This child star is EVIL (*MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY*)

of the hundreds of stories i have covered on this channel today's story is going to easily rank in the top five most distressing i have ever covered now there is not any graphic footage or images included however there is a very upsetting sequence that happens at the end of the story and so for that reason viewer discretion is advised but before we get into today's story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format and you come to the right place because that's all we do and we upload once or twice every week so if that's of interest to you please take the like button hostage and force them to wash your dishes while wearing a very long sleeve shirt but don't allow them to roll their sleeves up also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads all right let's get into today's story [Music] in 1986 tom hawks was a 39 year old father of two teenage boys he had previously been married to his boy's mother but they had ultimately gotten a divorce that year tom and his two sons were at this local chili cook-off in their neighborhood in newport beach california when tom was looking out across the sea of people and he sees this stunningly beautiful woman he's never seen before and he just finds himself staring at her and he stares at her so long that this woman she ends up noticing and she looks up and kind of smiles and blushes and looks away and tom immediately is totally embarrassed because he just got caught staring at her and so he decides you know what i gotta go over there and introduce myself and so tom who's this totally ruggedly handsome muscular guy with this incredible mustache he strides across the lawn and he walks up to this woman and he introduces himself and she is all smiles and she says her name is jackie and she's 29 years old and she's single and from that point onward those two completely hit it off they fell madly in love and just a few years later in 1989 they got married in front of 150 of their closest friends and family and then after the wedding jackie moved in with tom and his two boys and even though the boy's mother was still alive they began calling jackie mom because jackie not only lived with them but also because she was so devoted to them and she just was such a loving and kind person that it just made sense to do that also jackie when she was 22 years old she had gotten into this horrific motorcycle accident and the internal damage that accident had done to her had left her unable to have kids of her own something she had always wanted to do and so when she had the opportunity to be these boy's mother she really leaned into it and so she was like this fabulous mother so over the years tom and jackie raised their two sons and then in 2002 when the boys were all grown up they left the house now this was a sad moment for tom and jackie to suddenly be empty nesters i mean so much of their identity was wrapped up in being parents and they were very close with their sons but at the same time they knew this day was coming and they had actually been preparing for it for several years they had been putting money aside every single year to prepare for when their sons left because they wanted to time it so they could retire at the same time and their idea of retirement was to go buy a yacht and just live on the yacht and sail up and down the california and mexican coastline now neither jackie nor tom were wealthy at all however they were very good at saving money and they were very disciplined and they could live frugally and so over the past couple of years they really had saved virtually every penny so they could afford to buy this yacht and so finally in 2002 when their sons do actually leave tom and jackie they sell their house in newport beach california and between the proceeds from the sale of their house and all this money they had set aside they had enough to purchase this kind of beat up old small yacht and so this yacht they named the well-deserved even though this yacht was by no means a glamorous yacht like you think of when you hear that word tom and jackie adored this boat and so as soon as it was theirs and they had docked it in newport they moved all of their belongings onto this boat because they're gonna live on this boat and then they began meticulously cleaning it and organizing it and upgrading it everywhere they could within their limited budget and by the summer of that year this boat was beautiful both on the outside and the inside it was very cozy and very clearly had the touch of tom and jackie it was a home and so for the next two years tom and jackie they lived the dream they took that yacht and just sailed up and down the coast of california and mexico and they would watch these beautiful sunsets and they would catch fresh fish and they would drink cocktails together i mean they were really enjoying their retirement then in 2004 they got some unexpected news one of their sons told them that he was now expecting to be a father and so this baby was going to be the first grandchild of tom and jackie and they were so excited especially jackie because remember she wasn't able to have kids of her own and she just loved the idea of getting to be motherly again and the idea of getting to hold this precious little baby and so even though tom and jackie were absolutely loving living out on this yacht they decided that the time was right to actually sell the yacht and then take the proceeds from the sale of the yacht and buy a house on land to be closer to their son and this grandbaby so in november of that year the hawks place an ad in this fishing magazine for the sale of their yacht they were asking for about half