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Sex Offender Charged in Death of Donna Jou

By David Lohr

Prosecutors in Los Angeles have charged 36-year-old John Steven Burgess, aka Sinjin Stevens, with multiple criminal counts in connection with the disappearance of Donna Jou, a 19-year-old resident of Rancho Santa Margarita, California, who went missing nearly two years ago. On Tuesday, Burgess, a convicted sex offender, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, concealment of an accidental death and one count each of sale or transportation of heroin and sale or transportation of cocaine. At the time of his arrest, Burgess was already serving a three-year prison term for failing to register as a sex offender. Those charges stem from a 2002 case, in which Burgess was convicted of performing a lewd act against a child.  "I believe [Donna] was at this party in the Palms area and she was inducing narcotics, and the cause of her death is most likely going be overdose," Detective Ron Ito, the lead investigator, said at a news conference...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).