The Mystery of the Skelton Brothers

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • The mystery of the Skelton Brothers began on Thanksgiving, 2010. The three Skelton brothers were celebrating with their father, John Skelton, and then vanished. John says he gave them to a mysterious underground organisation, and that they're safe. Others aren't so sure...
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  • @abitcattywampus
    @abitcattywampus 4 года назад +2757

    He drove them out to a remote area, wrapped them in blankets, gave them teddy bears, and then placed them in an underground sanctuary? Sounds like an indirect confession of burying them.

    • @invisiblepinkunicorn7626
      @invisiblepinkunicorn7626 4 года назад +99

      I thought that as well...

    • @Ms.AisforAwesome
      @Ms.AisforAwesome 4 года назад +59

      That's exactly what I thought too. 😥

    • @jodyross6185
      @jodyross6185 4 года назад +31

      agreed!!

    • @brayallen7290
      @brayallen7290 4 года назад +109

      Really sick people that kill truly believe what they say. They probably are in a grave some where. And he probably also does believe that they are happy and safe. It's a sick sick way of thinking that no one talks about.

    • @raypratt3611
      @raypratt3611 4 года назад +46

      Yup,net u anything if those kids are ever found,they will be found wrapped in a blanket with teddy bears!

  • @Hopeandpeaceinjesus
    @Hopeandpeaceinjesus 4 года назад +372

    Parents: don’t talk to strangers online and don’t give out your personal details-
    This parent: “kids you’re going to live with a stranger from the Internet...”

    • @alexandercarder2281
      @alexandercarder2281 4 года назад +17

      And hopefully my sons, they won’t sex you. But hey, if they do, just pretend it’s sex education. No probs. Ok I’ll be off now and hope you get in well with your new strangers. I’m sure everything will work out. 😰😱

    • @janeydoe-nuts8663
      @janeydoe-nuts8663 4 года назад +4

      Nah. Those boys r dead.

    • @laurac6563
      @laurac6563 4 года назад +1

      Yeah. Way to follow those safety rules dad!

  • @americansweetheart5597
    @americansweetheart5597 3 года назад +299

    "if I can't have them, no one can" is what happened here.

    • @A6Legit
      @A6Legit 3 года назад +6

      That's so disgusting. Like they're property or something

    • @MentokTheMindTaker
      @MentokTheMindTaker 3 года назад

      To be fair the mother was sexually assaulting them....probably took a toll on his mental state

    • @celeca7
      @celeca7 3 года назад +7

      @@MentokTheMindTaker What proof do you have that the mother was sexually assaulting her sons? She had sex with a 14 yr old (not her son) over a decade before. While that is disgusting, it is not proof of sexual abuse of her own children. One thing you will learn if you watch enough true crime, when one parent is afraid they’re going to lose custody of their children, they often accuse the other of sexual abuse of the children. IIRC, it was so common in one state, they passed a law stating if you falsely accuse the other parent of abuse for the purpose of swaying the judge in the custody hearing, you automatically lose custody. Also, you can never trust a killer to tell the truth. I don’t believe for one minute that she was abusing those boys

    • @annythekettle7031
      @annythekettle7031 3 года назад

      @@MentokTheMindTaker That's just what he claimed, we don't know what happened.
      Not sure how that would explain him killing his children.

    • @MentokTheMindTaker
      @MentokTheMindTaker 3 года назад +2

      @@celeca7 Dating a pedophile/rapist would take a toll on your mind

  • @MNTNSTARZ80.
    @MNTNSTARZ80. Год назад +4

    I keep wondering if "Underground sanctuary" is his twisted way of saying they're buried and in his twisted mind they're now safe, wrapped in blankets with teddy bears.
    As soon as I heard that name my mind went "Oh hell, he buried them "

  • @kaynucklehead1633
    @kaynucklehead1633 4 года назад +26

    That age progression of the three boys punched a hole in my heart.

  • @saoirsevicteoiria2759
    @saoirsevicteoiria2759 3 года назад +21

    This is such a strange case. It's hard to even start to get to grips with, because it's unclear why both parents (seemingly) had lost custody of their children from their first marriages. Tanya was also, if my math is correct, in her thirties when she was convicted of the sex crime involving the fourteen year old. That's not some vague Romeo and Juliet stuff, that's deliberate and predatory. That doesn't mean she'll assault any 14 year old she sees, but it also is hard (as it should be) to wave away as a youthful misjudgement.
    John doesn't come across as believable, and he does come across as desperate. It's hard to even speculate whether one of the sons confided abuse that he acted on in the only way he believed he could (the courts having been unsympathetic to his parental abduction trump card in the past). Did he, fearing that he would lose them to Tanya and that he would fail to protect them, kill them? I find it hard to come up with a guess at all. Was he using Tanya's criminal past as an excuse for his behavior? Why did he opt to have three children with a registered sex offender? I have so many questions.

  • @4Deadserious
    @4Deadserious 4 года назад +78

    "Wrapped them in a blanket with a stuffed animal" to give them to the "underground sanctuary". He wrapped them in a blanket and buried them.

  • @ddAndTheca
    @ddAndTheca 4 года назад +107

    Mike, Thank you so much for the consistent quality content. That Chapter is amazing. We all appreciate your hard work so much.

    • @ThatChapter
      @ThatChapter  4 года назад +14

      Really appreciate that Adam!

  • @seventhave
    @seventhave 4 года назад +78

    This case is so disturbing all around. Thanks for sharing this story, Mike.

    • @kcbh24
      @kcbh24 4 года назад +1

      @Wise Guy Mike posts videos on other platforms in advance of RUclips. The channel has to make money without the threat of being demonetized, somehow.

    • @Hey___you
      @Hey___you 4 года назад +1

      Patreon. 🌲🌲🌲

    • @lilsauce312
      @lilsauce312 4 года назад

      I was thinking to same Thing!

    • @seventhave
      @seventhave 4 года назад

      Yeah, it was posted on Patreon earlier and I commented then.

  • @jenniferw5095
    @jenniferw5095 3 года назад +7

    What handsome boys. So sad. It's so obvious these brothers loved each other. 💕💎🙏 I pray they are found.

  • @swissmochaj
    @swissmochaj 4 года назад +135

    "Underground Sanctuary" sounds like code for grave

  • @bisexualichigo4227
    @bisexualichigo4227 4 года назад +18

    A Chapter video after arriving home from graduation.
    Life can be great 🤗

    • @ThatChapter
      @ThatChapter  4 года назад +9

      Congratulations!!

    • @bisexualichigo4227
      @bisexualichigo4227 4 года назад +7

      That Chapter Yes sir. Got my bachelors (I think that’s how its call in english). 🎉

    • @kcbh24
      @kcbh24 4 года назад

      Congratulations!

    • @Lizablue0608
      @Lizablue0608 4 года назад +1

      Congrats! 🎉 💥 😎

    • @Chrisyt272
      @Chrisyt272 4 года назад

      Bisexual Ichigo Congratulations!

  • @Rorschach00Testing
    @Rorschach00Testing 4 года назад +216

    What grandfather doesn't turn around when a person says his missing grandchildren are safe? He's involved!

    • @jhoughjr1
      @jhoughjr1 3 года назад +4

      not been around many old men it seems

    • @Rorschach00Testing
      @Rorschach00Testing 3 года назад +6

      @@jhoughjr1 🇨🇦 Does he have a hearing problem? Could be. Sure. 👍

    • @tracycrawford6826
      @tracycrawford6826 3 года назад +7

      If it was me I’d be worried a gun was painted at my back and I was lucky to get away with that warning: your grand kids are ok. (Don’t turn around. Unspoken: Or I’ll shoot ya.)

    • @numbers8151
      @numbers8151 3 года назад +4

      @@tracycrawford6826 Please tell your kids i say im sorry they have a parent like you. If that was me i wouldnt care what they had pointed at me, you bet your ass im turning around if anyone other than myself or my family have my kids in their possession.

    • @kebas239
      @kebas239 3 года назад +10

      @@numbers8151 I have to side with the previous comment. Yeah, everybody says that they would be a hero and do something like that but you couldn't really know for certain unless you're actually put in that kind of situation. And also, you wouldn't be much help in finding your kids if you're dead.
      That said, I think the father's story is bullshit and he made it up.

