Anchors Away

48 Hours

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In November 2004, Tom and Jackie Hawks, an Arizona couple, were killed in a well-thought-out, diabolical plot. Former child actor Skylar Deleon feigned interest in buying the couple’s yacht. During the cruise, the Hawks were forced to sign over ownership of their yacht and power of attorney for their bank accounts. Accomplices Alonso Machain (a prison guard) and John Fitzgerald Kennedy (a Los Angeles gang member), helped Deleon kill the couple during a test cruise by tying them to an anchor and throwing them overboard from the yacht off Southern California. “48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 6/12/2010. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All of our family memories are pretty much on the water.
0:12.0	How's going, Ryan? You have any fun?
0:14.0	Yeah, great time.
0:16.0	The happier times were definitely when a boat was involved.
0:21.6	This is Captain Tom Hawks.
0:23.6	Tom Hawks was a good guy.
0:25.6	He surfed. He's scuba tov.
0:28.6	He was kind of a guy's guy.
0:30.6	My father would introduce my brother and I.
0:33.6	It would be, this isn't my son. This is my pride and joy.
0:36.6	He always had like great laugh
0:38.6	he loved to joke around it took him like 45 minutes he's 57 years old but he was still he was
0:48.2	still like 12 at heart i'm gonna go play tomorrow.
0:55.0	Jackie, hello.
0:57.0	Hi honey, I'm so glad to be home.
1:00.0	I couldn't picture with my father anyone else
1:02.0	or Jackie with anyone else.
1:03.0	Jackie's coming today, got the boat all cleaned up.
1:07.0	They're good, loyal friends, and they loved each other.
1:10.0	You could look up love in the dictionary and you'd see these two people there.
1:15.6	Tom Hawks, his dream was always to sail off into the sunset, and he bought this boat.
1:21.6	It was well deserved.
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