Police in San Diego are searching for a missing Australian-American woman who appeared to become “agitated” by an unidentified man during a video chat with her parents.
Delilah O’Hanlon, 25, from India, is said to be with a “well-known dealer with gang connections” and is “definitely under someone’s control”.
She was reported missing last Thursday, and two days later friends and colleagues contacted her parents in Morocco to ask if they knew where she was.
They didn’t, but soon realized they were the last to see her in a video chat on January 16th.
During the conversation, she “appeared distracted, elated and agitated” by the arrival of an unidentified man approximately 30 minutes into the call, her father Creed O’Hanlon said. Revealed in X Over the weekend.
“She was agitated, unable to calm down and avoiding eye contact,” her father said. He spoke in detail to The Independent.
“She told us she lost her job, was penniless and was staying with a friend.”
He added that when the unseen man entered the room, the Indian “immediately became alarmed and perhaps even frightened. Then he said, ‘I have to go,’ and hung up.”
The father said, “The mother tried to call her back, but there was no answer.” “That was the last time we saw her or had any kind of contact with her.”
Creed now fears her daughter is at risk because she has misplaced her Social Security and credit cards.
he Posted last week on X He said he had a “general idea of where and with whom she would be” and wrote that “she is definitely under someone’s control and is in grave danger.”
The father then blamed the San Diego Sheriff’s Department for a “lack of support,” saying that the sheriff who received the report “ignored our concerns, and that perhaps she ‘went on a trip without telling anyone.’ “I suggested that it might be the case,” he said.
“However, this is far from the case and there is a possibility that she is i) mentally distressed and ii) has been deliberately isolated by someone who is a known dealer with gang ties. We have, and have had, enough signs that this is the case.”
Mr O’Hanlon also told The Independent that he and his wife had noticed a change in India’s behavior over the past few months.
“Leading up to this, she was dedicated to being self-disciplined, pursuing a higher education, and taking care of her health and fitness,” he said.
On Instagram, India can often be seen having drinks with friends or walking around town.
inside her Last post 14 weeks ago“Something weird happened and I’m definitely not okay,” the missing woman wrote, laughing privately and adding an emoji.
Her profile describes her as “socially inept but trying.”
India’s case is currently being handled by the San Diego Police Department, after the sheriff’s office noted that her disappearance from the City Heights area falls under the department’s jurisdiction.
The Independent reports that the family is now working with private investigators to piece together the timeline of Indian’s disappearance and try to trace her last footprints.
The Post has contacted O’Hanlon and the police department for more information.
But on Monday, O’Hanlon Updated X followers He and his wife are “currently in direct contact with the detectives in charge of the case in India.
“We have provided him with a lot of new information to track exactly where she is and who she is with,” he wrote.
“My wife and I would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who responded to our plea for help in finding our youngest daughter, India Delilah, who is missing and in grave danger in San Diego.
“In the words of a famous Australian boxer, ‘We love you all!’ You have restored our hope.”