  • @bitterellaselectricgroove8544
    @bitterellaselectricgroove8544 4 года назад +46

    This man killed his children. If he couldn't have them, she couldn't have them. If he "knew where they were alive, but can't say until he gets out" he would've long ago said where, if it were true. His family is a little cringey, too.
    Wherever these beautiful boys are, I pray they're at peace.

  • @plutoswifelife4074
    @plutoswifelife4074 4 года назад +212

    When people say be careful who you have kids that is some real a$$ advice.

    • @GoodestKitty
      @GoodestKitty 4 года назад +28

      As a parent myself I can attest to this. I truly believe not everyone is meant to be a parent. Just because you can make them doesn’t mean you should.

    • @kimberlybridges8591
      @kimberlybridges8591 4 года назад +6

      I think of that every time my ex has a psychotic break and takes off with our son. Luckily he is now old enough to tell his father to eff off.

    • @anikajoy5739
      @anikajoy5739 4 года назад +1

      That part that part

    • @KH-fu7gb
      @KH-fu7gb 4 года назад

      @@kimberlybridges8591 this should have been documented. Every time he had a break. Every time your kid got scared of him. The USA is big on mother's having custody anyway...so I don't see this as a hard case to win. Why didn't you take him to court and demand supervised visits at all times? And NOT with a family member of his, but a court ordered therapist? Not blaming you honey, we all try to do what's best for our children, including having a relationship with both parents, but it would've saved you both a lot of stress and heartache. I know the legal system is now leaning towards dad's more, but if he had psychotic breaks...idk why they wouldn't immediately do this to begin with. Just trying to understand the logic behind him taking off with a kid he probably couldn't care for, just to scar him probably for life. I wish him the best. He had a tough mother, obviously. ❤️

    • @m.ccheddarbox874
      @m.ccheddarbox874 4 года назад +2

      True true.. People do change tho.. What seems like a good idea might be the worst 10 years down the line.

  • @brandonfouts4074
    @brandonfouts4074 2 года назад +2

    amazing channel, we love the Skelton brothers. Cool video. 2010

  • @rtwice93555
    @rtwice93555 3 года назад +11

    If for no other reason, I love these videos for the communities they show. Small towns across the country I will never see. People I will never know. I always wonder what its like to live where they do. What do they do work, for fun? Just ordinary people like the rest of us struggling to get by in their own slice of America. Its fascinating stuff to me.

  • @barrycollins4870
    @barrycollins4870 4 года назад +29

    Just flickering around looking for something to watch and BOOM good auld trusty Mick, perfect timing 👌

  • @fluffnstuph85
    @fluffnstuph85 4 года назад +30

    I’m gonna believe Mose Schrute has em working hard at the beet farm. Hope they figure this case out, it’s heartbreaking.

  • @ScumSookar
    @ScumSookar 3 года назад +287

    "I gave them away to someone I met on the Internet."
    That's pretty much a confession in and of itself, just nut up and admit you killed them you coward.

    • @Arukan
      @Arukan 3 года назад +1

      The mother should admit she was going to diddle them- being a registered sex offender and all.

    • @shaddowgolden1054
      @shaddowgolden1054 3 года назад +5

      @@Arukan and yet, he only disappeared the children after she didn’t agree to fixing their marriage… I don’t think so.

    • @bobbieboomboomkelly
      @bobbieboomboomkelly 3 года назад +5

      Not one person mentioned human trafficking, I mean I know 99% chance he did it . Leaves 1% chance he gave them to a creep on the internet . Either way is horrific. They were such lovely, beautiful, young boys. Don’t understand this world sometimes. 🌹😢

    • @jumpinjohnnyruss
      @jumpinjohnnyruss 3 года назад +2

      @@Arukan That's an odd leap.

    • @redraven1604
      @redraven1604 2 года назад

      @@bobbieboomboomkelly It's a decent & oft forgot point

  • @parisachilles2682
    @parisachilles2682 3 года назад +2

    I raised two boys and my marriage ended. Nothing, and I mean nothing, came before my sons and my ex-wife understood we needed to cherish them. These three little boys deserved so much more than death at the hands of the father they trusted. They are gone, no question!

  •  4 года назад +55

    What a piece of...
    He tried to force her hand about moving to Florida and when it backfired he killed his own sons to get back at her.

    • @dannythompson1948
      @dannythompson1948 4 года назад +17

      Neither of them were prizes.. I just feel sorry that those boys. Nobody chooses dirt bags for parents

    • @powerpaul1423
      @powerpaul1423 4 года назад +2

      And now his about to get out if jail!

    • @nailinpalin1477
      @nailinpalin1477 4 года назад +1

      Shes a nonce and the system hates men, and was about to give a sexual predator sole custody because vagina. He did the right thing.

    • @abitcattywampus
      @abitcattywampus 4 года назад +4

      @@nailinpalin1477 Murdering them was the right thing?!

    • @flext-rex8284
      @flext-rex8284 4 года назад +1

      @@nailinpalin1477 you're right but he totally didn't need to kill anyone

  • @kyliemarie7822
    @kyliemarie7822 3 года назад +2

    He was scared of losing his boys so he sent them away with someone he didn't know? Yeah that makes so much sense...

  • @amelievogele8256
    @amelievogele8256 4 года назад +42

    Are we just going to gloss over the 3 dead kids they found? Like who where they, what happened??

    • @southernbridal
      @southernbridal 4 года назад +12

      Yes why werent they DNA tested and why are they hidden in the shed. Who's children were they? What happened to them?

    • @leighdavis9522
      @leighdavis9522 4 года назад +1

      @@southernbridal, the forensic tests revealed that the human remains were deceased for at least 99 years, so there wouldn't be any chance of DNA recovery.

    • @NTN_Lex
      @NTN_Lex 4 года назад

      9:24 why does this lady look like she's wearing jail scrubs

  • @reneecatagnus2344
    @reneecatagnus2344 4 года назад +59

    I think he hates his ex-wife so much, he's Torturing her, as long as he can. He's still controlling everything. Praying for answers.

    • @aliinwonderland656
      @aliinwonderland656 4 года назад +3

      Hard as it may be she might as well stop asking about the children. It’s the last thing he has to control her with.

  • @katrabbit
    @katrabbit 4 года назад +87

    It makes sense the father would be this insane when he comes from that family... all of them blissfully ignorant of their son and brother killing their own grandchildren...
    Some would say that's caring. I consider it dangerous to be that ignorant to evidence that your son is a monster.
    They can all burn.

    • @josephosullivan9506
      @josephosullivan9506 4 года назад +12

      Selective denial, delusion and dysfunction. They are just enabling him.

    • @princesstamika
      @princesstamika 4 года назад +5

      well said! right is right, wrong is wrong.

    • @pretorious700
      @pretorious700 4 года назад +8

      Nobody wants to admit they raised a monster.

    • @TK-ui2th
      @TK-ui2th 4 года назад

      lori vallows sister has recently said she was wrong to defend lori, now that the kids bodies have been found.. no one would ever want to believe their blood, their family, someone they've always known could do something so terrible. it seems to require horrific, undeniable evidence for family members to come around. it's a horrible place for them to be in. if they weren't involved in the crime then why should they burn? they're holding on to the only hope they have left...

    • @katrabbit
      @katrabbit 4 года назад

      @@TK-ui2th from the evidence, it's much more likely they either know he did it and wanted to protect him or they willingly gave up on finding their own grandchildren/nephews and trusted someone with no real alibi or explanation of their safety (family or not, that doesn't matter in my world, those children should matter more). Both of which are terrible things for them to do.

  • @zacharyhamilton5272
    @zacharyhamilton5272 2 года назад

    Your videos are the background sound of my life I always have you playin in background love the story’s and everything man keep it up much much love for channel

  • @maryjernigan6127
    @maryjernigan6127 3 года назад +5

    This whole family is lying. I'm a grandmother and even if I totally trusted my son, the decision to give my grandchildren away is so unacceptable in so many ways, not to mention never being able to ever see them. This is like the Solomon story. If she is agreeable to being deprived of her grandchildren just so their mother can't see them, then she knows or strongly suspects that they are "no more". She never even checked on the charges against their mother. The father really seems like the type to kill his kids just to keep their mother from having them. If my son told me, "I have a solution but you won't be able to see your grandchildren because I gave them away". I would not stop checking on everything I could, ever. I sure wouldn't say "oh okay, I trust my son. I couldn't accept that there wasn't a better plan.

  • @Blue-Hawk-Legend
    @Blue-Hawk-Legend 2 года назад

    This is what i love. I know none of these commwnts matter but these are all the cases you never hear about because it never hit national news. Showing how crazy people really are, the fact that you should always be protected with knife or gun and never trust even your closest loved one.

