Police have suspect in 'missing hams' case

Authorities in California think that a man in custody on unrelated charges may hold the answer to the mystery of a missing ham radio couple who disappeared in November. This, after they sold their 55-foot yacht to the jailed suspect. Amateur Radio Newsline's Bruce Tennant,
K6PZW, picks up the story from here:

The state of California stopped short of charging Skylar Deleon with murder, but Orange County Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy described him as the main suspect in a double homicide out of Newport Beach.

The revelation that Deleon is involved in the disappearance and likely slaying of Thomas and Jackie Hawks, KD7VWJ, and KD7VWK, came on Friday, February 25th. Prosecutor Murphy said he suspects that Deleon killed the Hawks after they took him on a test ride in their boat the Well Deserved, on November 15th of last year. The couple has not been seen since then, and Newport Beach police have now expressed the belief that they are deceased.

The prosecutor made the disclosure while asking a judge to hold Deleon on an unrelated grand-theft case. Murphy did not tell the judge what evidence led him to suspect that Deleon killed the couple and offered few details of the third killing, which he said was related to the theft charge.

Deleon is jailed in that case but has not been charged in the apparent homicides. Nor has any bail been for him been set.

Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, Amateur Radio Newsline

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