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Tree planting to be held to honor the missing Morenci boys
It's not over, organizers of the vigil say.
John Skelton was sentenced to prison last month for his sons' disappearance, but the boys have never been found.
Friends and supporters will be at Wakefield Park in Morenci at 2 p.m. today, dedicating a tree in honor of the three boys who have been missing for almost a year.
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Family holds out hope missing brothers are alive
It's been nearly a year since brothers Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton went missing in Morenci, Michigan.

Authorities are treating their disappearance as a homicide.

But family members still have not given up hope they'll be found alive.
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Missing boys remembered
Keeping alive the memories and the search for three missing local boys was the goal of a prayer vigil here Sunday.
About 100 people collected in Wakefield Park to pray, to hear tearful stories about Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton, and to be assured that family and friends will keep the pressure on until the search comes to closure.
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Event planned for one year anniversary of Skelton boys disappearance
The family of the missing Skelton boys is planning an observance for the one-year anniversary of their disappearance.
Family friend Kathye Herrera said Tanya Zuvers, the boys’ mother, and her family are working to make the event at 2 p.m. Nov. 27 at the Morenci High School gym “different than a prayer vigil and give the people attending a program.”
The family will thank the community for their help in trying to bring home Andrew, Alexander and Tanner, who were 9, 7 and 5 when they disappeared Thanksgiving weekend last year. Hundreds of volunteers combed the countryside around Morenci looking for the boys for a week after they disappeared, drawing national attention to the community.
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Event to honor missing brothers set for Nov. 27
The family of three boys missing for a year plans to thank the community during an event to mark the anniversary.

Family friend Kathye Herrera tells The Daily Telegram in Adrian that the event is scheduled for Nov. 27 at Lenawee County's Morenci High School near the Ohio-Michigan border.

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Police plan canvass in case of missing brothers
It’s been nearly one year since three young brothers went missing from their Lenawee County hometown.
To keep the public vigilant, the Morenci Police Department, Michigan State Police, and the FBI will conduct a “road canvass” to remind drivers about the missing Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton.
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Morenci mom: 'I don't feel they're dead'
In less than a week, Tanya Zuvers of Morenci, Mich., will mark one year since her three boys disappeared.
Alexander, Andrew, and Tanner Skelton have not been seen since they were with their dad last Thanksgiving.
John Skelton now is serving a 10-to-15 year prison sentence, but refuses to reveal the whereabouts of his sons.
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Morenci keeps hope alive
Tanya Zuvers refuses to speak of her three missing sons in the past tense.
In the year since the Thanksgiving disappearance of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton, hundreds of volunteers launched a futile search of this Michigan-Ohio border town and its vast surrounding farms, woods and waters.
Ten months later, their father, John Skelton, was sentenced to 10-15 years in prison after pleading no contest to unlawful imprisonment and steadfastly refusing to tell of their whereabouts.
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Search continues for Skelton brothers
Tanya Zuvers is the mom of brothers Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton. The boys went missing Thanksgiving last year when their father, John Skelton, failed to return them after a scheduled visitation.
"Know that mommy loves you and I am doing everything in my power to find you and bring you home where you belong," said Zuvers.
One year after her sons' disappearance, Zuvers says she's not giving up hope.
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No cludes gained immediately from flyers on 3 missing boys
-- Morenci police, Michigan State Police, and the FBI passed out about 130 flyers early Friday looking for clues in the case of three Morenci boys who disappeared a year ago.
Morenci police were hoping for a breakthrough but that did not occur, authorities said.
The flyers were handed out from 4 to 7 a.m. at U.S. 127 and Morenci Road, with the hope they would stop people who were out at the same time last year, which is when authorities say the boys' father, John Skelton, was using his cell phone and could have been driving.
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Morenci police seeks tips on 3 missing brothers at 1 year anniversary
Morenci police canvassed an intersection Friday, hoping to get new tips about three missing brothers who disappeared a year ago and to give information about the boys.
Police Chief Larry Weeks said officers made contact with about 129 vehicles early in the morning at the intersection of U.S.-127 and Morenci Road -- an area police believe the boys' father, John Skelton, was driving during the same hours a year earlier.
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Mom holds out hope missing boys are alive
The mother of three missing Michigan boys still believes they will come home alive even though it has been a year since they were last seen with their now-jailed father at his home near the Michigan-Ohio state line.

Tanya Zuvers tells the Blade newspaper in Toledo that she has never lost hope that the boys are out there.

