'Yacht Killer' got taxpayer-funded sex change while on death row after Harris' 'behind the scenes' policy work

A California serial slayer who tied an Arizona mates to an anchor and drowned them successful the Pacific Ocean to rise wealth for a sex-change cognition yet got 1 portion sitting connected decease enactment – with taxpayers footing the measure acknowledgment to left-wing policies pushed nether erstwhile authorities Attorney General Kamala Harris, present the Democratic 2024 statesmanlike nominee, according to a caller report.

Skylar DeLeon, 45, is simply a erstwhile kid actor, calved John Jacobson Jr. successful 1979. DeLeon was sentenced to decease successful 2009 for the 2004 murders of yacht owners Thomas and Jackie Hawks and was separately convicted of the 2003 execution of an subordinate named Jon Jarvi from Anaheim.

In a missive to the Washington Free Beacon published Tuesday, DeLeon wrote astir receiving "gender affirming country and bosom augmentation" connected April 5, 2023. The slayer had been taking pistillate hormones since archetypal arriving connected decease enactment successful San Quentin connected April 16, 2009.

The condemned inmate told Fox News Digital that "the media is saying things that are factually inaccurate." DeLeon declined to spell into specifics but claimed to person obtained a ineligible sanction alteration to Skylar Sophia DeLeon 20 years ago. The killer, however, utilized that sanction portion outwardly identifying arsenic antheral for years.

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A photograph of Skylar Deleon is displayed astatine Newport Harbor successful Newport Beach, California, connected Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. (Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

"I americium sorry, but I can't speech with you," DeLeon wrote. "One happening though, discontinue calling maine John Jacobson – that is not my name. My ineligible sanction is Skylar Sophia DeLeon. It has been changed since I was overmuch younger, mode earlier my arrest."

DeLeon had planned to usage the victims' wealth to money a sex-change cognition arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2004, Orange Coast Magazine reported backmost successful 2015.

According to tribunal documents, DeLeon and then-wife Jennifer Henderson pretended to beryllium funny successful buying the 55-foot yacht, named "Well Deserved," from the Hawks couple.

Ryan Hawks holds a photograph of his missing parents, Thomas and Jackie Hawks, who were reported missing aft they sold their boat. The photograph was taken connected Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004 astatine the Newport Beach constabulary station. (Robert Lachman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

DeLeon and 2 antheral accomplices attacked them with stun guns during a trial drive. They forced the mates to manus implicit powerfulness of attorney. They handcuffed the victims, duct taped their eyes and mouths, and tied them to an anchor earlier shoving them overboard 55 miles offshore. Their bodies were ne'er found.

After initially opposing taxpayer-funded modulation surgery, Harris, during her failed 2020 campaign, took recognition for securing entree to sex-change drugs and operations for California inmates successful an interrogation with the National Center for Transgender Equality.

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Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives astatine Trenton-Mercer Airport successful Mercer County, New Jersey, connected Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 en way to a run rally successful Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

"When I was lawyer general, I learned that the California Department of Corrections, which was a lawsuit of excavation – I didn't get to take my clients … they were lasting successful the mode of country for prisoners," she told the enactment successful a 2019 interview.

"And determination was a circumstantial case. When I learned astir the case, I worked behind-the-scenes to not lone marque definite that that transgender pistillate got the services she was deserving – it was not lone astir that lawsuit – I made definite that they changed the argumentation successful the authorities of California truthful that each transgender inmate successful the situation strategy would person entree to the aesculapian attraction that they tendency and need."

The Golden State's lenient attraction of trans inmates has prompted an uproar much than once. One inmate who claimed to beryllium a trans female, Tremaine Deon Carroll, was transferred retired of a women's situation aft being indicted connected 2 rape charges.

Skylar DeLeon talks to attorneys astatine the Harbor Justice Center successful Newport Beach, California, connected March 4, 2004. (Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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The James "Hannah" Tubbs lawsuit successful Los Angeles besides prompted a lawman territory lawyer to travel guardant with whistleblower allegations aft the convicted kid molester and slayer was released from a anterior condemnation successful an big antheral situation to juvenile custody successful LA, wherever helium began identifying arsenic a pistillate and joked astir gaining entree to underage girls.

He is presently being held successful a men's situation aft pleading blameworthy to a manslaughter complaint for beating his person to decease with a stone implicit $100.

Newport Beach Detective David Byington, wearing booties and gloves, walks done the room country of the yacht Well Deserved successful Newport Beach, California, connected Tuesday, March 3, 2009. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Amie Ichikawa, the enforcement manager and a founding subordinate of Woman II Woman, a Christian rehabilitation radical for women re-entering nine aft prison, told Fox News Digital that she had feared for DeLeon's ex-wife backmost successful 2021, erstwhile trans inmate transfers to pistillate prisons picked up.

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"She was among the women who I feared for the astir – the ones with ex-husbands who decided to transition," she said, arguing that women's facilities are inherently little secure.

Jennifer Henderson DeLeon is seen successful this undated handout picture. (REUTERS/Orange County Sheriff's Department)

"There is nary equivalent information level to men’s decease enactment successful immoderate women's prison," she said. "[Central California Women's Facility] is fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic a men’s level 2 arsenic acold arsenic staffing, information and backing is concerned."

Fox News' Alec Schemmel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.