LENAWEE COUNTY, Michigan. Fifteen years after three young brothers vanished on Thanksgiving weekend, their father, John Skelton, has now been charged with murder.
According to records from the Lenawee County District Court, Skelton was charged Wednesday with three counts of Homicide Open Murder and three felony counts of Tampering with Evidence. He was nearing the end of a prison sentence for three unlawful imprisonment convictions tied to the boys’ disappearance and was set to be released on November 29.
The case took a major legal turn in March 2025 when a judge declared Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton legally dead, but said at the time there was no clear and convincing evidence that their father had murdered them. That has now changed.
The boys disappeared in 2010 while staying with their father for Thanksgiving. Investigators found his home in disarray, including broken glass, cords, and a noose hanging from the second floor. A note left for the boys’ mother read, “You will hate me forever and I know this.” FBI Special Agent Corey Burras called it a passive admission of guilt.
Skelton later told his pastor, “I sent them home,” referring to heaven.
Despite intense searches across Michigan and Ohio, no trace of the boys was ever found.
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