A Michigan man convicted of wrongfully imprisoning his three young sons who have not been seen since 2010 has been set for release from prison.

John Skelton, 53, was found guilty of wrongful imprisonment in 2011 after he failed to return his three sons — Andrew, 9, Alexander, 7, and Tanner, 5 — to his ex-wife after the Thanksgiving holiday in 2010. During a 2018 interview with local NBC affiliate WDIV from prison, he said he told police that he turned all three of them over to an "underground sanctuary" in Ohio because he felt that his ex-wife was a "danger" to them.

The boys were never seen again, and their mother had them legally declared dead in March.

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