Timeline: Demons and Saints: Murder of Josh and Susan Powell Family
*** This is the most detailed timeline of the Susan Cox Powell case ****
Demons and Saints: Murder of Josh and Susan Powell Family
Timeline
Compiled by an Asian American dad who wants to public to also remember the unsolved Murder of Robert Eric Wone whose murder(s) also got away despite obvious clues. I also wrote about a story of Fundamentalist Mormons vs Child Protective Services in a book called "The Flowers Cried in Texas" at the Yearning for Zion polygamist compound in Texas. That was a case in which the children feared the CPS more than their polygamist parents or their prophet and authorities feared another fiery apocalyptic end like the Waco siege. But Josh Powell indeed staged his own fiery end for him and the surviving boys of the family of Josh and Susan Powell and boys Braden and Charlie. Josh was clearly driven by demons, the Mormons often like to call themselves "saints" as in "latter day", and victims were certainly angels if not saints.
The story of a couple who met at a LDS singles group, married in a Temple wedding (which is the highest kind they have) and have two beautiful boys. Of all American religions and ethnic groups, the Mormons perhaps have the most to brag about upholding model marriages and families. But in this case the marriage heads for the rocks through disputes and even bankruptcy which first attracts national attention when who Nancy Grace describes as a "gorgeous 28 year old stock broker mother two" goes missing when the father Josh Powell returns from a midnight camping trip in subfreezing cold with a story about taking the boys for sledding and s'mores. There are suspicions, but authorities claim they don't have enough evidence to name Powell as more than a person of interest after searching his house, asking for numerous interviews, and seizing property from his house. Now in 2012, questions in the mind of many of his possible guilt are answered when the boys start drawing pictures of their mother in the back of the van on the camping trip, that she was looking for gems in the mines but didn't come back with dad, and point to a woman's chest saying "oweee". The Dad From Hell slams the door on a worried social worker who frantically dials 9-11, while Josh says "I have a surprise for you" and takes a hatchet to his screaming and crying boys, sends out e-mails saying "I'm sorry goodbye" and blowing up his boys and himself in a blazes that sends debris flying all over the Puyallup neighborhood as Josh Powell's family condemn how Josh was the one who was bullied and abused into an apparent suicide double murder.
- storyboard: http://hu1st.blogspot.com/2008/06/yfz-ranch-raid-storyboard-flower-cried.html#!/2008/06/yfz-ranch-raid-storyboard-flower-cried.html
- Book:The Flowers Cried in Texas
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- http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700222406/Timeline-of-events-surrounding-Josh-Powell-Susan-Cox-Powell.htmlDeseret News Detailed timeline of events surrounding Josh Powell, Susan Cox Powell
- ABC Timeline: http://abcnews.go.com/US/powell-family-tragedy-timeline-events/story?id=15520239#.Tzqvd7GvigN
- Time magazine timeline http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/07/timeline-the-powell-familys-tragic-two-years/
- AboutJoshPowell.com
- http://www.change.org/petitions/take-down-susan-powellorg-her-memory-is-all-we-have-left-of-her
Websites supporting Cox family
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-and-Family-of-Susan-Cox-Powell/158207040909324?sk=info (Named as attack site by the pro-Josh website)
Websites supporting Josh Powell and his father
http://www.susanpowell.org/Home
http://www.susanpowell.org/Who-is-Susan-Powell/Wife-and-mother/Josh-Powell-husband-of-Susan-Powell
Steven Powell's elaborate conspiracy theory
4thekiddzz website by brother Michael C. Powell alleged maiming and abuse at Cox household
Sept 21 2011declaration
To read the charging document against Steve Powell, click here.
Josh is a loving father and husband. He likes to take his wife out to dinner or watch movies with her. He regularly does activities with his beautiful wife and with his entire family. Josh is totally committed to his wife and children, continually finding new and engaging activities to do with them.
Josh loves to socialize with friends and family. He enjoys gardening, woodworking, and building construction projects. He knows a few songs on the piano and guitar. And he has been known to sing a song when the mood hits. He also loves photography, especially when the photos are of Susan and the boys. He enjoys problem solving and he is a computer programmer by trade. Josh is very involved in his children's lives and every day he includes the children in many hobbies, educational events, and outdoor activities.
Incidents:
"hamsters" Terrica Powell.... recalled how Josh killed baby hamsters by throwing them against the side of their cages.
"mines" the missing Utah mom's four-year-old son reportedly said, "Mommy's in the mine, looking for crystals." http://www.opposingviews.com/i/missing-mom-susan-powell-s-son-mommy-s-in-the-mine
News by Kate Wharmby Seldman (6 Hours Ago) in Society / Crime In an explosive new development in the Susan Cox Powell case, the missing Utah mom's four-year-old son reportedly said, "Mommy's in the mine, looking for crystals." The boy reportedly made the statement after his mom went missing in Dec. 2009, but it wasn't made public until now
"ran away" Susan just happens to disappear the same time that Joshua disappears with the kids at 12:30 AM without telling anybody where they went, after somebody set up fans to dry a big red stain on the living room floor.
"wet spot" Joshua Powell last week also added a new detail to one of the case's most glaring elements when he said that a wet spot on a rug in their home that was found the morning after Susan disappeared was caused by a red stain that Susan had decided to clean before she vanished. It was a detail that police have not corroborated.
Interesting his choice of color for the "stain" his wife was cleaning before she ran off with another man of. Gotta keep the house clean when you plan to leave and never return!
Note - Josh said the stain was red, evidently not the police
So after Susan was knocked out by the dinner and went to bed, she decided to set up the rug cleaner and 2 box fans to clean up the huge stain that was made after the dinner but before dad left?
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Date: Year 1950
Kidnapped in Childhoold By Fueding Parents
Steven was born in Portland, Oregon about 1950. (62 years old in May 2012) Divorce papers and Steve's website document that Steven was "victim of parental kidnapping," as a young boy, making Terri "fearful that he may try to take our two youngest children."
Website biography Steven's mother "made a unilateral and secretive decision to separate from my dad," and took her children as she left Steven's father, him, his brother and his sister to live in Ohio. A few months later she reconciled and returned to Steven's father in Portland. Then at 7 "my dad made a unilateral and secretive decision to separate from my mom." Steven's father took the boy and and siblings to live with his grandparents who had moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho away from his mother who was away visiting a sister. Steve wrote " They all then proceeded north on Highway 1 and something seemed amiss to me, even at 7 years old. ‘Where is Momma?’ I asked. Grandma curtly replied, ‘You’re never going to see your mother again,’ "My older brother, my sister and I were inconsolable." Steve wrote he once told friends his grandparents had kidnapped him. He wrote that his grandmother told him to keep his mouth shut, then poured cayenne pepper on his tongue to emphasize the point.
Converted to Mormonism
There is no record of Stevens parents bringing him up on a religion. As he grew up, Steven converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) He faithfully served a 2 year LDS mission to ArgentinaDate: Year 1973:
Steven met Terrica "Terri" Martin at church. They dated starting in 1973. When Steven proposed, John Martin, father objected, but the Mormon bishop ruled the decision was up to Terri. They were married in a Mormon Temple like Josh and Susan when Steven was 24 and Terri 18. They settled in Verndale, Washington, a suburb of Spokane near the Idaho border just a short hop west of Cour d'Alene on Interstate 90. It is a town so small that it is not even listed on Google maps. Neighbor Don Clifton remembers "when Steve married Terri, it was obvious he was crazy about her." "As a young man, we remember Steve as being an enthusiastic, friendly, clean-living person.".
Terri said Steven was a good husband at first in 1992 divorce paper: "Steve worked hard, served God and loved me. He was very thoughtful, very devoted towards me," "We attended church together". "He was fun to be around. He was outgoing and people all around were drawn to him. He had a beautiful singing voice and sung on many occasions for weddings, funerals, and church meetings" (sltrib)
Date: Year 1974
The couple was overjoyed at the birth of their first child, daughter Jennifer in 1974. The couple toted Jenny around town "always adoring her and happy to show off their big-eyed, beautiful baby," Don Clifton said. (sltrib) Jennifer would later break away from the influence of her father and side with Susan Cox family after her disappearance.
When neighbors the Cliftons bought an expensive sewing machine, they were surprised that Steven splurged for a similar one.
According to Clifton, first worked in real estate when he married Terri then he become a furniture salesman. Steven a long-term furniture salesman. Steven was able to maintain a steady job with a California-based Virco Manufacturing, a furniture company as a delivery driver
Terri started suspecting things just within a couple of years of getting married... believed it was her husband's heavy travel schedule through his work that gave him an outlet to dive deeper into pornography.
Date: Year 1976
Joshua born 1976.
Date: Year 1977
Johnny born 1977;
Date: Josh as teenager
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Concerns-about-Josh-Powell-dated-back-to-1990s-139046924.html
Terrica Powell.... recalled how Josh killed baby hamsters by throwing them against the side of their cages. And she said Josh's father, Steven Powell, "has totally stripped away all respect in Josh ... for fidelity in marriage and loyalty to one's spouse."
Steve Leaves LDS Church Mid-1980s
Court papers noted that during Josh Powell's teen years, he noted his father dropped out of the LDS faith which caused a severe marital rift that led to divorce. Salt Lake Tribune links Steve's leaving to and end to the couples marital bliss. Terri: "Over the past few years I have seen Steve change from a loving and kind person to a person seemingly filled with darkness and hatred, whose respect for others and for basic and social moral values has been abandoned for a path of self-gratification that leads not only himself but his children in a direction that is not only not healthy but does not recognize basic social skills that are needed to function in society," Terri’s brother, Jim Martin, wrote in court documents. Martin, who worked with Steve at Virco Manufacturing at the time, described Steve as increasingly "condescending, belligerent, intolerant and dogmatic"
Anti-government, White Separatist sympathy
Another Verndale resident James Fox noted that Steve clung to extreme anti-government views. "He told me numerous times that the entire government is totally corrupt and the ‘feds,’ as he would put it, were deceiving the American public and that they were trying to get him," Steven wrote letters to the local paper in support of white separatist Randy Weaver and his 1992 standoff with the FBI at Ruby Ridge in Idaho.Date: Year 1984:
Terri said her husband asked her, "What would you think if I got another wife?" John Martin recalled his daughter confiding that Steve had asked her how she felt about the possibility of him taking a second wife, and that she’d stumbled across a journal Steve kept filled with sexual fantasies about a woman they both knew.
Date: Year 1985
Alina was born in 1985.
Mid 1980s:
Jennifer Graves: "I think pornography played a big role in tearing our family apart, because it breaks down your mind, it breaks down families, it breaks down trust. It's going to lead to other things."
Pornography and abuse
Steve and Josh accused the Cox family of inflicting child abuse on Susan. Yet Jennifer Graves remembers that Steven severely punished his children by forcing them to lie in a bath of ice-cold water up to their necks if the wet their beds. When Steven tried to forcibly remove a chair from Terri's house, Steven "pulled her hair back and hit her" as they argued.Jennifer Graves: "I think pornography played a big role in tearing our family apart, because it breaks down your mind, it breaks down families, it breaks down trust. It's going to lead to other things."
...she knew pornography was a problem by 10 or 12, traveling on a business trip with her father and stopping for the night at a hotel saw father watching porn on TV..magazines were kept in Steven Powell's home office, which he either gave to his sons or they found on their own
"And then it got worse and the addiction got worse and then he started to have additional things that he was unfaithful to my mom with, like having this obsession with a woman in our ward," Graves recalled. "It just led down this path that he just refused to recognize as wrong."
During Steven and Terri Powell's divorce proceedings, it was suggested that Steven was in love with a woman in his church congregation and wanted her to become his second wife. He allegedly said he was having "fantasies about her all the time," according to Terri's sister, Becky Mulcahy, in divorce documents.
Terri noted herself in divorce papers that while she was pregnant with Alina, she found Steven's diary, which "was a record of two years worth of explicit fantasies he had about a woman we both knew. … His writings were detailed descriptions of what he would like to be doing with her, particularly sexually."
Steven Powell hinted that something horrible might happen to the womans husband. He wrote in his own diary that he wanted to marry the woman and raise her children should anything happen to the woman's husband, Terri Powell said in divorce papers.
Date: 1992
Feb. 9, 2012 Josh Powell, the husband of a missing Utah woman who killed himself and his two young sons last week, was a disturbed adolescent who threatened and hit his mother, according to 1992 court documents obtained by ABC News. The documents, filed during the divorce of Josh Powell's parents in Washington state, Steven and Terrica Powell, include several statements by Terrica Powell describing her son's disturbing behavior. Terrica Powell wrote that her son once tried to commit suicide and also threatened her with a butcher knife. On other occasions, he and one of his brothers pushed and hit her, she wrote.
The butcher knife incident, Terrica Powell wrote, was the result of her asking her son to do the dishes.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53483190-78/josh-terrica-steve-powell.html.csp?page=2
The divorce of Steve and Terrica Powell involved allegations of mental unfitness, pornography, polygamy and even witchcraft. There were serious conflicts over religion and parenting, and a tug-of-war ensued over the children, who at the time ranged in age from 18 to 7. Josh, the second oldest child, was 16.
Steve eventually was given custody of the three boys, while Terrica had custody of Alina, their youngest daughter — though within a couple years she also went to live with her father.
In 1992 court filings, Steve claimed his wife, who studied herbs and natural healing, had mixed a New Age mysticism with Mormon beliefs in a way that amounted to practicing "witch craft and devil worship."
Terrica responded that it was Steve who collected books on the occult and claimed his interest in pornography, which he had shared with their sons, had corrupted him.
"A huge part of that case involved the pornographic interest of Steven Powell and the impact it was having on the children," said Tacoma attorney Steve Downing, who represents Powell’s in-laws Chuck and Judy Cox.
@@Year 1996
Student at Pierce Community College
The 7th commenter wrote: "Josh Powell also lived in Puyallup at least in his late teens/early twenties. I met him as a fellow student at Pierce Community College and He was my Senior prom date in 1996. I do not know if his family is still there." That is fine and great that he went to Pierce College (Not Pierce Community College), but they do not grant bachelor's degrees, only associates degrees. He probably got a two year, then transferred to a 4 year college. End result? He still has no 4 year degree. Here is their website: http://www.pcd.edu/
@@Year 1999
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
Marini's husband, Tim, met Joshua Powell in 1999 at the singles ward in Tacoma, Wash. The couples were close until Rachel Marini had a falling out with Joshua Powell during a road trip from Utah to Washington several years ago. Rachel Marini, who met the couple shortly after they wed in 2001.
"She had lots of people tell her to end it and get a divorce because it was not worth going through that kind of heartache," Marini said. "But Susan didn't want to give up on her marriage."
However, the Marinis stayed close with Susan via Facebook. Over the past year or so, Susan told the couple the relationship "was still pretty bad, but that for the first time, Susan started standing up for herself," Rachel Marini said.
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/81994361
Mr. Powell reported he : met at Mormon Ward function. They were about age 20. He estimated he were together for 16 months. The couple dated for about a year prior to living together. During their relationship, they had been attending college. One point in their relatiormhip, they took a "break" and during this period ?susan? dated other men. Once and Josh got back together, he learned more about s involvement with another rrian and this had eroded his trust rn her. Ultimately, this caused the end of their relationship.
Mr. Powell met Susan in 2000, when he was 24 and Susan was 19. They met at a Mormon sponsored function. In April 2001, after dating about six months, the couple married. Mr. Powell reported a positive marriage. He noted that eventually Susan's parents urged her to have a separate bank account. He noted he had been agreeable to this idea and stated, "It was like an allowance. Each one of us was to have fun-money to spend without having to discuss it with each other.
Mr. Powell indicated the family did not have financial difhculties.
Early in their marriage, the couple lived with Josh's father, Steven Powell. Eventually, the couple took a 24/7 job, managing a retirement home. 'Iheir einployment required them to live at the facility. After working this job for a year the couple decided to relocate to Utah. In 2004, Joshua
Date: April 2001
Wedding
Josh attended Rogers High School with his future wife, (or attended at different times, Josh was much older and going to college(s) ) Susan Cox, but it wasn’t until the two went to a singles ward activity of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that they met. They married a short while later, in April 2001, at the Portland LDS temple. They found an apartment together a few miles away from her parents.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
Susan and her husband are natives of Pullayup, Wash., and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They met through a church activity at an LDS ward in Tacoma, Wash., and were married in April 2001, said Kiirsi Hellewell, Susan's best friend.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
While Joshua Powell went to church sporadically, Susan Powell insisted on taking the children to church each week. And during the past year, despite their financial straits, she also bought them a few Christmas presents. "Josh didn't like it, but he was letting her do it," Rachel Marini said
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
Susan Powell, who had worked as a cosmetologist in Washington, embraced life as a homemaker, learning to garden, can, bake bread and crochet.
Date: Year 2002
Josh says he has his college graduation photo from 2002 in a photo caption
"Mr Powell graduated from the University of Washington with a Business Administration / Management Bachelor's degree in 2002"
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/81994361
Date: ??
The couple managed an assisted living facility in Washington for a while, Hellewell said.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
Date: Year 2003
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705398977/Attorney-Police-tactics-were-used-to-ruffle-the-feathers-of-Josh-Powell.html?pg=2
Jennifer Graves said she had witnessed a gradual decline over the years in her brother's behavior. She said he was "a bit of an odd duck," but she felt he was making progress after moving to Utah in the fall of 2003 and getting away from his father, Steven Powell. Once in Utah, he would spend hours on the phone with his father, multiple times a week, she said. "If anyone knows anything, it would be Steve," Kirk Graves said, regarding Susan Cox Powell's disappearance. "When he finds a motive, then he'll talk."
Date: December 2003
In December 2003, Steven Powell he wrote he had been stalking Susan and making secret videos of her. Steve Powell voyeurism trial begins with drama Salt Lake Tribune May 2012Date: 2004
They moved to Utah about five years ago searching for a fresh start and to be closer to Joshua Powell's mother and two sisters, who had relocated here, Hellewell said. The couple found a home in West Valley City and joined the Hunter 36th Ward. Larry Richman, the lay leader of the LDS Church congregation, confirmed the couple are regular members of the church. http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
The couple moved to Utah in about 2004 to be closer to Josh Powell’s mother and two sisters, who had earlier moved to the state. At their West Valley City home, Josh Powell would teach neighbor kids basic woodworking skills. He enjoyed playing with radio-controlled cars, gardening and landscaping.
Date: January 2004
| http://susanpowell.org/Susan-Powell-missing-person/Steven-Koecher-Susan-Powell-connection/Parallel-work-histories-Utah-Steven-Koecher-Susan-Powell Susan Powell starts job as Call Center Representative at Fidelity Investments in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. (Susan Powell's date of hire with Fidelity Investments is actually later. Susan started with a temp agency before being hired in the same position permanently.) |
They moved to Utah about five years ago searching for a fresh start and to be closer to Joshua Powell's mother and two sisters, who had relocated here, Hellewell said.
The couple found a home in West Valley City and joined the Hunter 36th Ward. Larry Richman, the lay leader of the LDS Church congregation, confirmed the couple are regular members of the church.
Joshua Powell worked for Homenet Real Estate for several years while Susan cared for their sons, ages 2=2007? and 4=2006?. Friends and neighbors all say Susan Powell would never leave her two boys.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
The other reason to move - to get away from Steven Powell
http://heartsknitforsusan.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/why-i-chose-to-talk-about-steve-powell/
When I had known Susan a few months, she began talking to me about why it is that she and Josh decided to move to Utah. There were several factors, she originally said…a better job…a new start…a chance to get to know Josh’s sister Jennifer Graves, and Josh’s mother, Teri Powell, better. Then one day she told me that a very big part of the reason she and Josh moved to Utah was to get away from Josh’s father, Steve Powell.
I was very surprised by this. Yes, I knew many people didn’t like or get along with their in-laws. But when Susan talked about Steve Powell, she expressed extreme disgust and even feelings approaching hatred.
Then she told me WHY she felt this way. She said that early in her marriage to Josh, when they were still newlyweds, they wanted to save money to get their own apartment. So they moved in for a short time with Steve Powell.
At the time, there wasn’t an extra bedroom for them. So they converted a dining room into their bedroom and hung a curtain over the opening for privacy. Shortly after moving in, Susan began to feel very strange around Steve Powell. She said that she felt like her father-in-law was looking at her inappropriately—and once she even caught him trying to watch her get dressed one day.
She tried to give her new father-in-law the benefit of the doubt, but the weird feelings and things continued, and one day it culminated in a very inappropriate episode where Steve Powell tried to kiss her. This was not a “family” kiss. This was a romantic kiss.
