"I sat down with a killer the other day," begins Tina Dirmann's feature in the March issue of Orange Coast. "Funny, I thought, how, up close the face of evil often doesn't look so very evil at all."Dirmann's subject is Skylar Deleon, the former Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers actor turned con man, drug dealer and murderer who, with his co-conspirators, tied a husband and wife to an anchor on their yacht in 2004 and pushed them overboard somewhere in the Pacific Ocean to steal their boat.
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Hanna Montessori's Killer Gets An Unpleasant SurpriseJonathan Phong Khanh Tran--dubbed by a homicide detective as "the nicest killer" he'd ever met--has waited 17 months in a California prison in hopes that a state court of appeal would overturn his rape, oral copulation and murder convictions in the famed killing of Hanna Montessori, a 15-year-old prostitute related to the founder of Montessori schools. But late yesterday a three-judge panel based in Santa Ana delivered two rounds of bad new
