Death by DM

Popular, happy, well-rounded kids across America are being extorted online through a sinister financial scheme that leaves them broken, defeated, and even worse. Learn how quickly criminals gain control over our kids and what to do if it happens to your family.

S1|EP 01

27 min

Released 13/01/2026

Every day in neighborhoods across the nation, Americans are being trafficked. Meet 5 beautiful women from different backgrounds who themselves being trafficked and learn the various ways they were targeted, groomed, exploited, and controlled.

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Short season description - placeholder. Founded on June 1, 2010 by Chai Ling, the entrepreneurial founder of Jenzabar, Inc. and former leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Student Protest, to restore life, value, and dignity to girls and women everywhere through targeted initiatives. Its first mission was to end China’s One-Child Policy and its brutal practice of gendercide. With that goal accomplished, we turned our attention to equipping girls and women to rise above circumstances and become the masterpieces they were created to be.

Online Learning:

Department of Homeland Security on official website of the United States government
Polaris Project
https://sharedhope.org/what-we-do/prevent/training/
Film “From Liberty to Captivity” on sex trafficking in the U.S.

For Activists

Its first mission was to end China’s One-Child Policy and its brutal practice of gendercide. With that goal accomplished, we turned our attention to equipping girls and women to rise above circumstances and become the masterpieces they were created to be.

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With that goal accomplished, we turned our attention to equipping girls and women to rise above circumstances and become the masterpieces they were created to be.

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Free 5-Step Guide

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This list of fiction and nonfiction books, compiled by Kim Dorman, Community Engagement Coordinator of Princeton Public Library, and retired librarian Susan Conlon.

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This list of fiction and nonfiction books, compiled by Kim Dorman, Community Engagement Coordinator of Princeton Public Library, and retired librarian Susan Conlon.

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Death by DM

video tutorialfor children

Learn how quickly criminals gain control over our kids and what to do if it happens to your family.

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Interviewees

Hear more from the key individuals featured in this episode.

Kevin M.

Middle school girl

Kevin M.

Father of three children

Kevin M.

Candidate of Doctoral Sciences

Kevin M.

Mother of two children

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S1|EP 04

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