  • @puppyeyedlover1377
    @puppyeyedlover1377 4 года назад +15

    I’m new to this channel but I can say without a doubt that I would die for Mike and Mike only

    • @commonsense571
      @commonsense571 4 года назад +1

      My goodness! I mean he does seem a decent fellow..👀 yes cute..👀 totally crush worthy but.. umm it’s like the start of one of these videos.
      Wait u know each other? bc he liked your comment! Maybe he is planning to start a cult and you’re the first recruit!
      All in fun. Jk!
      Stay safe 🌷✌️🌷

    • @Dwayne-Mobile1
      @Dwayne-Mobile1 4 года назад

      Then you need friends

    • @puppyeyedlover1377
      @puppyeyedlover1377 4 года назад

      D R you’re so funny ahahahahha look at you, you showed me

    • @MadCircle01
      @MadCircle01 4 года назад

      Vulgar. Deity TC, JCS , TLPOTL

  • @danielbrown1724
    @danielbrown1724 4 года назад +20

    “Remember when I said life seemed good?!!
    Yeah.....I lied.....so”
    ~Mike
    Classic TC

  • @thehangingparsiple5692
    @thehangingparsiple5692 Год назад +1

    Those dear boys 😢 RIP 🙏🌹

  • @donaldorizzo.9952
    @donaldorizzo.9952 3 года назад +63

    "I know your plight, yours "son" are okay." "Thank you." Bro, when an honest person makes a slip of the tongue they instinctively correct themselves. When you're focused on lying your mind can't even rationalize something as simple as a slip of the tongue. The grandpa of those boys is full of shit and that's exactly where his monster son got his ability to lie

    • @sethgsf4120
      @sethgsf4120 3 года назад +3

      That clip made me sick. Someone needs to integrate him. He clearly knows something. Or is at least trying to get his son out of jail with lies.

  • @missylee1539
    @missylee1539 3 года назад +3

    Does anyone else besides me just find Mike to be so adorable with those bright blue eyes? Here’s to people with pretty blue eyes ❤️

  • @D0ntTickleMe
    @D0ntTickleMe 2 года назад +2

    Saying a person who has a SET IN STONE maximum release date will confess due to guilt is ridiculous. Guilt isn't going to eat anyone up when they know they're going to eventually definitely be free if they keep their mouth shut. All they have to do is watch the news to know that they shouldn't confess, because they know where the bodies are. Especially in this case because it's 3 bodies of small children and he would know where they're located. If someone's sick enough to kill their 3 young children, they're definitely MORE than sick enough to keep the secret.

  • @lisafanucchi5939
    @lisafanucchi5939 4 года назад +110

    He nervously laughs as he says, “I didn’t kill my boys” wtf...automatic guilt.

    • @spyrocete11
      @spyrocete11 4 года назад +2

      If they ever make an exception to allow torture in cases like this I would be 100% willing to do whatever it takes to get the information from him. The fucker killed them and should be slowing burned for weeks on end until he dies.

    • @AngelAngel-wy5sd
      @AngelAngel-wy5sd 4 года назад +1

      You shouldn't assume he is guilty because he laughed. Innocent until PROVEN guilty. It's getting bad when people say they are guilty because "they didn't act in a manner I think they should."

    • @polarbearsrus6980
      @polarbearsrus6980 4 года назад

      Right, his subconscious mind saying "ha, ha, ha...I killed my sons and you'll never find them".

  • @Dinklechad
    @Dinklechad 9 месяцев назад

    This happened practically right in my backyard. Still think about this case regularly, even years later.

  • @missdemeanor3494
    @missdemeanor3494 2 года назад

    The sweet pictures of the boys is heartbreaking 💔. I can’t imagine ……

  • @Loveofpets
    @Loveofpets 3 года назад

    I hope the kids are found safe. If it's true that he gave them away, maybe they have been adopted out somewhere far away

  • @alaasaadsmohammed5672
    @alaasaadsmohammed5672 4 года назад +7

    hearing the defendant father interview ... made me feel my brain cells dying

  • @robertoarmstrong7317
    @robertoarmstrong7317 3 года назад +1

    Things always boil over at Thanksgiving...

  • @onetnecghoti3473
    @onetnecghoti3473 Год назад +1

    john's family are obviously in denial/conspiracy theorists.
    i'll never understand a parent killing their own kid(s). they look to you to learn, to help them survive, and to do something like this, it's just evil.

  • @scottanonymous798
    @scottanonymous798 3 года назад +10

    I think the only honest thing John has said since his boys went missing is they went underground 😔

  • @johnmichaels4330
    @johnmichaels4330 Год назад +1

    All you need is a dad who hates abusers, a pair of pliers and shed to find out where those boys are. Sometimes I hate our judicial system. I understand it, just hate the horrible things that happen.

  • @xxglitterbombxx7354
    @xxglitterbombxx7354 3 года назад

    “Tanya was like 🤪ehhhh, no” hahaa i love the face you made! 😂🥰😘

  • @charlesfaure1189
    @charlesfaure1189 3 года назад +9

    Another Chris Watts, another enabling family in denial.

  • @masterluxu1
    @masterluxu1 2 года назад

    We still have missing persons posters posted on the border to this day. Just for context. This happened about an hour from where I once lived. No one ever really got over it.

  • @flappy7373
    @flappy7373 3 года назад +7

    23:45 so you're at work in the middle of the night.. an unknown man walks up behind you and says, "don't turn around" and you don't turn around? Riiiiiiight.

  • @leedavis1949
    @leedavis1949 3 года назад

    If some mysterious person comes up to me and tells me not to turn around, my 3 missing Grandchildren are safe...I’m turning TF AROUND!!! 🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @doclewis8927
    @doclewis8927 2 года назад

    Only 10 to 15 years? Damn, that's so not enough. He definitely killed them because he made them their favorite meal for their last meal plus a special cake plus taking them to a place that they all had fond memories to lay them to rest there. So sad.

  • @MrEazyE357
    @MrEazyE357 4 года назад +8

    Mose got them? Are they on Schrute Farms? Has anyone checked for god's sake?!

  • @JacobafJelling
    @JacobafJelling 3 года назад

    bro. ur the best actor I know. I always rewatch the sequences where you shine. ''ER, Nó'' brilliant stuff. Greetings from DanishLandinEuropeBelowSweden&NorwayAboveGermany

  • @elishatv3561
    @elishatv3561 3 года назад

    His family KNOWS what happened and they are covering for him.

  • @roberth.5938
    @roberth.5938 3 года назад

    Oh, man. Didn't read the title quite right. I thought "wow skeleton brothers. Must be a good one"

  • @YourFoolishPride
    @YourFoolishPride 4 года назад +3681

    The underground sanctuary is a real poetic way of saying grave.

    • @dorothyculbertson5640
      @dorothyculbertson5640 4 года назад +100

      Yep, those babies definitely deserved better than what they had

    • @-._.-KRiS-._.-
      @-._.-KRiS-._.- 4 года назад +144

      @dim mor You're thinking too hard about this case. There was no woman. There is no underground sanctuary.

    • @godislove9307
      @godislove9307 4 года назад +12

      @dim mor Agreed.

    • @ginmar8134
      @ginmar8134 4 года назад +8

      @dim mor Because he's a dude.

    • @winonaevergarden1981
      @winonaevergarden1981 4 года назад +8

      I was thinking the same thing...

  • @countys32
    @countys32 4 года назад +2029

    The boys have gone to live on a farm upstate, the exact same thing happened to my dog when I was 8 years old.

    • @meroneadawson6847
      @meroneadawson6847 3 года назад +46

      Your dog loves sheep so much we sent him to live on a sheep farm

    • @dskeetgt
      @dskeetgt 3 года назад +61

      Oh yours too? Lol when I was 8 we bought what was likely a puppy mill dog from a shopping mall pet store. Fox terrier. He had a bad temperament and would bite me and my other family members out of nowhere. My parents took him back to the store demanding a refund. The manager said nothing was wrong with him and she handled him and he bit the shit out of her. Yeah my parents gave me a letter from the "new" owners saying he lived on a farm and was having a blast now.

    • @Bette_Fontenot
      @Bette_Fontenot 3 года назад +33

      That is exactly what I thought about when that part about the kids going to live on a farm came up. My ex-husband and I told our son that our beloved dog went to live on a farm about 2 hours away from us. Over the years he has asked about the dog, and I tell him that he's very happy because he met a dog wife and they have puppies.

