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A Michigan father about to walk free

after serving time for imprisoning his three young sons

just got slapped with a gut-punch act of justice.

Almost a year to the day, those boys disappeared.

John Skelton, 53, the dad, who spun a decade-long lie about his boys being in an underground

sanctuary, was just charged with their premeditated murders, a bombshell reveal, driven by his own

chilling digital footprint. Michigan State Police Lieutenant Renee Gonzalez spoke to Inside Edition.

It was never our intention just to close this case and be happy that he did 15 years.

We want him to answer up for the murder

of these three boys. Skelton now faces three counts of open murder and three counts of

tampering with evidence in the deaths of Andrew, nine, Alexander, seven, and Tanner five. Prosecutors

announced just days before his scheduled release from Bellamy Creek

Correctional Facility on November 29th. His prison stint stemmed from his refusal to return the boys to

their mom, Tanya Zovers, after a disastrous Thanksgiving custody visit in 2010.

Explosive details from County Prosecuting Attorney Jacqueline Wise's probable cause affidavit

lay bare a portrait of calculated, sinister deception.

In the frantic week, leading up to the boys' November 25th, 26th, vanishing, investigators found Skelton had scoured the internet for different ways to kill a person.

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