The Tragic Disappearance of the Skelton Brothers
Their father claimed he gave them away to keep them from their mother, but police believe he killed them.
When Tanya Zuvers dropped her three sons off for their Thanksgiving visitation with their father, John Skelton, in 2010, she had no idea that she would never see them again. The disappearance of Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton broke the hearts of an entire Michigan community, and more than a decade after they went missing their fate remains unknown.
Tanya had filed for divorce from John in September 2010 after he took the three children on an unplanned trip to Florida, where his mother lived. Tanya was awarded full custody of the boys after the judge learned that John had taken them out of the state without permission, but she and John soon worked out a visitation schedule so he could see his sons. Tanya had agreed to allow the boys to spend Thanksgiving with John at the Morenci, Michigan home they had once lived in as a family. When she dropped them off on Wednesday, November 24, 2010, she told them that she would see them two days later, on Friday.
Tanya and John had planned to exchange the boys at 3:00 pm on Friday, but Tanya called him late that morning to see if she could pick them up earlier. John told her that he had taken…