    • @alkentarch7083
      @alkentarch7083 3 года назад +63

      @@saschavest Your husband really hit the jackpot with you.

    • @littleblackpistol
      @littleblackpistol 3 года назад +6

      @@Bette_Fontenot Why? Did you kill your dog?

  • @lakeshagoodwin6421
    @lakeshagoodwin6421 3 года назад +1320

    “He wrapped them in a blanket and gave them each a stuff animal.” Them boys are dead

    • @AmyLynnRiley
      @AmyLynnRiley 3 года назад +65

      My thoughts exactly. They were killed the very first night they were declared "missing".

    • @tylerskiss
      @tylerskiss 3 года назад +98

      Yes, that sounds like he put dead children in the ground . Also, Underground Sanctuary is an obvious code name for buried. They are underground and safe is what he is saying- it’s heartbreaking.

    • @lakeshagoodwin6421
      @lakeshagoodwin6421 3 года назад +13

      @@tylerskiss
      Your exactly right, ah this is so heartbreaking

    • @notamberp
      @notamberp 3 года назад +16

      pretty cold way of stating it....”them boys are dead” c’mon now...

    • @kms199x2
      @kms199x2 3 года назад +36

      @@notamberp but they are.. how should it be said?? c'mon now :u

  • @Grassbax
    @Grassbax 2 года назад +41

    Woah, woah. Mike, You just threw away the fact that they found three bodies in a box that were 99 years old! Do that one!

  • @Vonn_Loren
    @Vonn_Loren 4 года назад +1955

    I'm weirded out by the "went to live on a farm" story that the dad is spinning... I mean, that's the same story that kids get told when a pet dies, innit?

    • @IVoyager-lj9it
      @IVoyager-lj9it 4 года назад +150

      What!?!? You mean they didn't send Frisky to a farm!?!

    • @mirrrstery
      @mirrrstery 4 года назад +75

      woooahh never connected those two things. wow

    • @aleishaG87
      @aleishaG87 4 года назад +34

      my mom told me this about a dog we had🤣🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

    • @feleciaclemons5074
      @feleciaclemons5074 4 года назад +18

      Oh my!!! Yes😱😱😱😱😱

    • @rachelkania5833
      @rachelkania5833 4 года назад +10

      Lol I’ve never once heard that about any of mine of my friends pets when we were younger !! I didn’t know this!

  • @EMEN-ck5jt
    @EMEN-ck5jt 4 года назад +3412

    John's family said "he loves his kids and would never hurt them" Chris Watts said the same thing.

    • @TK-ui2th
      @TK-ui2th 4 года назад +178

      lori vallow also swore that her kids were alive and safe with friends

    • @headphonic8
      @headphonic8 4 года назад +140

      My mom told me recently that, decades ago, she nearly murder-suicided me and my siblings in the depths of her divorce which caused depression and suicidal thoughts. She never went through with it because she couldn’t bear to see my older siblings fight back. She’s never felt that way since. Anyone who knows her, including her kids (and even her ex-husband!), doesn’t believe for a moment that she would ever consider doing that to us in a million years because she’s an incredibly devoted and loving mom. Hell, she once cried out of guilt for ACCIDENTALLY slamming my brother's hand in the car trunk door...and he wound up being perfectly fine. She’d take a bullet for any of us, but back then she genuinely thought killing us would be better for us because she was so depressed that she couldn't envision a world where we would be happy. Luckily, she hasn’t been depressed or suicidal before or since that divorce. My point is, "love" is sometimes what causes them to act so drastically. Especially if they maybe have had a history of depression or suicidal thoughts (though my mom didn't even have a history of that until then). Maybe not for Chris Watts, but certainly for some parents. Love can take twisted, cruel forms in the mind of a sick person.

    • @paxsmile
      @paxsmile 4 года назад +75

      headphonic8 not love, selfishness.

    • @melissamccleary9611
      @melissamccleary9611 4 года назад +10

      @@headphonic8 🤔🤨

    • @anaphylacticpete5788
      @anaphylacticpete5788 4 года назад +77

      @@headphonic8 Stockholm Syndrome is real, apparently. Just because someone was mentally ill enough to think killing their children is love doesnt make it so. It makes it delusional

  • @FannyLerouxTime
    @FannyLerouxTime 4 года назад +2729

    An update - in July this year the dad was denied parole.

  • @MoonStar-eo8lv
    @MoonStar-eo8lv 3 года назад +27

    Skelton's mother saying, "Did anybody think that they are happy where they are?" Somebody is happy where they are for sure! The father, mother and their son give me the creeps!

  • @jaiymees2214
    @jaiymees2214 4 года назад +551

    Mike I just noticed how many subs you have! That number has rocketed since I found your channel and started following. Congrats!! I know that was out of the blue but I just saw!! I'm excited for you TC def deserves the recognition.

    • @ChakasCave
      @ChakasCave 4 года назад +13

      jaimee S and the fact he does it all himself!!!

    • @overimagination2812
      @overimagination2812 4 года назад +19

      He's one of the few channel hosts I'd go see in person if he came to my city for a book fair or something..I almost feel like I know him. And I want to EAT HIM!!! lol just kidding.. too many cannibal vids lately.

    • @therealwilfreddierkes9980
      @therealwilfreddierkes9980 4 года назад +4

      over imagination Pass the A-1...👊❤️🤣

    • @pilar9247
      @pilar9247 4 года назад +3

      Omg! My mind went a whole different place when you said subs lol. But yeah it's cool that lots of people love Mike. His videos are really good.

    • @tanzanitebutterflyart9636
      @tanzanitebutterflyart9636 4 года назад +9

      I'm always recommending That Chapter and Mike's awesome content. He deserves those subs and I agree, it's exciting to watch his channel grow!

  • @annie_xo
    @annie_xo 4 года назад +1447

    My brain cannot hear anything other than “Skeleton brothers”

    • @smo-king6504
      @smo-king6504 4 года назад +116

      Well they probably are by now lol

    • @Charlie-jl2jd
      @Charlie-jl2jd 4 года назад +48

      @@smo-king6504 oof

    • @annie_xo
      @annie_xo 4 года назад +34

      Smo-king lmaoo that’s terrible 💀🤣

    • @natim.4142
      @natim.4142 4 года назад +1

      Lol! Sameeee

    • @justjessy2148
      @justjessy2148 4 года назад +36

      That’s what I read it as it was only after this comment I realised I clearly can’t read for shit 😂

  • @mandashealemoignan5363
    @mandashealemoignan5363 3 года назад +41

    Am I the only one that thinks "underground sanctuary" sounds like just another name for a grave? 🤔

  • @elizabethmcglothlin5406
    @elizabethmcglothlin5406 4 года назад +839

    Doesn't sound like either of them is fit to have custody of a gerbil.

    • @lisaj.j.2999
      @lisaj.j.2999 4 года назад +12

      Elizabeth McGlothlin agreed 👍

    • @nadiadelphi6850
      @nadiadelphi6850 4 года назад +46

      I think the same. These boys deserved a much better life than what they got.

    • @gayledimitri5887
      @gayledimitri5887 4 года назад +19

      Elizabeth McGlothlin I wouldn’t trust them with a goldfish!

    • @lizc6393
      @lizc6393 4 года назад +35

      I've always thought this. I watched another documentary on the case, and Tanya comes across as disgusting... all she could talk about is how much her boys love HER, and generally talks like she owns them... gross, really really gross.

