Tanner Lucas Skelton was five years old when he vanished during Thanksgiving weekend 2010 while in his father’s care in Morenci, Michigan. The official missing date is November 26, 2010, though the last independent sighting of Tanner and his brothers Andrew and Alexander was on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, playing in their father’s backyard. Tanner was described as a white boy with blond hair and blue eyes, about 3 feet 6 inches tall and 40 pounds, last believed to be wearing camouflage pajama bottoms and a Scooby-Doo shirt.

Their father, John Skelton, was unreachable when the boys failed to return to their mother the next day. He gave inconsistent accounts, at one point saying he had given the children to a woman named Joann Taylor and at other times claiming he turned them over to an unnamed group; investigators were unable to verify those claims. Phone records showed his phone left Morenci and went into Ohio for about two hours on the morning the boys were reported missing. Extensive searches in Michigan and Ohio, including specific sites mentioned by investigators, produced no trace of the boys.

The three boys remain missing and their whereabouts are unknown. If anyone in Morenci or northwest Ohio around Thanksgiving 2010 has information about Tanner or his brothers, please come forward.