Jury Convicts former Power Ranger in Yacht Killings Case

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Skylar Deleon, a former child actor on TV’s Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, was convicted in an Orange County, Calif., courtroom Monday of three counts of first-degree murder, including the deaths of a couple he tied to an anchor and threw off their yacht.

Deleon, 29, was convicted of killing Prescott, Ariz., couple Tom Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, who were last seen on Nov. 15, 2004, after departing on a test run to sell their 55-ft. yacht, the “Well Deserved.”

He is also charged with slitting the throat of – and scamming $50,000 from – John Jarvi, 45, of Anaheim, Calif., whose body was left near a roadway in Ensenada, Mexico, on Dec. 27, 2003.

Ryan Hawks, Tom Hawks’s son, called the verdict a “warm up” for the penalty phase, which is scheduled to begin Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. “It felt like a little tiny piece of the puzzle was put in justice,” said Hawks.

Deleon’s attorney, Gary Pohlson, conceded at the start of the trial, “Skylar is guilty of all three murders, [but] at the end of this, I’m going to ask you to give him life without the possibility of parole as the appropriate sentence.”

‘Horrible, Horrible Life’
Explaining the call for leniency, Pohlson told reporters Monday, “He’s had a horrible, horrible life” and that Deleon’s father abused the boy and later died of AIDS. Pohlson also argued in court that his client was not the mastermind of the killings.

In the murder of the Hawkses, prosecutors said Deleon pretended to be interested in purchasing the vessel, took a test cruise on which he and two other men overpowered the couple, forced them to sign over the boat’s ownership and then disposed of the couple in the Pacific.

The Hawkses’ bodies were never recovered.

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 9:09am
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5 Responses to “Jury Convicts former Power Ranger in Yacht Killings Case”

  1. Silly Me Says:

    OMG, I can’t believe that…I had such a crush on him when I was younger. That’s just horrible what he did to those people!

  2. BeautyBlondeC Says:

    Which one was he?

  3. crab Says:

    My stomach just lurched when I read this!! How can someone do that?? All I can think of is how that husband and wife must have felt being tied up to the anchor and thrown off the yacht and what they’re last thoughts were!! OMG What a miserable low life scumbag he is!!

  4. Silly Me Says:

    He was Tommy, I can’t remember which color he was though. Yeah, he is one sick mofo!!

  5. joaquin Says:

    no he was not a ranger.he was just a kid in one episode.tommy is jason david frank and never commited a crime

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