Susan was so creeped out, disgusted and horrified that she told Josh “That’s it, we’re moving out. NOW.” And soon after that, they did.
I was, of course, shocked, horrified and disgusted to hear about this. “That’s not all,” Susan said. “There’s more.” She told me that after living in Utah a couple of years, one day she received a package in the mail. Steve Powell had sent Susan several pictures of Susan’s favorite actor.
At first, Susan thought this was actually a nice gesture on the part of Steve Powell. She wondered if he had changed, and maybe become a kinder person. Then she saw what was sitting in the middle of the stack of pictures: several pictures of naked men.
She was horrified, sickened, full of revulsion. She threw the pictures away immediately and it re-affirmed more than ever her feelings about Steve Powell, her father-in-law. She told Josh on many occasions, even in the presence of my husband John and myself: “Your father is NEVER allowed to step foot in our house here in Utah. If he comes to visit you here, you can go see him in his hotel. He WILL NOT defile our house by his presence here.”
She also told me several times that she did not feel comfortable around Steve, and she did not want her little boys, Charlie and Braden, to ever be alone with him. She did not enjoy visiting Steve Powell when she and Josh went to Washington to visit family, but she endured it when she had to because she wanted Josh to be able to visit his family.
Date: March 2004
(May 2012) Prosecutors said in March 2004, Powell wrote he and Susan were a perfect match since he was a voyeur and she an exhibitionist. Steve Powell voyeurism trial begins with drama Salt Lake TribuneDate: January 2005
susanpowell.org
Susan Powell becomes a stay at home mother. Susan Powell takes at least six weeks maternity leave then returns to Fidelity Investments for a few weeks of work. It is technically April 2005 when Susan Powell quits her job as Call Center Representative at Fidelity Investments in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
son born
Date: October 2005
Susan Powell is rehired in her job as Call Center Representative at Fidelity Investments in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Date: Year 2006
Josh stops attending LDS church
Hellewell says, by 2006 Josh had stopped attending church. Susan told Hellewell the reason Josh stopped attending church was his father Steven Powell, a former LDS member whom Hellewell described as being "anti-Mormon" and as "infecting Josh with his poison." Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2106632,00.html#ixzz1mOhfIG6D
Hellewell says Susan remained strong in her faith despite constant harassment from her husband. Hellewell remembers that Susan told her how Josh would belittle her and tell her she shouldn't pay her tithes or go to church. "[He would] fight over everything she did as far as her faith," says Hellewell. "When she was trying to get the kids up and get them ready for church by herself, [Josh] would say things like, 'You want to go to boring, boring church with Mommy, or do you want to stay home and have cake with Daddy?' " Hellewell recalls. "He was constantly trying to undermine her when she tried to do what was right." Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2106632,00.html#ixzz1mOi4SKry
Date: 2007
son born
Date: Before 2007
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
Even before the bankruptcy, friends had counseled Susan Powell to leave her husband, who was "very, very controlling," said Rachel Marini, who met the couple shortly after they wed in 2001.
Date: 2007
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
According to court documents, Joshua Powell filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in April 2007 and listed more than $200,000 in credit card, furniture, student loan and other debts.
Date: 2008
Date: January 2008
http://susanpowell.org/Susan-Powell-missing-person/Steven-Koecher-Susan-Powell-connection/Parallel-work-histories-Utah-Steven-Koecher-Susan-Powell
Susan Powell starts as a Call Center Representative at Wells Fargo Investments in West Valley City, Utah.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
Susan Powell openly discussed the trying year the couple had in 2008 during meetings at her church, where she served as a secretary in the Relief Society.
"Church was a big part of her life. It gave her a sense of feeling needed," said Stephanie Olson, a neighbor and fellow ward member. "A lot of people really loved her and needed her there."
Charles Cox, Susan Powell's father, said the couple had worked through their problems and were doing better.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14000824
Joshua Powell's hobbies include radio-controlled cars, gardening and landscaping.
He operates a home-based business called Polished Marketing that creates Web sites and logos for business. He also works as a computer programmer for a trucking and warehousing company.
susan Powell is a stockbroker with a local financial institution. She passed her financial certification while she was pregnant with her first child, Hellewell said.
"She kept saying, 'If anyone had told me I would be a stockbroker, I would have laughed my head off,'" Hellewell said.
Date: Year 2009
Josh stops going to LDS church, discourages boys going with mother
http://mormonvoices.org/896/11-february-2012
Desperately Seeking Susan Powell: A Best Friend’s Quest
February 10, 2012
Time
Susan told Hellewell the reason Josh stopped attending church was his father Steven Powell, a former LDS member whom Hellewell described as being “anti-Mormon” and as “infecting Josh with his poison.” (In September 2011, Steven was arrested and charged with voyeurism and child pornography; he denies any wrongdoing and is likely to go on trial in March.) Although Josh stopped going to church, Hellewell says Susan remained strong in her faith despite constant harassment from her husband. Hellewell remembers that Susan told her how Josh would belittle her and tell her she shouldn’t pay her tithes or go to church. “[He would] fight over everything she did as far as her faith,” says Hellewell.
“When she was trying to get the kids up and get them ready for church by herself, [Josh] would say things like, ‘You want to go to boring, boring church with Mommy, or do you want to stay home and have cake with Daddy?’ ” Hellewell recalls. “He was constantly trying to undermine her when she tried to do what was right.”
Date: September 2009
In the article below, the resourceful KIRO detectives are going to solve her murder for the WVCPD.
Utah woman says she saw Powell, father in mountains before ...
www.kirotv.com/.../utah-woman-says-she-saw-powell-father-mountai...
Feb 14, 2012 – A Utah woman said she saw Josh Powell and his father, Steven, in the mountains three months before Powell's wife, Susan Cox Powell, was
Posted: 8:04 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012
Utah woman says she saw Powell, father in mountains before Susan disappeared
PUYALLUP, Wash. —
A Utah woman said she saw Josh Powell and his father, Steven, in the mountains three months before Powell’s wife, Susan Cox Powell, was reported missing.She told KTVX-TV they were in the Topaz Mountains and that they were not looking for crystals. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said the two were not dressed for the outdoors.
“They were not friendly at all. It was obvious they had their agenda and everyone else be damned. Their behavior was so out-of-the-ordinary,” she said.
The two were in the same area investigators searched last summer and uncovered a shallow grave.
http://www.examiner.com/family-in-seattle/susan-powell-and-joshua-powell-neighbor-tim-peterson-provides-new-information-about-the-powell-s
Susan Powell and Joshua Powell - Neighbor, Tim Peterson, provides new information about the Powell's
One evening back in September Susan called Peterson to ask for a blessing because she wasn’t feeling well. Peterson called other church Elders and they came to pray for Susan.
When the elders first came into the house Josh talked to them about a computer conference he’d attended for about 45 minutes until Susan - looking pale and ill - walked into the room. They asked her if she wanted the blessing and she said yes.
They asked Josh if he wanted to join in. Peterson said Josh shrugged his shoulders and said OK.
A few minutes later their 4-year old son, Charlie, jumped on Susan’s lap and acted as though he was giving her a blessing. Rather than caring that Susan was ill and being serious about the blessing, all Josh could do was laugh at Charlie, Peterson said.
"All Josh could do was laugh at his son," Peterson said. "It was so heartbreaking to see he just didn't care about her needs."
Peterson remembers a time when Josh yelled at Peterson's family for taking their shoes and socks off in their home. He said he’d be up all night cleaning the floors from the germs on their bare feet.
Susan discussed her first four marriage counseling sessions with Peterson, but once he suggested she divorce Josh because he didn’t appear to be making any effort to improve their marriage, she stopped.
"I told her she was a beautiful, talented woman who could be so much happier in a different situation," Peterson said. "I told her her husband was an energy suck and no one could stand to be around him."
Though they had stopped talking about marriage counseling, they did stay in touch.
Susan wanted to be more social and have friends over. But Most people “couldn’t stand” Josh and would avoid him, Peterson said.
Peterson doesn’t believe Susan was a woman who wanted to leave. Susan sent Peterson an e-mail thanking him for a backyard play set for her two boys, saying it would be great to have next summer to entertain the boys while she did yard work.
Date: November 20, 2009
/http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-seattle/josh-powell-plays-lds-card-on-mormons-mobilize-webpage-part-4-susan-s-unwavering-faith
“I was in the temple with Susan on November 20, 2009, just two weeks before she disappeared,” Debbie said. “Susan would respect any religion as she believed in agency. She would tell you that religion is a way to God, a higher power, a great creator. When we say a prayer the great creator hears us and that doesn't have anything to do with what religion we chose. That just so happens to be the one she chose and believed her husband chose, after all she met him there.”
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009:
Debbie Caldwell, Susan's friend and daycare provider, went to the Powell home for the evening. Susan had agreed to cut and dye Debbie's hair. Debbie remembers that evening being especially stressful for both Susan and herself. Isabelle Zehnder Click here to read an account of what transpired.Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-seattle/susan-cox-powell-detailed-timeline-of-days-surrounding-susan-s-disappearance#ixzz1nEgj2X5Y
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
The Powell family attended a church Christmas breakfast from about 9 a.m. to noon. Susan then went to work and JoVonna Owings, a friend of Susan's, took care of the children while Susan worked. Isabelle Zehnder Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-seattle/susan-cox-powell-detailed-timeline-of-days-surrounding-susan-s-disappearance#ixzz1nEgj2X5Y
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Date: December 6, 2009: Susan's Last Day
Time: 10:00AM - 12:00 PM : Susan Cox Powell, 28, and her two sons attend church services at the Hunter 36th LDS Ward / stake building. They walk home with friend Kiirsi Hellewell. Joshua does not attend church.
Time: 12:14PM: Phone records released in 2012 show Josh called his father Steven at 12:14PM. Bloggers speculate that Steve could have coached Josh on Susan's disappearance.
Time: Before 2PM: Josh started cooking late breakfast / brunch of pancakes.
Time: 2PM: Neighbor JoVonna Owings visits the Powell's West Valley City home on Sunday afternoon to visit with Susan to help untangle yarn for crocheting and invited for dinner or late brunch of pancakes.
Time: 2:29PM: the last phone call made or received on Susan Powell’s mobile phone was at 2:29 PM on December 06, 2009 when she called Jovanna Owings.
Time: 4:00PM: Josh made breakfast of "scrambled eggs with onions and bell peppers and pancakes with cream cheese.” after what Jovanna thought was an unusually long delay. Chuck Cox believes Susan might have been poisoned or drugged "And when the husband fixes a meal for the family and all of a sudden, somebody's sick..." Asked if he believed Susan was poisoned, Chuck and Judy Cox said "anything's possible." "Or drugged," Chuck Cox said. "Or something."
Time: 5:00-5:30 PM Susan, who was feeling ill, laid down for a nap about 5 p.m. Owings left, as did Joshua Powell, who said he was taking his two sons sledding.
She went on, “Josh said he’d take the kids out sledding while she rested, and I left at the same time he and the boys left, between 5 and 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 6.”
Time: 8:30 PM A neighbor sees Josh Powell returns home and park in his garage. He says he has returned from sledding, but is it possible he returned for last minute supplies such as the shovel, gasoline, or tarp discovered in his van the next day? Did anyone see him at a hardware store that day or evening?
Time: Before 11:00? Sofa is cleaned and fans are set up.
Search warrants unsealed Friday 3/29/2012 by a Washington judge reveal evidence kept from public by West Valley City police that they verified Susan Powell's blood was found on floor tile near a wet carpet and sofa.
Josh told police that before leaving he "washed" the couch and placed a fan nearby to dry it. He says "we made and agreement, that I would wash the couch and she would shovel the walkway."
Grandfather Steven Powell who was in Puyallup Washington had a different version, that Susan decided to clean the carpets herself, and told of a red spot on the carpet underneath the couch that was "probably juice or something"
Grandfather Steven Powell who was in Puyallup Washington had a different version, that Susan decided to clean the carpets herself, and told of a red spot on the carpet underneath the couch that was "probably juice or something"
Time: Before 11:00: Josh claims Susan is ok with camping trip:
hen he had decided to take the boys camping he indicated his wife was "ok with it". He noted that her biggest concern was that the boys stayed warm. Mr. Powell estimated that the Pony Express trailhead was less than 40 miles out of town.
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see December 7, 2009 for details:
Highlights:
5:00 AM In January 2010 Examiner.com offered to interview one of Josh's friends, Wayne Hamberg, who is the only friend of Josh who has consistently stuck on Josh's side. The friend put "unusual conditions on sharing his story and has, to date, not agreed to share his story." During a phone conversation he did say, "If I knew Josh was in town at 5 a.m. the day Susan went missing, don’t you think that story would be worth at least $1,000?
When Joshua Powell arrived at the residence Detective Maxwell approached Joshua Powell on the passenger side of Joshua Powell’s vehicle while Joshua Powell was still in his vehicle. Detective Maxwell asked Joshua Powell why he didn’t answer his mobile phone or call anyone earlier in the day. Joshua Powell told Detective Maxwell that he had to keep his mobile phone off to preserve the battery that he didn’t have a phone charger. Detective Maxwell clearly saw Joshua Powell’s mobile phone sitting on the center console plugged into a cigarette lighter phone charger.
Highlights:
12:00 Midnight "Her husband, Josh Powell, is the last known person to see her when she went to bed at midnight".. "he indicated his wife was "ok with it". He noted that her biggest concern was that the boys stayed warm.".
12:10 AM Josh wakes up his boys who were tired from sledding for another camping trip. Josh and Susan are supposed to work the next morning and drop off their boys, but Josh later tells authorities that he was under the impression that it was Sunday.
12:45 AM
Josh leaves the house with Susan's phone, a generator, blankets, a gas can, tarps and a shovel. Susan's purse containing all of her credit cards, cash, identification, and keys were later located in the master bedroom undisturbed. He says that he took the boys camping at Simpson Springs Recreation Area and the Pony Express Trail
2:00 AM? Sister Denise Cox believes 'he told them that they were going to go look for mines and I believe he buried her somewhere out wherever he went." as the Powell boys later talked how their mother went into a mine to look for crystals and never came out. The boys later drew a picture of the van and explain mother was in the trunk.
4:00 AM? Josh claims they slept in a minivan which too small for sleeping an adults and two boys. A heater attached to a generator is an unusual setup for camping, certainly not suitable for a minvan.
4:00 AM? Josh is seen by a man who saw the minivan out in the desert in the snow. It was trying to avoid having direct contact with his truck as the van would turn on its highbeas when his truck was to close.
5:00 AM In January 2010 Examiner.com offered to interview one of Josh's friends, Wayne Hamberg, who is the only friend of Josh who has consistently stuck on Josh's side. The friend put "unusual conditions on sharing his story and has, to date, not agreed to share his story." During a phone conversation he did say, "If I knew Josh was in town at 5 a.m. the day Susan went missing, don’t you think that story would be worth at least $1,000?
6:30 a.m.Josh misses regular time children are dropped off to daycare
Time: 7:00 AM Josh and boys are seen by Robin Leanne Snyder, a worker at the Comfort Inn in Sandy Utah sneaking into the free breakfast. Charlie asks if she would like to know what happened to his mother, but Josh takes the boys away before she gets back to him.
- 7 a.m. : Debbie Caldwell, who cared for Charlie and Braden at Daydreams and Fun Things Day Care Center in West Valley for a year and a half calls Susan on cell and at work; no answer; cell phone went straight to voice-mail
- 8 a.m.:
- Debbie calls Josh' work; she was told he had not come in to work
- 8:50 a.m. :
- Debbie drove to Susan's home; pounded on the door; there was no answer
- 9 a.m.
- : Josh's mom, Terri, called (responding to Debbie's call - she lives with Jennifer, Josh's sister, and overheard the phone message Debbie left for Jennifer stating she could not get in contact with Josh or Susan)
- Jennifer calls Chuck and Judy Cox in Washington to ask if they'd heard from Susan or Josh
1:00 PM Police break into House: Josh sister Jennifer who lives with mother Terri and daycare friend Debbie wonder if they might have had carbon monoxide poisoning. They call police who go to the house with thiem. When no one answers, police break in through front window and enter the house. The family minivan is gone, but quickly find Susan's purse and keys. Susan doesn't have a car, as Josh made her sell it.
Time: 2PM Witnesses say someone who they later recognized as Josh Powell went into a South Salt Lake strip club, acting rudely and exclaiming he had at terrible day. Police later conclude there isn't enough evidence to prove it was Josh. Workers at the South Salt Lake strip club, Duces Wild, say a man they believe was Josh made sexually-explicit comments and advances, yelled, yanked away a customer's drink and ultimately didn't tip the workers when he visited the day after Susan was last seen. Bartender Liz Burkholder, who later identified Powell in several photos from police, says the man tried to make advances toward her, take her picture -- a no-no in strip clubs -- and then was rude and vulgar when she declined.
3:02PM Josh gets a phone call from Jovanna’s son’s mobile phone, Alex Owings. When Joshua Powell answered the phone Alex Owings panicked disconnected the phone and immediately advised his mother, Jovanna Owings that Joshua Powell had just answered his mobile phone.
JOVANNA SPEAKS TO JOSH
Jovanna Owings called Joshua Powell back at 3:03 PM and spoke to Joshua Powell. Joshua Powell told her that he was out driving arotmd the West Valley City area with his two children and did not know that his wife had not shown up for work, however the Powell's have only one car and he usually drives Susan Powell to work and picks her up from work according to interviews with fiiends and family. Based from subpoena infonnation Joshua Powell’s mobile phone utilized cellular towers in
West Valley City, Utah when he spoke to J ovanna Owings. JoVonna Owings called Josh on his cell phone. JoVonna informed Josh police were at his house, that they were looking for him and that he needed to get home. Josh told JoVonna he was driving around West Valley City and that the children, then ages 4 and 2, were with him. Josh lied, telling JoVonna that Susan was at work.
West Valley City, Utah when he spoke to J ovanna Owings. JoVonna Owings called Josh on his cell phone. JoVonna informed Josh police were at his house, that they were looking for him and that he needed to get home. Josh told JoVonna he was driving around West Valley City and that the children, then ages 4 and 2, were with him. Josh lied, telling JoVonna that Susan was at work.
Time: 3:34 PM
Joshua Powell then drove nearly 20 miles south out of West Valley City, Utah where he called his voicemail at 3 :34 PM. Joshua Powell then called Susan Powell’s mobile phone at 3:34 PM leaving a voice message indicating that he and their two boys had just arrived in town from their camping trip.
Joshua Powell ends this voice message asking Susan Powell if she will need a ride home from work. {Josh obviously knows she is not at work}
Time: 5:00 PM
It then took Josh two hours to get home.
"He just said he was driving around West Valley City," Peterson said. "He wasn't in a big hurry to get home and find his wife. It's just a really crappy situation."
JP LIES TO THAT HE IS AT WORK, THEN HE IS CAMPING 5:27
Jennifer Graves, (sister to Joshua Powell), called Joshua Powell at 5:27PM and asked him where he had been. Joshua Powell responded saying he was at work.When Jemiifer Graves told Joshua Powell she knew he was lying, Joshua Powell then changed his story telling her that he was camping. Jennifer Graves told Joshua Powell that he needed to return home that the police were there and that Susan Powell was missing. Joshua Powell asked her, how much she knew, Jennifer Graves didn’t understand why Joshua Powell asked this question and Joshua Powell disconnected.
LE CONTACTS JP BUT HE HAS TO STOP FOR FOOD? 5:48
Detective Maxwell was able to establish phone contact with Joshua Powell by using Jennifer Graves mobile phone at 5:48 PM. Detective Maxwell told Joshua Powell to return home, Joshua Powell advised he had to stop and get his children something to eat first. Detective Maxwell informed your Affiant that Joshua Powell didn’t arrive at the residence until 6:40 PM.
Date: Dec 7, 2009 6:40 PM Monday
after they arrive at home
LE SEES JP LIES ABOUT NOT HAVING PHONE CHARGER 6:40PM
When Joshua Powell arrived at the residence Detective Maxwell approached Joshua Powell on the passenger side of Joshua Powell’s vehicle while Joshua Powell was still in his vehicle. Detective Maxwell asked Joshua Powell why he didn’t answer his mobile phone or call anyone earlier in the day. Joshua Powell told Detective Maxwell that he had to keep his mobile phone off to preserve the battery that he didn’t have a phone charger. Detective Maxwell clearly saw Joshua Powell’s mobile phone sitting on the center console plugged into a cigarette lighter phone charger.
7:00 PM Josh and his boys are taken the police station to be interviewed.
