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Happy and retired, Tom and Jackie Hawks lived a charmed life in sunny Southern California. They were delighted when former child star Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife, Jennifer, offered cash to purchase their fifty-five-foot yacht, the Well Deserved . . . But a trial voyage turned into a nightmare. Out at sea, the Hawkses begged for their lives as they were forced to sign everything over to Skylar. In return, they were tied to the ship's anchor and thrown overboard--alive. Skylar and Jennifer's twisted story became even more shocking when Skylar's unusual sexual motivations were revealed in court. After killing a man while out of jail on work furlough, he reportedly tried to hire hits from prison on four witnesses, including his father. For this former child actor, the answer to ""Where are they now?"" is Death Row.

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Well researched and a quick, engrossing read, this should be popular with true crime readers, especially the Ann Rule crowd.-- Library Journal

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New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or coauthored fourteen books. Her titles include Dead Reckoning; Hunting Charles Manson; Then No One Can Have Her; Naked Addiction; Secrets, Lies, and Shoelaces; I'll Take Care of You; Lost Girls; Poisoned Love; Body Parts; Twisted Triangle; Deadly Devotion; Love Gone Wrong, and My Life, Deleted. Rother, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, worked as an investigative reporter at daily newspapers for nineteen years before deciding to write books full-time. Her stories have also been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and The Daily Beast. As a TV crime commentator, she has done more than 200 media appearances on episodes of 20/20, People Magazine Investigates, Crime Watch Daily, Australia's World News, Nancy Grace, Snapped, and numerous shows on Netflix, Investigation Discovery, HLN, REELZ, Oxygen, E!, A&E, C SPAN, and various PBS affiliates. Rother also works as a writing/research coach and consultant, and plays piano and sings in an acoustic band. Julie McKay is a Los Angeles-based narrator with New York roots, a degree in music, and a background in classical theater. As a musician, she has sung professionally in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. As an actor, she has worked at Shakespeare festivals and regional theaters across the country as well as Off-Broadway in New York. A wild reader all her life, Julie loves entering the world of a book and bringing it to life for the listener. She is also a passionate home baker and enjoys traveling and exploring new places. In her spare time, Julie and her husband foster and train rescue dogs.

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