RIVERSIDE, Calif., July 6 (UPI) -- Investigators in Southern California say a missing college student was last seen leaving for a party last month at the house of a registered sex offender.
Donna Haghighat Jou, 19, of Rancho Santa Margarita disappeared on June 23. Jou, who lives with her mother, left with a man identified as John Steven Burgess of Los Angeles, the Orange County Register reported.
Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office say that Burgess calls himself Sinjin Stevens and has a pickup truck with the vanity license plate Sinjin1. They believe that he used fake pictures to convince her to come to a party.
A friend said that she received a cell phone call from Jou a few hours after she was last seen. She told the friend she had locked herself in the bathroom because "the guy she was with was freaking her out."
"As more time goes on, the likelihood that she has become a victim of foul play certainly increases," said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.
