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Evil Dad Hit w Kid Killer Charges, $60mil Bond Days Before Being Freed| Crime Alert 6AM 11.20.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now. I'm Jennifer Gould,
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  Speaker 1: a Michigan father about to walk free after serving time
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  Speaker 1: for imprisoning his three young sons, just got slapped with
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  Speaker 1: a gut punch act of justice, almost a year to
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  Speaker 1: the day those boys disappeared. John Skelton, fifty three, the
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  Speaker 1: dad who spent a decade long lie about his boys
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  Speaker 1: being in an underground sanctuary, was just charged with their
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  Speaker 1: premeditated murders, a bombshell reveal driven by his own chilling
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  Speaker 1: digital footprint. Michigan State Police Lieutenant Renee Gonzalez spoke to
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  Speaker 1: Inside Edition, it was never our intention just to close
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  Speaker 1: this case and be happy that he did fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: We want him to answer up for the murder of
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  Speaker 1: these three boys. Skelton now faces three counts of open
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  Speaker 1: murder and three counts of tampering with evidence in the
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  Speaker 1: deaths of Andrew nine, Alexander seven, and Tanner five, prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: announced just days before his scheduled release from Bellamy Creek
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  Speaker 1: Correctional Facility on November twenty ninth. His prison stint stemmed
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  Speaker 1: from his refusal to return the boys to their mom,
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  Speaker 1: Tanya Zuvers, after a disastrous Thanksgiving custody visit. In twenty ten,
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  Speaker 1: explosive details from County prosecuting attorney Jacqueline Wise's probable cause
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  Speaker 1: affidavit lay bare a portrait of calculated, sinister deception. In
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  Speaker 1: the frantic week leading up to the boys November twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth, vanishing investigators found Skelton had scoured the Internet
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  Speaker 1: for different ways to kill a person listen.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the searches included the search for potassium cyanide,
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  Speaker 2: the availability of prussic acid, is wrap poisoned, tasteless and odorless?
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  Speaker 2: Can rapt poison kill a person? Is it orderless and tasteless?
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  Speaker 2: Those were the search terms.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: A definite interest in finding something that could harm or
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  Speaker 2: kill someone.
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  Speaker 1: The crime scene at his home was found in utter
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  Speaker 1: disarray after a botched suicide attempt landed him in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Police later discovered a haunting note to Zuver's that simply
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  Speaker 1: read quote you will hate me end quote, which FBI
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  Speaker 1: agents now interpret as a veiled admission tied directly to
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  Speaker 1: the slayings. This new evidence shatters Skelton's fifteen year charade
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  Speaker 1: of claiming his sons were merely quote hibernating until they
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  Speaker 1: graduate end quote. Despite exhaustive searches, the boys remains remained
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  Speaker 1: cruelly elusive. Skelton, who offered zero leads at a March
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  Speaker 1: court hearing where his sons were declared legally dead, was arraigned.
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  Speaker 1: The father was slapped with a staggering sixty million dollars bond,
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  Speaker 1: ensuring he stays locked up at the county jail as
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  Speaker 1: he awaits a preliminary hearing set for November twenty fourth.
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  Speaker 1: If convicted, Skelton faces life behind bars for the murder
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  Speaker 1: of the three boys. For the latest crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 1: Also watch Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Fox one
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  Speaker 1: and YouTube more crime and justice news. After this, a
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  Speaker 1: taught in Tennessee was allegedly subjected to a savage night
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  Speaker 1: of torture that ended with his brutal execution, police say
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  Speaker 1: at the hands of his father's own girlfriend. Kevin's devastated father,
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  Speaker 1: Keith Horton, spoke to Fox thirteen News.
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  Speaker 2: I get to the house, he's standed outside. I got
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  Speaker 2: to find apartment people in the house.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see my son he I call he Purple.
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  Speaker 1: Dominika mos b twenty nine is now aged in Memphis
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  Speaker 1: facing first degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges. In
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  Speaker 1: the slang of Little Kevin Horton. The horror detailed in
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  Speaker 1: charging documents unfolded after Kevin's dad left the three year
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  Speaker 1: old boy in Moseby's care. Moseby initially lied, claiming the
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  Speaker 1: boy was sick and vomiting, a claim vehemently denied by
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  Speaker 1: Kevin's aunt, who had dropped him off and quote perfect
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  Speaker 1: health end quote. Moseby later broke, admitting she first pressed
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  Speaker 1: a lit cigarette into the toddler's ear. When the child,
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  Speaker 1: writhing in pain, urinated on the floor, she retaliated with
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  Speaker 1: calculated cruelty, using a lighter to inflict burns on his genital's.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators revealed the savage assault escalated to a murderous climax
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  Speaker 1: when the frustrated Moseby said she stomped on Kevin's stomach
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  Speaker 1: with the heel of her boot and repeatedly pummeled his
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  Speaker 1: torso and chest with open and closed fists because he
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't lie down. The Shelby County Medical Examiner's report confirmed
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  Speaker 1: the child's death was a homicide resulting from blunt force
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  Speaker 1: trauma and thermal injuries, noting a lacerated liver, internal bleeding
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  Speaker 1: in the abdomen, extensive bruising across his small body, and
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  Speaker 1: severe burns to his ear in genitals. The fatal attack
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  Speaker 1: occurred sometime before three am, when Moseby finally called police,
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  Speaker 1: claiming she woke up to find the boy unresponsive. The aunt,
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  Speaker 1: who had noticed prior suspicious marks on the boy, including
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  Speaker 1: a split lip and deep cheek bruises, also told investigators
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  Speaker 1: the prior injuries were inconsistent with rough play, suggesting a
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  Speaker 1: pattern of abuse. Moseby remains in Shelby County Jail, held
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  Speaker 1: without bond. The investigation continues, and finally, a case of
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  Speaker 1: dirt nap drama in Alabama, Peter Pettiti, forty, is locked
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  Speaker 1: up after running the most despicable six feet under hustle. Ever,
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  Speaker 1: police say this serial burglar wasn't using a simple map.
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  Speaker 1: He was using obituaries and Facebook to target homes where
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  Speaker 1: residents had just passed away. He waited for residents to
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  Speaker 1: check out to the funeral before he checked in to
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  Speaker 1: steal jewels, electronics, and heirlooms. That's literally grave robbing. Petiti,
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  Speaker 1: who was already out on bond, was busted again during
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  Speaker 1: a traffic stop in Alabaster. His bond has been provoked
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  Speaker 1: and he's facing burglary charges. Petiti tried to turn mourning
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  Speaker 1: into money, but now this uninvited guest will be shacking
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  Speaker 1: up in the slammer instead. No condolence cards for this crook.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice news, follow the Crime
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jennifer Gould.