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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Missing Michigan boys : Andrew, Alexander, Tanner Skelton (AMBER ALERT) - Morenci, MI

http://www.detnews.com/article/20101128/METRO/11280318/1409/Church-filled-in-vigil-for-missing-Morenci-boys-
A task force of law enforcement agencies that include the Morenci police, FBI, the Lenawee and Fulton County, Ohio, sheriff's departments and the Michigan State Police, is looking for the boys, ages 9, 7, and 5, who were reported missing Friday. Investigators completed a search today at Harrison Lake State Park in northwest Ohio, about 10 miles south of Morenci, but turned up no clues, according to the Fulton County Sheriff's Department.
Police issued an "Amber Alert" for the boys Friday, after their father, John Skelton, 39, said he turned the boys over to a woman named Joann Taylor, asking her to take them to the boys' mother. Skelton then attempted suicide by hanging.
After he failed, he contacted an acquaintance who took him to an Ohio hospital.   Now, three days later, police say they cannot find Taylor or even confirm her existence, raising tension in the community as it frantically searches for the boys.
Roxann Skelton, John Skelton's mother, said from her Florida home she's hopeful.   "My heart doesn't lie to me," she said. "My heart tells me they're OK."  She said she has not talked with her son since the episode began.
Groups of law enforcement and volunteers Sunday also searched the woods around Morenci trying to find any sign of the lost boys.
When asked if Skelton was a suspect in the boys' disappearance, Weeks said, "we need to keep our eyes wide open."
Skelton, who lives in Morenci, about 75 miles southwest of Detroit and just north of the Ohio state line, is separated from their mother but had been keeping his sons.

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