    • @WakeyWakeyEggsandBakey
      @WakeyWakeyEggsandBakey 4 года назад +9

      sharon brown no no one checked. And if you look into such cases as Victoria Climbie and Baby P, who suffered horrific injuries his entire life and yet MULTIPLE social workers failed to intervene leading to the 18 month old boy dying from being beaten to death. A doctor had seen him a week previously and failed to see multiple fractured ribs, cigarette burns, lacerations and A BROKEN SPINE. So these parents who think they’re big strong people beating on a tiny child, get away with it because so-called professionals think a child is being difficult because they can’t sit still to be examined after sustaining a broken spine at their hands of his “carers”.
      There are so very very many cases where children have been killed because professionals have failed multiple times to recognise extremely obvious abuse. It’s actually even difficult to believe these failings aren’t purposeful to be honest, because they are so ridiculously obvious. I watched a documentary recently regarding a little girl called Ayla Reynolds who was allowed into the care of her father after she had sustained many injuries which he was suspected of inflicting, the mostly recent of which was a broken arm caused by rotation of the arm. This pig murdered his daughter by beating her to death, blood was found all over his house, in his car, on her car seat etc and there were 3 people in the house the night this toddler disappeared - kidnapped if you believe what he says happened. From a basement room that had no windows. Not one of them would come forward and admit what had happened but the amount of blood and vomit in his home showed the child couldn’t have lived after sustaining such injuries. Then there’s jonbenet Ramsey, who was found dead, strangled with her head bashed in, in her parents basement and yet again money was able to buy the freedom now the parents who were guilty as all hell, of at least covering up the fact that their savage little shitbag of a son killed his sister, if not murdering her themselves. Most people think the ramseys to have been exonerated but this is completely untrue. The grand jury voted to indict them but nothing ever happened. I wonder why? Maybe money can buy innocence? Or at least the illusion of innocence.
      Which brings me to the most infamous and prolific case of a missing child in history, and if anyone doesn’t know about it, they’ve been living under a rock for 10 years. Madeleine McCanns parents refused to answer something like 48 out of 50 questions when questioned by the Portuguese police, acted very strangely as if they didn’t know their daughter had gone missing by doing things like go jogging the day after, employing the UKs most expensive spin doctor, ahem, I mean PR consultant, raked in about 20million at LEAST from the find Maddy campaign, which was never used to finance finding maddie but was instead used to pay off their mortgage and ensure neither ever had to work since. The maddie fund was falsely
      believed by most of the public to be a charity but was in fact actually a limited company. As well as having cadaver dogs alert in the holiday apartment and the family car, the father Jerry has been seen on a boozey dinner party anecdote regaining his guests with how his daughter Maddy can do certain things well, then mimics a sucking noise and mimics doing nipple circles. And how about Kate’s disgusting book, wherein she speaks about how she imagines madeleines “perfect little genitals being torn to pieces”. I mean if your child went missing would you be thinking that? Is that a normal response do you think? And who describes their toddler daughter as having “perfect” genitals?
      I only need to say the words Jeffrey and suicided without needing to say his surname Ep=$tein for you to immediately know who I mean and be reminded of how many little girls suffered immensely both physically and mentally at the hands of this abomination, helped by a woman, who is naturally supposed to love care and nurture children. Obviously then there is “Prince” Andrew... whose BBC interview body language has been broken down by a RUclips body language expert by the name of Van Der Shaik, and it’s not a good sign...
      And those are just a tiny slice of how, when we look very carefully, or actually, if we literally just scratch the surface, we can see proof that not only is the child protective system rigged to fail, it is actually put in place by the biggest and strongest pedophile ring in order to PROVIDE children to the pedophiles, who rank all the way from trailer trash to “Prince” of England, not to PROTECT them. I am NOT blaming most of the front line workers who try to help children although some of those need to be held accountable too, such as those involved in the cases I’ve mentioned here, but most of them do good work with the resources they have at their disposal which isn’t much. If you see an agency is called “Save the Children” you can be pretty sure that it actually is in existence to do anything but save the children, but instead has been commissioned to fund the trafficking of children for example. As per Hillary Clinton’s involvement in such things.
      I typed quite a bit here and if you read it hopefully I’ve given you some food for thought. Please look into the cases I’ve mentioned and do some research into how most governments have sexual abuse claims against them, mostly proven and mostly having been conveniently ended by such things as a rather timely suicide here and there or a sympathetic judge. The British government had a huge paedophile ring busted open only for everyone to fall strangely silent and all the files “go missing”. The “Queen” of England has been accused of taking ten children from a Canadian orphanage in the late 1960s. The lead witness was coincidentally killed a few weeks before he was due to testify. Of course, there’s no need to mention how many very famous paedophiles are very good friends with old Queenie - “people” like Sir Jimmy Saville - who was given the KEYS to many homes and hospitals and apparently liked to have relations with corpses.
      Paedophilia really is systemic, trafficking is the worlds most lucrative industry and the drugs and diamonds industries are almost always to finance the trafficking. It’s great to watch things like this which is a mini bitesize chunk of the kind of things that happen but I IMPLORE you, for the sake of the children, to look into what I’ve said even if you find it far fetched. It’s possible to prove these things with documentary evidence so there’s no excuse for ignorance. They distract us constantly with meaningless drivel, and have us divided almost completely at every angle - white/black, conservative/liberal, and now been the most natural union of male/female is being destroyed with feminism. The children deserve us to be enlightened not ignorant and we can’t be enlightened if we’re distracted or ignorant. If we can expose every little deed done in darkness, the world will be a far better place. God bless.

  • @avc1638
    @avc1638 3 года назад +779

    I don’t think he’ll ever confess because at this point he’s probably convinced himself of this story too...

    • @909News
      @909News 3 года назад +2

      This is a case for Batman he'll make any one talk lmao

    • @Kaylee-Renee
      @Kaylee-Renee 3 года назад +11

      Yup I know a guy who killed 2 people and even let his uncle take the blame for the 1at murder and told us about the second before the body was even found.
      Years later he did a lie detected test and passed on tv.
      Given enough time they can convince themselves

    • @sxybck369
      @sxybck369 3 года назад +11

      This makes me sad and mad at the same time! This A hole could of saved so much grief if he would confess. That poor mother has been in agony and deserves closure and to be able to properly bury her babies. I hope someone will come forward with the truth, someone has to know something other than the POS father!

    • @909News
      @909News 3 года назад +1

      @@sxybck369 not in a fucked up way but I'm happy it happened this way. Now he's gonna suffer in God's hands more than ever

    • @ripdajacker23
      @ripdajacker23 3 года назад +6

      He won’t admit to what he did because he doesn’t want to be held accountable for it. You’re right though, he won’t confess unless he finally kills himself and leaves a note. Doubt it though, he’s too much of a coward to kill himself.
      He said he gave them to the “Underground Sanctuary” ... basically a “nice” way of saying he put them in a grave.

  • @nowasiwassaying...1699
    @nowasiwassaying...1699 2 года назад +26

    He's already setting the stage for if/when the kid's bodies are found: "Oh.... maybe I was duped! Maybe they were stolen!" He'll be able to say, "I gave these guys my kids and THEY killed them! I thought they would save them but they were actually BAD GUYS!" 🙄

  • @tinie15
    @tinie15 4 года назад +1708

    He has technically confessed to how he buried them. Each one wrapped in a blanket, with their favorite toys... :(

    • @TheZombifiedFairy
      @TheZombifiedFairy 4 года назад +223

      Yup. Its such a small detail... be he buried them, he got his closure, and he denied everyone else of theirs. He's a selfish guy

    • @melodi996
      @melodi996 4 года назад +50

      @@nannerlchanel5045 well, he should've killed himself if he intended to. Not that I want him dead, but if he killed his children to not loose them and then tried to kill himself, why is he still alive?

    • @Soul-OnFire
      @Soul-OnFire 4 года назад +46

      I dunno but i hope those beautiful boys are at peace....

    • @TheTonialadd
      @TheTonialadd 4 года назад +121

      You’re very correct. I’m a former police officer and have investigated many incidents such as this. My specialty was interviewing and interrogation. The detectives who worked on the case should have picked up on that statement and immediately worked on his conscience. He shouldn’t be released from prison until the boys are found.

    • @shadygirlxoxo
      @shadygirlxoxo 4 года назад +19

      God bless those poor boys.. God only knows what they endured during their last moments.

  • @katien.2834
    @katien.2834 4 года назад +387

    You know the case is disturbing when you wish the boys were actually “abducted” and with some strangers rather than dead.

    • @4Deadserious
      @4Deadserious 4 года назад +21

      The way the world is... im not so sure about that.

    • @cherbear1996
      @cherbear1996 4 года назад +11

      @OverLord 666 no..but if he would have sent them 'underground' as mentioned early in the video they'd be in safe homes with loving ppl who's only goal is to protect the child from the monster that was hurting them..
      I'd never want them abducted but there are cases where children have been abducted into loving homes for usually the abductors selfish maternal reasons..
      I'm not the op and not sure they meant it the way you may have perceived it..i do agree with you..waaay to many freaks out there..but I get what the op was saying too..✌💖😊😷

    • @freakshowfilmfestival3591
      @freakshowfilmfestival3591 4 года назад +10

      Abducted kids could be sex trafficked.

