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Search for missing boys shifts, police say
A news conference is planned for Tuesday afternoon in Morenci regarding three young brothers, who went missing in November.
The Morenci Police Department plans to update the status of the investigation and “a shift in the investigative focus,” according to the release.
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Press conference on Skelton case scheduled for Tuesday
A news conference is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in Morenci to discuss updates on the case of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton, the three Morenci brothers who have been missing since Thanksgiving.
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Authorities to announce update in search for missing boys
Michigan authorities are expected to announce "a shift in the investigative focus" in their search for three boys missing since November.
Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks is planning a news conference Tuesday afternoon to discuss efforts to locate the Skelton boys: 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner.
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Morenci police shifting focus in missing boys case
The focus has changed for investigators in the disappearance of three young brothers on Thanksgiving Day from their Morenci home.
But how the search for Andrew, 9, Alexander, 7, and Tanner Skelton, 5, has changed is being left for explanation at a news conference this afternoon.
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Morenci Police News Conference 02/11/2011


Skelton investigation is not being treated as a murder case
Police have switched the focus of the Skelton brothers investigation from a missing persons case to a murder case.
The announcement was made at a news conference this afternoon, 68 days after 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner were last seen at their father’s home in Morenci.
Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks said the investigative team, which includes state police and FBI agents, met Jan. 19 to evaluate the evidence collected to that point.
“The decision was made by myself to shift the focus of the investigation (to a murder case),” Weeks said in a separate interview.
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Case of 3 missing brothers is homicide probe
The disappearance of three young Michigan brothers has turned into a homicide investigation, a police chief said Tuesday, dashing hopes that the boys who were last seen with their father at Thanksgiving are safe somewhere.
Morenci Chief Larry Weeks is now asking people in the area, along the Michigan-Ohio border, to be on the lookout for bodies. He said investigators have followed up on 900 tips but they have not been fruitful.
"We've seen false hope continue to grow," he told reporters.
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Missing boys investigation's focus shifted to murder
The search for the three brothers who have been missing since Thanksgiving is officially a murder investigation.
That's what Morenci police Chief Larry Weeks told a packed news conference in the city's downtown fire station Tuesday.
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Morenci boys case now a murder investigation, chief says

The search for three missing boys is now a murder investigation, Police Chief Larry Joe Weeks said Tuesday.
John R. Skelton, the father of Andrew, 9, Alexander, 7, and Tanner Skelton, 5, who have been missing since Thanksgiving Day, is the prime suspect, Weeks told reporters and community residents during a news conference at the Morenci Fire Department.

"From this point forward, this is no longer a missing person case, but a murder investigation," said Weeks. The chief cited what he called "false hope growing in the community."
Weeks said comments from Skelton in court have been misleading or false. Skelton is charged with parental kidnapping and contempt of court for failing to turn over the boys in a custody dispute. He is being held in the Lenawee County Jail on $30 million bond.
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Three missing boys presumed dead
Morenci Chief Larry Weeks is now asking people in the area, along the Michigan-Ohio border, to be on the lookout for bodies. He said investigators have followed up on 900 tips but they have not been fruitful.
''We've seen false hope continue to grow,'' he told reporters.
Weeks said the boys' father, John Skelton, is the primary focus of the investigation, although no new charges have been filed. Skelton already has been charged with parental kidnapping and is being held on a $30 million bond.
Lawyer John Glaser, who is defending Skelton in the kidnapping case, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
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John Skelton to TV station: I didn't harm boys
The jailed father of three missing Morenci boys told a Detroit television station that he has not harmed his young sons and does not know where they are located.
John Skelton has told authorities that he gave 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner to an organization called United Foster Outreach and Underground Sanctuaries. Police have said they cannot locate the group.
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John Skelton, father of missing boys speaks to Action News from jail
Just over two months ago three young boys went missing from Morenci. Their father, John Skelton, was the last one to see them alive.
Since Tanner, Alexander and Andrew’s disappearance we have heard Skelton utter very few words. Until now.
WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JOHN SKELTON ON THE LEFT - THERE ARE 3 PARTS
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Skelton, other jail inmates free to pick up phone
Calls to television news departments may be rare, but Lenawee County Jail inmates are free to use the telephone as much as they like. People receiving the calls, however, must agree to pay the reverse charges.
A telephone interview with inmate John Skelton was broadcast Wednesday by Detroit’s WXYZ after the father of three missing Morenci boys called a reporter there to deny harming them. He remains in jail while parental kidnapping charges are pending and the Morenci police investigate the boys’ disappearance as a possible homicide case.
Skelton’s call to WXYZ raised questions about how he was able to telephone the television station and who paid for the long distance call.
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Judge adjourns hearing in case of missing boys
A pretrial hearing for the Morenci man accused in the disappearance of his three sons was adjourned Wednesday until Feb. 23.
John Skelton appeared in Lenawee County Circuit Court in Adrian. He is charged with three counts of parental kidnapping in the disappearance of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton, ages 9, 7 and 5.
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Michigan father of mssing boys hearing delayed
A second delay was approved Tuesday for a pretrial hearing in the John Skelton parental kidnapping case. The hearing was moved from Wednesday, Feb. 23, to Wednesday, March 9. The Lenawee County Prosecutor’s office and public defender John Glaser submitted an order in Lenawee County Circuit Court agreeing to the adjournment on Tuesday afternoon.
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Life prison charges added in John Skelton missing boys prosecution
Prosecutors are wielding a bigger stick in the criminal case against a Morenci father charged in the Thanksgiving disappearance of his three sons.
Kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment counts have been added to the parental kidnapping counts filed against 39-year-old John Skelton in December. Skelton now faces a maximum of three life prison terms if convicted instead of a one-year sentence.
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Skelton facing more charges
More charges filed against John Skelton of Morenci. Prosecutors have added charges of kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment against the father of three-boys who have been missing since Thanksgiving.
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Dad of missing boys faces new charges
The father of three missing Michigan boys faces new charges of kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment that carry a potential life sentence.
The charges against John Skelton were filed in Lenawee County, the Adrian (Michigan) Daily Telegram reported. Skelton had been charged with parental kidnapping.
Jonathan Poer, the prosecutor, would not comment on the new charges. A court document says Skelton imprisoned each boy "with the intent to take that person outside of this state."
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Father of missing boys faces possible life in prison
A Morenci man, accused in the disappearance of his three sons, now faces life in prison.
The Lenawee County Prosecutor’s Office has added three charges each of kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment against John Skelton, 39, whose sons have been missing since late November.
These are in addition to three counts of parental kidnapping he was already facing.
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Looks like March 9 is the pre trial hearing ...... keeping fingers crossed for speedy trial.
 