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Date: Dec 8, 2009 Tuesday
See Timeline December 8, 2009: Susan Cox Powell Case
Highlights:
===================================Date: December 9, 2009 Wednesday
Morning: Police search Powell house and remove boxes, bags and computer
Morning: Steven Powell takes 2nd sick day
1:50 Kiirsi said Josh planned to meet Jovanna and her husband for lunch Friday. On his way to meet them, Josh saw reporters and didn't want to be confronted. He contacted the Hellewells who agreed to meet him outside a grocery store." Josh got in their car and joined the Hellewell's at their home for lunch, leaving the van behind.
4:30 PM When the three returned to the grocery store parking lot so Josh could retrieve his van they were met by police with a search warrant and tow truck.
7:30 PM Police say Josh can pick up his van
7:40 PM Josh shows up at Tim Peterson's door with windburned hands to pick up van. Speculation wind burn could be from burying body without gloves. Peterson's neighbor on E! says that he drives Josh to get a rental car. He says he needs to buy new shoes because his shoes are caked in mud. He also says he needs t to buy a new comforter (because the comforter he put on Susan was covered in blood, and was the same blood stained comforter that was recovered from his storage rental?)
10:30 PM Josh rents Ford Focus at Salt Lake City Aiport
Dec. 9, 2009: Police started searching the Powell residence in West Valley City, Utah, about 10 miles (16 km) outside Salt Lake City, for any clues into Susan’s disappearance; Josh wasn’t yet named a suspect Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/07/timeline-the-powell-familys-tragic-two-years/#ixzz1mO1uD0iB
Joshua 'Josh' Powell back in Utah, police issue a warrant and seize his van
January 30, 1:50 AM
JoVonna Owings, a friend of both Susan and Kiirsi, said, "I talked to Kiirsi today and she said Josh planned to meet her and her husband for lunch Friday. On his way to meet them, Josh saw reporters and didn't want to be confronted. He contacted the Hellewells who agreed to meet him outside a grocery store."
Josh got in their car and joined the Hellewell's at their home for lunch, leaving the van behind. When the three returned to the grocery store parking lot so Josh could retrieve his van they were met by police with a search warrant and tow truck.
“Police seized the van at 4:30 p.m. and returned it to Josh about three hours later,” Kiirsi said in an email this evening.
Owings stated she believes Josh has plans to lease the home where he, his wife, and two children lived before Susan disappeared, to a neighbor.
Friends and family have noted that Josh has been less talkative since Susan went missing, and that his demeanor has changed. “Yes, though he is more talkative with us now than he was,” Kiirsi said.
Josh’s sister, Jennifer Graves, said in a phone interview this evening that, “Josh hasn’t opened up at all. He used to be talkative to the extreme, dominating conversations to the point you couldn’t get a word in edgewise.”
“Now,” she says, “He just goes on about things that don’t matter.”
Article: http://www.examiner.com/x-34328-Seattle-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m1d30-Joshua-Josh-Powell-back-in-Utah-police-issue-a-warrant-and-seize-his-van
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UPDATE X: Josh Powell rented a car two days after Susan went missing, driving hundreds of miles in a 24 hour period.
It's once again very strange behavior for a man who would presumably be in the midst of a desperate search to find his wife. What? Did he suddenly have a series of long-distance errands that just had to be knocked off? But since Josh isn't talking, and the car didn't have a GPS, police are at a loss about where he traveled that day.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865553477/Steve-Powell-called-in-sick-the-day-after-his-daughter-in-law-was-reported-missing.html
4:20 PM
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865553477/Steve-Powell-called-in-sick-the-day-after-his-daughter-in-law-was-reported-missing.html
On Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, Josh Powell activated a new cellphone in Tremonton near the Utah-Idaho border. The phone was activated at 4:20 p.m. {that is same time his van got towed, makes no sense}
1:30 PM Josh Powell's house searched until 4:00PM
2:00 PM Susan Powell's parents in Puyallup talk to reporters, question Josh's story
7:00 PM Josh Powell returns rental car after putting 800 miles on it
9:00 PM About 100 of Susan Powell's friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members — including, for a short time, her husband and two sons — gathered in the cold at a candlelight vigil Thursday night at West View Park. In addition to holding lighted candles, they prayed for Susan Powell's safe return, shared stories about her, passed out missing-person fliers and sang "Silent Night."
Fox news reports on missing mother since monday
Friends distribute flyers
Hellewell started a Facebook group with updates about her friend.
Josh is a person of interest
Investigators search Pony Express Trail near Simpson Springs in Tooele County for evidence of camping
Authorities stick to proving Josh's theory that Susan left, refuse to comment on possibility of murder.
Asked if those are common items left behind by someone who decided to leave he answered “ one would usually think those items would be taken but in and of itself does not show a crime,”
Asked if she was murdered he said “Like I said, there are many possible solutions to this situation and that’s as far as I’m going to go.”
Chuck Cox announces he will fly to Salt Lake on Friday
Time: 1:30PM
Susan Powell's family speaks as police serve a search warrant at her house
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - The family of Susan Powell talked with reporters Thursday from their hometown of Puyallup, Washington. At the same time, police in West Valley City, Utah were back at the Powell home with another search warrant.
Detectives and forensic investigators arrived around 1:30 p.m. and didn't leave until just before 4:00 p.m. They took swabs of something on the front steps and a window sill. They removed brown paper sacks of items from the home.
...this was at least the 3rd visit by a crime scene investigation unit to the home since Susan Powell disappeared a week ago Sunday
Joshua Powell, Susan's husband, has been named as a person of interest in her disappearance.
...they dispute his account of the night Susan disappeared. ...Speaking for the Cox family, Shelby Gifford said Susan would never have let her kids go camping on such a night. "That's a huge red flag to the family. Susan is an exceptional mother and those boys are her whole life. She is as nurturing and protective of a mother as I've ever met."
from: http://www.abc4.com/mostpopular/story/Susan-Powells-family-speaks-as-police-serve-a/NfKznDTU8kWl1-KA6JRyiw.cspx
Time: 3:30 PM
Time: 7:00 PM
Joshua Powell "Very Intelligent" Former Associates Say (date?)
His responses in a 2News interview last week were slow, but Joshua Powell is being cast as an intelligent man by several former business associates.
"I definitely think he's intelligent, a very bright guy," said Charles Sipes, a real estate broker at a firm where Powell once worked. "I would say he was masterful in creating a marketing presence."
According to Sipes, Powell launched a multi-faceted approach to drum up real estate business, with a website, grocery store ads, even magnets with his name and number that went out in Yellow Books across the Salt Lake Valley.
Powell's expertise was echoed by a person for whom he did web work, through a company know as "Polished Marketing."
The individual called him "very smart" and said, "He completely changed our website...which resulted in more positive feedback."
Their descriptions may belie Joshua Powell's televised persona since his wife Susan disappeared.
But Sipes told 2News Powell often spoke in a halting fashion at the real estate office, calling the speech pattern "typical Josh."
Powell apparently still maintains a real estate site, and lists the same address as his former employer, though he has not worked there in a year.
What's more, the site may have been updated a couple of days after Susan vanished. A link on the site directs users to a link for a real estate article, dated December 9, 2009.
Further, while Joshua Powell declared bankruptcy in 2007, listing more than $187,000 in unsecured debt, his real estate site offers "credit repair tips."
http://connect2utah.com/content/news/story/?cid=67802
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579961,00.html?test=latestnews
Stockbroker Mom Disappears in Utah, Husband Questioned
Thursday , December 10, 2009
Family members and police have stepped up their search for a Utah mother of two who vanished over the weekend. Stockbroker Susan Powell, 28, has been missing since Sunday. Her husband Josh says he last saw her getting ready for bed about 12:30 a.m. and left her sleeping while he went camping with the couple's two young sons. Powell's purse, cell phone and car were found at their home in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City.
Initially, the entire family was unaccounted for — until the missing woman's husband turned up with the boys and without Powell, her father Chuck Cox said in an interview with Fox News.
JOSH STORY COMES UNDER SCRUTINY
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8986844
Police may have 'areas' to check in missing woman case
December 10, 2009
WEST VALLEY CITY -- Police said Thursday they may have some "areas" to check as they follow-up on the case of a missing West Valley woman.
West Valley police Capt. Tom McLachlan said those areas are based on statements made by Susan Powell's husband, Josh Powell. Still, McLachlan declined to elaborate on what or where the areas are.
Susan Powell,28, disappeared Sunday. Her father, Charles Cox, told KSL News Josh said he took the couple's children camping Sunday night and came home Monday to find his wife missing. Cox says his daughter's cell phone and purse were left behind.
"The thing that doesn't add up is Susan is still missing," McLachlan said. "We don't know where she's at, and there's been no contact with her family or friends."
Now Josh Powell's story may be coming under scrutiny. McLachlan said the idea of Josh taking his toddler and 4-year-old camping in very cold whether during the disappearance raises questions, but he said Josh has been cooperative with police
FRIENDS HAND OUT FLIERS
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8986844
friends of Susan distributed fliers Thursday with Susan's picture and description.
Tami Allen used to live in Susan's neighborhood and brought fliers to her work. She was spreading the word about Susan's disappearance to all her tenants at the storage facility where she works.
POLICE ARE TIGHT LIPPED AND WON'T SAY IF FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705350544/Few-details-on-missing-WV-mom-2-just-anxiety.html
West Valley police are being very tight-lipped about the case. They have asked for the public's help to find her, yet won't say where or when or how the husband and children were found or where they had been. Investigators have also declined to answer questions about whether foul play is suspected or what Josh Powell has told police during interviews, though they did say that all of the Powell family's vehicles were accounted for
TOWN IS SUSPICOUS OF DISAPPEARANCE BUT NOT OF JOSH?
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705350711/West-Valley-police-neighbors-call-Susan-Powells-disappearance-suspicious.html
West Valley police, neighbors call Susan Powell's disappearance 'suspicious'
By Emiley Morgan
Deseret News
Published: Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 11:40 p.m. MST
WEST VALLEY CITY — There are many theories about what could have happened to Susan Powell.
There are also assumptions about what already has happened.
But almost everyone who knows her agrees that Powell would never have left her two young boys, one reason why police are now calling the 28-year-old's disappearance "suspicious."
McLachlan said Susan Powell "left items at the house that you would normally associate if you were going on a trip or going somewhere." Susan Powell's father, Chuck Cox, said his daughter's purse and cell phone were still at the home.
{at this point Josh speaks well of Susan, later he says she ran off with another man} Josh Powell described his wife as a "really good mother" who enjoys singing in her church choir and doing art projects with her boys. "She really takes care of us," he said. "She's really committed to the family, and I guess she puts up with me, too, and does a good job of it."
No one has an explanation about where she could be — not police, friends or family. [but on the internet, they think Josh killer her. No one is willing to publicly accuse Josh of the obvious at this point]
WORD ON INTERNET IS THAT JOSH KILLED SUSAN
bbs: klaasend:
IMO, he killed her.
Date: Dec 8, 2009 Tuesday
See Timeline December 8, 2009: Susan Cox Powell Case
Highlights:
- Josh and his boys don't return until tuesday (some reports monday). They have been gone from the house over 24 hours. (or 17 hours)
- Father Steven Powell, also person of interest, takes off 2 sick days Dec 8 and 9, probably to met Josh halfway to Washington (854 miles, 14 hr drive) Car was returned with over 800 miles. Information released April 2012
- Salt Lake Tribune posts article that police are looking for Susan Powell
- Joshua Powell left the police station and rented a Ford Focus from Hertz Rental car at the Salt Lake International Airport on December 08 2009 at about 10:30 PM.
- On the day Steven Powell took time off work, Tuesday, Dec. 8, Josh Powell surrendered his cellphone and his minivan to police for examination. He then rented a Ford Focus at the Salt Lake City International Airport at 10:30 p.m in warrant released end of march 2012.
===================================Date: December 9, 2009 Wednesday
Morning: Police search Powell house and remove boxes, bags and computer
Morning: Steven Powell takes 2nd sick day
1:50 Kiirsi said Josh planned to meet Jovanna and her husband for lunch Friday. On his way to meet them, Josh saw reporters and didn't want to be confronted. He contacted the Hellewells who agreed to meet him outside a grocery store." Josh got in their car and joined the Hellewell's at their home for lunch, leaving the van behind.
4:30 PM When the three returned to the grocery store parking lot so Josh could retrieve his van they were met by police with a search warrant and tow truck.
7:30 PM Police say Josh can pick up his van
7:40 PM Josh shows up at Tim Peterson's door with windburned hands to pick up van. Speculation wind burn could be from burying body without gloves. Peterson's neighbor on E! says that he drives Josh to get a rental car. He says he needs to buy new shoes because his shoes are caked in mud. He also says he needs t to buy a new comforter (because the comforter he put on Susan was covered in blood, and was the same blood stained comforter that was recovered from his storage rental?)
10:30 PM Josh rents Ford Focus at Salt Lake City Aiport
Police serve a search warrant on the Powell residence and remove boxes, bags and a computer.
Searching for Susan Powell: Neighbor describes husband's odd behavior
BY SHEENA MCFARLAND THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PUBLISHED DECEMBER 23, 2009 7:40 PM When Joshua Powell showed up at Tim Peterson's door with extremely wind-burned hands two days after his wife went missing, asking for a ride to the police station to get his van, he seemed "pretty unfazed." "We kept asking about Susan, but all he could talk about was the new clothes and phone he had gotten at Walmart after the police took his stuff for evidence," Peterson said Wednesday about his neighbor. Joshua Powell seemed to have that lax attitude from the beginning.
"I wanted to say 'Man, this just isn't adding up,' but I didn't, I was loving and supportive," Peterson said.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported Powell wouldn't answer questions about his missing wife, only saying he didn't know where she was and that he wasn't actively looking for her because the police were handling that, Peterson said. "This guy was absolutely a crackpot and there was just something wrong with this whole situation," Peterson said.
Dec. 9, 2009: Police started searching the Powell residence in West Valley City, Utah, about 10 miles (16 km) outside Salt Lake City, for any clues into Susan’s disappearance; Josh wasn’t yet named a suspect Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/07/timeline-the-powell-familys-tragic-two-years/#ixzz1mO1uD0iB
Joshua 'Josh' Powell back in Utah, police issue a warrant and seize his van
January 30, 1:50 AM
JoVonna Owings, a friend of both Susan and Kiirsi, said, "I talked to Kiirsi today and she said Josh planned to meet her and her husband for lunch Friday. On his way to meet them, Josh saw reporters and didn't want to be confronted. He contacted the Hellewells who agreed to meet him outside a grocery store."
Josh got in their car and joined the Hellewell's at their home for lunch, leaving the van behind. When the three returned to the grocery store parking lot so Josh could retrieve his van they were met by police with a search warrant and tow truck.
“Police seized the van at 4:30 p.m. and returned it to Josh about three hours later,” Kiirsi said in an email this evening.
Owings stated she believes Josh has plans to lease the home where he, his wife, and two children lived before Susan disappeared, to a neighbor.
Friends and family have noted that Josh has been less talkative since Susan went missing, and that his demeanor has changed. “Yes, though he is more talkative with us now than he was,” Kiirsi said.
Josh’s sister, Jennifer Graves, said in a phone interview this evening that, “Josh hasn’t opened up at all. He used to be talkative to the extreme, dominating conversations to the point you couldn’t get a word in edgewise.”
“Now,” she says, “He just goes on about things that don’t matter.”
Article: http://www.examiner.com/x-34328-Seattle-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m1d30-Joshua-Josh-Powell-back-in-Utah-police-issue-a-warrant-and-seize-his-van
/http://www.truecrimereport.com/2009/12/stockbroker_susan_powell_missi.php
UPDATE X: Josh Powell rented a car two days after Susan went missing, driving hundreds of miles in a 24 hour period.
It's once again very strange behavior for a man who would presumably be in the midst of a desperate search to find his wife. What? Did he suddenly have a series of long-distance errands that just had to be knocked off? But since Josh isn't talking, and the car didn't have a GPS, police are at a loss about where he traveled that day.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865553477/Steve-Powell-called-in-sick-the-day-after-his-daughter-in-law-was-reported-missing.html
He then rented a Ford Focus at the Salt Lake City International Airport at 10:30 p.m., according to a recently unsealed search warrant.
police in West Valley City, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, are trying to determine where Joshua Powell traveled in a rental car two days after Susan was reported to have disappeared. He reportedly logged hundreds of miles on the rental vehicle, the Deseret News reported.
Joshua Powell — a person of interest in his wife's disappearance — rented the car for 24 hours while police had his minivan in custody to process it for evidence.
Police are now looking into where he drove during that 24-hour period because the car lacked a GPS tracking device but had "several hundred" extra miles on it when he returned it to the rental car company, the Deseret News reported.
Police did not hear from 34-year-old Joshua Powell during that period of time, the paper reported.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580882,00.html?test=latestnews#ixzz1mEdPJqsz 4:20 PM
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865553477/Steve-Powell-called-in-sick-the-day-after-his-daughter-in-law-was-reported-missing.html
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8986844
Neighbor: Husband acted oddly during conversation Wednesday night
December 10th, 2009 @ 5:58pm
WEST VALLEY CITY -- While police continue their investigation into the case of a missing West Valley woman, her neighbor is opening up about a conversation he had with her husband Wednesday night.
Susan Powell, 28, disappeared Sunday. Her father, Charles Cox, told KSL News her husband, Josh Powell, said he took the couple's children camping Sunday night and came home Monday to find his wife missing.
Neighbor talks about conversation with Josh Powell
The couples' neighbor Tim Peterson told KSL News that Josh asked him for a ride Wednesday night to pick up his van, which police had searched. He said Josh's behavior was odd and he didn't know what to make of it.
She's a friend of ours, and this is tearing us up," Peterson said.
Like many others, Peterson has a lot of questions about Susan's disappearance, and he didn't get any answers from Josh.
"He'd only had like six hours of sleep in two days, and so he was just kind of in a haze. He just really wasn't himself," Peterson said. "Anytime we mentioned Susan, he didn't, he wouldn't respond. He wouldn't talk about her."
But Peterson said Josh did talk about having to buy new clothes and a new quilt. He said Josh also told him he last saw Susan just after midnight Monday, when he left with his two young boys to go camping.
Peterson said Josh told him they went camping to test a new generator and make s'mores.
"I said, ‘That's kind of odd, isn't it?' And he says, ‘We do things like that all the time.' He says, ‘I just get them up, they use the bathroom, and load them in the vehicle, and we go,'" Peterson said.
In August, Peterson said Susan confided in him that she and her husband were going to start marriage counseling. He said she told him Josh was very controlling.
"He's kind of in charge. He's in charge of everything: in charge of the computer, in charge of the house, in charge of the kids, in charge of her," Peterson said.
He said Susan also told him if things didn't get better by spring, she'd leave her husband. He hopes that had nothing to do with her disappearance.
"We love the Powells. We are praying for Susan," Peterson said
Susan Powell's husband had wind-burned hands, took time getting home, neighbor says
Missing wife » Family friend says Joshua Powell seemed unconcerned about wife's disappearance.
By Sheena Mcfarland
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 12/23/2009 04:20:06 PM MST When Joshua Powell showed up at Tim Peterson's door with extremely wind-burned hands two days after his wife went missing, asking for a ride to the police station to get his van, he seemed "pretty unfazed.""We kept asking about Susan, but all he could talk about was the new clothes and phone he had gotten at Walmart after the police took his stuff for evidence," Peterson said Wednesday about his neighbor.
Neighbor: Husband acted oddly during conversation Wednesday night
December 10th, 2009 @ 5:58pm
WEST VALLEY CITY -- While police continue their investigation into the case of a missing West Valley woman, her neighbor is opening up about a conversation he had with her husband Wednesday night.
Susan Powell, 28, disappeared Sunday. Her father, Charles Cox, told KSL News her husband, Josh Powell, said he took the couple's children camping Sunday night and came home Monday to find his wife missing.
Neighbor talks about conversation with Josh Powell
The couples' neighbor Tim Peterson told KSL News that Josh asked him for a ride Wednesday night to pick up his van, which police had searched. He said Josh's behavior was odd and he didn't know what to make of it.
She's a friend of ours, and this is tearing us up," Peterson said.
Like many others, Peterson has a lot of questions about Susan's disappearance, and he didn't get any answers from Josh.
"He'd only had like six hours of sleep in two days, and so he was just kind of in a haze. He just really wasn't himself," Peterson said. "Anytime we mentioned Susan, he didn't, he wouldn't respond. He wouldn't talk about her."
But Peterson said Josh did talk about having to buy new clothes and a new quilt. He said Josh also told him he last saw Susan just after midnight Monday, when he left with his two young boys to go camping.
