Founder & Editor, Investigative Journalist
Damion Moore is an investigative journalist and founder of American Crime Journal. His work focuses on crime, corruption, human trafficking, criminal justice accountability, and public misinformation. He currently oversees Collateral Damage: The Anti-Human Trafficking Industrial Complex, ACJ’s ongoing investigative project examining the facts, myths, institutions, and narratives that have shaped the modern anti-human trafficking movement.
Damion D. L. Moore
Founder, Editor & Investigative Journalist | American Crime Journal
Damion D. L. Moore is the founder and editor of American Crime Journal (ACJ), an independent investigative publication dedicated to crime, corruption, human trafficking, wrongful convictions, missing persons, organized crime, and criminal justice accountability.
Over the past decade, Moore has helped transform American Crime Journal from a niche crime publication into a respected investigative resource relied upon by journalists, researchers, attorneys, filmmakers, podcasters, academics, and members of the public seeking evidence-based reporting and primary-source documentation.
His work is best known for long-form investigations examining Operation Underground Railroad, Tim Ballard, the anti-human trafficking industry, criminal justice failures, institutional misconduct, and the intersection of crime, media, politics, and religion. Through years of reporting, source development, document collection, witness interviews, and collaboration with veteran investigative journalist Lynn Packer, Moore has helped build one of the most comprehensive public archives documenting the rise, influence, controversies, investigations, litigation, and public narratives surrounding Operation Underground Railroad.
Reporting published by American Crime Journal has contributed to criminal investigations, prosecutions, civil litigation, public accountability efforts, and broader discussions involving human trafficking, nonprofit oversight, criminal justice policy, and public corruption. ACJ’s work has been cited by journalists, researchers, authors, academic institutions, and documentary filmmakers, helping shape public understanding of complex and often controversial subjects.
Beyond human trafficking investigations, Moore has conducted extensive research into serial homicide, organized crime, street gangs, cold cases, missing persons, wrongful convictions, and historical criminal investigations. His reporting frequently challenges accepted narratives by focusing on records, evidence, witness testimony, and verifiable facts rather than ideology, activism, or popular opinion.
At the center of Moore’s work is a simple belief: an informed public is essential to accountability. Whether examining a criminal investigation, a nonprofit organization, a public official, or a widely accepted social narrative, the goal remains the same- to follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Today, Moore oversees American Crime Journal’s investigative projects, archival initiatives, and long-form reporting efforts while continuing work on Collateral Damage: The Anti-Human Trafficking Industrial Complex, an ongoing examination of trafficking narratives, public policy, media influence, religious movements, nonprofit accountability, and the unintended consequences of misinformation.
American Crime Journal’s mission is simple: For a Better Informed Public.
