Judge to set date for Hawks case

An Orange County Superior Court judge is expected today to set a date

and courtroom for the trial of a Long Beach couple and another man

accused of murdering a retired Newport Beach couple.

Skylar Deleon, 26; his wife Jennifer Henderson-Deleon, 24; and

John Kennedy, 40, will be arraigned on charges of murdering Tom and

Jackie Hawks, who police say were killed aboard their yacht, the Well

Deserved, in November.

Skylar and Jennifer Deleon, along with Skylar Deleon’s cousin

Michael Lewis Jr., have also been charged in the murder of an Anaheim

man who was found with his throat slashed in Mexico in December 2003.