Peterson said Josh told him they went camping to test a new generator and make s'mores.
"I said, ‘That's kind of odd, isn't it?' And he says, ‘We do things like that all the time.' He says, ‘I just get them up, they use the bathroom, and load them in the vehicle, and we go,'" Peterson said.
In August, Peterson said Susan confided in him that she and her husband were going to start marriage counseling. He said she told him Josh was very controlling.
"He's kind of in charge. He's in charge of everything: in charge of the computer, in charge of the house, in charge of the kids, in charge of her," Peterson said.
He said Susan also told him if things didn't get better by spring, she'd leave her husband. He hopes that had nothing to do with her disappearance.
"We love the Powells. We are praying for Susan," Peterson said
Wind Burned Hands - Digging a Grave Without Gloves?
http://boards.library.trutv.com/archive/index.php/t-295990-p-2.html?s=b54a7bd533a9aebc2302f9b13420d3ea
wind149
12-23-2009, 05:31 PM
Well there you have it, windburned hands from digging a grave without gloves?
12-23-2009, 05:39 PM
Missing wife » Family friend says Joshua Powell seemed unconcerned about wife's disappearance.
By Sheena Mcfarland
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 12/23/2009 04:20:06 PM MST When Joshua Powell showed up at Tim Peterson's door with extremely wind-burned hands two days after his wife went missing, asking for a ride to the police station to get his van, he seemed "pretty unfazed.""We kept asking about Susan, but all he could talk about was the new clothes and phone he had gotten at Walmart after the police took his stuff for evidence," Peterson said Wednesday about his neighbor.
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Date: December 10, 2009 Thursday1:30 PM Josh Powell's house searched until 4:00PM
2:00 PM Susan Powell's parents in Puyallup talk to reporters, question Josh's story
7:00 PM Josh Powell returns rental car after putting 800 miles on it
9:00 PM About 100 of Susan Powell's friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members — including, for a short time, her husband and two sons — gathered in the cold at a candlelight vigil Thursday night at West View Park. In addition to holding lighted candles, they prayed for Susan Powell's safe return, shared stories about her, passed out missing-person fliers and sang "Silent Night."
Fox news reports on missing mother since monday
Friends distribute flyers
Hellewell started a Facebook group with updates about her friend.
Josh is a person of interest
Investigators search Pony Express Trail near Simpson Springs in Tooele County for evidence of camping
Authorities stick to proving Josh's theory that Susan left, refuse to comment on possibility of murder.
Asked if those are common items left behind by someone who decided to leave he answered “ one would usually think those items would be taken but in and of itself does not show a crime,”
Asked if she was murdered he said “Like I said, there are many possible solutions to this situation and that’s as far as I’m going to go.”
Chuck Cox announces he will fly to Salt Lake on Friday
Time: 1:30PM
Susan Powell's family speaks as police serve a search warrant at her house
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - The family of Susan Powell talked with reporters Thursday from their hometown of Puyallup, Washington. At the same time, police in West Valley City, Utah were back at the Powell home with another search warrant.
Detectives and forensic investigators arrived around 1:30 p.m. and didn't leave until just before 4:00 p.m. They took swabs of something on the front steps and a window sill. They removed brown paper sacks of items from the home.
...this was at least the 3rd visit by a crime scene investigation unit to the home since Susan Powell disappeared a week ago Sunday
Joshua Powell, Susan's husband, has been named as a person of interest in her disappearance.
...they dispute his account of the night Susan disappeared. ...Speaking for the Cox family, Shelby Gifford said Susan would never have let her kids go camping on such a night. "That's a huge red flag to the family. Susan is an exceptional mother and those boys are her whole life. She is as nurturing and protective of a mother as I've ever met."
from: http://www.abc4.com/mostpopular/story/Susan-Powells-family-speaks-as-police-serve-a/NfKznDTU8kWl1-KA6JRyiw.cspx
Time: 3:30 PM
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top%20stories/story/Police-say-husband-Person-of-Interest/Betj-Tpn5kOnRDFMiGeogQ.cspx
Police say husband "Person of Interest"
Reported by: Marcos Ortiz
Last Update: 3:08 pm
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) – Police say they found no evidence at a campsite as they continue to search for a missing mom.
Susan Powell disappeared from her home Sunday night and hasn’t been seen.
Police now say that her husband Josh Powell is a person of interest and plan to interview him for a third time Friday.
Investigators focused their search Thursday at the Pony Express Trail near Simpson Springs in Tooele County.
“We were looking for evidence that someone went in there and went camping, that’s what we were looking for," said WVC police Captain Tom McLachlan.
Josh Powell told police that he took his two boys, ages 4 and 2, camping late Sunday night. He told police that his wife was sleeping at the home when they left.
According to friends, Powell claims to have left around 12:30 a.m. Monday morning.
Captain McLachlan said they didn’t find any evidence of anyone being at the campsite.
“With the snowstorm everything was pretty well covered over,” he said. “You can’t tell any tire tracks or anything else.”
Captain McLachlan said investigators took cadaver dogs but they could not pick up any scent.
He said that Powell is not considered a suspect at this stage of the investigation.
“We do hope and intent to re-interview him again,” Cpt. McLachlan said.
The police captain did confirm that a Powell’s purse, credit cards and cell phone were among the items taken when they searched the home earlier this week.
And when asked if those are common items left behind by someone who decided to leave he answered this way: “My answer to that is one would usually think those items would be taken but in and of itself does not show a crime,” he said. “This is still a missing person case and our first concern is Susan and locating her, making sure she’s all right.
When asked if she was murdered he said “Like I said, there are many possible solutions to this situation and that’s as far as I’m going to go.”
Meanwhile Powell’s father who lives in a suburb of Seattle spoke with the local ABC affiliate KOMO 4. Chuck Cox offered more details about what police found inside the home.
“They found a wet spot on the floor being dried by two fans,” Cox said. He spoke with Josh Powell Tuesday and said that he offered little insight as to where Susan was.
“I don’t think she’s okay,” he said. “No one has heard from her. Josh and the kids are back and she would not leave her children and she would not leave her purse.
Cox told friends of Susan that he and his wife are headed to Salt Lake City Friday.
A facebook www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=198478842187&topic=15637#/group.php?v=wall&gid=198478842187 comprised of friends of Susan Powell indicated that a massive search by volunteers is gaining momentum.
Police say husband "Person of Interest"
Reported by: Marcos Ortiz
Last Update: 3:08 pm
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) – Police say they found no evidence at a campsite as they continue to search for a missing mom.
Susan Powell disappeared from her home Sunday night and hasn’t been seen.
Police now say that her husband Josh Powell is a person of interest and plan to interview him for a third time Friday.
Investigators focused their search Thursday at the Pony Express Trail near Simpson Springs in Tooele County.
“We were looking for evidence that someone went in there and went camping, that’s what we were looking for," said WVC police Captain Tom McLachlan.
Josh Powell told police that he took his two boys, ages 4 and 2, camping late Sunday night. He told police that his wife was sleeping at the home when they left.
According to friends, Powell claims to have left around 12:30 a.m. Monday morning.
Captain McLachlan said they didn’t find any evidence of anyone being at the campsite.
“With the snowstorm everything was pretty well covered over,” he said. “You can’t tell any tire tracks or anything else.”
Captain McLachlan said investigators took cadaver dogs but they could not pick up any scent.
He said that Powell is not considered a suspect at this stage of the investigation.
“We do hope and intent to re-interview him again,” Cpt. McLachlan said.
The police captain did confirm that a Powell’s purse, credit cards and cell phone were among the items taken when they searched the home earlier this week.
And when asked if those are common items left behind by someone who decided to leave he answered this way: “My answer to that is one would usually think those items would be taken but in and of itself does not show a crime,” he said. “This is still a missing person case and our first concern is Susan and locating her, making sure she’s all right.
When asked if she was murdered he said “Like I said, there are many possible solutions to this situation and that’s as far as I’m going to go.”
Meanwhile Powell’s father who lives in a suburb of Seattle spoke with the local ABC affiliate KOMO 4. Chuck Cox offered more details about what police found inside the home.
“They found a wet spot on the floor being dried by two fans,” Cox said. He spoke with Josh Powell Tuesday and said that he offered little insight as to where Susan was.
“I don’t think she’s okay,” he said. “No one has heard from her. Josh and the kids are back and she would not leave her children and she would not leave her purse.
Cox told friends of Susan that he and his wife are headed to Salt Lake City Friday.
A facebook www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=198478842187&topic=15637#/group.php?v=wall&gid=198478842187 comprised of friends of Susan Powell indicated that a massive search by volunteers is gaining momentum.
fatcatlurker:
I wonder what the wet spot on the floor of the house is?{Blood they would keep secret until 2012} Two fans? The floor must of been soaked. I think it's just a matter of time. No way this woman just walked out without her children. She seems like she was letting those around her know that she had concerns and fear about her situation and she wanted them to be on the look out for her.
I wonder what the wet spot on the floor of the house is?{Blood they would keep secret until 2012} Two fans? The floor must of been soaked. I think it's just a matter of time. No way this woman just walked out without her children. She seems like she was letting those around her know that she had concerns and fear about her situation and she wanted them to be on the look out for her.
Time: 7:00 PM
On Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m., Josh Powell returned the rental car after having put more than 800 miles on it in a little less than 48 hours.
7:00 PM About 100 of Susan Powell's friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members — including, for a short time, her husband and two sons — gathered in the cold at a candlelight vigil Thursday night at West View Park. In addition to holding lighted candles, they prayed for Susan Powell's safe return, shared stories about her, passed out missing-person fliers and sang "Silent Night."
*** Josh must have gone after returning the rental car, did he take the boys with him?? ***
Time?
Police searched the area where Josh said he was camping and failed to find any signs of his campsite. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/07/timeline-the-powell-familys-tragic-two-years/#ixzz1mO28wGRU
Time?
Joshua Powell "Very Intelligent" Former Associates Say (date?)
His responses in a 2News interview last week were slow, but Joshua Powell is being cast as an intelligent man by several former business associates.
"I definitely think he's intelligent, a very bright guy," said Charles Sipes, a real estate broker at a firm where Powell once worked. "I would say he was masterful in creating a marketing presence."
According to Sipes, Powell launched a multi-faceted approach to drum up real estate business, with a website, grocery store ads, even magnets with his name and number that went out in Yellow Books across the Salt Lake Valley.
Powell's expertise was echoed by a person for whom he did web work, through a company know as "Polished Marketing."
The individual called him "very smart" and said, "He completely changed our website...which resulted in more positive feedback."
Their descriptions may belie Joshua Powell's televised persona since his wife Susan disappeared.
But Sipes told 2News Powell often spoke in a halting fashion at the real estate office, calling the speech pattern "typical Josh."
Powell apparently still maintains a real estate site, and lists the same address as his former employer, though he has not worked there in a year.
What's more, the site may have been updated a couple of days after Susan vanished. A link on the site directs users to a link for a real estate article, dated December 9, 2009.
Further, while Joshua Powell declared bankruptcy in 2007, listing more than $187,000 in unsecured debt, his real estate site offers "credit repair tips."
http://connect2utah.com/content/news/story/?cid=67802
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579961,00.html?test=latestnews
Stockbroker Mom Disappears in Utah, Husband Questioned
Thursday , December 10, 2009
Family members and police have stepped up their search for a Utah mother of two who vanished over the weekend. Stockbroker Susan Powell, 28, has been missing since Sunday. Her husband Josh says he last saw her getting ready for bed about 12:30 a.m. and left her sleeping while he went camping with the couple's two young sons. Powell's purse, cell phone and car were found at their home in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City.
Initially, the entire family was unaccounted for — until the missing woman's husband turned up with the boys and without Powell, her father Chuck Cox said in an interview with Fox News.
JOSH STORY COMES UNDER SCRUTINY
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8986844
Police may have 'areas' to check in missing woman case
December 10, 2009
WEST VALLEY CITY -- Police said Thursday they may have some "areas" to check as they follow-up on the case of a missing West Valley woman.
West Valley police Capt. Tom McLachlan said those areas are based on statements made by Susan Powell's husband, Josh Powell. Still, McLachlan declined to elaborate on what or where the areas are.
Susan Powell,28, disappeared Sunday. Her father, Charles Cox, told KSL News Josh said he took the couple's children camping Sunday night and came home Monday to find his wife missing. Cox says his daughter's cell phone and purse were left behind.
"The thing that doesn't add up is Susan is still missing," McLachlan said. "We don't know where she's at, and there's been no contact with her family or friends."
Now Josh Powell's story may be coming under scrutiny. McLachlan said the idea of Josh taking his toddler and 4-year-old camping in very cold whether during the disappearance raises questions, but he said Josh has been cooperative with police
FRIENDS HAND OUT FLIERS
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8986844
friends of Susan distributed fliers Thursday with Susan's picture and description.
Tami Allen used to live in Susan's neighborhood and brought fliers to her work. She was spreading the word about Susan's disappearance to all her tenants at the storage facility where she works.
POLICE ARE TIGHT LIPPED AND WON'T SAY IF FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705350544/Few-details-on-missing-WV-mom-2-just-anxiety.html
West Valley police are being very tight-lipped about the case. They have asked for the public's help to find her, yet won't say where or when or how the husband and children were found or where they had been. Investigators have also declined to answer questions about whether foul play is suspected or what Josh Powell has told police during interviews, though they did say that all of the Powell family's vehicles were accounted for
TOWN IS SUSPICOUS OF DISAPPEARANCE BUT NOT OF JOSH?
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705350711/West-Valley-police-neighbors-call-Susan-Powells-disappearance-suspicious.html
West Valley police, neighbors call Susan Powell's disappearance 'suspicious'
By Emiley Morgan
Deseret News
Published: Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 11:40 p.m. MST
WEST VALLEY CITY — There are many theories about what could have happened to Susan Powell.
There are also assumptions about what already has happened.
But almost everyone who knows her agrees that Powell would never have left her two young boys, one reason why police are now calling the 28-year-old's disappearance "suspicious."
McLachlan said Susan Powell "left items at the house that you would normally associate if you were going on a trip or going somewhere." Susan Powell's father, Chuck Cox, said his daughter's purse and cell phone were still at the home.
{at this point Josh speaks well of Susan, later he says she ran off with another man} Josh Powell described his wife as a "really good mother" who enjoys singing in her church choir and doing art projects with her boys. "She really takes care of us," he said. "She's really committed to the family, and I guess she puts up with me, too, and does a good job of it."
No one has an explanation about where she could be — not police, friends or family. [but on the internet, they think Josh killer her. No one is willing to publicly accuse Josh of the obvious at this point]
WORD ON INTERNET IS THAT JOSH KILLED SUSAN
bbs: klaasend:
IMO, he killed her.
More chatter:
December 10, 2009, 08:47:38 PM
OMG..... WTF was that??? This guy will be in jail before the weekend ;)
And my bet is he's going to start crying and confess
San disagrees, she doesn't think he's man enough to confess. I think he's such a GIRL he will. He is a waste of air.
OMG..... WTF was that??? This guy will be in jail before the weekend ;)
And my bet is he's going to start crying and confess
San disagrees, she doesn't think he's man enough to confess. I think he's such a GIRL he will. He is a waste of air.
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Date: December 11, 2009 Friday — Police report that snow hampers their search efforts in the Simpson Springs area of Tooele County.
LAST LETTER RECOVERED PREDICTS MURDER BUT KEPT SECRET UNTIL 2012
Date: ??
Detective Larry Marx recovered information from a safe deposit box at Wells Fargo Bank located at 5580 West Amelia Earhart Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah. Detective Maxwell reviewed and inspected these items. Safe deposit records indicated that Susan opened this safe deposit box and had only accessed it two times. There were no other authorized persons with access to this. Inside this safe deposit box was a folded letter, stapled around the edges addressed to her family and fiiends specifically asking that it not be shown or given to her husband Joshua Powell, writing that she did not trust him. This letter is dated June 28, 2008, addressed as being written by Susan Powell, signed with a sigiature which appears similar to the signature on Susan Powell's Utah State driver‘s
license number, 172504259, and the signature on the safe deposit box form. The letter is titled, "Last will & testament for Susan Powell". This is hand written and Susan Powell writes how she does not trust her husband and that he has threatened to destroy her if they get divorced and her children will not have a mother and father. The letter states that Susan Powell and her husband Joshua Powell have been having marital problems for the past fom years and if something were to happen to her, she requests the reader to speak with her sister-n-law Jennifer Graves. Also, stated in the letter is a statement about, if Susan Powell dies it may not be an accident, even if it looks like one.
license number, 172504259, and the signature on the safe deposit box form. The letter is titled, "Last will & testament for Susan Powell". This is hand written and Susan Powell writes how she does not trust her husband and that he has threatened to destroy her if they get divorced and her children will not have a mother and father. The letter states that Susan Powell and her husband Joshua Powell have been having marital problems for the past fom years and if something were to happen to her, she requests the reader to speak with her sister-n-law Jennifer Graves. Also, stated in the letter is a statement about, if Susan Powell dies it may not be an accident, even if it looks like one.
{This letter is kept sealed and secret, away from Susan's family and friends until end of March 2012 for unknown reasons, perhaps to prevent Josh from being charged until evidence is complete}
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Date: December 12, 2009 Saturday
- Chuck Cox and police wonder about wet spot with 2 fans pointed at it.
- Chuck thinks maybe it was just an accident and went to hospital
- Josh shows up at vigil in park
- Chuck Cox thinks Josh is not capable of harm, and asks to focus on Susan
- " You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes for this one. Investigators will find Susan's DNA in that wet spot"(and they did, but why did they hide that until 2012?)
- Wayne Hamberg says Josh is a good guy who doesn't sound like a guy that would murder his wife, trusts the police and asks people to quit speculating. This after he may have met with Josh at 5AM after the "camping trip" Why don't authorities get some information out of him?
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705351425/Wet-spot-found-in-Powells-home.html
http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?action=printpage;topic=6666.0
Police found wet spot in Susan Powell's home 2 fans were pointed at area on floor, missing woman's father says
By Paul Koepp Deseret News Published: Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 10:38 p.m. MST
WEST VALLEY CITY — Why were there two fans blowing on a wet spot on the living room floor of Susan Powell's home last Monday?...Cox said the presence of the wet spot initially gave him hope the family may have simply rushed to the hospital after an accident.
Wet spot was found in missing woman's home, father says December 14th, 2009 @ 7:15am WEST VALLEY CITY -- The father of a missing West Valley City woman says police found a wet spot at her home last week.... According to the Deseret News, her father, Chuck Cox, says police found the wet spot on the living room floor when they first broke into Powell's house to see if the family was OK. Two fans were blowing on the spot.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=9024861
Josh Powell, Chuck Cox and other family members gather outside the LDS Church's Hunter Central Stake Center [3937 S 6070 W, West Valley City, Utah 84128] to pray, sing hymns and start a 24-hour fast in hopes of Susan Cox Powell's safe return. A tearful Josh Powell does not speak.
Chuck Cox says he is concerned about the focus on his son-in-law. That evening, Josh Powell joins an effort to hand out missing person fliers to fans attending a Jazz game.
http://www.examiner.com/stay-at-home-moms-in-seattle/breaking-news-update-susan-powell-s-father-tells-people-to-stop-focusing-on-josh-powell
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Susan Powell's father tells people to stop focusing on Josh Powell
Credits:
(AP Photo/Deseret News, Laura Seitz)
December 12, 2009-- The father of Susan Powell, the mother who was reported missing on Monday said about his son-in-law, Joshua Powell "I don't see him as capable of harming her. I'm kind of concerned that all the focus is on him." Charles Cox, Susan Powell's father, was wiping his tears at a 24-hour-fast for Susan Powell at the LDS Church's Hunter Central Stake Center. About one hundred friends, neighbors and family showed up to pray and hope for Susan Powell's return. Susan Powell's husband and two children were there too. Friends, family and supporters were handing out fliers to spread the word about her disappearance. Joshua Powell was outside the Energy Solutions Arena giving people fliers as well. He did not offer any comment about his wife's case.
Source:The Salt Lake Tribune
[These people clearly suspect Josh had something to do with the disappearance]
They always start with the closest person to the victim and then work their way from there. I think looking at him is very smart in this case though, because it's very odd that at the same time he goes off with the kids, she also goes missing. Most 2 year and 4 year olds are tired and sleeping at midnight, and the parents both had to work the next morning.
Extremely suspicious, to say the least. I'm sure the cops are zeroing right in on him. They may not call him a 'suspect' or even a 'person of interest' yet, but they've got him under their microscope. I predict they'll arrest him for her murder within weeks.
