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Shattered

Black Friday, Chapter 10 – Dear John

Shattered

WDIV Local 4 | Graham Media Group

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Season 1, Chapter 10: John Skelton has been silent for the better part of a decade. WDIV’s Sandra Ali and Jeremy Allen do their best to get him to speak. In the meantime, police bring someone with Amish ties to confront John. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, let me pull back the curtain here a little. My plan was to end the season here.

0:05.8

John Skelton recently called us, and I thought our conversation was the end. But then things kept happening.

0:13.0

More parts to this story surfaced, and so much of it is crucial.

0:17.0

You will hear from John Skeleton, I promise.

0:19.0

But before we get to our phone call, there's more you need to know.

0:24.0

Before Tanner, Alexander, and Andrew Skelton, it was John and Tanya.

0:32.0

Before they were a family, they were a couple.

0:35.8

Before their marriage fell apart, they were happy.

0:39.5

John moved to Marency because he had family there.

0:42.3

He stayed in Marency, because he fell in love with Tanya. He shattered the lives of many people because he couldn't get his way.

0:50.0

At least that's the way it seems.

0:53.0

There are a lot of people

1:00.0

there are a lot of people left in the wake of his actions.

1:02.0

There's the obvious, Tanya, who lost her

1:05.1

three sons, lost her world, and has been forced to defend herself as if she's done something

1:11.7

wrong.

1:13.0

There's Tanya's family who lost the boys,

1:16.0

but they also lost the Tanya they once knew.

1:20.0

They're out of the boys' friends.

1:22.0

All the kids who knew them, grew up with them, and had no idea why one day they were just gone.

1:29.0

There's also John's family, aunts, uncles, and cousins who live in Morencey.

1:34.7

They were part of the boy's lives pretty regularly.

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