a million dollars and very quickly after this ad went live this young couple who had saved up some cash they offered to buy it tom and jackie were totally thrilled and they called their two sons to tell them the good news that they had this buyer and that in the next couple of days the sale would be finalized and then they would be in touch and so the sons they're expecting to get a phone call from tom and jackie any day but a couple of days goes by and they haven't heard from them and so the sons begin calling their parents and their parents aren't picking up their phone now tom and jackie were not the type to go any amount of time without being in touch with their family and so this was very uncharacteristic and so when tom's brother jim who was a retired police chief when he heard about this sudden silence he just got in his car and drove to newport beach california to see if maybe they had not finalized the sale of the yacht and maybe the couple was still on the yacht and he could go check in with them and make sure everything was okay and so jim along with a friend of his they arrive in newport beach they make their way to the dock where the yacht was being held and they go down to the floating section of the stock and they walk right up alongside the well-deserved and just from where they're standing it does not seem like anyone is on the yacht however as they're standing there just kind of looking at this yacht right in front of them jim notices a couple of oddities he sees there are lines hanging over the side of the boat that should have been stowed and tom was known for being incredibly meticulous and orderly i mean that yacht was [ __ ] and span always and so he would not have left these lines draped over the edge of the boat unless he was on board and he wasn't and so jim's also looking around and he sees there are a couple of tarps that go over some of the control panels that had been taken off but then not put back on the control panels and so again that's not something tom or jackie would have done and then there's also some dirty towels kind of hanging out of one of the portholes and so overall the impression jim and this friend got was i guess they must have finalized the sale of this yacht because clearly the new owners of this boat they're the ones that are in possession of it and they're the reason it's sloppy because tom and jackie they never would leave the boat in this condition and so jim pulls out his own business card and he writes a note on it that he's looking to speak with the new owners of this boat because his brother and his brother's wife had sold this bow to them but now they're missing and so please give me a call back and so jim and his friend they leave the boat they leave the dock and they begin to leave the area when jim's cell phone rings and he picks it up and it's this 21 year old woman named jennifer de leon and so she tells jim that she got his business card on her yacht and that yes she and her husband had recently purchased this yacht from the hawks but like jim they were having a hard time getting in touch with the hawks as well because after acquiring their boat jennifer said she and her husband realized there were a couple of controls on the boat that they didn't know how to use and so they needed to talk to tom and jackie to explain how to use them also jennifer said she had found some personal belongings that belonged to tom and jackie that were stuffed in a couple of drawers that just got left behind and so she wanted to return that property to them as well but she's telling jim i'm trying to get in touch with them and i can't get in touch with them and so jim asked jennifer you know when was the last time you or your husband saw tom or jackie and she would say you know the last time we saw them was when we actually finalized the sale of the boat when we literally gave them the money and we watched them take the money hop in their car and drive away jim asked her if she had any idea where they might have been going and jennifer said you know we really didn't have that many personal conversations with tom or jackie it was mostly just business stuff but in the limited personal interactions we did have tom would always talk about how he and jackie planned on buying a house in mexico in this town that bordered arizona because apparently they have a son that lives in arizona and he's about to have a baby and they were talking about how they wanted to be very close jim thanked jennifer and asked her you know if you hear from tom or jackie please let me know and then jennifer says to jim you know same thing to you if you hear from them please let me know because i need to talk to them too and so they hang up and jim is left thinking you know what's going on here and then jim remembers there's this woman that tom and jackie had hired her name was patricia and for the past couple of years that they had been out on their boat they knew they would not have great internet and so they would not be able to consistently be able to pay their bills and pay taxes and so they had hired this woman patricia who who's also a friend of theirs to basically pay their bills and manage their finances and so jim gets her number and he calls patricia and the first thing he asks her is you know hey have you spoken with tom or jackie recently and she says you know no i haven't and so jim explains the situation and then asked patricia has tom or jackie recently made a large deposit into any of their accounts because just a couple of days ago they would have received nearly five hundred thousand dollars and so patricia she checks the accounts and she says no there's been no deposits made and so jim and patricia are talking on the phone trying