It has been decided to postpone until the middle of December an evidentiary hearing that will take place in the Lenawee County District Court.
The hearing will determine whether or not three brothers should be declared legally dead after they went missing from Morenci, Michigan, more than ten years ago.
The hearing for Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton was initially scheduled to take place on October 28 and 29, but it was postponed to December 11, 12, 13, and 16 at nine o’clock in the morning “due to illness,” as stated in the documents filed with the court.
Tanya Zuvers, the mother of the boys, successfully petitioned a judge in Michigan to declare her sons dead and to grant her request for a trial. The petition was granted over the summer.
On November 26, 2010, Zuvers’s three sons, Andrew, who was nine years old, Alexander, who was seven years old, and Tanner, who was five years old, were reported missing.
Their father, John Skelton, is said to have not returned them to Zuvers, according to the authorities.
John Skelton, the father of the boys, was found guilty of three counts of unlawful imprisonment in 2011, and he was sentenced to a prison term of between ten and fifteen years. The sentence was handed down by a judge.
His parole application has been denied on multiple occasions throughout the entirety of his sentence, despite the fact that he has been eligible for parole on multiple occasions. November 29, 2025 is the date that his maximum sentence is scheduled to expire.