    • @katien.2834
      @katien.2834 4 года назад +9

      yeah y'all are right too, but I obviously didn't mean it as "oh i wish they weren't dead but being sexually trafficked or abused and tortured somewhere..." what I meant was the whole time I was watching I was waiting for Mike to say the boys were found safe but away with some stranger who were raising them or some shit like that rather being killed in the hands of their own father... I was probably being too naive expecting something like that idk...but it's true they probably would've end up in horrible circumstances anyway...

    • @Axolotl_Mischief
      @Axolotl_Mischief 4 года назад

      @OverLord 666 any chance at life is better than zero, what kind of crazy logic do you adhere to?

  • @matthewbott3726
    @matthewbott3726 3 года назад +708

    Christ I lucked out with my ex wife. Yeah we hated each other for a while, now we do joint custody and trade weeks while married to different partners. We work together to make the kids lives better.

    • @mydogsioux
      @mydogsioux 3 года назад +125

      I've told my divorced friends "you have to love your children more than you hate your ex."

    • @gigiarmany4332
      @gigiarmany4332 3 года назад +12

      @@mydogsioux TRUTH

    • @gigiarmany4332
      @gigiarmany4332 3 года назад +16

      Good job guys👍🏾❤ you are really good people

    • @CeceJianni
      @CeceJianni 3 года назад +19

      That's good, I wish more decided households could prioritize the happiness of the children.

    • @gunman155555678
      @gunman155555678 3 года назад +12

      I hope to never get married if it ends up in divorce

  • @XpRnz
    @XpRnz 4 года назад +399

    ‘Underground sanctuary’ is probably his way of saying he buried them..

    • @apatheticandaesthetic3882
      @apatheticandaesthetic3882 4 года назад +20

      Damn didnt think about that.

    • @_-ShadowWorks-_
      @_-ShadowWorks-_ 4 года назад +21

      Like the Vallow kids...

    • @ang1885
      @ang1885 4 года назад +13

      If he buried them they might be found eventually depending on how well of a job he did and weather conditions. I want them found as soon as possible before he can be released and disappear.

    • @ArmoredCricket
      @ArmoredCricket 4 года назад +7

      That's what I was thinking. Sick bastard is trying to glorify it.

    • @ThisistheTale
      @ThisistheTale 4 года назад +26

      I was thinking the same thing, he also says he wrapped each one in a blanket and gave them a teddy bear

  • @JootjeJ
    @JootjeJ 2 года назад +8

    Am I the only one who wonders where those remains in the shed came from? Someone else may likely have lived and died never knowing what happened to those three either.

  • @lake40red16
    @lake40red16 4 года назад +154

    The oldest boy would be almost 20. Old enough to have gone back, or voiced some sort of response to all of this. Surely, if he were alive, he would be on social media. Have to think they are no longer alive.

    • @1989Ezal
      @1989Ezal 4 года назад +9

      Amish and social media? I think you missed something.

    • @Terri_MacKay
      @Terri_MacKay 4 года назад +18

      I thought the same thing. They are in their mid to late teens now...surely old enough to try to get in touch with their mother. Of course, if the father's story is true, we don't know what he may have said to the boys. He may very well have said something to turn them against her, like telling them that she didn't love or want them anymore and was sending them away.
      All of this is pointless speculation, however. Sadly, I think we all feel in our hearts that those boys are dead.

    • @paxsmile
      @paxsmile 4 года назад +19

      Gimmix89 well the Amish allow their 18 yr olds to leave and “discover” the world so hey can be sure that they want He Amish life, so it’s not that far fetched..

    • @lookingforsanjunipero4542
      @lookingforsanjunipero4542 4 года назад +5

      paxsmile They were all well old enough to remember their mom and dad. No young person would carry on through their 20’s without at least publicly coming out and saying “My name is x, and I’m safe and well.” They would be old enough to refuse to see their parents if they didn’t want to re-establish contact, but I can’t imagine at least not wanting to get that weight of the past off your shoulders at the minimum.

    • @flighttherapybullisticfpv133
      @flighttherapybullisticfpv133 4 года назад +6

      Im mot disagreeing with the assumption that he killed the boys but amish communities are extremely effective at controlling information and keeping things in the community

  • @gemmastaines5706
    @gemmastaines5706 2 года назад +77

    This reminded me of Timmothy Pitzen!
    His mother “gave him to some people and is now safe” before her suicide!
    That was about 6months after the Skelton brothers went missing!

    • @broeheemed32
      @broeheemed32 2 года назад +9

      I remember that case. Ladies here called her a "hero for saving the baby from that abusive monster" and things like that. I never heard anything about "abuse" from him in that case. I guess some just make up their minds based on hysterical emotions.

    • @hypnoticflower3152
      @hypnoticflower3152 2 года назад +1

      He covered this look it up

    • @Emma88178
      @Emma88178 Год назад +2

      @@broeheemed32 Plenty of men were "hysterical" as well and thought the husband was abusive too.

    • @laurametheny1008
      @laurametheny1008 Год назад +2

      Yes. That happened right in my home town. Drives me nuts wondering if that little darlin is buried around there somewhere. She was obviously very ill.😮‍💨

    • @lisahanson527
      @lisahanson527 3 месяца назад

      Copycat?

  • @toportime
    @toportime 4 года назад +631

    It pisses me off when kids vanish and the one person who knows where they are refuses to talk.

    • @aleksmansour1246
      @aleksmansour1246 3 года назад +43

      There's a LOT of denial in this case. His relatives keep telling themselves that his story is real and he keeps telling himself the same thing.

    • @thinkforyourself2109
      @thinkforyourself2109 3 года назад +19

      If the kids resurface in a few years, as they claim he will, then critics will be proved wrong. If they do not resurface, he should be charged with their murder. What casts doubt on his claim is the attempted suicide, which seems like the act of a murderer.

    • @Dav3
      @Dav3 3 года назад

      Oh does it really? Most people get super happy

    • @D3V1LDR1V3R
      @D3V1LDR1V3R 3 года назад +6

      Five minutes alone...

    • @labtec514
      @labtec514 3 года назад +10

      @@D3V1LDR1V3R torture doesn't work, you can beat someone half to death and they'll admit to murdering god

  • @emmanuelclausellllavona350
    @emmanuelclausellllavona350 4 года назад +218

    he definitely killed the boys😢 Remember, one of his google searches was “how to break necks with your hands” and i believe he did exactly that to the boys😢

    • @bixler3463
      @bixler3463 4 года назад +6

      Oh gosh that’s so sick, possibly could have been for wife too before came up with a plan.

    • @mohamedelmi2436
      @mohamedelmi2436 4 года назад +7

      He: My boys asked med about karate stuff so I was searching to help them

    • @cherryvoid5238
      @cherryvoid5238 4 года назад +3

      I think so too and can't imagine what their mom is going through. IF he ever got out I'd be waiting.

    • @janeydoe-nuts8663
      @janeydoe-nuts8663 4 года назад +8

      I mean why not put a water hose in car from tail pipe. Let them fall asleep. It takes a special kind of evil to break their necks that way. "Special kind of evil" tell me that isn't a lifetime movie title! Lol ol

    • @taffykins2745
      @taffykins2745 4 года назад +2

      @@janeydoe-nuts8663 How about give them up for adoption? Any form of murder to the kids is bad -- there is always a better solution.

  • @Erinski
    @Erinski 11 месяцев назад +6

    "John's mom agreed that what he did was irresponsible and stupid." (shows photo of John with two of his children on a motorcycle, one bungee corded to his chest with a lit cigarette dangling over him)

  • @RachelAlmarane
    @RachelAlmarane 4 года назад +233

    You keep saying and writing "Skelton", I keep hearing and reading "Skeleton".

    • @jojenny9964
      @jojenny9964 4 года назад +3

      Omg me toooooo

    • @loganwalters5613
      @loganwalters5613 3 года назад +9

      I’m just realizing that it’s Skelton and not skeleton WTF. I feel like I need to rewatch this episode to try and hear “Skelton”

    • @massinakmin8340
      @massinakmin8340 3 года назад

      @@loganwalters5613 no, just remember it was Skelton. Dont go to the same horror again!!!

    • @odeionerds
      @odeionerds 3 года назад

      It’s his accent. He has said “siliver” referring to silver before.

    • @Multiryerson
      @Multiryerson 3 года назад

      Me toooo lol

  • @keithdevlin1
    @keithdevlin1 4 года назад +474

    You know a killer is getting desperate for people to blame when he suggests the AMISH were involved and not him.

