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Andrew Ryan Skelton










Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021


Andrew, approximately 2010; Age at the time of disappearance: -progression to Age at the time of disappearance: 19 (approximately 2020); John Skelton; Tanya Skelton; John's minivan




Date reported missing : 11/26/2010

Missing location (approx) :
Morenci, Michigan
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 11/04/2003 (17)
Age at the time of disappearance: 7 years old
Height / Weight : 4'1, 57 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Brown pajamas with orange trim.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian male. Brown hair, brown eyes.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Andrew is missing with his brothers, Alexander and Tanner. Their mother, Tanya Lynn Zuvers Skelton, had filed for divorce from their father, John Russell Skelton, in September 2010 and had custody of the boys.
John took them for a court-ordered visitation over Thanksgiving, and never returned them. That last time anyone besides John saw them was at 5:00 p.m. on November 25, the day before their disappearances were reported. Photos of John and Tanya are posted with this case summary.
John stated he gave the boys to a woman named Joann Taylor, whom he had met on the internet several years before, and asked her to return them to their mother. He said he did this because he planned to commit suicide and didn't want the boys to see it. He stated Joann was married to a pastor named Mark, drove a white or silver minivan and lived in either Hillsdale, Michigan or Jackson County, Michigan.
John attempted to hang himself later that day, but survived and was hospitalized, first at a general hospital and then at a psychiatric facility in Ohio.
Authorities issued an Amber Alert for the Skelton brothers, but they could find no sign of them and no indication that Joann Taylor even existed. Police said they believed the boys were in "grave danger." They said they believed John's story about Joann Taylor was fictitious and something else caused the Skelton children's disappearances.
Investigators stated they were investigating the disappearances as homicides, and John was the prime suspect. They said John's blue Dodge Caravan was on the Ohio Turnpike, along the Michigan-Ohio border, between 4:00 and 7:00 a.m. on November 26, and asked anyone who saw it to come forward. A photo of the vehicle is posted below this case summary. It has the Michigan license plate number 9JQ H93.
Immediately following John's release from the hospital, he was arrested and jailed under suicide watch. He was eventually extradited to Michigan and charged with three counts of felony parental kidnapping, three counts of kidnapping and three counts of false imprisonment.
At a court hearing in December 2010, he changed his story, saying his sons were in the care of "an organization" which he at first refused to name. He later said it called United Foster Outreach and Underground Sanctuaries. The police believe no such group exists.