Mark my words, he is the number 1 suspect for police..they won't say that beause then he will lawyer up. I hope it isn't him, but I will be shocked if he turns out not to be involved..it's just the sad facts of life that those who proclaim to love us, are theones most likely to hurt us.
The husband is always the first one on the list.
Things that make you go hmmm...he took to pre-schoolers to the freezing desert, his wife is missing, there are fans blowing on a wet spot??? If there is no hole in the roof, obviously something was cleaned. A normal spill or light cleaning does not require 2 fans. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes for this one. Investigators will fine Susan's DNA in that wet spot. I would be on it. He is a suspect, obviously.
Wayne (same computer group Wayne Hamberg who comes forward to defend josh dec 19) * I've spoken to Josh many times outside his van after a user group meeting. Don't think there is GPS on his van. * Josh does have a cell as he has called me many times. Cell phone records are the first thing they track and would have been reported. * Josh doesn't have a girlfriend that I know of. I have seen Josh at user group meetings over the past several months and he spends most of the time talking to us guys. * I doubt there is any insurance policy. Josh is in his 20s.
I've known Josh for a year now and we have spoken many times. Josh doesn't show any of the traits I've read about in people involved in their spouse's disappearance. He's not living some false live, no girl on the side, no money problems outside he's underpaid at work.
Josh is a good guy so quit speculating about this and let the police do their work. WVPD are good group of guys and will figure this out.
Date: December 13, 2009 Sunday
Chuck Cox doesn't believe Josh killed Susan and wants to focus on other leads (mistake)
Dad to Utah cops: Find my daughter
...Susan Powell’s father, Charles Cox, flew in from Puyallup, Wash., to assist in the search. He and Josh Powell shared a brief hug before a prayer service began.
“I’m kind of concerned that all the focus is on him at the present. I mean he’s told his story - believable or not - and I don’t see him as capable of harming her,” Cox said. “And the more time spent on him, the less time there is looking at other possibilities.”
...Susan Powell’s father, Charles Cox, flew in from Puyallup, Wash., to assist in the search. He and Josh Powell shared a brief hug before a prayer service began.
“I’m kind of concerned that all the focus is on him at the present. I mean he’s told his story - believable or not - and I don’t see him as capable of harming her,” Cox said. “And the more time spent on him, the less time there is looking at other possibilities.”
Susan
Powell’s friend, Kiirsi Hellewell, said the story seemed odd. “They
might go camping, but they would not do it in the winter, they would not
do it in the middle of night” she said.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20091213dad_to_utah_cops_find_my_daughter/srvc=home&position=recent
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20091213dad_to_utah_cops_find_my_daughter/srvc=home&position=recent
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Date: December 14, 2009 Monday
Highlights:
- Josh Powell hires Utah defense attorney Scott C. Williams and skips a third interview with West Valley City Police.
- Disappearance is called suspicious
- Voice of Deseret compares case to OJ Simpson
Utah Mom's Disappearance 'Suspicious,' Police Say
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580001,00.html?test=latestnews
Friends and neighbors say he has shown little interest in finding his wife and seems oddly calm about her disappearance, ABC 4 News reported.
"They've had problems for a very long time and that's very obvious when you spend a short time with them, you can tell ... they're roommates," friend Tim Peterson told the station.
Peterson said Joshua Powell wouldn't talk about Susan when he asked where she was Wednesday night, according to ABC 4.
"I told him if my wife came up missing, I'd be going nuts, I'd be out looking for her. What do you think?" Peterson said. "He's like, the cops are handling all that."Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580001,00.html?test=latestnews#ixzz1nDyTnx8h
Voice of Deseret believes that Josh killed his wife Susan:
complete: http://voice-of-deseret.blogspot.com/search/label/Susan%20Powell%20case
The Susan Powell Story: Is West Valley City's Josh Powell A Possible Victim, Or Is He The White "O.J. Simpson"?
By now, a majority of Americans undoubtedly believe that O.J. Simpson killed Nicole Simpson...The possibility of a similar crime committed in West Valley City, Utah on December 6th, 2009 must also be reluctantly considered, and on December 14th, Josh Powell, the husband of the missing 28-year-old Susan Powell, hired an attorney and stopped talking to the media. But Powell didn't hire just any attorney - he retained high-profile mouthpiece Scott Williams, who has been involved in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case in which he represented co-defendant Wanda Barzee in both her state and federal court proceedings. KSTU Channel 13 news video embedded below:
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Date: December 15, 2009 Tuesday
- Josh Powell provides a DNA sample to police, answers basic questions, not a suspect
- Josh Powell is labeled as a "person of interest" in the case of his wife's disappearance
- Public opinion turning against Josh
On Tuesday December 15th, Powell met with police where he provided them DNA samples and answered what were characterized as "basic" questions. Police have already obtained samples from others involved in the case. West Valley City Police Capt. Tom McLachlan still wants Powell to come in for a more extensive interview, but no time frame has yet been set. Police emphasize that although Josh Powell is NOT a suspect at this point, he is one of several persons of interest, according to KTVX Channel 4.
This forum starts Dec 15, compares case to Hacking and Peterson
Call me a pessimist but it all smells so fishy to me. Fishy in a Hacking and Peterson kind of way
Josh Powell Now Cooperating With West Valley City Police To Resolve Disappearance Of Wife Susan Powell; Public Opinion Turning Against Him
Contrary to some reports published earlier on December 15th, 2009, Josh Powell is now cooperating with police to solve the disappearance of his wife Susan Powell, who was last seen on December 6th. Josh Powell's Monday meeting with West Valley City police was cancelled in order to allow Powell's attorney, Scott Williams, sufficient time to get information so he could advise and consult. Media stories from the Salt Lake Tribune, the Deseret News, KSTU Channel 13, and KSL Channel 5.
On Tuesday December 15th, Powell met with police where he provided them DNA samples and answered what were characterized as "basic" questions. Police have already obtained samples from others involved in the case. West Valley City Police Capt. Tom McLachlan still wants Powell to come in for a more extensive interview, but no time frame has yet been set. Police emphasize that although Josh Powell is NOT a suspect at this point, he is one of several persons of interest, according to KTVX Channel 4.
On Tuesday December 15th, Powell met with police where he provided them DNA samples and answered what were characterized as "basic" questions. Police have already obtained samples from others involved in the case. West Valley City Police Capt. Tom McLachlan still wants Powell to come in for a more extensive interview, but no time frame has yet been set. Police emphasize that although Josh Powell is NOT a suspect at this point, he is one of several persons of interest, according to KTVX Channel 4.
Police have interviewed Josh Powell three times but say he will not answer specific questions, such as exactly where he went camping. Investigators took samples of his DNA Tuesday. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705352578/Friend-speaks-out-in-support-of-Josh-Powell.html
As officers in Utah struggled to find clues regarding Susan’s whereabouts, Josh, after retaining a defense attorney a day prior, failed to show up for his interview with police. The West Valley City police announced this development, claiming the husband was getting in the way of finding his wife. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/07/timeline-the-powell-familys-tragic-two-years/#ixzz1mO124Vk5
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/charles-cox-pleads-daughters-return-9339382
Missing Mom's Dad: Case Is Unexplainable
Charles Cox is unsure over what to believe about his son-in-law's involvement.
04:04 | 12/15/2009
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Date: December 16, 2009 Wednesday
- Josh is named a person of interest
- Rachel Marini tells KSL 5 she disliked how Susan was treated, but thought Josh could not have harmed her.
http://voice-of-deseret.blogspot.com/2009/12/west-valley-city-cop-craig-black-says.html
The December 15th Salt Lake Tribune story about alleged marital discord within the Powell household has now been picked up by KSL Channel 5. Rachel Marini, one of the people who reportedly urged Susan Powell to get a divorce after Josh became too controlling, has been interviewed by KSL. In one instance, Marini said after a road trip with the Powells she became so disgusted with the way Josh treated Susan that she didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore, but she kept in contact with Susan through Facebook and e-mail. Watch news video below:
Dec. 16, 2009: After questioning Josh yet again, police named him a person of interest in the
case, a designation he held — and one that wasn’t slapped on anyone else — until he died.
Police have obtained DNA samples from Joshua Powell as part of their investigation into the disappearance of his wife, Susan Powell.
West Valley City police Capt. Tom McLachlan said investigators have taken DNA samples from multiple people in the search for 28-year-old Susan Powell, and the warrant served Tuesday does not imply her husband is a suspect.
"We hope to have him come in for a more extensive interview, but I don't know if a date or time has been set for that," McLachlan said Tuesday night.
Joshua Powell answered some "basic" questions at the station Tuesday, a day after he cancelled a police interview that was scheduled for Monday, McLachlan said.
Powell's attorney Scott C. Williams said Powell sought legal counsel shortly before the scheduled meeting.
There was the damp spot on the floor in the Powells' Utah home and a curious late-night camping trip described by Josh Powell. There were also the recollections of their young son Braden about a camping trip and his mother being "in the trunk." That could strike some as a clue, or the ramblings of a boy who was then just 2.For authorities in Utah, none of it was enough to bring charges http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Warrant-Josh-Powell-withdrew-7-000-day-before-3131867.php#ixzz1lvtnPISx
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/police-husband-missing-mom-case-9350173
Police Look to Husband in Missing Mom Case
Police say that Joshua Powell did not show up for a scheduled interview.
01:38 | 12/16/2009
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Date: Dec. 17, 2009: Thursday
- Chuck Cox saddened but not surprised that Josh is POI
- Notebook with threats against Susan was seized
- Authorities want video of interviews on TV
- Authorities still don't want to treat it as murder but "circumstantial evidence that foul play cannot be ruled out,"
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705351936/Notebook-contained-threats-against-Susan-Powell-sources-say.html
A notebook that Susan Powell kept in her desk at work, possibly containing information about her relationship with her husband, was among the items seized by investigators last week, several sources have told the Deseret News. The notebook, according to one source, detailed threats allegedly made about a year ago against the missing West Valley woman.
Police confirmed Wednesday that they now consider him a "person of interest" in the case... there is circumstantial evidence that foul play cannot be ruled out," West Valley Assistant Police Chief Craig Black said. Black said Josh Powell is not the only person of interest. Black declined to discuss who the others are in the case....Black is quick to point out, however, that a person of interest is not the same as a suspect.
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Date: December 17, 2009
Joshua Powell provided a power of attomey to Wells Fargo Bank withdrawing Susan Powell's IRA accounts on December 17, 2009.
Missing mom case: Story told by Susan Powell's husband a 'huge ...
www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_14019426
Dec 17, 2009 – Kirk Graves, the husband of Josh Powell's sister, told NBC's"Today" show Thursday that his brother-in-law could be controlling, and was an "interesting person" with a "different" personality. Asked whether he thought his===============================================================
Date: December 18, 2009
- Blue cap interview on TV
- Josh travels to father Steven Powell home in Puyallup WA
Josh Powell Full Interview With 2News Utah News, KUTV, 2News, Utah Community.flv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCXDpQEfZm8&feature=player_embedded#!
Josh Powell and his sons travel to Puyallup, Wash., to stay in the home of his father, Steven Powell, for the holidays.
According to the June 7 issue of PEOPLE, Steven Powell said he supports his son’s decision to leave Utah and come live with him in Puyallup, Washington, Josh and Susan’s hometown. Josh moved the children to Puyallup before Christmas and then packed up the house and moved all of their belongings the first week of January. Less than one month after Susan disappeared.http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-seattle/where-is-susan-powell-her-father-law-thinks-she-s-having-a-fling-hopes-she-ll-land-on-her-feet-1#ixzz1mP6nYVSN
http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-police-puzzled-utah-moms-disappearance,0,3590060.story
Police Still Puzzled Over Utah Mom's Disappearance By BROCK VERGAKIS
Associated Press Writer 5:24 p.m. MST, December 18, 2009 Susan Powell never showed up at her stockbroker job the next morning -- her keys, purse and cell phone all left at home. The husband was a no-show at work as well, saying he lost track of what day it was during the camping excursion.Authorities suspect foul play, and they say the husband's reluctance to provide basic information about his whereabouts that night has only fueled their suspicion."Usually something will surface within a few hours or a day, and everybody goes home happy and singing Kumbaya," said Tom McLachlan, a police captain in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City. "On this one, that's not happening, and we're very concerned about that."
hired a criminal defense attorney who often defends high-profile clients. And when he has appeared in public, he often looks haggard and downcast.
.. [left] after midnight, even though he had to be at work a few hours later at his trucking company job. He said he forgot what day it was when he went camping because he did not go to church the day before.
Police have reportedly obtained a notebook or journal from Susan Powell's office that describes an alleged threat made by her husband about a year ago
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Date: December 19, 2009 Saturday
- Josh computer club friend Wayne Hamberg defends him
- Josh shows up at candlelight vigil
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705352578/Friend-speaks-out-in-support-of-Josh-Powell.html
zehnder's angle: http://www.examiner.com/family-in-seattle/in-support-of-josh-powell-friend-speaks-out-while-wife-susan-powell-is-still-missing
Wayne Hamberg says the media shouldn't convict Josh Powell despite circumstantial evidence ... "There is nobody being nice to him," Hamberg said. "Everyone is treating him like a Mark Hacking or Scott Peterson."
Hacking was convicted of killing his wife, Lori Hacking, in Utah in 2004. Peterson was convicted of the 2002 murder of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson. Both men originally professed their innocence and even gave TV interviews while crews searched for their missing spouses.
Hamberg is Josh Powell's friend and also knows him through a computer club. He said Josh Powell was at his house as recently as Tuesday. Hamberg has seen the interviews on TV in which many have said Josh Powell seems to be aloof, distant or even evasive when answering questions.
"I don't know if he has anything to hide. I told him, 'Don't tell me anything. Don't talk to me (about Susan Powell's disappearance),' " he said. "He was so distraught; he could either be completely overwhelmed or ridden with guilt. I'd like to believe he's innocent." Hamberg said Josh Powell is a very talented computer engineer but felt he was underappreciated at work "To do a 'blue flu' and miss a day wouldn't surprise me," he said of Josh Powell's reason for not showing up to work Monday.
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JOSH SHOWS UP AT CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IN WASHINGTON
Date: December 20, 2009 SUNDAY
— Friends and family of Susan Cox Powell hold vigils in Utah and Puyallup, Wash., to keep attention focused on finding the missing woman.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-6004710-504083.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
UYALLUP, Wash. (CBS/AP) Josh Powell joined more than 60 people at a candlelight vigil in Washington state for his wife, Susan Powell,
Photo: Josh Powell at a candlelight vigil for wife Susan Powell, Dec. 20, 2009.
Josh Powell stood surrounded by supporters who shielded him with umbrellas while rain poured down on the proceedings. His 4-year-old son Charlie accompanied him and held a candle for his mother.
Susan Powell's family and friends were clearly shocked that Josh Powell had decided to attend the vigil, they have said that they were saddened that he was named as a person of interest in their loved one's disappearance but not surprised.
...After the vigil Josh Powell spoke briefly with his wife's sister, Denise and gave her a hug, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. She later told the Tribune that she asked him how he and the children were doing and if he could speak to him later and that he agreed to meet with her.
Susan Powell's parents, Chuck and Judy Cox, walked past Josh Powell after the vigil without speaking to him.
Date: December 21, 2009 Monday
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/missing-moms-family-suspicious-husband-9389655
Missing Mom's Family Suspicious of Husband
Susan Powell's dad expresses concern over Joshua Powell's silence.
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Date: December 23, 2009
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6013605n&tag=mg;earlyshow
Friends have turned over e-mails that say Susan feared her husband
Chuck Cox would like to hear a credible story from Josh
Authorities want to know where he drove his rental car
http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-neighbors-josh-possibly-involved-susan-powell,0,1188310.story
Neighbors Say Husband Possibly Involved in Disappearance of Susan Powell
Nineveh Dinha, Anchor/Reporter and Jared Preusz, Web Content Producer
FOX 13 News
Neighbors of Susan Powell are now saying they believe her husband, Josh, was somehow involved in her disappearance. One family friend of the Powell's, Jim Peterson, said Josh came over just days after his wife was reported missing, acting very odd, avoiding any conversation about Susan and talked about some new clothes that he purchased. Peterson also said police took Josh's cell phone and he purchased a new one at Wal-Mart. Authorities are not confirming the phone, but they said Josh rented a car and drove it several hundred miles in a matter of days while his van was being searched.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14058397?source=email
The Salt Lake Tribune reported that Powell told Peterson police had taken his clothes, the quilt on their bed, and his cell phone. They also took the carpet cleaner.
http://www.truecrimereport.com/2009/12/stockbroker_susan_powell_missi.php
Stockbroker Susan Powell Missing in Utah; Husband's Actions Suspicious
http://www.examiner.com/family-in-seattle/susan-powell-and-joshua-powell-neighbor-tim-peterson-provides-new-information-about-the-powell-s
Susan Powell and Joshua Powell - Neighbor, Tim Peterson, provides new information about the Powell's
Joshua Powell’s neighbor, Tim Peterson, provided new information, saying Josh is a “crackpot” and that he seemed unfazed about his wife, Susan Powell’s, disappearance
“Josh is really possessive about his things," Peterson said. "He treated everything as his possessions, including his wife and kids. He was very controlling."
Peterson, like the Powells, is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and attends the same ward as the Powells.
Susan told Peterson that Josh was controlling and had become more possessive and obsessive since moving to Utah five years ago. She wanted Josh to become more active in the church and hoped he would get his temple recommend by their anniversary in 2010. If he didn’t, she was strongly considering divorcing him.
Peterson suggested she meet with the LDS Family Service counselor, as he’d done with his wife.
"She went to the marriage counselor hoping it would save their marriage," Peterson said.
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Date: December 24, 2009
Dec. 24, 2009: After two weeks of investigations that involved searches of the Powell's home and interviews with the two boys -- who confirmed the camping trip they'd taken with their father -- police name Josh Powell a "person of interest" in his wife's disappearance.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/powell-family-tragedy-timeline-events/story?id=15520239#.Tzqto7GvigM
Date: December 27, 2009 Sunday
STEVEN POWELL SAYS JOSH IS BEING VILIFIED
Joshua Powell's father says his son is being vilified, telling The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday from his home in Puyallup, Wash., that the investigation has turned his son into a scapegoat.
"The whole thing has just turned into a vilification of Josh and it will turn into a vilification of me, my ex-wife and my other kids," Steven Powell said through the partially open front door of his home. "I'm not making any statement because it doesn't matter how benign it is or how supportive it is. Somebody will twist it around."
On Monday, West Valley City Police Capt. Tom McLachlan said an anonymous donor is offering up to $10,000 for original information that may lead them to Susan Powell.
Investigators have grown increasingly suspicious of Joshua Powell. On Sunday, he attended a candlelight vigil in Washington, although he did not speak to reporters or Susan Powell's family.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580882,00.html?test=latestnews#ixzz1mEeCIzfn
Year 2010
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Date: January 2010
Hellewell posted regularly on her blog about progress made in the search for Susan, linked to news articles that had been written about the case and sometimes shared information about the missing woman, such as her hobbies and favorite foods. "I've probably spent thousands of hours [searching for Susan]. There is no way to estimate it. It has taken up 80% to 90% of the majority of time since she disappeared," says Hellewell. "The Facebook page takes up a lot of time monitoring the comments. Susan's father continually asked us over the last two years to please not let anyone post anything that was accusatory towards Josh because it's about positivity. We have spent a lot of time taking comments off that were accusatory." Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2106632,00.html#ixzz1mOiY3Y97
Date January 4, 2010 — Family and friends of Susan launch a social media campaign to spread word of the woman's disappearance on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Date: January 6, 2010 — Josh Powell and his brother, Michael Powell, arrive at the Powell's West Valley City home to pack the family's belongings. Friends say Josh Powell, who has been fired from his job, may be unable to keep the home and is moving to Puyallup.
