ADRIAN — Day Five of John Skelton’s preliminary examination focused on the initial search for his three missing sons and investigators’ efforts years later to determine whether the boys could still be alive.
Clinton* Police Chief Ryan Hillard, who was an officer when Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton disappeared in November 2010, testified about responding to the family’s home and later interviewing Skelton at an Ohio hospital.
Hillard described items found inside the home, including an apparent suicide note, a makeshift noose, damaged electronics and broken vehicle keys. He also testified that Skelton told him the boys had been given to a woman named Joanne Taylor…