Word: burgesses
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Last Sunday, a passerby found a black plastic toolbox about one-and-a-half miles away from the home of Burgess, according to a story earlier this week in the Los Angeles Times...
Donna H. Jou, a 19-year-old student at San Diego State University, left her home around 5:30 p.m. on June 23 with an unidentified man who police now think is John Steven Burgess. The man, who according to Jou’s mother was a described by Jou as a friend’s boyfriend, was wearing a white, sleeveless shirt, blue jeans and a black motorcycle helmet when he and Jou left the family’s Rancho Santa Margarita home. Burgess, who was convicted on three counts of battery in 2002 and of performing a lewd...
...suspect also goes by the assumed name Sinjin Stevens, according to a report last week in The Orange County Register. According to various police reports, Burgess contacted Donna on the Web site craigslist.org, using fake photographs to convince her to attend the Santa Monica party on June...
...police have gone to this person’s house, this person of interest, John Burgess, but he’s not there, he’s missing at this time,” Daniel said. “This is the last person that we know she had contact with on the day of, through phone records. They’ve also contacted this guy’s friends—he’s involved in all kinds of crime, so they’re just questioning anyone he’s had contact with...
...winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain’s equivalent of the Newbery Prize, was Melvin Burgess’ “Junk,” a novel about a group of heroin-addicted, anarchy-loving teenagers living on the streets. Apparently worried about seeming too bourgeois, Burgess also included a scene of forced prostitution. Keep in mind that this book is a winner of the same award as “The Borrowers.” Part of why children’s literature is so appealing is that it retains elements that adult literature has lost. In children?...