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Missing Thomas Charles Hawks 
Thomas, approximately 2004; Jennifer Deleon; Skylar Deleon; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Alonso Machain; Myron Gardner; The Hawkses' vehicle; The Hawkses' boat Date reported missing : 11/15/2004 Missing location (approx) : Newport Beach, California Missing classification : Endangered Missing Gender : Male Ethnicity : White DOB : 01/01/1947 (74) Age at the time of disappearance: 57 years old Height / Weight : 5'8, 185 pounds Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Thomas's nickname is Tom. He has a tattoo of a hawk's head on his left calf and scars on both wrists and on his right shoulder. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Thomas was last seen together with his wife of seventeen years, Jackie, in Newport Beach, California on November 15, 2004. They were driving their silver 1998 Honda CRV with the Arizona license plate number 774CPE. Neither of them has ever been heard from again. A photograph of the CRV is posted with this case summary. Thomas had been employed as an adult probation officer for Yavapai County in Arizona until his retirement in 2001. He and Jackie had bought a 55-foot fiberglass Lien Hwa houseboat, named the Well Deserved, and lived for two years at a dock in the area of 15th Street and Balboa Boulevard in Newport Beach, but still claimed residency in Prescott, Arizona. They spent their time traveling in their boat and often made trips to San Diego, California and San Carlos, Mexico. Jackie and Thomas kept in close touch with their friends and family with frequent shore visits, cellular phone calls, and a satellite email system. Their children reported them missing after they had not heard from them for several days. Thomas's brother went to examine their boat and saw that it was deserted and that many of the couple's personal belongings were on board and several items were out of place. The eleven-foot dinghy the Hawkses used to get from shore to the boat was tied to the dock with its motor still in the water. This is uncharacteristic of Thomas and Jackie, who usually kept their boats very neat, clean and well maintained. The Hawkses reportedly sold the Well Deserved shortly before their disappearances. A photograph of the boat is posted with this case summary. It was too much work for them to maintain and they decided to buy a smaller vessel and a house near San Carlos, closer to their family and friends in Arizona. They were allegedly paid $400,000 in cash for the Well Deserved the day they vanished. Thomas and Jackie planned to remove all their possessions from the vessel before turning it over to its new owner. It was originally thought that Jackie and Thomas had simply gone off on an impromptu trip together, but their loved ones all said they would not have left without telling anyone. Their first grandchild was born shortly before they vanished and they frequently inquired about him. Their credit cards, email and bank accounts, and cellular phones have not been used since their disappearances. After the Hawkses' disappearances, authorities seized the boat as evidence. They said that the buyer cooperated with the investigation. On December 16, a month after Jackie and Thomas vanished, their car was found in Ensenada, Mexico, about seventy miles from the United States border. The next day, police arrested the houseboat's buyer, Skylar Julius Deleon (whose birth name was John Julius Jacobson Jr.), for money laundering. |