Auction to raise money to find missing boys
There is new information about three boys who have been missing since Thanksgiving.
People in Morenci have organized an auction to raise more reward money in the case of 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton.
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Town holds auction hoping for answers in the case of three missing boys
The town of Morenci is looking for answers in the case of three missing boys.
Residents there are organizing an auction to raise more reward money for any information about the boys.
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Pretrial hearing set in criminal case against father of 3 missing boys
A pretrial hearing is set in the criminal case against a southern Michigan man whose three young sons have been missing since Thanksgiving.
Thirty-nine-year-old John Skelton is to appear in an Adrian courtroom on Wednesday. The 39-year-old Morenci (mor-EN'-see) resident has said he doesn't know the whereabouts of 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner, who last were seen with him.
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John Skelton to be arraigned on more charges
A Morenci man, accused in the disappearance of his three sons, has been remanded back to district court to be arraigned on new charges.
John Skelton, 39, was initially charged with parental kidnapping and his case was bound over to Lenawee County Circuit Court. But last month the Lenawee County Prosecutor's Office added three new charges each of unlawful imprisonment and kidnapping, which carries a penalty of up to life in prison if he's convicted.
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Morenci missing boys case going back to district court
The criminal prosecution of John Russell Skelton is back to square one.
The father of three missing Morenci boys asked Wednesday that his case be sent back to district court for arraignment and a preliminary examination on new kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment charges that were added last month by the Lenawee County Prosecutor’s Office. He was charged in December with parental kidnapping counts that carry a maximum one-year prison term. He now faces potential life prison terms.
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The only good things I can say about that is that I am glad the charges have been upgraded. And I wonder if JS has realized yet that it will be that much longer before he "gets to say his piece" or before he gets more attention. And I think that is what it is to him.
 
Skelton bond bumped to $90 million at new arraignment
Six new counts raised the bond total to $90 million for John Russell Skelton when he was arraigned Friday in Lenawee County District Court on charges he kidnapped and imprisoned his three sons on Thanksgiving Day.
Skelton, 39, appeared on a television monitor in Lenawee County District Judge James E. Sheridan’s courtroom. The arraignment was conducted by video from the Lenawee County Jail where Skelton has been held since his extradition from Ohio on Dec. 14.
Sheridan said he was extending bond that was originally $10 million for each of three original counts to now cover all nine charges.
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Auction for missing brothers Saturday
An auction is planned for Saturday in Morenci. It is to raise reward money in hopes of bringing the boys home one way or another. In February Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks declared the boys' disappearance a homicide investigation and their father is the only suspect. But the case is far from closed.
"Law enforcement feels somebody out there knows something and if there is enough offered they might take that extra step and call and say I know this," said family spokesperson, Kathye Herrera.
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