Media Kit

Donna Marie Gentile, escaped from a juvenile detention home and traveled to San Diego to begin a new life. Donna, like many other innocent runaways, became a victim of the street walker life. While in survivor mode  she was groomed, exploited and coerced into prostitution a path that took control of her life and ultimately led to her death at the age of twenty-two.  She befriended police officers thinking this would afford her some protection in her dangerous life on the streets. Instead she was harassed and victimized only to find herself manipulated, abused and betrayed by the San Diego Police Department. In 1985 she testified against two SDPD officers, and three months later was found brutally murdered.

She predicted her own death in a recording she left with her attorney to be made public “in case I disappear,” saying that “someone with a badge may turn out to be a serious criminal”.

Donna’s first cousin unravels the evidence and discovers the shocking TRUTH of Donna’s murder, and of how, as a woman who fearlessly stood up for her rights at a time when women were supposed to remain silent, she was a true pioneer of today’s Me Too movement.