Thomas and Jackie Hawks had big plans. The couple wanted to sell their
retirement home--a hard earned 55-foot yacht named Well Deserved--and
move onto land to spend more time with family. So when a baby-faced
buyer, Skylar Deleon, wanted to test drive the yacht, the Hawks were
overjoyed. However, Skylar--with his troubled past as a flamed-out
childhood actor, a dishonorably discharged Marine and a suspect in the
mysterious death of his former friend, Jon Jarvi--had an even more
troubling future planned. But as the Hawks set sail with Skylar and two
of his friends, not everyone will return.
A compelling true crime, Vanished at Sea, is a murder mystery that
starts as a missing persons' case and quickly evolves into homicide. In
chilling detail, the book recounts Tom and Jackie's deadly voyage, when
they begged for their lives before coldly being chained to an anchor and
kicked overboard, to their deaths.
Authorities are left to figure out how this much-loved retired couple
simply disappeared. Could the ship's new owner, Skylar Deleon, be
responsible? And is his young, pregnant wife, Jennifer, involved? With
little physical evidence to go on, the police, prosecutor, and Hawks
family struggle to find out the truth. It's a heart-stopping,
page-turning account of the Hawks family's search for justice. This
updated edition includes new details on the crime, convictions--and
surprising new evidence on the perverted sexual motivation that may have
been behind it all.
