Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations · Kim Davis, Adam "Tex" Davis, Jerry Kolber; True Crime Podcast

Nobody Deserves This! (Part 2)

·1 hr 6 min·4 clips
Alonzo says the group arrived with stun guns, handcuffs, ropes, and a plan to subdue the Hawks.
1. Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations centers this episode on the Tom and Jackie Hawks disappearance and the later case against Skyler and Jennifer DeLeon. 2. Adam Tex Davis hosts with Kim Davis and Jerry Kolber, who serves as the recap voice for the Hawks timeline and the broader legal developments. 3. The episode asks how a yacht sale, forged paperwork, and a missing Honda CRV exposed a murder conspiracy tied to a vacation-linked disappearance. 4. Jerry recaps Tom and Jackie Hawks as a retired couple who sold their yacht after learning they would soon have their first grandchild in Arizona. 5. Skyler and Jennifer DeLeon bought the yacht, brought along Alonzo and Skyler’s accountant John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and then gave conflicting stories about the sale. 6. The police found a partially forged bill of sale and a forged power of attorney, which raised suspicion around the DeLeons’ control of the Hawks’ finances. 7. An American woman in Encinita, Mexico called Newport Beach police after seeing the Hawks’ Honda CRV parked next door with its license plate intact. 8. Detectives later learned Skyler had given the SUV to the Salidos, a Mexican family he had known since 1999, while keeping property inside it. 9. Kathleen Harris, the notary tied to the documents, first claimed she saw Tom and Jackie sign in person and later admitted she had backdated the papers for cash. 10. Jerry explains that Skyler was on probation for armed robbery when he asked to leave the country for a job in the Bahamas and then got flagged by his probation officer. 11. Police arrested Skyler outside the garage studio he shared with Jennifer in Long Beach and used the arrest to seize his residence and search for evidence. 12. The search turned up Jackie Hawk’s laptop, the couple’s personal documents, and the Hawks’ video camera, which the DeLeons had used to film their own Thanksgiving over the Hawks’ footage. 13. Alonzo Mansion, a correctional officer Skyler had met during a burglary case, turned himself in after fleeing to Mexico and fearing Mexican prison. 14. Alonzo told police that Skyler, Kennedy, and he brought stun guns, handcuffs, ropes, and duct tape onto the yacht during the sale meeting. 15. He also described Jackie being subdued by a stun gun, Tom being attacked after the group realized he was stronger than expected, and the couple being bound in the stateroom. 16. Alonzo later described the crew using a 60-pound anchor, a preselected location 40 miles off Newport coast, and $3,600 taken from the yacht before Kennedy casually drank a beer on the ride back. 17. The episode shifts into a second murder case when Jerry connects Skyler to John Peter Jarvie, a 45-year-old Anaheim resident who was killed after a Mexico investment scam. 18. Jennifer DeLeon’s trial is presented as a clash between a defense theory of manipulation and the prosecution’s evidence of her contacts, bank activity, cleaning-supply receipt, and jailhouse love letters. 19. The tone stays energetic, sarcastic, and detail-heavy, with frequent interruptions, side comments, and rapid-fire explanations of police and courtroom steps. 20. Listeners who want dense true-crime chronology with legal twists will like it, while listeners who want a compact or gentle narrative should skip it.
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