Black Friday, Chapter 6 – A Simpler Story

Shattered

WDIV Local 4 | Graham Media Group

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Season 1, Chapter 6: John Skelton's stories change every time he tells them. One that has been told, more than once, is that he gave his children to the Amish. Because they are such a private people, there's no record of their thoughts on this possibility. WDIV's Sandra Ali and Jeremy Allen hit the road to get a firsthand account from the Amish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is focused on the world in which John and Tanya Skelton lived in and live in now.
0:05.0	Up until this point, I've been in that bubble.
0:08.0	And while theories about the boys' current whereabouts have been provided and some already deflated.
0:13.0	One in particular has fascinated me on many levels.
0:16.0	In the last episode you heard John Skelton claim that he gave the kids to an underground group.
0:21.0	Well, this is almost a minute-ite or there was some reorganized Mormons.
0:26.0	A group that's either Amish, Mennonite, or reorganized Mormons.
0:30.0	Today we travel back Amish country.
0:34.0	Today we go to Amish Country.
0:39.0	What's someone in the Amish community
0:42.0	who has no access to newspapers TV.
0:46.3	Would they really care for three boys
0:49.9	as their own and keep them under wraps? I mean is that even possible?
0:57.0	That's Sandra Lee, a reporter for WDAV, the NBC affiliate in Detroit.
1:02.0	She's with me as we head out to Hillsdale County, Michigan,
1:05.0	a quest to pick the brains of the Amish, living near Merrancy.
1:08.0	As I drive out here, and it's so, it is so rural and it is so desolate.
1:17.2	It's just miles and miles of farmland,
1:21.1	the homes are spaced out.
1:24.2	I've been reading, watching, and trying to learn everything I can about Amish people,
1:28.5	wearing out Google.
1:29.7	I knew the basics.
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