to Wichita.
I knew I would never get to talk to Ruth Finley.
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