Skylar DeLeon

Skylar DeLeon a former “Mighty Morphin Power Ranger” extra and a murder convict claims that he wanted a sex change so badly so he tried to cut off his genitals in prison. DeLeon is facing death penalty for murdering Tom and Jackie Hawks for trying to steal their yacht in 2004. According to ABC News, some believed that Skylar DeLeons’ motive where caused by his gender identity.

In his first network television interview since being convicted for murdering a couple aboard their yacht, Skylar Deleon told ABC News that he wanted to be a woman so badly, he tried to cut off his genitalia in prison. "I basically took a sheet and tied it around my lower extremity … I tied it around and I went to cut it off," he told ABC News.

Deleon's dreams of big money and a more luxurious lifestyle came to an end after he murdered Tom and Jackie Hawks aboard the couple's yacht in 2004. In October 2008, the jury voted for the death penalty for Deleon, 29, a former child actor . But some believe the motive behind the murders didn't have to do with a desire for material wealth, or Deleon's abusive childhood. Instead, the cold-blooded killings may have been driven by Deleon's gender identity.