DETROIT (AP) — A judge declared three Michigan brothers dead Wednesday, more than 14 years after they disappeared at Thanksgiving in a small-town tragedy that remains unsolved despite an explicit belief by investigators that their father is responsible.

Tanya Zuvers is asking a judge to declare her three missing sons' death date 15 years after she investigators believe their father killed them.

A Michigan woman has been granted her request to put a coda on the disappearance of her three sons, missing since Thanksgiving 2010. As the Detroit News reports, Lenawee County Probate Judge Catherine Sala ruled that Andrew,