BigJoda

In the wake of the Markoff case, it is worth noting that many, many others have used this website to hook up, only to find out they chose a monster.  This is a case from a couple years back that is just now finding some closure.

This perp is a perpetual loser who ‘panicked’ when a girl died in his house.  Rather than call authorities, he dumped the girl’s body in the ocean.  This is a fairly common excuse among killers too cowardly to accept the responsibility of their acts.  Of course, it’s complete bulls–t!  Unfortunately, the police don’t have enough proof to charge the guy with murder so he pleads to a lesser crime and will only serve 5 years.  I certainly hope this creep gets some jailhouse justice otherwise he’ll be back in no time, free to kill again.

Read the entire story at the Los Angeles Times:

Probable murderer and definite loser, John Steven Burgess.

For nearly two years, friends and family of 19-year-old Donna Jou fought desperately to find out what happened to the college biology student, pleading with the man authorities suspected held the answers to her disappearance.

They started a website. They went on television. They stood in front of the man’s home, demanding answers.

On Wednesday, some of those answers surfaced when John Steven Burgess, a convicted sex offender who met the Rancho Santa Margarita woman through craigslist.com, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and concealing her body.

The body of Donna Jou has never been found.

But the plea bargain also left questions unanswered.

Burgess, who is serving a three-year term for failing to register as a sex offender, told a Los Angeles court Wednesday that Jou died after he gave her cocaine, heroin and alcohol at a party at his home in Palms. When he awoke the next morning, Burgess said he discovered that she was dead. He said he panicked and used his sailboat to dump her body into the ocean.

Authorities, who declined to specify where Jou was dumped, said they have conducted several searches in the area, but failed to find the body…

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