to rationalize why tom and jackie would not have deposited so much money and they really couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation for it and so after jim hung up with patricia he just had a bad feeling about what was going on and so jim called the newport beach police department and he officially reported tom and jackie missing the first thing the newport beach police department did with this missing person report was to do some digging on the new buyers of this yacht the de leons and when they looked at the 25 year old husband named skyler they discovered he was a felon he had been arrested and convicted of armed robbery and had spent some time in jail for it and so naturally the police were immediately suspicious of skyler de leon and really the de leons in general because they were the last ones to see the hawks before they went missing and so they sent one of their detectives down to the dock to just kind of walk around go walk around the yacht and just kind of feel it out see what's going on down there see if there's anything unusual and so this detective goes down to the dock they walk onto the floating section of the dock and they walk right up alongside the well-deserved and from the looks of it it doesn't appear that anybody's on board and as this detective is kind of looking in the window and just kind of looking around they think they see what looks like a bloody handprint inside the boat and so that would end up being enough to get a search warrant and before long that day there were police swarming this boat looking all over it but it would turn out that was not a bloody handprint it was actually just some rust and there was nothing else of significance that was found on board this boat and so the police are pretty frustrated because they really don't have any leads and so they contact skyler de leon and they say hey you need to come into the police station and explain exactly what happened during your final interaction with the hawks and so skyler comes to the police station he's totally cooperative and he explains to the detectives that you know he saw this ad and this fishing magazine for a yacht he contacted tom hawk and said i'm interested the two of them met up and then went out for a sea trial which is basically a test drive but for a boat and during the sea trial skyler told tom that he liked the boat and he wanted to go forward with the purchase and so on november 15th skyler along with his pregnant wife and his young daughter and also a notary and another person a friend of skyler's that was there just kind of as a witness they go to the parking lot of the dock right near where the yacht is and then the hawks show up tom and jackie and the de leons literally hand over a suitcase full of cash to tom and then tom and jackie with the notary they signed the sale documentation basically giving the boat over to the de leons and then tom and jackie took their suitcase full of cash hopped in their suv and they drove off presumably to go to mexico when the police asked skyler how were you able to afford such an expensive vessel skyler would tell them that back in the 1990s he was actually a child star or kind of he was an extra on the very popular tv show power rangers and from being on that show he had made a bunch of money and he had set it aside and as skylar is telling the detectives this he kind of just stops himself at some point and he's like you know what that's not really the truth the reality is the reason we had the money to do this is not because of the cash i got from being a child star it's actually because i stole the money it would turn out that armed robbery that skyler was convicted for and spent some time in jail for that was because he was stealing money from this drug kingpin and before he was arrested and sent off to jail he had managed to take the money that he had stolen and hide it and then after he had gone to jail and got out again he came back to his hiding space and he just retrieved the money but this money was stolen drug money so it was hot and so he needed to get rid of it he needed to launder the money and so that was why he was buying this yacht he was going to buy it with this dirty money in bulk in cash and basically transform this hot dirty money into this yacht and then he was going to sell the yacht and get clean money for it and so the police are totally shocked at this confession because skyler has just completely incriminated himself in a money laundering scheme but the police would ultimately say to skyler you know what we're not going to charge you with money laundering because you're being so forthright and helpful with this investigation and so they let skyler go the police would go on to interview skyler's wife jennifer as well as the notary and also that other friend who would come along for that final sale of the boat who's there as a witness so the police interview all three of those people and they asked them you know what was your final interaction with tom and jackie like and they all described the same situation of seeing tom and jackie taking the suitcase full of cash and then signing the paperwork hopping in their car and driving off the only detail that seemed to differ amongst these four people who were there was the way tom and jackie were acting skylar made it seem like tom was kind of anxious and paranoid about having all this money whereas the notary said you know tom and jackie seemed completely normal to me after all the interviews with these people who had seen tom and jackie last the police felt like they had kind of reached a dead end and just didn't know what to do next and so they went to the media and asked them to put out a bulletin that had a picture