Cruel Sea Death

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From the TIMES 18/08/05



TOM HAWKS had worked all his life as an Arizona probation officer and firefighter to afford the pride and joy of his retirement: Well Deserved, a 55ft luxury yacht, moored in Newport Beach, California.

His decision three years later to sell the yacht led to his brutal murder, allegedly involving a former child actor from Power Rangers and a Los Angeles gang member named Crazy John.

Last November Mr Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, decided to give up the boat on which they had lived since August 2001 to spend more time with their first grandchild.

The Hawkses agreed to take three relative strangers on a test sail between Newport Harbor and Santa Catalina on November 15.

According to court testimony, they were Skylar DeLeon, 26, a former child actor who appeared in the television show Power Rangers, his friend Alonso Machain, 21, and John Kennedy, 40, allegedly Mr DeLeon’s accountant but a suspected Crips gang member, known as CJ — for Crazy John, The men said that they wanted to buy Well Deserved for $500,000 (£276,000). Mr Kennedy said he was sea-sick and rushed downstairs. Mr DeLeon followed Mr Hawks as he went to check that he was all right. Up on deck Mrs Hawks heard the sound of a struggle. Mr Machain, a prison worker, fired a stun gun at her from point-blank range. It did not work, so he used handcuffs to restrain her.

According to court testimony, the Hawkses were then dragged to the main deck and their eyes and mouths sealed with tape. They were forced to sign sale documents for the yacht and power-of-attorney forms. They were tied together with rope and handcuffed to the yacht’s 66lb anchor.

Mr Hawks managed to kick Mr DeLeon in the groin. According to one witness, Mr DeLeon recovered and gave a wide grin as he threw the anchor overboard. The couple were dragged across the deck, over the edge and into the Pacific. Mrs Hawks hit her head against a door on the way.

The Hawkses are still officially missing because their bodies have not yet washed ashore.

“They’re 3,600ft below that cold Pacific ocean, bound together, handcuffed and weighted down,” Ryan Hawks, Mr Hawks’s son, said. “It’s haunting to think these nice, loving people were trying to hold their breaths as they sank to the bottom of the ocean,” said Matt Murphy, the Deputy District Attorney. “This is as cold-blooded as it gets.”

Mr DeLeon and his wife, Jennifer Henderson-DeLeon, 24, are to stand trial for the murder of the Hawkses after the conclusion of a preliminary hearing in Santa Ana, south of Los Angeles. Mr Machain has already confessed to police and will be tried separately, along with another defendant, Myron Gardner Sr, 42. The former jailor is expected to be a “star witness” at Mr Deleon’s trial.

Mr Kennedy, identified from a police line-up, has also been charged with murder. All five defendants could face the death penalty. Mr DeLeon and his wife deny the charges.




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\"Crazy John\"

...if anyone has aquired and/or promotes a handle like that isn't it a bright neon sign that we are dealing with a psychopath?

I have always been against the death penalty because there is no way of rectifying mistakes. However, dumping him off a USCG cutter attached to an anchor shouldn't irritate the sensitivities of the wooly liberals, should it? Seems like quite a humane snuffing to me and the punishment fits the crime exactly although a location in shark infested waters and a bag of rubby dubby hanging around CJ's neck might add a poetic touch don't you think?

Steve Cronin

(my doctor says I must learn to control my anger)
 
Re: STEVE CRONIN

Make 'em wrap a chain around THEMSELVES on the deck whilst standing in a pool of gasolene ,before casually offering each one a last ,lighted, cigarette--- Such unsettling thought comes to mind as a possible plot line if it were ''Dirty Harry'' in charge of administering justice ,and not a publicly funded justice system....
 
Re: Can I....

Did you also read the story "I was like a volcano" ? There is no doubt that good money should not be used to keep some monsters alive!
 
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