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S3 Ep359: The Skelton Brothers | A Thanksgiving Mystery Finally Cracks Open

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A major development has cracked open the 15 year mystery of the Skelton brothers: John Skelton, the father of Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner, who vanished in 2010 while in his care, has been charged with three counts of open murder and three counts of evidence tampering, just days before his planned release from prison. A judge legally declared the brothers dead, though at that time ruled there was not enough evidence to confirm their father was responsible.

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Harlow. And today we're going to be giving an update on a case that we haven't covered on

0:52.8

Crime Weekly, but Stephanie was telling me she covered it on her channel many years ago, right? Yeah, I exactly. It's been a long time. It was 2020. I covered it. Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to give a little bit of a backstory here, just a little bit of a sample size. So for anyone like me who doesn't know the story, you'll have just an idea of what we're talking about here. And I'm going to give a little bit of a deeper kind of recap as you do, as you do. Okay, so back in 2010, three young brothers from Morency, Michigan, nine-year-old Andrew, seven-year-old Alexander, and five-year-old Tanner Skelton vanished over Thanksgiving weekend after a court-ordered visit with their father,

1:28.4

John Skelton. For years, he's told shifting stories about handing the boys off to an unknown woman

1:33.8

and a shadowy underground group, but he was only convicted of unlawful imprisonment for failing

1:39.3

to return them to their mother. Now, nearly 15 years later, that's changed. Prosecutors in Lenoey County

1:45.1

have charged Skelton with three counts of open murder and three counts of tampering with evidence

1:50.0

in connection with his son's disappearances, just days before he was set to walk out of prison.

1:55.0

Tonight, we're going to quickly revisit the basics of this case and then break down what led to

1:59.3

the new charges, what investigators say

2:01.3

they've learned, and what this could mean going forward. Yeah, so this case has, it's bothered a lot

2:07.7

of people for a long time. It's been decades. And I mean, when I covered it in 2020,

2:12.6

it was because a lot of people had requested it. And I think we all knew. We all knew what happened here. But the fact

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