of tom and jackie as well as a picture of their vehicle and it asked people to come forward if they had seen them and sure enough within a couple of days of this bulletin going out on tv this older couple in mexico called the police to say the hawks suv is right across the street from me right now it's parked right on the road and so naturally the mexican authorities as well as american authorities they rush to this location and they charge up to the house where this suv is parked and they're kind of expecting to find jackie and tom inside or someone that at least knows tom and jackie but when they knock on the door this guy nobody recognized someone who was living in mexico he comes up to the door and he's looking very confused and the police ask him you know whose suv is that parked outside and he said oh well that's my friend's car and they say well is your friend tom or jackie hawks and the guy's like no who's that the car belongs to skyler de leon this was of course the moment when the police realized skyler was lying to them he had told police the last time he had seen jackie and tom they had hopped in their suv and they had driven off but clearly that was not the last time because he somehow managed to acquire their car afterwards and then he gave it to this random person in mexico so the police in newport beach they used schuyler's money laundering confession on camera to bring him in they arrested him on money laundering and then with him in custody they searched his home and inside of his and jennifer's house they found all these things that belonged to the hawks things like laptops and video cameras things tom and jackie would not have left behind on the boat but despite all this evidence connecting skyler de leon to the hawks disappearance he maintained his innocence and said this was just a big misunderstanding and then while he was in custody getting grilled by police his wife jennifer was also saying the same thing that skyler didn't do anything she was even going on talk shows and talking about how this is just one big misunderstanding and skyler had nothing to do with the hawks disappearance that they are just as concerned about tom and jackie as everybody else's but the police were not buying it they knew skyler knew something that he wasn't telling them obviously however they weren't really getting anywhere interviewing skyler he was just kind of saying look i had nothing to do with it and so the police decide let's go back and re-interview the notary and also that other friend who was there as a witness on that day that the final sale of the boat took place and so they call the notary back into the police department and the notary is this woman named kathleen harris who's never gotten in trouble in her life and she's been a very successful notary for a long time and so she sits down and they ask her again to describe her final interactions with tom and jackie and once again she says yep they came over they signed the paperwork they took their cash they got in their suv and they drove off but under follow-on very intensive questioning by the police kathleen would finally break and she would say actually i've never met tom and jackie in my entire life i was paid up front in cash by skylar de leon to back date those sale documents that had already been signed i have no idea what happened to tom and jackie next the police went out and got that friend who was also there at the time of the final sale that witness his name was alonsomation and so they bring him in and they ask him you know what was your final interaction like with tom and jackie and at first he stuck to the story that you know they got the cash they hopped in the suv they drove off that's all it was and the police stop him and they're like uh-uh we just spoke to the notary and she said she was lying she wasn't even there she had backdated those documents so we know you're lying and so as soon as alonso got caught red-handed he began to clam up it was pretty obvious he did not want to say anything else and since the police really needed something to happen with this case they said to alonso we will make sure your sentence is heavily reduced if you tell us everything you know about what happened to tom and jackie and so alonso says okay i'll tell you alonzo was a young guy very impressionable he was in his early to mid 20s and he was actually a jailer and he had met skylar when skyler was in jail he was in jail for that armed robbery and so after skylar gets out of jail alonzo and skyler somehow stay friends and they spend a lot of time together and then in november of 2004 skyler pulls alonzo aside and he confesses to him that he is in fact an international assassin that people paid him to kill people but only bad people skyler said and he says to alonso i have a current contract on two really bad people tom and jackie hawks but i need help carrying this out and so if you will help me carry out this contract i will give you 1 million u.s dollars and so alonso's like man okay yeah i'll help you and so on november 15th skyler alonso and a third man that skyler had recruited to be a part of this job he was this big muscular intimidating looking guy who was actually a longtime southern california gang member his name was john kennedy those three they show up at the parking lot of the dock not to finalize the sale of this yacht they weren't even close to finalizing the sale they were there to meet up with tom and jackie to do a sea trial a test drive but when tom and jackie arrive tom who was a long-time probation officer and so was very used to being around felons and convicts he immediately sized these three up and thought bad news and so when the two parties met each other in the