LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. — Almost exactly 15 years after three Morenci, Michigan boys went missing, their father has been charged with murder.

According to records from the Lenawee County District Court, John Skelton was charged on Wednesday with three counts of homicide/open murder and three counts of felony tampering with evidence.

Skelton was nearly finished serving a prison sentence for three unlawful imprisonment convictions in the boys' disappearance, a sentence that began in 2011. According to court records, he was set to be released on Nov. 29.

It was in March 2025 that a Lenawee County judge legally declared the three boys dead, but said at the time there was no "clear and convincing evidence that John Skelton murdered these children."

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