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🗓️ 19 November 2025
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| 0:29.2 | Explore. Hey everyone. Welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Levasser. And I'm Stephanie |
| 0:48.0 | 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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