Date: Jan. 8, 2010: Josh officially moved from Utah to Puyallup, where he and Susan had both grown up, taking Charles and Braden with him. While living in a house with his father, he claimed that mental illness and instability led Susan to leave the family. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/07/timeline-the-powell-familys-tragic-two-years/#ixzz1mO0VdsdE
Date January 11, 2010
Josh packed up the house and moved all of their belongings the first week of January less than one month after Susan disappeared.http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-seattle/where-is-susan-powell-her-father-law-thinks-she-s-having-a-fling-hopes-she-ll-land-on-her-feet-1#ixzz1mP6nYVSN
Josh Powell left Utah Monday morning ... officially left his West Valley City home bound for Washington around 9:30 a.m. Monday morning. Josh asked a members from his church to help him move over the weekend, a request met with mixed emotions. Among them was Wendy Trujillo who said, “Josh has his ups and downs. There are difficult times and I try to talk to him and get his mind off things."..ABC 4 asked Josh if he had anything he would like to say before leaving and he didn't acknowledge reporters as he quickly jumped in the moving van and sped off. http://www.abc4.com/content/
Date: January 14, 2010:
Susan Powell facebook group deleted by troll (Zehnder says it was just facebook revamping groups)
[U]While there was speculation that Bleak’s account was removed at the urging of friends and family of Susan Powell, Shelby Gifford, a friend and spokeswoman for Susan Powell's parents, said the family did not complain to Facebook about Bleak's group.
JoVonna Owings said in a phone conversation this evening, “A person signed onto the Friends and Family of Susan Powell Facebook group as Susan and said awful things. The ‘troll’ says he has a friend in high places at Facebook and he would take the site down.”
It is believed the same ‘troll’ recently warned Kiirsi that he/she had purchased the URLs to www.susanpowell.com, .net, and .org. A search revealed the URLs had in fact been purchased years ago. The susanpowell.com URL has been owned by Banyan Productions in Philadelphia since Feb. 3, 1999.
Threats he/she purchased susanpowell.net were also false. That URL is owned by Susan Powell in Tustin, Calif., is administered by Emerald Publications, and was created on Dec. 2, 2004. The susanpowell.org URL was created July 16, 2006, and is registered privately.
However, that URL, and the others, were all created long before the threats were made by this ‘troll’.
Friends and Family of Susan Powell Facebook Group
The Friends and Family of Susan Powell Facebook group was created by Kiirsi Hellewell, Susan Powell’s best friend, as a place for friends and family to provide support for one another after Susan Powell disappeared Dec. 7.
There were hundreds of photos and links to articles and websites.
But most importantly, people from around the globe left tens of thousands of posts with words of comfort for Susan’s parents, friends, and other family members.
Article:
http://www.examiner.com/x-34328-Seattle-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m1d29-Susan-Powell-Update-Susan-Powell-Facebook-page-vanishes-not-the-first-time
Susan Powell Facebook page disappears
Online » It had more than 45,000 members and was intended to help in the search for the missing mother.
Updated: 01/30/2010 07:08:28 PM MST
The Friends and Family of Susan Powell" Facebook page, which claimed more than 45,000 members, stopped functioning about 2 p.m. Friday, said Shelby Gifford, the administrator of the Facebook page and a spokeswoman for Susan Powell's parents, Chuck and Judy Cox.
She said the page has been plagued by a "troll" -- an online term for a person who attempts to get reactions or cause controversy by posting hurtful messages. At one point, the troll assumed Susan Powell's identity and posted comments on the page as the missing mother, Gifford said. Administrators have passed threats made on the page to law enforcement agencies, she said.
Administrators also have made repeated complaints to Facebook and haven't received a response about the missing page, Gifford said. Susan Powell's father applied online for a job with Facebook to try to get the company's attention, she said. Cox did not get a response from his job application.
We would like to talk with a representative from Facebook so we can remedy this problem once and for all. Their lack of response is causing great frustration among Susan's friends, family and supporters."
The Salt Lake Tribune could not reach a Facebook representative for comment Saturday evening.
Article:
http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_14302774
Online » It had more than 45,000 members and was intended to help in the search for the missing mother.
Updated: 01/30/2010 07:08:28 PM MST
The Friends and Family of Susan Powell" Facebook page, which claimed more than 45,000 members, stopped functioning about 2 p.m. Friday, said Shelby Gifford, the administrator of the Facebook page and a spokeswoman for Susan Powell's parents, Chuck and Judy Cox.
She said the page has been plagued by a "troll" -- an online term for a person who attempts to get reactions or cause controversy by posting hurtful messages. At one point, the troll assumed Susan Powell's identity and posted comments on the page as the missing mother, Gifford said. Administrators have passed threats made on the page to law enforcement agencies, she said.
Administrators also have made repeated complaints to Facebook and haven't received a response about the missing page, Gifford said. Susan Powell's father applied online for a job with Facebook to try to get the company's attention, she said. Cox did not get a response from his job application.
We would like to talk with a representative from Facebook so we can remedy this problem once and for all. Their lack of response is causing great frustration among Susan's friends, family and supporters."
The Salt Lake Tribune could not reach a Facebook representative for comment Saturday evening.
Article:
http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_14302774
Angel Who Cares
01-31-2010, 12:59 AM
Susan Powell Facebook page disappears, Shelby Gifford ‘complaints to Facebook ignored’
January 30, 5:15 PM
Even before the Friends and Family of Susan Powell Facebook page disappeared yesterday, the family had been plagued with problems from an anonymous poster threatening to take the group down. “The ‘troll’ claimed to have control over the Facebook site,” Gifford said
“We don’t have evidence the group was taken down by Facebook,” Gifford said, “If a page violates the Terms of Service of Facebook they would normally send a warning and no administrators have received any warnings from Facebook.” “We don’t know why this person or these persons are not happy with the site. We have made police reports and will continue to be in contact with the police about this issue,” she said, “We will continue to pursue those avenues as needed.”
Asked if she knows who might be doing this, Gifford responded, “None I’m willing to speculate about right now.”
The Cox family and administrators of the site have sent dozens of complaints to Facebook regarding this individual and possible associates. “None of the friends and family of Susan Powell and Facebook administrators of the Friends and Family of Susan Powell Facebook page have been contacted following their complaints.
The family is not planning to start a new Facebook page at this time. Their hopes are that enough attention will be drawn to Facebook that they will restore the group and all its contents. Something James Hofheins, Administrator for the page, believes is possible. Gifford indicated an announcement will be sent out Tuesday about a secure server webpage that is being set up.
For now, people may visit:
Find Susan Powell
http://www.findsusanpowell.blogspot.com/
Hearts Knit for Susan
http://heartsknitforsusan.wordpress.com/
Article:
http://www.examiner.com/x-34328-Seattle-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m1d30-Susan-Powell-Facebook-page-disappears-Shelby-Gifford-complaints-to-Facebook-ignored
January 30, 5:15 PM
Even before the Friends and Family of Susan Powell Facebook page disappeared yesterday, the family had been plagued with problems from an anonymous poster threatening to take the group down. “The ‘troll’ claimed to have control over the Facebook site,” Gifford said
“We don’t have evidence the group was taken down by Facebook,” Gifford said, “If a page violates the Terms of Service of Facebook they would normally send a warning and no administrators have received any warnings from Facebook.” “We don’t know why this person or these persons are not happy with the site. We have made police reports and will continue to be in contact with the police about this issue,” she said, “We will continue to pursue those avenues as needed.”
Asked if she knows who might be doing this, Gifford responded, “None I’m willing to speculate about right now.”
The Cox family and administrators of the site have sent dozens of complaints to Facebook regarding this individual and possible associates. “None of the friends and family of Susan Powell and Facebook administrators of the Friends and Family of Susan Powell Facebook page have been contacted following their complaints.
The family is not planning to start a new Facebook page at this time. Their hopes are that enough attention will be drawn to Facebook that they will restore the group and all its contents. Something James Hofheins, Administrator for the page, believes is possible. Gifford indicated an announcement will be sent out Tuesday about a secure server webpage that is being set up.
For now, people may visit:
Find Susan Powell
http://www.findsusanpowell.blogspot.com/
Hearts Knit for Susan
http://heartsknitforsusan.wordpress.com/
Article:
http://www.examiner.com/x-34328-Seattle-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m1d30-Susan-Powell-Facebook-page-disappears-Shelby-Gifford-complaints-to-Facebook-ignored
Angel Who Cares
01-31-2010, 02:15 AM
Facebook Page To Find Susan Powell Deleted
Saturday, Jan 30, 2010 @11:48pm CST
It's been a multi-media drive to find Susan Powell.You tube, twitter and a facebook "friends and family of Susan Powell" Page. But now the facebook page has mysteriously disappeared.
UPDATE: Susan's FB is back up just as it disappeared...it was back. No idea why or what is going on! Troll did it??? They just don't know!
Video: Facebook Page To Find Susan Powell Deleted 3:06
The creator of the page talks to Brian Mullahy about what she thinks happened.
http://connect2utah.com/media_player.php?media_id=108301
Video: Josh Powell In Town Again 10PM 2:35
http://connect2utah.com/media_player.php?media_id=108182
Article:
http://connect2utah.com/content/news/story/?cid=73501
Saturday, Jan 30, 2010 @11:48pm CST
It's been a multi-media drive to find Susan Powell.You tube, twitter and a facebook "friends and family of Susan Powell" Page. But now the facebook page has mysteriously disappeared.
UPDATE: Susan's FB is back up just as it disappeared...it was back. No idea why or what is going on! Troll did it??? They just don't know!
Video: Facebook Page To Find Susan Powell Deleted 3:06
The creator of the page talks to Brian Mullahy about what she thinks happened.
http://connect2utah.com/media_player.php?media_id=108301
Video: Josh Powell In Town Again 10PM 2:35
http://connect2utah.com/media_player.php?media_id=108182
Article:
http://connect2utah.com/content/news/story/?cid=73501
Jan. 27 — Neighbors decorate the Powell home in West Valley City with dozens of purple ribbons, hearts and signs to bring renewed attention to Susan's case.
Jan. 28 — Josh Powell returns to West Valley City to make home repairs to his property, in order to rent it.
Jan. 29 — West Valley City police serve a search warrant on Josh Powell and seize the blue minivan he drove the night his wife disappeared.
Family: Missing mom's Facebook support page disappears
Story Published: Jan 30, 2010 at 4:20 PM PST
Story Updated: Jan 30, 2010 at 4:27 PM PST
A Facebook page devoted to missing mom Susan Powell has disappeared, and now her family and friends are asking the social networking site to restore the page.
The "Friends & Family of Susan Powell Facebook page" was launched to aid in the effort to find her, and had attracted more than 45,000 members, said Shelby Gifford, spokeswoman for the family.
"An entire database of people willing to help with searches and provide other services was deleted from Facebook as of approximately 2 p.m. Friday," Gifford said.
She says Susan's Facebook page has also been plagued by a "troll" who visited the page under assumed identities, even pretending to be Susan Powell herself at one point.
She said Susan Powell's family and the page administrators have made repeated complaints to Facebook and have not received a response.
"Obviously, our reason for using Facebook is that it can reach such a large audience quickly," said James Hofheins, social media coordinator for the Friends & Family of Susan Powell group. "Their lack of response is causing great frustration among Susan’s friends, family and supporters."
In the meantime, a new page called "Friends & Family of Susan Powell Part Two" has now been launched to replace the original page, but it lacks much of the photos, information and membership.
"Friends & Family of Susan Powell Part Two"
http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=sussan+powell&init=quick#/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=280658659931
Article:
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/83172857.html
Family: Missing mom's Facebook support page disappears
Story Published: Jan 30, 2010 at 4:20 PM PST
Story Updated: Jan 30, 2010 at 4:27 PM PST
A Facebook page devoted to missing mom Susan Powell has disappeared, and now her family and friends are asking the social networking site to restore the page.
The "Friends & Family of Susan Powell Facebook page" was launched to aid in the effort to find her, and had attracted more than 45,000 members, said Shelby Gifford, spokeswoman for the family.
"An entire database of people willing to help with searches and provide other services was deleted from Facebook as of approximately 2 p.m. Friday," Gifford said.
She says Susan's Facebook page has also been plagued by a "troll" who visited the page under assumed identities, even pretending to be Susan Powell herself at one point.
She said Susan Powell's family and the page administrators have made repeated complaints to Facebook and have not received a response.
"Obviously, our reason for using Facebook is that it can reach such a large audience quickly," said James Hofheins, social media coordinator for the Friends & Family of Susan Powell group. "Their lack of response is causing great frustration among Susan’s friends, family and supporters."
In the meantime, a new page called "Friends & Family of Susan Powell Part Two" has now been launched to replace the original page, but it lacks much of the photos, information and membership.
"Friends & Family of Susan Powell Part Two"
http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=sussan+powell&init=quick#/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=280658659931
Article:
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/83172857.html
Date: ? 2010 Sells House
Feb. 15 — The Cox family holds a news conference in Puyallup, Wash. Cox family members allege Susan had a physical altercation with Josh Powell and detail the couple's problems, citing controlling behavior of Josh Powell. They say Susan had suggested to family and friends she would end the relationship by her April 6 wedding anniversary if the relationship did not improve. The family also announces a nonprofit organization in Susan's name, aimed at helping families of missing persons.
Feb. 15 — The Cox family holds a news conference in Puyallup, Wash. Cox family members allege Susan had a physical altercation with Josh Powell and detail the couple's problems, citing controlling behavior of Josh Powell. They say Susan had suggested to family and friends she would end the relationship by her April 6 wedding anniversary if the relationship did not improve. The family also announces a nonprofit organization in Susan's name, aimed at helping families of missing persons.
Feb. 25 — Neighbors of Steven Powell canvass the Washington neighborhood with missing persons posters and ribbons. The Coxes say it upsets the Powell children.
March 1, 2010
Steven Powell theorizes that Susan has run of with another man to Brazil and presents a detailed pdf case at link
Date: March 7, 2010
Josh Powell Does Not appear at either Susan vigil
But one person was conspicuous by his absence - the missing mom's husband, Josh Powell, who did not attend either of the vigils.
Date: March 23, 2010: Josh Powell Claims of College Degree cannot be verified:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-98494.html
iew Full Version : 22 March 2010: Did Josh Powell really earn a college degree in business admin?
PickieChickie
iew Full Version : 22 March 2010: Did Josh Powell really earn a college degree in business admin?
PickieChickie
03-22-2010, 07:31 PM
Where did Josh Powell earn his bachelor's degree in business administration?
According to a recent search conducted by a Websleuth's member, the following two domains are owned by Josh Powell: http://joshpowellrealtor.com and http://susanpowell.org
Some time after his wife, Susan Powell, disappeared on December 7, 2009, Josh Powell disabled access to his real estate web site. However, it can be seen in full at the Way Back Machine Internet Archive web site by simply typing (or copying and pasting) http://joshpowellrealtor.com into their search engine: http://www.archive.org/index.php
This is the result you will get: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://joshpowellrealtor.com
On Josh Powell's real estate site: http://web.archive.org/web/20080106071930/http://www.joshpowellrealtor.com/ under the "About" then subcategory "About Josh" tab: http://web.archive.org/web/20061101184809/www.joshpowellrealtor.com/about/AboutJoshPowell.aspx you will read the following under "Josh's Education":
Josh earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. Throughout his college years he received some
of the highest honors available, including Phi Theta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, and repeated placement on the President’s List. He also enjoyed people, electing to participate in many social activities, including among others: public speaking, campus politics, drama productions, and writing for the campus newspaper.
On Josh's http://susanpowell.org site under "Susan Powell Hairstylist: http://susanpowell.org/Pages/Susan_Powell/SusanCosmetologist.aspx in the fifth paragraph, last sentence, you will read this: Josh is a Quickbooks Certified Pro Advisor and has a degree in Business Administration.
Requests for verification of Josh Powell's business administration degree were sent to two colleges, Washington State University and University of Washington. Both colleges deny Josh Powell earned a degree:
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab204/JoshPowellBankruptcy/washingstateuniversityjoshdidnotatt.jpg
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab204/JoshPowellBankruptcy/Josh_Powell_does_not_have_a_degr-1.jpgRayO
According to a recent search conducted by a Websleuth's member, the following two domains are owned by Josh Powell: http://joshpowellrealtor.com and http://susanpowell.org
Some time after his wife, Susan Powell, disappeared on December 7, 2009, Josh Powell disabled access to his real estate web site. However, it can be seen in full at the Way Back Machine Internet Archive web site by simply typing (or copying and pasting) http://joshpowellrealtor.com into their search engine: http://www.archive.org/index.php
This is the result you will get: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://joshpowellrealtor.com
On Josh Powell's real estate site: http://web.archive.org/web/20080106071930/http://www.joshpowellrealtor.com/ under the "About" then subcategory "About Josh" tab: http://web.archive.org/web/20061101184809/www.joshpowellrealtor.com/about/AboutJoshPowell.aspx you will read the following under "Josh's Education":
Josh earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. Throughout his college years he received some
of the highest honors available, including Phi Theta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, and repeated placement on the President’s List. He also enjoyed people, electing to participate in many social activities, including among others: public speaking, campus politics, drama productions, and writing for the campus newspaper.
On Josh's http://susanpowell.org site under "Susan Powell Hairstylist: http://susanpowell.org/Pages/Susan_Powell/SusanCosmetologist.aspx in the fifth paragraph, last sentence, you will read this: Josh is a Quickbooks Certified Pro Advisor and has a degree in Business Administration.
Requests for verification of Josh Powell's business administration degree were sent to two colleges, Washington State University and University of Washington. Both colleges deny Josh Powell earned a degree:
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab204/JoshPowellBankruptcy/washingstateuniversityjoshdidnotatt.jpg
http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab204/JoshPowellBankruptcy/Josh_Powell_does_not_have_a_degr-1.jpgRayO
April 10 — Volunteers search for Susan in the Simpson Springs area but turn up nothing.
Date: Summer 2010
The boys’ grandfather, Chuck Cox, has said Braden, the younger of the two Powell children, had drawn a picture the summer after his mother’s disappearance. The drawing showed three people in a vehicle.
Asked what was in the drawing by his day care teachers, Braden – about 3 at the time – said the drawing showed himself, his dad and his brother Charlie.
Asked where his mother was, he replied, “Mommy is in the trunk,” Chuck Cox said Monday. He said Braden said the vehicle stopped somewhere and that his mother got out and never came back, Cox said.
He believes the children might have been able to remember more details about the trip had they been able to undergo hypnosis.
What happened to the drawing?
Braden gave it to his father, said Judy Cox, the children’s grandmother.
Nancy Grace 2/9/2012 It was summer 2010 when the boys were in preschool and 3 of the teachers / workers told them about the drawing with mommy in the trunk. Grandmother asked if they told supervisors or authorities, they said no, they didn’t think it was very important. Grandmother said yes it was very important, but they they said that they didn’t notify the police in Utah until october of 2011. Grace asks why murder warrant wasn’t set right then. But they didn’t tell the police or the public then.
Date: June 6, 2010
Anti-Cox site pins blame Mormon persecution by Mormons
Mormons mobilize against Susan Powell and family - SusanPowell.org
Updated June 6, 2010
susanpowell.org/.../Mormons-mobilize-against-Susan-Powell-family
– She said, "I cannot bring myself to believe in Mormonism, but I can lean on other people's testimonies." Susan Powell is a beautiful and .
All of the known administrators and all of the leaders of the "Susan Cox Powell" movement to date (May 2010) are Mormons. It is undeniable that the tone and rhetoric is led by Mormons. We do offer thanks to the many people who have supported Susan and her family in a positive way. However, too many supporters are openly parroting the Mormons' hostility toward Josh and his father Steve, because Steve is an ex-Mormon.
From the beginning, Susan's father, Chuck Cox, started using the Mormon Church phone directory and Facebook as networks to privately contact Josh's friends and loved ones. Multiple reports and evidence of this came back to Josh. Among other things, Chuck was asking people to "pressure" Josh, asking them to withhold affection and friendship, and asking them to spy on Josh. In addition, Chuck's organization used the media to spread rumors and innuendo.
Most of Josh's friends and even many co-workers were Mormon. When they heard that Josh was moving in with his ex-Mormon father, Steve Powell, some of them started magically "remembering" things about Josh that were terrible but untrue. Mormons frequently remind church members not to associate with people who disagree with their religious views, so Josh's moving in with an ex-Mormon was seen by them as a step down a very wrong path. Josh's estranged sister, Jennifer Graves, is among these detractors. She made it clear that she does not recognize the need to protect the children from the media and general hostility prevalent in Utah.
Jennifer was participating in the "pressure Josh" campaign when she made a concerted effort to alienate Josh from friends in the Mormon Church. After Josh and the children moved in with Josh's father, Jennifer and Kirk Graves made sure that Mormons knew that Josh's father is critical of Mormonism. For at least 20 years, Jennifer has hated her father, Steve Powell, for openly expressing his views as an ex-Mormon. Although Jennifer's siblings have attempted to maintain a relationship with Jennifer over the years, all four of Jennifer's siblings have always felt that Jennifer strongly resented them as well. Jennifer's long-held grudge has created a divide between Mormons and non-Mormons in the Powell family.