parking lot skyler started to notice that tom was definitely apprehensive about getting on a boat with them in fact tom was talking about potentially rescheduling and that you know today is not a good day and skyler's seeing you know okay they're clearly uneasy about getting on the boat with us and so skyler says hey tom jackie hold on a minute i'm going to step aside and make a phone call and so skyler steps aside and he calls his wife jennifer and she was not far away and so just a couple of minutes later jennifer pulls into the parking lot carrying her little one-year-old baby girl and as soon as she walks over to this group the dynamic completely changes jackie sees this baby and she immediately falls in love with it and she wants to hold the baby and she loves jennifer jennifer's so sweet and so jackie seems very much at ease and tom notices that and so tom begins to loosen up and before long tom is saying to skyler you know what guys today's fine let's do the sea trial and so the group eventually begins to make their way onto the yacht the well deserved to do the sea trial and right as they're about to get on jennifer says hey guys i can't go on the sea trial the baby's upset i got to go home i'll see you guys when you get back and at this point tom and jackie they've already committed to doing the sea trial and so even if they were a little bit apprehensive going on this boat with just these three guys they put their faith in the daily owns that this was on the up and up so the two hawks along with these three men they get on board the boat and they begin heading out towards open water and so tom was piloting the boat and at some point when they were very far away from the dock and really any land in any direction skyler and john come up to tom and they say hey we want to show you something down in the lower levels of the ship and so tom goes with them they go downstairs into the bedroom and while they're down there alonzo and jackie were in the kitchen which is right above the bedroom and as they're standing there alonzo and jackie suddenly hear this very loud commotion coming from the bedroom now alonso knew what that was it was skyler and john attacking tom and so that was his cue alonzo leapt forward and he grabbed on to jackie and before jackie could even figure out what was going on he had thrown her to the ground pulled her hands behind her back and then he pulled out handcuffs that he had and he handcuffed her hands together sounds like jackie's here wonzo's here and then um that's where thomas hawks skyler and jeff care on the bottom and jackie hears the commotion she looks down this way and this is where alonzo overpowers her and as soon as jackie was subdued in the kitchen skyler and john they come up the stairs and tom's not with them and they grab jackie and they walk her down into the bedroom and jackie would have seen her husband tom he's been handcuffed and he's laying on the bed on his back and so they throw jackie onto the bed right next to tom and immediately jackie turns around and looks at skylar and says why are you doing this to us we just met your wife i just held your baby why are you doing this all we want to do is just go back to land and be with our children and be with our grandchildren please but skyler didn't care he just turned to alonso and said put tape on both of their mouths and their eyes and as alonzo was doing that skyler went upstairs and began piloting the boat towards the deepest part of the ocean and so as skyler is driving this boat alonzo and john are down in the bedroom and alonzo remembers looking over at tom and tom was comforting jackie he had managed to pull his hand up and he was stroking jackie's hand and he was saying to her it's gonna be okay no matter what happens to us we'll be together suddenly the boat stopped because skyler had reached the deepest part of the ocean and he called down to john and alonso to bring jackie and tom up onto the deck and so alonso and john do just that they march tom and jackie up the steps they bring them out to the deck of the ship and then skyler forces them to sign the sale documentation for the boat as well as had them sign additional paperwork that gave skylar access to their bank accounts and while they were signing these documents jackie actually misspelled her last name on one of the signature blocks she left the s off of her last name that's not something she would have done by accident it's pretty clear she did that on purpose to signal to the future that she signed this under duress after all these documents were signed the three men led their two captives to the back of the boat and then once they were standing at the back of the boat skyler tells alonso in earshot of jackie and tom to hey go to the front of the boat and get the anchor and so tom and jackie they know that whatever's gonna happen to them next it's not good and so jackie begins pleading with them to let them live let them go back to land let them see their grandchild and tom manages to shake his restraints from john who was holding him and he manages to kick skyler really hard in the groin but after that john leapt on top of tom and jackie and subdued both of them and then he positioned tom and jackie so they were sitting down back to back with their handcuffs connected to each other and then alonso shows up dragging this heavy anchor and finally gets it all the way over until it's right next to tom and jackie at which point skyler grabs the long metal chain that came off of the anchor and he felt around until he got to the very end of the chain so not the side closest to the anchor that's attached to it the far other side the bitter end of this chain and he reached down and he connected that