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Posted by  Cheryl Elliott on 1/19/20 8:33am
Deleon's when she learned the Hawks had been murdered.
We (detectives) also learned from then-notary public Kathleen Harris that she received $2,000 and the promise of more money for falsely notarizing documents related to the sale of the yacht. Nov. 22, 2004, a week after the Hawks disappeared, she got a call from Jennifer, whom she’d never met, asking her to come to the Long Beach hotel where the Deleons were staying. Upon arrival, Harris testified, she put her seal on the four documents Skylar and two accomplices allegedly forced the Hawks to sign.
Harris testified that at the time she doctored the documents, she thought the Deleons were the Hawks and she was only participating in some kind of insurance scam. She lied to detectives about her role until she found out the Hawks had been murdered, at which point she rolled over on the Deleons.
From the prosecution’s standpoint, the import of her testimony is that it was Jennifer who called her and, as Harris testified, Jennifer who told her to backdate the documents to a specific date – Nov. 15. She also said that when the mutual friend who had connected her with the Deleons eventually told her about the murders, he said she should be scared of “these people” – meaning both of the Deleons.
Under cross examination, however, Molfetta got Harris to admit that in her initial interviews with cops, she hadn’t said it was Jennifer who specifically told her how to backdate the document and she hadn’t used the term “these people” to describe whom she feared. At the time, she only referred to Skylar.
This is the most scandulous, horrific example of notary fraud I've ever heard of and this lady is no longer a notary. No charges were brought against her as she cooperated, after 7 interrogations with detectives and returned the $2000 to investigators and resigned her commission.
Believe it or not, Skylar Deleon once worked for Ditech in Costa Mesa, CA! OMG, the people that get into this business is astounding. |
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