Detroit TV station sues for Skelton records
Fri, 06 May 2011 08:05:03 GMT — According to the Daily Telegram, search warrant documents obtained by a Detroit television station show what police took from John Skelton TMs home in Morenci in the days after his three sons disappeared.Among the items seized from the house were a noose made of white rope, a .22-caliber bullet, a Bible and Skelton TMs will, according to the documents, many of which are hard to read. The bullet was found on a stairway, the noose in the upstairs part of the house, the Bible on a living room table and the will in Skelton TMs dresser.Skelton tried to hang himself the day after Thanksgiving. His boys, Andrew, Alexander and Tanner, were last seen at his home on Thanksgiving.John Skelton is being held in the Lenawee County Jail on $90 million in bonds. He faces kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment charges. He has claimed he gave the boys to an organization called United Foster Outreach and Underground Sanctuaries, but police have been unable to identify any such group.WDIV did not say who gave them the documents, which have been suppressed by a court order signed by Lenawee County District Judge James E. Sheridan. WDIV has sued the district court, claiming the documents should be made public.The documents appear to be copies of those that would have been left in the house by police as required by law. Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks said that when a search warrant is executed, copies of the documents showing what was seized are left at the search location and given to the district court and the judge who signed the warrant. The original documents are maintained by the police agency that requested the warrant.