Former Child Actor Sentenced to Death

April 11, 2009 at 8:28am PST
Tags: death penalty, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, murder, prison, Skylar Deleon
Photos: splashnewsonline.com

Skylar Deleon, a former child actor and star of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, has been sentenced to death for murdering Arizona couple Tom and Jackie Hawks.

Deleon is 29.

Prosecutors say in 2004 Deleon and his friend pretended to be interested in buying the Hawks’ yacht and killed them during a test cruise by tying them to the anchor and throwing them overboard so they could steal the boat and their savings.

After the murders, prosecutors say Deleon and his then-wife Jennifer Henderson scrubbed the boat clean with bleach wipes in Newport Harbor and then claimed the boat was their own.

The Hawks’ bodies were never found.

DeLeon was also convicted in the 2003 killing of Jon Jarvi, an Anaheim man he met on a work furlough program after he was convicted on burglarizing a co-worker.

It’s terrifying what some people are capable of. 

—Sasha Perl-Raver

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