By Tori Richards
September 8, 2006
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CRIME LIBRARY) — It was Jan. 24, 2005, and Skylar Deleon had been sitting in the Orange County Jail for a week, charged with murdering a retired couple at sea and hijacking their yacht.
Always the schemer, Deleon was trying to figure out a way to tie up any loose ends that could implicate him in the deaths and one thing stood out in his mind, prosecutors say. Deleon had told his father what he had done and now the older man might talk. There was only one solution: he had to be killed.
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So Deleon, a one-time child actor who once appeared in the "Power Rangers" TV series, asked another inmate to murder his father when the inmate got out of jail, or, if the inmate wasn't released soon enough, to find someone on the outside to do it, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
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The plot was uncovered some time later when sheriff deputies happened to be searching the inmate's cell and found newspaper clippings and handwritten notes on the yacht murders, according to a law enforcement official.
"They asked the inmate why he had these documents and he tried to provide a false alibi for Skylar at the time of the murders," the official said. "When deputies pressed him, he finally confessed and said Skylar had hired him to kill his dad."
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