12-01-2010, 07:11 AM
seems the whole family is in denial.
from Detroit Free Press early this morning:
John Skelton's sister said Tuesday that she doesn't believe her brother is getting a fair shake from authorities. RIGHT. ALL HE SAID WAS HE KILLED THE CHILDREN. THEY ARE PICKING ON THE POOR GUY!
Linda Ford, 40, of Jacksonville, Fla., told the Free Press in a phone interview Tuesday night that she has spoken twice with her brother since his failed suicide attempt Friday -- including Tuesday before his arrest on parental kidnapping charges.
Ford said investigators who have interviewed her brother have told him they believe the woman he says he gave his children to -- a Joann Taylor -- is not real.
"They're trying to tell my brother that he is Joann. That he made up an alter ego," she said.
Ford said she believes her brother attempted suicide Friday because he was in a deep depression.
She said her brother was fired from his job with an Ohio trucking company about two weeks ago. She said she believes he had been taking time off work to see his sons when their mother would allow it.
She also said he was fired from another trucking company more than a year earlier for drunken driving.
"You can only push a human so far," she said. ER...HE WAS THE DRUNK DRIVER. TRUCKING COMPANIES MAY FROWN ON THAT FROM THEIR EMPLOYEES.
Ford said her brother tried to hang himself from a banister leading down into the basement of his Morenci home, but changed his mind. When he tried to get down, he lost his footing and fell to the concrete floor, broke his ankle and lost consciousness, she said. TOO FUCKING BAD.
Ford said her brother has maintained consistently that the children are with Joann Taylor. She said he has described Taylor as a tall woman with black hair who has children and a heavyset husband. NO, THEY ARE WITH ZANNY THE NANNY.
"His story has never changed," Ford said, adding that she "will stand by my brother."
from Detroit Free Press early this morning:
John Skelton's sister said Tuesday that she doesn't believe her brother is getting a fair shake from authorities. RIGHT. ALL HE SAID WAS HE KILLED THE CHILDREN. THEY ARE PICKING ON THE POOR GUY!
Linda Ford, 40, of Jacksonville, Fla., told the Free Press in a phone interview Tuesday night that she has spoken twice with her brother since his failed suicide attempt Friday -- including Tuesday before his arrest on parental kidnapping charges.
Ford said investigators who have interviewed her brother have told him they believe the woman he says he gave his children to -- a Joann Taylor -- is not real.
"They're trying to tell my brother that he is Joann. That he made up an alter ego," she said.
Ford said she believes her brother attempted suicide Friday because he was in a deep depression.
She said her brother was fired from his job with an Ohio trucking company about two weeks ago. She said she believes he had been taking time off work to see his sons when their mother would allow it.
She also said he was fired from another trucking company more than a year earlier for drunken driving.
"You can only push a human so far," she said. ER...HE WAS THE DRUNK DRIVER. TRUCKING COMPANIES MAY FROWN ON THAT FROM THEIR EMPLOYEES.
Ford said her brother tried to hang himself from a banister leading down into the basement of his Morenci home, but changed his mind. When he tried to get down, he lost his footing and fell to the concrete floor, broke his ankle and lost consciousness, she said. TOO FUCKING BAD.
Ford said her brother has maintained consistently that the children are with Joann Taylor. She said he has described Taylor as a tall woman with black hair who has children and a heavyset husband. NO, THEY ARE WITH ZANNY THE NANNY.
"His story has never changed," Ford said, adding that she "will stand by my brother."