Before they met, the Deleons grew up in radically different environments. Jennifer was the product of a close-knit, religious family from Long Beach. Skylar, originally named John Jacobson Jr., grew up in the Midwest. His father, John Jacobson Sr., was convicted of a drug offense in the 1980s and went to prison. So Skylar — then known as John Jr. — enlisted in the Marines after he turned 18.
Skylar Deleon
His military career was short-lived. About a year later, John Jr. went AWOL. When the
The fourth and fifth victims turned up late in August on San Jacinto and Cedar Streets, a block south of the place where Eliza Shelley had been murdered. Rebecca Ramey was in the employ of Valentine Weed, who owned a livery stable, according to Saylor. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire She had been knocked out while asleep in her bed, and her eleven-year-old daughter, Mary, was dragged outside, raped, and stabbed through both ears with an iron rod. Rebecca