Overview
- Court records show three counts of open murder and three counts of evidence tampering were filed Wednesday in Lenawee County.
- The alleged offenses are dated Nov. 25, 2010, when Andrew, Alexander and Tanner, then 9, 7 and 5, were last known to be alive, and they remain missing.
- A judge declared the brothers legally dead in March 2025 after years without answers, noting at the time there was insufficient evidence to prove murder.
- Investigators cite phone data placing John Skelton on a round trip into Ohio the day after the holiday, a ransacked Morenci home, and a hospital visit for a broken ankle he said followed a suicide attempt, as well as his shifting accounts of handing the boys to others.
- Skelton remains at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility with a Michigan DOC release date of Nov. 29, 2025, and faces up to life in prison if convicted on the new charges.