Former child actor Skylar Deleon, who starred in hit TV series Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, has been accused of brutally murdering a Californian couple by
tying them to an anchor and throwing them overboard a yacht.
Deleon, 26, and wife Jennifer, 24, have been ordered to stand trial for the
murders of Thomas Hawks and his wife Jackie last November in an alleged
plot to steal their 55-foot luxury yacht.
The Orange County Superior Court heard yesterday that the pair posed
as interested buyers and demanded a test run off Newport Beach where they
attacked the elderly pair with a stun gun before handcuffing and blindfolding
them.
They were then allegedly tied to the boat’s 66-pound anchor and
ruthlessly thrown overboard where they drowned.
Police were alerted to the murder by fellow accomplice Alonso Machain, who
claims Deleon delayed the planned killings by a week after discovering that
Hawks, a retired probation officer from Arizona, was a larger man than first
expected.
Matt Murphy, the Deputy District Attorney, said, “It is haunting to think these
nice, loving people were trying to hold their breaths as they sank to the
bottom of the ocean. This is as cold-blooded as it gets.”
All the defendants have pleaded not guilty.
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