Leaving Mormonism
Josh and his family have recently been objects of contempt for "investigating Christianity as an alternative to Mormonism." It is unbelievable that anyone would feel threatened by hearing about the family's spiritual progress, considering the importance of God in this family's life. According to an ABC news story, Josh has his free agency to make choices, but "he is taking his two young boys [out of the Mormon church]. That infuriates friends of Susan." Obviously, this decision was difficult and painful, but a necessary decision for Josh and his children.
Josh still knows and loves many Mormons and he is convinced that most Mormons are good people. Many of the people in Josh and Susan's Mormon ward congregation have been supportive. However, Josh will not attend the Mormon Church again because of the various pressures placed on Susan, and now on him as well as his extended family. For instance, everyone following this case remembers when a fellow Mormon bragged to the media that as Susan's "marriage counselor" he had advised Susan to divorce Josh. This man also told the media that Susan immediately turned her back on him when he started pressuring her to divorce Josh. We don't think anyone actually believes that Susan wanted to divorce Josh, but it has become part of their propaganda. This is particularly disingenuous because some of these same individuals have recently acknowledged in a People Magazine article that Josh and Susan's marriage was good and improving all the time.
The recent People Magazine article (June 7, 2010 print issue) has shown how some Mormons have gone to desperate lengths to make new allegations against Josh, but have later conceded that those allegations are hollow. For example, despite some attempts to criticize Josh and Susan's financial decisions to occasionally tighten the belt, Josh and Susan are both fiscally responsible individuals. Like most people, Josh and Susan's family has weathered the occasional rough finances. As the article states, "Susan's loved ones discount such tightfistedness as the toll of the economic downturn." However, it goes on to say that these same loved ones are not willing to budge on their disapproval of Josh because "he had stopped going to church regularly over the past five years."
Friends have indicated that some Mormons apparently also feel increasing resentment toward Josh for "causing" Susan's testimony to decline. Toward the end of 2009, Susan bore her testimony in front of her Mormon ward congregation. She said, "I cannot bring myself to believe in Mormonism, but I can lean on other people's testimonies."
In the years after Susan's disappearance, Josh and his father publicly questioned Susan's LDS faith on the site www.susanpowell.org, stating that Susan had proclaimed in front of her ward that she could no longer bring herself "to believe in Mormonism, but I can lean on other people's testimonies." Hellewell believes that Josh and Steven Powell were attempting to tarnish her reputation with the comments. "The [lie] about her faith made me angrier than anything since she disappeared," Hellewell says. "Susan had such a deep faith. She believed so strongly, and she struggled going to church by herself, having prayers with [her sons] without Josh. He watched her struggle through that." It's difficult to ponder whether the tragedy could have been avoided if Susan had in fact divorced Josh. Asked if Susan's life could have been saved by a divorce, Hellewell says, "Yes. I think it could have, unless he had come after her because he was so angry. She was worried about that.": http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2106632,00.html#ixzz1mOixcTjV
Date: June 2010
Did Josh burn the mine before it was searched?
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53854460-78/powell-mine-mines-hardman.html.csp?page=2 Only one mine left a question in his mind, one that the group publicly announced would be searched the weekend of June 25-26, 2010. When they arrived, they discovered someone had poured gasoline down the 300-foot-deep shaft and also set fire to the wooden supports at the surface. It was still smoldering and they had to call off the exploration. "It buried anything down there and created a death trap because of the carbon monoxide generated by burning material," he said.... able to rappel 260 feet into the shaft more than a year later ..."I don’t know if it was a coincidence or what, but that is the first time it’s ever happened to me and I’ve easily been in 2,000 to 3,000 mines," he said.
comment: Another huge mistake in this case. You don't announce you're going to do something, unless you arrange for some surveillance of the area. You don't have to sit right there and watch; you can post people to see who drives into the aera.IF it was Josh or a collaborator involved in the fire, you'd have them dead to rights. If it was someone playing around, you gambled and might have lost.
comment:
Date: September 2010
In September 2010, Steve Powell wrote he was
going nuts and had been out of control sexually almost his entire life.
Steve Powell voyeurism trial
begins with drama
Salt Lake Tribune
08-26-2011, 04:14 PM
http://connect2utah.com/news-story/?nxd_id=161707Sandy Anderson described herself as a friend of Steve, and that Josh Powell's father had spoken to her several times since Susan Powell's disappearance. The first time, according to Sandy, was in January 2010, next in April of last year, and most recently last September."I told police September 2010, after I talked to Steve Powell, about things he said he had inside a locked cabinet in his house," said Anderson. According to Sandy, the items included "seven volumes of (Susan's) her journal, some of her underwear, plus a lot of photos of her."
Date September 10, 2010
Chuck Cox and Ed Smart appear together in Utah as part of an effort to raise awareness for kidnapped children and promote legislation that would require that DNA samples be taken from people arrested on suspicion of a felony.
Date: September 8, 2010
Josh Tries To Join PTA, Other Parents Object
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=12347315
Josh Powell causes stir trying to get involved in son's school
September 8th, 2010 By Paul Nelson
PUYALLUP, Wash. -- The husband of missing West Valley City woman Susan Powell is trying to get involved in his son's school by joining the PTA -- but this decision isn't sitting well with other parents in the school....say they don't want Josh Powell on the PTA of Carson Elementary in Puyallup, Wash.... quite frankly, just gives me the creeps..We're thinking about starting a petition [to bar Powell]," Quantrell said. ....All of our volunteers are required to complete the background check through the school district before volunteering." (Did he pass a background check? Only person of interest in disappearance of his wife under suspicious circumstances...._
Date: September 2010
summer_breeze http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-92541.html
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/missing-mom-susan-powell-s-son-mommy-s-in-the-mine
News by Kate Wharmby Seldman (6 Hours Ago) in Society / Crime In an explosive new development in the Susan Cox Powell case, the missing Utah mom's four-year-old son reportedly said, "Mommy's in the mine, looking for crystals." The boy reportedly made the statement after his mom went missing in Dec. 2009, but it wasn't made public until now.
Date: November 8, 2010
Josh Powell speaks: My wife, Susan, left us behind Disappearance • But missing woman’s family says son-in-law is looking for someone besides self to blame.
Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Josh Powell, looking at a family photo from his 2002 college graduation, said his wife, Susan, is “extremely unstable,” and that he believes mental illness drove her to leave her family behind. Josh Powell is living in Puyallup, Wash., with his father and children.
.... this week the husband of Susan Cox Powell broke his silence to say his wife is "extremely unstable," and that he believes mental illness drove her to leave her family behind.
Only reduced scrutiny from her family and the public, he said, will speed her return.
"She knows she will be chewed up like hamburger when she comes back," Josh Powell said in a Wednesday interview with The Salt Lake Tribune.
...Susan's family and friends have openly criticized Josh Powell's level of cooperation with investigators and recounted instances of controlling and abusive behavior toward his wife. Yet Josh Powell said his wife's family must stop lying about him and be more accepting of an imperfect Susan.
"She knows she will be chewed up like hamburger when she comes back," Josh Powell said in a Wednesday interview with The Salt Lake Tribune.
...Susan's family and friends have openly criticized Josh Powell's level of cooperation with investigators and recounted instances of controlling and abusive behavior toward his wife. Yet Josh Powell said his wife's family must stop lying about him and be more accepting of an imperfect Susan.
— Josh Powell and his father, Steven, assert that Susan Cox Powell ran away with missing Utah man Steven Koecher, who disappeared in Nevada in December 2009. The Powells claim the pair ran off to Brazil, where Koecher had served an LDS mission, and they assert the missing duo may have married and started a new life together.
Year 2011
Date: 2011 sometime - Josh gets job as programmer
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53474647-78/wadagnolo-powell-business-josh.html.csp
Josh Powell’s boss says he was a good programmer BY NATE CARLISLE
The Salt Lake Tribune Kent, Wash. • When Ed Wadagnolo posted a job opening for his small software company last year, he received an application from an experienced programmer named Josh Powell.
Date: July 14, 2011
Steven Powell appears on the Today Show, to announce his intention to publish Susan Cox Powell's teenage diary, which he says will show she was "sexually open."
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705376246/Josh-Powell-family-to-publish-teen-diaries-of-missing-wife-Susan-Cox-Powell.html By Emiley Morgan, Deseret News Published: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:43 a.m. MDT The father-in-law of a missing West Valley mother says her journals as a teenager shows she was "sexually open" and he plans to publish those entries on a website.
Date: August 2011
Early August — Josh files restraining order against his father-in-law, forbidding Chuck Cox from approaching him or his boys.
Date: August 18, 2011
Police Search For Rocks in Mine Shafts
West Valley City police report a break in the case and conduct a two-day search of abandoned mine shafts in Ely, Nev. Few other details are released.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705398977/Attorney-Police-tactics-were-used-to-ruffle-the-feathers-of-Josh-Powell.html?pg=3
The same weekend as the honk-and-wave confrontation, West Valley police were conducting a search of abandoned mine shafts in the desert near Ely, Nev. Investigators said they had new information in the Powell case that prompted the searches, but have never said what that evidence was. Prior to conducting that two-day search, Downing said police had received statements from individuals involved with Puyallup's Gem and Mineral Club, about a bag of rocks at an exhibition.
"Josh and one of the boys seemed to be particularly interested, almost excessively interested, in a rock from Ely, Nev.," he said, adding that the subsequent actions of West Valley police were referred to by Josh Powell as "a circus."
Date: August 19, 2011 Friday Wierd News Conference
West Valley police Sgt. Mike Powell was the public information officer at the podium. ... Mike Powell, who is not related to the family of the missing woman.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/14/police-find-unidentified-remains-in-search-missing-utah-mom/#ixzz1mfFDUDmn
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-147392-p-3.html
MsFacetious
08-20-2011, 03:45 AM
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52421444-78/police-news-detectives-friday.html.csp
This business about a police department inviting reporters to join detectives in a search in eastern Nevada was just about the damnedest thing I’ve heard of in my 29 years as a newswoman.
It all started just after 8 a.m. Thursday, when we got a news release saying the West Valley City Police Department received “information” related to Susan Powell’s disappearance in late 2009.
A news conference was set for 10 a.m. aug 19 Friday and West Valley police Sgt. Mike Powell was the public information officer at the podium.
Trouble was, he had nothing to say.
He advised the newspeople that there would be no questions because the “information” was limited. Undeterred, reporters joined in a chorus of queries, which Mike Powell had to repeatedly deflect.
Still, he said, “it’s important … to involve the media in the process.”
Never heard that before.
Friday afternoon, I asked a reporter in Ely what the detectives told the newspeople who ran the risk of compromising evidence.
“Be careful where you walk.
Don’t step on anything that looks important.
Don’t fall down any mine shafts.”
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52421444-78/police-news-detectives-friday.html.csp?page=1
Really? :banghead:
Seriously? :waitasec:
I don't know whether to :floorlaugh: or :banghead: or :cry: or :waitasec:
I hope they don't find anything unless they get rid of their camera crew and audience. :waitasec:
If they do find her while they have an entourage... odds are really good they won't get a conviction anyway. :banghead:
McEntee: A sideshow in the Nevada desert
This business about a police department inviting reporters to join detectives in a search in eastern Nevada was just about the damnedest thing I’ve heard of in my 29 years as a newswoman.
This business about a police department inviting reporters to join detectives in a search in eastern Nevada was just about the damnedest thing I’ve heard of in my 29 years as a newswoman.
It all started just after 8 a.m. Thursday, when we got a news release saying the West Valley City Police Department received “information” related to Susan Powell’s disappearance in late 2009.
A news conference was set for 10 a.m. aug 19 Friday and West Valley police Sgt. Mike Powell was the public information officer at the podium.
Trouble was, he had nothing to say.
He advised the newspeople that there would be no questions because the “information” was limited. Undeterred, reporters joined in a chorus of queries, which Mike Powell had to repeatedly deflect.
Still, he said, “it’s important … to involve the media in the process.”
Never heard that before.
Friday afternoon, I asked a reporter in Ely what the detectives told the newspeople who ran the risk of compromising evidence.
“Be careful where you walk.
Don’t step on anything that looks important.
Don’t fall down any mine shafts.”
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52421444-78/police-news-detectives-friday.html.csp?page=1
Really? :banghead:
Seriously? :waitasec:
I don't know whether to :floorlaugh: or :banghead: or :cry: or :waitasec:
I hope they don't find anything unless they get rid of their camera crew and audience. :waitasec:
If they do find her while they have an entourage... odds are really good they won't get a conviction anyway. :banghead:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-147392-p-3.html
"I can't say that I hope to have them find anything, really, to be honest. I mean, I can't imagine what of value, aside from Susan herself, they could possibly find." -Josh Powell
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=16885122
So he's honestly telling us that he doesn't want them to find Susan.His brain is scrambling for answers while his mouth is spewing out words. Disjointed, scrambled thoughts.
Date August 20, 2011: Saturday
Steven Powell and Susan's father Chuck Cox get into a shouting match at a Puyallup, Wash. remembrance rally for Susan. Steve Powell confronts Chuck Cox at the rally, calling him a "liar" and a "cyber bully." Speaking with the local media, Josh Powell says he does not appreciate the rally being near his home. "Putting this in my neighborhood is not appropriate," Powell said. "They're trying to push an agenda. ... I don't know what happened to her. There are 1,000 different theories that people need to consider in strong and serious ways."
c: Tell Steve to stick with writing bad songs and stay away from trying to brain wash the public and the authorities.
c: Steve Chantrey AKA Steven Powell is delusional. Should he be in the capacity to monitor ANY young children let alone Susan's sons? Susan stated to friends that she didn't want Chantrey anywhere near her sons and they were NEVER to be left alone with him. Where is child protective services to evaluate those boys?
c: Steven Powell wonders why the police aren't looking at other suspects. How about this: Because your son looks so absolutely guilty the police don't need to look elsewhere. But if they did, maybe they should take a look at you, Steven Powell. Or Chantry. Or whatever your name is this week.
comment: Steve, now I'm suppose to believe your theory of what happened to Susan? Ok then here's mine. You and your loser son know what happened to Susan and your trying to blame your victim. How do you like that theory Steve? and by the way your music sucks.
comment: I don't know what is wrong with the boys staying at Grampa Steve's house right now. After all, look what a great job Steve did raising Josh and George?
comment: Susan and her parents knew what kind of person Steven Powell was and now so does the rest of the world.
comment: If Josh was innocent he would have cooperated with the police. He would of been looking and pleading for his wife to come home.He wouldn't have ran from the home she would return too. He wouldn't of lawyered up as to avoid the answering questions.He wouldn't be avoiding anyone who has questions such as his own sister.You can see he and his father are clearly not worried about what happened to Susan. Because they both know what happened to her. They made sure the purple ribbons came down but Steve can't stop pointing the finger at Susan for her own disappearance.Steve Powell can't keep his mouth shut because he has to make sure he stays in control. And who does Josh take after. The apple don't fall far from the tree Steve. Your starting to sound as guilty as your son! And it warms my heart to tell you. http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-seattle/where-is-susan-powell-her-father-law-thinks-she-s-having-a-fling-hopes-she-ll-land-on-her-feet-1#ixzz1mP3cpgVQ
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-147392-p-3.html
motappin
08-20-2011, 01:37 PM
I've been thinking he may have poisoned her at dinner. She felt ill and went to lie down, and he took the boys sledding thinking she'd be dead when he got back. She either had passed by then or completely out. However, she'd thrown up on the living room carpet (wet spot). If he did buy shrink wrap, he wrapped her up (which would have smothered her if she was breathing) and put her in the back of the van under blankets & "camping stuff." He hid her while the boys were asleep, then either moved her with the rental car or went back to make sure he'd done a good job hiding her.
August 21, 2011
August 21, 2011 by Kiirsi
Josh Powell denies porn accusations during custody hearing
By KOMO Staff & News Services Published: Sep 27, 2011
"I did not harm her, I did not have anything to do with her disappearance," Josh said at Tuesday's court hearing. "I love my wife. I have looked for her in my own private way."
But the Cox family also claims at least one of the children may know something about their mother's disappearance.
"That child was looking at a magazine, and pointed to a woman's chest and said, 'Mommy owee,'" said Steve Downing, an attorney representing the Cox family.
The missing woman's family hopes a trained counselor can help bring out the truth. The family believes Josh Powell has been keeping the children away from the Cox family primarily to keep the truth sealed.
"And the reason is because those kids may know something," Downing said. "And he sure as dickens doesn't want these children talking to anybody who could identify what it is that they do know."
Date: Fall 2011
Josh Powell Moves to Graham, Rental Owner not concerned about Susan Powell case
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/02/09/2019909/detectives-investigate-josh-powells.html
GRAHAM RENTAL HOME OWNERS SHOCKED
Josh Powell warned the Centralia couple who rented him their Graham-area home that they could expect some media attention.
Patrick and Necia Smalls researched Powell on the Internet and found the stories about his missing wife, Susan Cox Powell.
“But there were no charges against him,” Necia Powell said.
So last fall, they gave the go-ahead to a rental agency to let Powell and his two young boys move in the home. The Smalls had never met Powell but he had let them know through the agency that he was interested in buying the home.
On Sunday, they saw news reports that the home had burned with Powell and his boys inside.
Patrick Small summed up the feeling with two words: “Shock. Disbelief.”
The Smalls said they were are unsure whether they’ll rebuild the home. Their insurance company is still estimating how much of the damage it will cover.
p://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/02/09/2019909/detectives-investigate-josh-powells.html#storylink=cpy
Date: September 15, 2011
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52591212-78/powell-susan-thursday-area.html.csp
Police searching for signs of Susan Cox Powell are continuing to excavate an area where cadaver dogs have indicated there are human remains.
Topaz mountain search This remote area is about 30 miles away from where Josh Powell, the only person of interest named in his wife’s disappearance, says he took his two young sons camping the night his wife disappeared from their West Valley City home. Police have said Josh Powell liked to gem hunt — and family and friends have confirmed that Josh and Susan Powell had visited the area on previous family excursions.
Date: September. 22, 2011
Steven Powell is charged with using a telephoto lens to take photos of two young girls in the bathroom of a neighboring house. The photos, which were found during the August search of his home, are among thousands he secretly took of women's buttocks and breasts, according to charges filed against him. Powell was charged with 14 counts of voyeurism and one count of child pornography and held on $200,000 bail.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/powell-family-tragedy-timeline-events/story?id=15520239&page=2#.Tzqv47GvigM
Josh Powell is named a "subject" in the child porn investigation, according to assistant Attorney General for Washington John Long.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705398977/Attorney-Police-tactics-were-used-to-ruffle-the-feathers-of-Josh-Powell.html?s_cid=s10
When his father was taken to jail for investigation of voyeurism and possession of child pornography, Josh Powell had asked an aunt and uncle in Texas to take his boys "should the need arise," according to a statement released Tuesday by Maurice and Patti Leach
The Leaches have expressed a desire to take care of the body of Josh Powell, but no funeral arrangements have been made.
Date: September 23, 2011
Susan Powell's parents file to gain custody of the two boys in court the following day
http://abcnews.go.com/US/powell-family-tragedy-timeline-events/story?id=15520239&page=2#.Tzqv47GvigM
Date: September 28, 2011
Josh and Susan Powell's two boys are ordered by a Washington court to remain in the custody of her parents Chuck and Judy Cox, because they had been living in a dangerous home environment with sexually explicit material, and because of the possibility that Josh Powell participated in the voyeurism and child pornography charges against his father. He is, however, granted visitation rights with his boys.
"Leads the state to believe [Josh] is responsible for [Susan's] disappearance"
9/29/2011
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44712637/ns/us_news-life/t/husband-missing-utah-mom-susan-powell-not-getting-kids-back/#.T0K-Y_FumTI
Husband of missing Utah mom Susan Powell not getting kids back 9/29
John Long, an assistant attorney general, described during Wednesday's hearing a variety of concerns he has about Josh Powell, including that he has been uncooperative with law enforcement.
"It leads the state to believe that he is responsible for her disappearance," Long said.
Date: October 2011
In October 2011, Atkins — who presides over the Faith Bible Church of South Hill — helped Josh Powell move from Puyallup into the house in Graham. And a month later, Josh Powell asked the pastor to assist with court-ordered child visitation sessions. "We were supervising weekly visits in our home for the Department of Social and Health Services," Atkins said. "Our children would play together during these visits. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53470987-78/powell-josh-cox-police.html.csp
Oct. 6 — The mother of Josh Powell says her son is a "loving and very engaging father in the care of his sons." Terri Powell had never publicly commented about her son or her missing daughter-in-law's case.
Oct. 15 — Friends and family members of Susan Cox Powell celebrate her 30th birthday.