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Friends and family remember missing brothers one year later
One year later, the hope to find three missing boys from a small Southern Michigan town continues. A year ago three young brothers from Morenci went missing over Thanksgiving weekend. And today friends and family gathered to remember nine year old Andrew--- seven year old Alexander and five year old tanner skelton. The boys were last seen with their father John Skelton.
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Investigators hold out hope to solve boys' case, vigil told
As relatives maintain hope that three local boys who vanished a year ago in the midst of their parents’ contentious divorce will turn up, Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks apologized during a vigil Sunday for the dearth of progress in the case.
“I’m accountable to you as police chief,” he somberly told the gathering of about 225 in the Morenci High School gymnasium. “It breaks my heart that I can’t give you the answers you want, and I am sorry.”
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One year later: Why won't father tell all about missing sons?
John Skelton is serving hard time for abducting his three sons, but one year later he still won't tell police more about the missing boys' fates.

Authorities have found no trace of Tanner, Alexander and Andrew – who ranged in ages from 5 to 9 – and their father's no-contest plea to false imprisonment has gotten investigators no closer to answers.
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Prayers rise for 3 missing boys
As a freight train roared in the background, Tanya Zuvers joined strangers in praying and singing Christmas hymns during a candlelight service Sunday night near downtown Toledo for her missing sons.
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Toledo honors missing brothers
This is the second time The Old Amtrak Village in Toledo held a special memorial for the Morenci brothers. But this year's event was a little different.

All participants had one specific prayer and it involved changing the heart of the boys father.
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Search group expands area of operations
The volunteers of Shiawassee Search and Rescue said 2011 was a busy inaugural year.
Convinced their talents and training could be better utilized without the restrictions of county borders, the group took steps in May to incorporate as a non-profit organization.
Since then, SSAR has conducted numerous searches in and around Morenci in an effort to locate the Skelton brothers, three boys who have been missing since Thanksgiving Day 2010.
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http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=762769
Michigan court denies appeal of father of missing Morenci brothers
A Lenawee County father serving prison time for his role in the disappearance of his three sons will not have his appeal heard.
The Michigan Court of Appeals denied John Skelton's appeal for lack of merit.
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http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/07/john_skelton_the_michigan_fath.html
John Skelton, the Michigan father whose 3 boys went missing: Whatever happened to ...?
Skelton remains behind bars in a Michigan prison after pleading no contest to three counts of unlawful imprisonment in September 2011.
His three sons, Andrew, Alexander and Tanner, however, remain missing. Police in Morenci, Mich., long ago gave up hope that the three boys, who were 9, 7 and 5 years old, would be found alive.
 
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...renci-boys-relatives-cling-hope-2-years-later
Missing Morenci boys' relatives cling to hope 2 years later
Courtney Derby won't be convinced that her three younger brothers are forever gone.

The Skelton boys — Tanner, 7, Alexander, 9, and Andrew, 10 — made national news in 2010 when they vanished from this tiny rural town on Thanksgiving Day while in their father's care.

"People ask me, 'how do you still have hope?' Well, you never lose it," Derby, 21, said in a recent interview with The Detroit News.

"My heart just doesn't tell me they are gone."

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...s-give-families-hope-missing-kids-still-alive
National cases give families hope missing kids still alive
A flier offering a cash reward for the safe return of Bianca Jones still hangs in the front window of the house on Custer, even though law enforcement officials insist the little girl was murdered.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121106/METRO/211060347#ixzz2BTLbwQci
 
http://fox17online.com/2012/11/14/three-brothers-missing-after-two-years/
Three Brothers Missing After Two Years
It’s been two years since 3 brothers from Morenci, Michigan disappeared and now, friends and family are holding an event to make sure to they’re not forgotten.

On November 25th, supporters will gather at Wakefield Park, where three trees have been planted in honor of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton. During the event, organizers will unveil a memorial plaque and are also hoping to reveal age-progession photos of the boys in hopes of finally finding where they are.
 
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http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/age-progressed-photos-released-of-skelton-boys
Age-progressed photos released of Skelton boys
mother of the missing Skelton boys has released age-progressed photos of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner.
On Thanksgiving-eve in 2010, Tanya Zuvers last saw her sons alive.
Last year, Tanya recounted what she remembered of the events surrounding that day to 7 Action News.
She says she hugged and kissed them as she dropped the boys off at their grandmother’s house that November 26 .
Two days later her life changed forever.
“I said I love you and I said I’ll see you on Friday,” Tanya said.
 
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