portion of the chain to tom and jackie's handcuffs and then once he was sure their handcuffs were securely fastened to the end of this chain skyler stood up walked over and grabbed the anchor and with quite a bit of effort he managed to lift it up and threw it over the side of the boat as soon as that anchor hit the water all tom and jackie would have heard for several seconds would be the sound of all of that loose chain that they were connected to being rapidly pulled off the boat and being sucked down into the water and so that chain was going up and over this wooden railing and so all they would have heard is just chain links grinding over the railing until finally the anchor pulled the chain tight at which point it yanked tom and jackie towards the side of the boat alonzo would say when this happened jackie's head struck the inside of the side of the boat so hard it made this very loud audible cracking sound and then skyler alonso and john just stood there as tom and jackie desperately tried to fight against the weight of this anchor that was trying to pull them off of the boat tom was trying to hold on to anything he could to try to hold his wife in place but eventually the weight of this anchor combined with the movement of the boat was just too much and so tom and jackie were very slowly pulled up and over and off the boat into the water when they hit the water they would have been fully alive fully conscious as they began their rapid descent to the bottom of the ocean 3 500 feet below alonso would tell police as soon as tom and jackie disappeared below the surface skyler let out a woohoo and ran over to the edge of the boat and looked into the water like a giddy child and he was staring at where they had disappeared and he was just grinning and laughing and then finally when the water went calm and there were no more bubbles skyler just kind of laughed turned around and made his way back to the cockpit and began piloting the boat back towards the dock even though jennifer was not on the boat at the time of the murder she was equally involved in it in fact the attack was her idea she wanted more money and she saw this scheme as being a way of doing that so remember when she showed up at the dock parking lot with her baby and put jackie and tom at ease to help get them out on that sea trial she was doing that very intentionally to trap jackie and tom she knew what was going to happen out on that boat she was trying to get them to go so they could be murdered and they could steal their boat and when skyler was out on the boat before during and after the murders he would step aside and call jennifer to let her know how it was going and kind of get her feedback and ask for advice about what they should do next with that in mind one of the darker elements of this case has to do with the video camera that was discovered inside of jennifer and skyler's house it was the hawks video camera and they had used it over the past couple of years to document their travels out on the ocean and so when the police acquired this video camera they played the tape that was inside of it and at first the tape shows jackie filming the inside of the well-deserved yacht and she's talking about how sad it was that this is probably one of the last times they'll be inside of this boat but she and tom are so happy because they've found buyers who are going to take great care of this boat and they're excited about the future they're excited about their grandchild and then suddenly this footage of jackie inside of the boat just totally cuts and it jumps to skyler and jennifer at thanksgiving dinner that year playing with their daughter and just having this great time meaning just days after jennifer and skyler murdered tom and jackie in the worst way imaginable they took their camera and just began using it for their own lives recording their own life over the memories of tom and jackie jennifer and skylar truly didn't care at all about what they had just done alonso would ultimately be sentenced to 20 years in prison he would have gotten a much more severe sentence but because he provided all of the details of what happened and he was promised a reduction in sentence he was only given 20 years jennifer would be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and john kennedy and skylar were sentenced to death so that's gonna do it guys if you've got something out of today's episode and you haven't done this already please take the like button hostage and force them to wash your dishes while wearing a very long-sleeved shirt but don't allow them to roll their sleeves up also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly one or two video uploads we are now selling merchandise like flannels and hats and sweatshirts and all sorts of stuff if you're interested go to shopmrballin.com if you want to learn about upcoming deals and promotions for our shop go to our shop's instagram page the username is shopmrballen if you want to get in touch with me you can direct message me on instagram or on twitter my username is the 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Keywords: strange, dark, mysterious, true, story, scary, scary story, horror story, disturbing, narration, narrator, storyteller, storytime, storytelling, unsolved mystery, solved mystery, true crime, mighty, Morphin, power rangers, 1990s, 90s, child star, child actor, evil, evil kid, acting, actor, evil child, california, Tom Hawks, Jackie Hawks, Skylar Deleon, Jennifer Deleon, death sentence, yacht, well deserved, boat, missing people, missing person, anchor, horrible death, drown, drowned, ocean, sons, boys

Id: _SeAJTpOCbo

Length: 32min 30sec (1950 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 16 2021