    • @0oidiedinatimemachineo024
      @0oidiedinatimemachineo024 4 года назад +25

      lol "the amish did it"

    • @Masterhitman935
      @Masterhitman935 4 года назад +13

      You got to be careful of the Amish mafia...not the Realty TV version that is just terrible.

    • @keithdevlin1
      @keithdevlin1 4 года назад +22

      @@Masterhitman935 Yes. And those horse-drawn buggy chases give the police nightmares! Hahaha.

    • @kenny808kine8
      @kenny808kine8 4 года назад +8

      @@keithdevlin1 all I could think of was a carriage spiriting away the kids in the 2000s with surveillance cameras and all....

    • @overimagination2812
      @overimagination2812 4 года назад +11

      I'd blame the Danish. Not the people, the pastry.

  • @brandyhuff8487
    @brandyhuff8487 2 года назад +40

    It broke the hearts of many Michigan parents when these boys went missing. I still think of them often and hope they're found so their mother may know some semblance of peace 🥺

  • @RK-zh5vj
    @RK-zh5vj 3 года назад +629

    He confessed. They are underground, wrapped in blankets, each with a stuffed animal. This is how they will be found.

    • @SkrunklBunkl
      @SkrunklBunkl 3 года назад +8

      Wait, did he really confess??

    • @RK-zh5vj
      @RK-zh5vj 3 года назад +52

      @@SkrunklBunkl Yes, subconsciously. Watch the video and you'll see what I mean.

    • @RK-zh5vj
      @RK-zh5vj 3 года назад +35

      @@MrThe1234guy Unfortunately that's not the case. It's sad to think about but very very clear from this video that they are not alive.

    • @xDougg
      @xDougg 3 года назад +15

      @@MrThe1234guy he is not sick Lolol they’re not alive. Your hope is false hope lmap

    • @codyboothe2310
      @codyboothe2310 3 года назад +53

      @@MrThe1234guy They are dead. First off he attempted suicide. A father who cares about his kids wouldn't let them go through that. Secondly the fact that a woman from the underground sanctuary was supposedly amish but he met her online. Amish people don't use computers. Thirdly he also claimed that guy from the reality tv show about helping amish people escape the religion was the one who was supposed to help him get his kids back but the guy had no idea what he was talking about. Fourth thing that makes it obvious he said he told the interviewer he can't provide evidence the boys are alive until he gets out of prison but somehow he can provide the evidence to the FBI and his lawyer. Lastly if he was worried about his kids and how they were supposedly getting sexually abused by their mom he wouldn't have risked handing them off to strangers that might sexually abuse them too

  • @jaronzennaiter
    @jaronzennaiter 4 года назад +309

    He probably doesn't even think about his murdered kids. They were out of his mind, the minute he finished burying them. Hope he gets whats coming to him.

    • @lilianmcguigan9240
      @lilianmcguigan9240 4 года назад +6

      We all get what we deserve, in the end.

    • @user-du6vx7ir7m
      @user-du6vx7ir7m 3 года назад

      Or coming in him

    • @edgaralanfrog
      @edgaralanfrog 3 года назад +6

      Nah, I bet whenever something he sees that reminds him of his boys gives him an excited feeling that he **knows** where they’re buried and their mom won’t ever know.

    • @statefarmjake8027
      @statefarmjake8027 3 года назад +5

      He’s probably relaxing in PC somewhere where he’s safe unfortunately. You know, people like this get to be in some of the best facilities and put in PC where nobody will hurt him. Meanwhile, a guy who got caught and charged with some weed is in medium custody getting beat up by the inmates and correctional officers everyday. Ahhhh, the good ole “justice” system. 🙄

  • @coolwomabat7897
    @coolwomabat7897 3 года назад +177

    Some ppl really shouldn’t be allowed to procreate.

    • @cynthiahusband106
      @cynthiahusband106 3 года назад +2

      How horrible that these 3beautiful boys paid the ultimate price. Mom and dad can’t get along, dad thinks well they are “my boys” nobody gets them -the boys were so innocent sweet, young and were used like pawns in a chess game , it’s heartbreaking, it’s insane to give the boys away to a total stranger, or organization it’s horrible , just horrible !

  • @catherinewilliams3850
    @catherinewilliams3850 Год назад +4

    He claimed they weren't safe with their mum, yet "supposedly" hands them to a stranger from a weird organisation!? He's a killer.

  • @DottieMinerva
    @DottieMinerva 4 года назад +122

    And if their bodies are ever recovered then he will say it was the mystery organizations doing. I hate him.

    • @Terri_MacKay
      @Terri_MacKay 4 года назад +19

      Yeah...he's definitely voicing his suspicions about the group so that he can try to put the blame on them if the boys' bodies are ever found.

    • @King45Moses
      @King45Moses 4 года назад +18

      He was already prepping that story with the “maybe they scammed me”

    • @ErinJeanette
      @ErinJeanette 4 года назад +1

      Same

  • @Cal6009
    @Cal6009 4 года назад +232

    Truck driver from Florida? Oh yeah that guys definitely a serial killer.

  • @TheTrickshot77
    @TheTrickshot77 4 года назад +144

    I wonder if Mike will make a video about Ghislaine Maxwell after her mysterious death

    • @francescawilliams8177
      @francescawilliams8177 4 года назад +12

      We just have to start betting among ourselves what will be the cause of her “suicide “ Fire?Gunshot? Poison? Or escape

    • @skunkrat01
      @skunkrat01 4 года назад +32

      Francesca Williams it’ll be one of those classic suicides where the deceased shoots themselves five times in the head with a shotgun

    • @Psyopcyclops
      @Psyopcyclops 4 года назад +25

      "Ghislaine Maxwell commited suicide in her prison cell with tree bullets to the back of her head. She had her hands tied behind her back, and left a suicide note which read 'Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew are innocent of any crimes'. Unfortunately all cameras had been down for maintenance at this time."

    • @pursang833
      @pursang833 4 года назад +7

      @@Psyopcyclops I'm surprised she hadn't died in a small plane crash months ago. Now that she's in the clink they'll be limited to having hung herself or slipped on a bar of soap in the shower. Like you said though, if she shot herself there'll be tree bullets; not two and not one, but tree!!

    • @cmont4064
      @cmont4064 4 года назад +4

      Or Covid19

  • @lexiaaforever437
    @lexiaaforever437 2 года назад +13

    Crazy my parents told me the same story about my old dog going to a underground playground & I believed them as a CHILD. But of course when I got older it’s revealed that the dog DIED! So those poor boys are gone . I hope they will be found one day .

  • @monicacebuc9784
    @monicacebuc9784 3 года назад +728

    Why are Mike's videos so addictive?? I have Netflix and Prime and all I can watch is his channel!

    • @Kyra_of_Kerkyra
      @Kyra_of_Kerkyra 3 года назад +28

      I've cancelled Netflix already! Who needs Netflix when there's That Chapter? 🙂

    • @duneeaaasha
      @duneeaaasha 3 года назад +20

      i’ve been watching nonstop for TOO long

    • @ZM-yw6th
      @ZM-yw6th 3 года назад +9

      Cuz its real life

    • @bobbieboomboomkelly
      @bobbieboomboomkelly 3 года назад +11

      I do nothing else since I found him, haven’t told my therapist about my relationship with him yet hehe… think he is sick of me . I say I love you Mike an he no longer says it back at the end an longer 😂

    • @Mrlnki
      @Mrlnki 3 года назад +19

      My husband calls this murder porn and I'm okay with it!!!

  • @meagannolan3492
    @meagannolan3492 3 года назад +382

    "Don't turn around, but your grandsons are safe." Buuulllll shit. His family is just as twisted as him.

    • @beastshawnee
      @beastshawnee 3 года назад +18

      someone may have said that so he would feel better...people do weird things...

    • @notamberp
      @notamberp 3 года назад +29

      @@beastshawnee true, but not in this case lol you can just smell the stench of bullshit steaming off john’s father.

    • @The_Stef
      @The_Stef 3 года назад +14

      Yeah, what a BS story. You would think that someone who plans a crime of this magnitude would invest a little time to come up with a plausibe story. They might just as well claim the easter bunny abducted the kids....

    • @bigcazz8085
      @bigcazz8085 3 года назад +16

      There's not a person on the planet that wouldn't have, at the very least, turned around and most people would have pursued that person.

