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Just when I didn’t think a weird guy could get any weirder …
Remember Skylar Deleon, the former bit child actor awaiting a death penalty trial in Orange County in the murders of a Newport Beach couple in a bizarre 2004 plot to steal their yacht, the “Well Deserved”?
Rumor had it that he was part way through a sex change before his arrest in 2005. He was – according to courtroom scuttlebutt during the 2006 headline-making trial of his wife, Jennifer Deleon– part man and part woman.
Apparently, he was too much part man for his own liking.
Deleon, who will soon be 29, somehow got a hold of a razor blade in his cell in the Orange County Jail about six months ago.
And he tried to hack off his penis.
“There was a lot of blood … but from what I understand, he was not able to complete the job,” said Damon Micalizzi, a spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “He was taken to the hospital and had it sewn back on.”
The emergency surgery apparently was successful.
“He’s fine, I guess, as fine as can be expected for someone who tries to do something like this to himself,” Micalizzi added.
Deleon is back in his jail cell in the Orange County jail awaiting an Aug. 26 trial date for allegedly masterminding the murders of Thomas and Jackie Hawks in a November 2004 plot to steal their 55-foot yacht.
The Hawks were forced to sign over the “Well Deserved,” and then they were tied to an anchor and thrown overboard somewhere near Catalina, according to testimony at Jennifer Deleon’s trial. Their bodies were never recovered.
Jennifer Deleon, 26, was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for her role in luring the couple to their yacht, and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Skylar Deleon and alleged accomplice John F. Kennedy, 42, are scheduled for trial in August. Both could get the death penalty if convicted.
O.C. murder defendant
attempts to sever his
penis in jail
Deleon, 29, was hospitalized after the March 13 incident. His penis was reattached and he was returned to jail the next day, said Damon Micalizzi, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
"Somehow he got a hold of a razor blade and tried to saw off his penis, but didn't complete the job," Micalizzi said.
Jail officials don't know how Deleon got the razor, which could have been taken into the jail, Micalizzi said. Hand razors are provided to inmates for shaving but they are modified to prevent the blades from being removed, he said.
"We do know there was a lot of blood and it was quite a scene. But from what I know, he didn't finish his task, and maybe it was too painful and that made him stop," Micalizzi said.
At the time, Deleon was in a mental health ward at the jail in Santa Ana. He did not have a cellmate.
Deleon's trial is set for Aug. 25.
Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty against Deleon for the 2004 murders of Jackie and Thomas Hawks of Prescott, Ariz.
The couple, trying to sell their yacht, took Deleon and three other men on a test cruise of their 55-foot yacht off the Southern California coast, authorities have said.
Prosecutors said Deleon and the others forced the couple to sign transfer-of-title and power-of-attorney documents, then chained them to an anchor and tossed them overboard, alive, off Newport Beach. They are presumed to have drowned. Their bodies have not been found.
Deleon's wife, Jennifer, was convicted in the crime. She was sentenced in October to two consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of parole for participating in the plot to kill the retired couple.
