(3 Mar 2025)
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Adrian, Michigan – 3 March 2025
1. Lenawee County Probate Judge Catherine Sala takes the bench
2. Tanya Zuvers speaks with her lawyer, R. Burke Castleberry
3. Tight of Zuvers in court
4. SOUNDBITE (English) R. Burke Castleberry, lawyer for Tanya Zuvers:
“It is our position and the evidence that we are going to present to you, judge, is that Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton died on or about November 26th, 2010.”
5. Former Morenci police Chief Larry Weeks is sworn in
6. Sala listens to testimony
7. SOUNDBITE (English) R. Burke Castleberry, lawyer for Tanya Zuvers, questioning Larry Weeks, former Morenci police chief:
“During your time working on this case, did you ever see any evidence or any hint that these children may be alive?”
Weeks: “No. I’m confident they’re deceased.”
Castleberry: “Are you confident that they were killed on or about November 26th, 2010?”
Weeks: “I am. I am.”
8. Wide of Weeks testifying
9. Various of John Skelton providing his name to Sala, being sworn in and declining to participate in the hearing
STORYLINE:
An investigator who had a key role in the search for three missing Michigan brothers testified Monday there’s no sign they’re still alive nearly 15 years later.
Larry Weeks was the police chief in 2010 in Morenci (meh-REN’-see), a town along the Ohio border. He said statements by the boys’ father, John Skelton, about their whereabouts all turned out to be false.
“I’m confident they’re deceased,” Weeks said of the brothers.
Weeks was the first witness at an unusual hearing in Lenawee (LEN’-eh-way) County in southern Michigan.
Tanya Zuvers (TAN’-yeh ZOO’-verz) is the mother of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton. She is asking a judge to have the boys declared legally dead.
Police believe John Skelton is responsible, though he has not been charged with killing his sons. By November, he is expected to complete a 15-year prison sentence for his failure to give the boys back to Zuvers, the only conviction in the saga.
The 53-year-old Skelton appeared in court by video Monday and said he didn’t want to participate.
Skelton and Zuvers were having problems in fall 2010 and living apart in Morenci. The boys were with their father at Thanksgiving but were supposed to go back to their mom the next day. Instead, the 9-, 7- and 5-year-old boys were gone.
While Skelton was in a hospital with an ankle injury that day, investigators entered his home and found a mess, with broken glass, severed appliance cords and a noose hanging from the second floor. A Bible was open with a verse circled.
Hundreds of people searched woods and waters in Michigan and Ohio immediately after the brothers’ disappearance.
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