    • @The_Primary_Axiom
      @The_Primary_Axiom 3 года назад +2

      Lol so stupid.

  • @mrm5183
    @mrm5183 4 года назад +173

    The dad is so stupid with “don’t turn around story” lol. Firstly you would 100% turn around and secondly by turning round and raising the alarm proving they’re alive gets his son out of prison 🥴

    • @1989Ezal
      @1989Ezal 4 года назад +22

      Now we know from who the son have this garbage fantasy. :)

    • @DneilB007
      @DneilB007 4 года назад +8

      I don’t think that there’s no chance that he doesn’t turn around.
      You run a store. Someone walks in while your back is turned and then says, “Don’t turn around.” Do you turn around? No. Why not? Because you are about to be robbed, and if you turn around, then maybe you could identify the crook, so he kills you.
      So, you’re mentally preparing for being shot in the back, and then the guy says, “your grandkids are okay” and leaves. This is so much the opposite of what you think is going to happen to you that you probably keep staring at the wall until the next person comes in.

    • @aturbo9273
      @aturbo9273 4 года назад +3

      The amish would definitely move very methodical if that have been harboring battered children . In a sense i hope they are safe and this turns out to be a cry for help that was missed by many people that don't do their job in that local police force maybe .

    • @ashleyostrout4592
      @ashleyostrout4592 4 года назад +3

      @@aturbo9273 this is a legitimate group. Not sure if that's the actual name, but the organization is real. There was a case of 2 young sisters that disappeared that way. Many cases of it actually. So it's definitely a possibility.

    • @norml.hugh-mann
      @norml.hugh-mann 4 года назад +4

      @@ashleyostrout4592 just more proof of how evil any organized religions can be.
      Abolish Religions!!

  • @AureliaNerissa
    @AureliaNerissa 3 года назад +488

    Skelton family’s intelligence combined altogether is equivalent to a rock. To call them stupid would be an insult to stupid people😒

    • @kalikalimai1
      @kalikalimai1 3 года назад +47

      Do you think they are trump voters.

    • @joeywalker2061
      @joeywalker2061 3 года назад +2

      I can see that you read every other comment here.

    • @chrstphrluis2206
      @chrstphrluis2206 3 года назад +4

      I feel like... Stephen McDaniel would fit in pretty well in this family.

    • @maryellenzappolo7663
      @maryellenzappolo7663 3 года назад +2

      Excellent!😎

    • @Iiva69
      @Iiva69 3 года назад +15

      @@kalikalimai1 Obvious Biden voters.

  • @jimmythedork6564
    @jimmythedork6564 3 года назад +589

    I still remember helping searching for the boys for days and days and days. Walking for miles and miles through woods, fields, campgrounds, etc with the whole community. I still cry about it...

    • @beastshawnee
      @beastshawnee 3 года назад +39

      Thank you for helping. Thanks to everyone who ever helps kids. Even tho it was probably too late at least you all tried!

    • @RJFPme
      @RJFPme 3 года назад +24

      Unfortunately the statistics backup that these poor boys are dead. No loving parent negotiations the transfer of their children to someone they’ve contacted online ? His actions reek of a cold hearted control freak that killed his children.

    • @bethwymer76
      @bethwymer76 3 года назад +9

      I can't even imagine how painful and traumatic that must have been. Thank you so much for showing such kindness and courage. I live a North of Adrian and remember this like it was yesterday. I wonder if the Lost Nations nature preserve was searched? It is on the outskirts of Pittsford. There is (was) a shooting range, lots of trails for hiking and many many acres of land that rarely if ever sees people... I have no doubt that a thorough search was performed, I just wonder if that area was ever looked at.

    • @stephaniehunter3251
      @stephaniehunter3251 3 года назад +2

      So sad

    • @jacobhumphrey3535
      @jacobhumphrey3535 3 года назад +12

      Same here. Grew up in Edon, right by Montpelier, and it was rough searching. I remember this terrible conflicting feeling I had, where I desperately wanted to find them to help out, but part of me didn't because I don't know if I could take finding 3 dead boys. Glad you were able to help.

  • @Unknown-id4we
    @Unknown-id4we 4 года назад +312

    “Underground Sanctuary” more like buried in the ground.

  • @stefw46
    @stefw46 4 года назад +40

    the accusations towards the mother sound like such bullshit. her past wasn't an issue when he married her and had three kids with her, wasn't an issue for ten years, the kids go missing in his custody and suddenly "he's protecting them from her" without ever bothering to report it once?

    • @jamesnash7262
      @jamesnash7262 4 года назад +3

      ...so agree...and isn't it interesting that he, and other similar cases, try to justify their actions of kidnapping or murder as being far preferable for the children to being physically touched etc...and that the children themselves would've preferred being murdered and were glad their father/mother/etc did murder them etc...

  • @normdickman2899
    @normdickman2899 Год назад +10

    Just a horrific story. The grandparents are my neighbors. On the mother side.Absolutely beautiful people. They both miss their grandsons everyday. Cant believe something happened like this in a small town. I totally believe the Dad knows what happened to the Boys..

  • @dreamsofturtles1828
    @dreamsofturtles1828 4 года назад +415

    I have alcoholics in my family and i can tell you the longer the drinking goes on the more delusional they get. They dont even know they are lying anymore and they believe whatever nonsense they come up with that makes THEM feel justified or ok.

    • @bubbleballgirl
      @bubbleballgirl 4 года назад +4

      Yeah I completely agree

    • @mrs.schmenkman
      @mrs.schmenkman 4 года назад +6

      Yep. 90% of all violent crimes are directly related to drinking alcohol. Chew in that for a bit.

    • @larryhigginbotham326
      @larryhigginbotham326 4 года назад +20

      @@mrs.schmenkman 90%? Yeah, and we all know what they say about statistics on the internet.

    • @donnariddle5384
      @donnariddle5384 3 года назад +3

      do you feel that the narcissist (male) is all in the same mindsets. it's like they were created from a petri dish. What did they do with all those test tube babies!? 😕
      I'm aware that the neglect (and tragic abuse) of a child will stunt maturity. the lack of emotions are from never being interactive with human encounters. in conclusion, all they have is ego to guide them. that's their adrenalin high and they can't think of consequence of their actions.
      this is personal perspective, I hold no credentials.
      Thank you for sharing!

    • @Magepure6749
      @Magepure6749 3 года назад +6

      ​@@donnariddle5384 I don't really see why you added that "(male)" part, which implies thar female narcissists are more diverse in your view.
      Is that a correct assesment on my part, and if so, what makes you think so? I'd be glad to find out, because I never really noticed anything like this.
      I mean, all narcissistic behaviors to me come off as... idk how to put it, "emotionally flat"? "Emotionally 2D"? not sure if you get what I mean by that, but they *all* - male and female - basically follow the same, simple, black and white narrative:
      "Me, a gift to this wretched existence, a living miracle, tragically underappreciated, oppressed by everyone around me, victimized by the unfairness of existence more than anyone else, for reasons only I can understand, constantly punished precisely for being so great, finally turns on a revenge arch which is TOTALLY JUSTIFIED because it's MY revenge arch AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL." - that's the story that appeals to them - HOWEVER - not neccessarily a story they will always carry out in an evil way. Narcissists aren't inherently evil, they're just self-absorbed to a level that's absurd and nearly incomprehensible to anyone that has zero or very low propensity for utilizing narcissistic mindset.
      Some narcissistic mindset-stemming behaviors, if integrated properly, can even lead to good results, for the individual and for their social environment. But that has to be, again, PROPERLY INTEGRATED within a functional psychological framework. It takes a really kind-hearted and genuinely smart narcissist, who's on top of it not really that turbo-narcissistic, to achieve that kind of functional framework. Which, as all really good things in life, doesn't happen that often :V

  • @KrisCheyne
    @KrisCheyne 3 года назад +107

    Those 99 year old bones in Missoula...another mystery to check out.

    • @Floridaman1780_
      @Floridaman1780_ 3 года назад +11

      That was the wild west. The answers are blowin' in the wind.

    • @lorellgingrich1334
      @lorellgingrich1334 3 года назад +3

      @The Evil Queen I agree. Was a dna test done or they just say, meh- the bones are a century old

    • @paulad.patterson4732
      @paulad.patterson4732 2 года назад

      DNA needs to be done, just in case

  • @stephanieconley3234
    @stephanieconley3234 3 года назад +5

    How did she pull up info on hidden children? That's not public information