Oct. 27 — Steven Powell's trial is delayed until March 2012. He remains in jail.
Nancy Grace 2/9/2012 It was summer 2010 when the boys were in preschool and 3 of the teachers / workers told them about the drawing with mommy in the trunk. Grandmother asked if they told supervisors or authorities, they said no, they didn’t think it was very important. Grandmother said yes it was very important, but they they said that they didn’t notify the police in Utah until october of 201
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Date: November 2011
[november] Josh Powell asked the pastor to assist with court-ordered child visitation sessions. "We were supervising weekly visits in our home for the Department of Social and Health Services," Atkins said. "Our children would play together during these visits. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53470987-78/powell-josh-cox-police.html.csp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l8W38kTXeA&feature=relmfu
The father blames Susan Powell's family mounting unnecessary pressure on her. For more, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/family-susan-powell-fights-back-husbands-accusations...
the wet stain - susan was trying to clean juice by kids
Steve says Susan ran off with another man
http://abcnews.go.com/US/family-susan-powell-fights-back-husbands-accusations/story?id=12084876#.TzfYf7GvigM
By ASHLEIGH BANFIELD (@ABCAshleigh) and SARAH NETTER
Nov. 8, 2010
Harsh words from the husband of missing Utah mother Susan Powell has her family seething and adamant that she was not mentally ill when she disappeared nearly a year ago.
"It's blatantly untrue," Susan Powell's father, Chuck Cox, told "Good Morning America" today. "It's obviously a self-serving statement. It's untrue, it's all untrue."
Joshua Powell blasted his missing wife and her family in an interview this weekend with the Salt Lake Tribune. He called Susan Powell "extremely unstable" and blamed her family for keeping her in hiding and causing her to leave in the first place.
"She can't come back with them treating her this way," Joshua Powell said. "They want her to be perfect, a saint with no fallibility."
Joshua Powell's sister, Jennifer Graves, said she found her brother's claims that his wife was mentally ill to be ironic.
"In the Powell family, my family, we're the ones with the mental illness, documented," she said, noting that her and Joshua Powell's brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia. "I never saw Susan display symptoms," she said.
February 7th, 2012 Lawyer: Cops told Powell family arrest was near
Police repeatedly told Susan Cox-Powell’s parents in recent months that the arrest of her husband, Josh Powell, in connection with her disappearance was imminent, a family attorney said Tuesday.
“My clients were assured repeatedly by the West Valley Police Department that an arrest was pending, be patient,” attorney Steve Downing said on HLN’s “Nancy Grace.” “…They were told repeatedly that something was going to happen and it never did.” Downing said Chuck and Judy Cox were told last year that Powell would be arrested by November 15, and when that didn’t happen, they were told the arrest was coming sometime this summer. He said police were “absolutely” aware that Powell’s children had made statements about their mother being in a mine or in the trunk of a car - and one had even drawn a picture of the family van with Susan in the trunk - but they still did not act. “Assurances after assurances, the arrest never happened,” family attorney Anne Bremner told Grace.When asked about Downing's allegations, West Valley Police Sgt. Mike Powell told HLN that “Anything specific to our actua
Sept. 13 — Investigators conduct an 10-day search, using cadaver dogs, near Topaz Mountain in Juab County. Details of the search are not released.
Sept. 22 — Washington police arrest and charge 61-year-old Steven Powell with 14 counts of voyeurism and possession of child pornography, based on evidence seized from his home during August search. A judge orders the sons of Josh and Susan Cox Powell to be removed from the home and placed in protective custody.
Sept. 23 — Steven Powell pleads not guilty to charges, but remains in jail. A Washington judge rules that Susan Cox Powell's childhood diaries cannot be released to the public. Josh Powell files a 22-page response to the order. Chuck Cox files petition for custody of the young boys.
Date: September 26, 2011
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20531765,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines BY TIM NUDD
The father-in-law of missing Utah woman Susan Powell was sexually obsessed with her for years and couldn't stop talking about her, according to a longtime friend in whom he would confide.
Sept. 27 — West Valley City police Chief Thayle "Buzz" Nielsen tells Deseret News that the missing person case is at the "tipping point" of being solved.
Sept. 28 — A Washington judge grants custody of the sons of Josh and Susan Cox Powell to the boy's maternal grandparents, Chuck and Judy Cox. Order cites safety concerns. Judge also orders Josh Powell to undergo a psychological evaluation and attend parenting classes.
Date: September 30, 2012
SOURCE: SUSAN POWELL PORN SICKO MAY RAT OUT “PERSON OF INTEREST” SON
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/source-susan-powell-porn-sicko-my-rat-out-person-interest-son
Published on: September 30, 2011
by ALAN BUTTERFIELD & JOHN BLOSSER, NATIONAL ENQUIRER
Authorities believe they have the key to solving the two-year-old disappearance of Utah mom SUSAN POWELL – using the threat of 70 years in prison to force her husband’s father to rat out his son for her murder!
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“They’ve got him dead to rights,” a source close to the investigation told The ENQUIRER. “Steven Powell will die in prison, unless he can cut a deal.
“If he throws his son under the bus for Susan’s murder, he might get off with a lighter sentence.”
....“Susan’s disappearance has left police stumped, but detectives believe Steven knows things that could blow the case wide open,” the source said.
“They don’t know if Josh actually confessed to his father, but they believe Steven knows a lot more than he’s told them so far.”
According to friends, Steven Powell had a sick obsession with Susan, once asking her to become a “common wife” to both him and his son, and peeping at her while she dressed.
Oct. 6 — The mother of Josh Powell says her son is a "loving and very engaging father in the care of his sons." Terri Powell had never publicly commented about her son or her missing daughter-in-law's case.
Oct. 15 — Friends and family members of Susan Cox Powell celebrate her 30th birthday.
Oct. 27 — Steven Powell's trial is delayed until March 2012. He remains in jail.
Nov. 15 — In court filings, Chuck Cox says his grandsons are seeing therapists. One boy is having nightmares. He reports the boys are more obstinate and defiant after weekly visits with their father. Cox requests a copy of his son-in-law's court-ordered psychological evaluation.
Dec. 6 — Friends and family of Susan Cox Powell hold charity event in Utah, marking two years since her disappearance.
Dec. 7 — Josh Powell files a declaration in Washington court as part of ongoing custody battle for his two children. He says the boys are in the middle of a "very hostile war."
Date: Year 2012
Date: January 4, 2012
Steven Powell's Conspiracy Theory Appears as a Kindle Book
Two Disappear [Kindle Edition] Cliff Black (Author of mystery novels) Kindle Edition - Jan 4, 2012)
http://www.amazon.com/Two-Disappear-ebook/dp/B006U1R82G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1329259065&sr=1-1
My characters are fictitious. The story idea is derived from the disappearances of Steven Koecher and Susan Powell as reported in the newspapers, on television, and over the Internet. ... I made i up, but I wove in unexplained events reported in the media. I hope no one is offended.
The book's characters read a book "How to disappear"
Another shot has been fired in the volatile case of missing West Valley mother Susan Powell — this time from the brother of her husband Josh Powell.
A website called 4thekiddzz was launched by Michael C. Powell just days before a custody hearing for the couple's two young sons who live with their maternal grandparents, Chuck and Judy Cox in Washington.
Michael Powell is accusing the Coxes of willfully "maiming" one of the boys and says the house is in a "state of emergency" and the children are in imminent danger.
"These children were willfully ripped from the safe and loving home they lived in with their father and were intentionally placed in an abusive household," where one of the boys has been subjected to repeated abuse, the site alleges.
The site includes a string of links to documents and news stories and says the police have bungled the investigation, while child protective service workers have ignored the children's peril.
"It doesn't surprise me because they're going to try and do stuff to take the eyes off them and put it on somebody else and make themselves look a little better," said Jennifer Graves, Josh and Michael Powell's sister, who reiterated she wants the boys to continue to stay with the Coxes. "They're trying to make Josh look better so he can get his kids back, obviously."
Graves said her brother Michael's website with its allegations of abuse against the grandparents and incompetence against the police department is tiresome, annoying and simply a smokescreen.
"They're trying to make it sound as if the Coxes are somehow bad guardians and that the West Valley Police Department hasn't been doing their job properly," she said. "Once you actually start analyzing it, it really doesn't hold water."
Jan. 30, 2012 — Josh Powell's brother, Michael Powell, launches a website accusing the Coxes of "maiming" one of the boys, alleging that the children are in danger.
Feb. 1 — A Washington judge orders Josh Powell to undergo a psychosexual evaluation, including a polygraph test. The order comes during a hearing about the custody status of Josh and Susan Cox Powell's two young boys, now ages 4 and 7.
Date: January 20, 2012
Sister-in-law: Josh Powell needs to 'fess up' to Josh Powell needs to fess up to what he did
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jEpu1gUErU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=19065471
Powell brother launches website critical of investigation, claims children are in danger
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SALT LAKE CITY -- A new website from the family of Josh Powell is blasting the investigation into the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell. It claims investigators haven't looked into other family members closely enough and that Powell's children are in danger while they're in the care of the Cox family.
"These children were willfully ripped from the safe and loving home they lived in with their father and were intentionally placed in an abusive household," where one of the boys has been subjected to repeated abuse, the site alleges.
The site includes a string of links to documents and news stories and says the police have bungled the investigation, while child protective service workers have ignored the children's peril.
"It doesn't surprise me because they're going to try and do stuff to take the eyes off them and put it on somebody else and make themselves look a little better," said Jennifer Graves, Josh and Michael Powell's sister, who reiterated she wants the boys to continue to stay with the Coxes. "They're trying to make Josh look better so he can get his kids back, obviously."
Josh Powell's brother, Michael, wrote in his blog that he has reason to believe the West Valley Police department has overlooked viable leads, "probably intentionally, including Steven Koecher, Tim Peterson, Chuck Cox, and (Powell's estranged sister) Jennifer Graves."
The website purports to illustrate what Michael Powell calls "incompetence and malice" by the West Valley Police Department. Michael Powell wrote, "The WVCPD has slandered the Powell family through a bizarre effort to cover up endeavors on our part to aid in the search for Josh's wife."... says the Powell children, Braden and Charlie, are in danger while living in the Cox home, and have been injured while living there. He claims Braden may be disfigured after his foot somehow went into a pot of boiling water placed on the floor.
Date: February 1, 2012 Wednesday
A judge rules that the two boys are to remain with their grandparents, the Coxes, while Josh Powell is ordered to take a psychosexual evaluation and polygraph test in order to get his boys back. Police noted that information and images were found on Josh Powell's computer that "specifically related to their children's welfare."
In an affidavit to the court, Josh Powell pled his case that his boys should be with their father.
"For over four months already, my interactions with my sons and many other aspects of my character have been investigated and documented … I have proven myself as a fit and loving father who provides a stable home even in the face of great adversity. ... It is time for my sons to come home."
Date: Feb 4, 2012 Saturday
"He had taken boxes of toys and books and donated them to the goodwill sometime over the weekend," Troyer said. "So this was definitely a deliberate, planned-out event.": http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Blast-kills-husband-of-missing-Utah-woman-2-boys-3052040.php#ixzz1lvv98ZsR
http://www.komonews.com/news/AP-Susan-Powell-case-called-a-murder-138892464.html?tab=video
- Josh Powell withdrew $7,000 in cash from a Pierce County bank account on Saturday, according to a search warrant served on Josh Powell's financial documents.
http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=12009.60
Why wasn't anybody watching Josh?
Granny takes a plane ride for Christmas... she gets shaken down for trying to bring more than 4.5 oz of shampoo with her...Yet, a psycho like Josh Powell runs around withdrawing 7 grand, donating all the kids toys to charity, buying a wazoo load of gas in multiple cans... hey man, no problem! I didn't see anything? Did you see anything? He's just preparing a Superbowl party. It just does not make sense.
Jennifer and Kirk Graves later revealed their plan to eventually care for the children. The Graves had said they were working to adopt 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden Powell into their family and raise them as their own children, "until (Susan) can take over again," Jennifer Graves said. A significant reminder of those plans now sits in their driveway — a 15-passenger van the couple purchased to make room for their family of seven they hoped would grow by two more.
Date: Feb 5, 2012 Sunday
Event Josh Powell and his sons are killed in an explosion he set inside Powell's Washington state home.
Elizabeth Griffin-Hall picks up boys for a supervised visitation from the Cox grandparents home in her Toyota Prius. It is the last time the Coxes see their grandchildren. They were playing with their cousins and they were told they could play again when they got back. These visits were originally held in an office, but they were disruptive and eventually took place at Josh Powell's home and nobody saw any problems with that, although the Cox's were apprehensive at first. Nobody expected today to be any different.
20 min before attack:
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15535154&sid=81
Josh Powell's final words to his loved ones, the voicemail he left for his family just 20 minutes before attacking his two young boys, Braden, 5, and Charles, 7, with a hatchet and igniting a gas leak that blew up his house on Sunday afternoon. "I am not able to live without my sons, and I'm not able to go on anymore. I'm sorry to everyone I've hurt. Goodbye," the voicemail message said.
Timeline of 911 log in Josh Powell response
Highlights of the 911 log detailing the police and fire response to Josh Powell's home on Sunday:
"The visit supervisor for this particular agency had taken the children to the home. When she does that, she sits through the visit and might take notes on her observations," Hill said
"She pulled up in the car, and the kids ran out ahead of her. He closed the door and locked it. She wasn't able to get in, and that's when she smelled gas.
Powell let the boys in the house, then blocked the social worker from entering, said Graham Fire and Rescue Chief Gary Franz.
12:05 A lawyer for Powell said he received a three-word email from his client just minutes before Powell and his two boys died in a house blaze. It said, "I'm sorry, goodbye." Attorney Jeffrey Bassett told The Associated Press the email arrived at 12:05 p.m. Sunday, but he didn't see it until two hours later, when others informed him of the fire.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/05/10325025-susan-powells-slain-sons-were-beginning-to-verbalize-lawyer-says
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15535154&sid=81
Jeff Bassett, Josh Powell's attorney, told the 911 operator about an email he received from his client.
"I understand he may have had an explosion. I may have some information," he told the operator after identifying himself.
When asked what information, he replied, "Just if it was an accident or if it was more than that. I got an email from my client and that could give every indication it was intentional. ... Basically, it says 'I'm sorry and goodbye.'"
Ed Wadagnolo, who said Powell worked for him, called 911 after seeing news of the house explosion and said he received a similar "strange email" that read, "I'm sorry. Goodbye."
Both Bassett and Wadagnolo said they received the emails at 12:05 p.m.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53467329-78/dispatcher-powell-griffin-hall.html.csp
The social worker’s first 911 call, before the fire
http://extras.sltrib.com/audio/powell/powell7-clean.mp3 The social worker’s 911 call after the fire http://extras.sltrib.com/audio/powell/powell1-clean.mp3 A neighbor’s 911 call http://extras.sltrib.com/audio/powell/powell2.mp3 A neighbor’s 911 call http://extras.sltrib.com/audio/powell/powell3.mp3 Alina Powell’s 911 call http://extras.sltrib.com/audio/powell/powell4-clean.mp3 Josh Powell’s boss’s 911 call http://extras.sltrib.com/audio/powell/powell5-clean.mp3 Josh Powell’s lawyer’s 911 call http://extras.sltrib.com/audio/powell/powell6-clean.mp3 |
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53467329-78/dispatcher-powell-griffin-hall.html.csp
Call from Josh Powell’s boss
Dispatcher: This is valley with a transfer
Man: Josh Powell works for me, I just saw on the news today that there was a problem. I got a strange email from him today at 12:05.
Dispatcher: What does the email say?
Man: I’m sorry, goodbye. That’s all it said
Dispatcher gets identifying information and phone number.
Griffin-Hall bangs on the door pleading to be let in. She hears Josh says "Charlie I have a surprise for you" and then hears a boy crying in pain, similar to when he hurt his foot before. She becomes very worry and makes some phone calls. She smells gasoline which makes her really worried something is afoot.
12:08:21 p.m. — Social worker makes initial call to 911 to alert authorities that Josh Powell has locked her out of his home while his two young sons are inside.12:13:20 — Calltaker transfers information from social worker to a dispatcher.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15535154&sid=81
Elizabeth Griffin-Hall, who had brought the boys to Powell's home for a supervised visit, called 911 after she said the man let the two boys into the house but slammed the door in her face.
"Nothing like this has ever happened before -- one of these supervised visits. I'm really shocked," she said in the 911 call, one of seven released this evening. "I can hear the kids crying but he still wouldn't let me in."
She told the 911 operator she wanted to move her car out of the driveway because she smelled gas coming from the house, and then asked for police to be sent to the home. But the 911 operator said officers only get sent to life-threatening situations.
"This could be life-threatening," she said. "He went to court on Wednesday and he didn't get his kids back. I'm afraid for their lives.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53467329-78/dispatcher-powell-griffin-hall.html.csp
Griffin-Hall: 8119 and I think it’s 89th, I don’t know what the address is, let me get in the car nothing like this has happened like this before. I’m really shocked, and I could hear one of the kids crying, and he still won’t let me in, OK, it’s 1, just a minute I have it here, you can’t find me by GPS?
Dispatcher: No
Griffin-Hall: OK, it is... I still can’t find it. He’s on a very short leash with DHSH, he looked right at me and closed the door.
It’s 8119 189th Street Court East Puyallup.
I’d like to pull out of the driveway because I smell gasoline, and he won’t let me in.
Dispatcher: He won’t let you out of the driveway?
Griffin-Hall: He won’t let me in the house.
Dispatcher: Whose house is it?
Griffin-Hall: Josh Powell
Dispatcher: You don’t live there?
Griffin-Hall: No, I’m contracted by the state to provide supervised visitation.
[Confusion about who Griffin-Hall is ensues, then gets cleared up]
Griffin-Hall: He’s the husband of Susan Powell, this is a high-profile case. I was one step in back of them.
Dipatcher: So they went in the house and locked you out?
Griffin-Hall: Yes, he shut the door in my face.
Dispatcher: What is your name?
Griffin-Hall: My name is Elizabeth Griffin-Hall.
Dispatcher: And what’s you’re phone number?
Griffin-Hall gives number.
Dispatcher: What agency are you with?
Griffin-Hall: Foster Care Resource Network, and the kids have been in there by now approximately 10 minutes, and he knows it’s a supervised visit. Braden is 5 and Charlie is 7.
Dispatcher: And the dad’s last name?
Griffin-Hall: Powell.
Dispatcher: Two L’s at the end of Powell?
Griffin-Hall: Yes.
Dispatcher: And his first name?
Griffin-Hall: His first name is Josh. [She gives physical description of him].
Dispatcher: Is he alone, or was anyone with him?
Griffin-Hall: I don’t know, I couldn’t get in the house
Dispatcher: Are you in a vehicle now or on foot?
Griffin-Hall: I’m in a 2010 Prius with the doors locked. He won’t let me in. I rang the doorbell and everything. I begged him to let me in.
Dispatcher: Elizabeth, please listen to my questions. What color is the Toyota Prius?
Griffin-Hall: Gray, dark gray.
Dispatcher: And the licence number?
Griffin-Hall: I don’t know, I can look. (Gets out of car) 750 ZMH
Dispatcher: OK, we’ll have someone look for you there.
Griffin-Hall: Do you know how long it will be?
Dispatcher: They have to respond to emergencies , life-threatening situations first.
Griffin-Hall: This could be life-threatening. He was in court on Wednesday and he didn’t get his kids back and this is really... I’m afraid for their lives.
Dispatcher: Has he threatened the lives of the children previously?
Griffin-Hall: I have no idea
Dispatcher: OK we’ll have the first available deputy contact you.
Griffin-Hall: Thank you
Dispatcher: Bye.
The social worker called her supervisors to report that she could smell gas, and the home erupted in flames.
emails that Powell sent authorities seemed to confirm that Powell planned the deadly fire. Troyer didn't elaborate on the contents of the emails, but said they make police believe "this is intentional, this is planned."
Speaking to NBC's TODAY on Monday, Troyer characterized the incident as a "double murder-suicide."
Event: boys are attacked with hatchet
http://www.komonews.com/news/AP-Susan-Powell-case-called-a-murder-138892464.html?tab=video
Powell and both boys died of smoke inhalation, Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office investigator Melissa Baker said Monday evening. But they also suffered "chop injuries" that contributed to their deaths - 7-year-old Charles was struck on his neck and 5-year-old Braden had injuries to both his head and neck, Baker said. Pierce County Sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said investigators found a hatchet that they believe was used on the boys.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15535154&sid=81
A female neighbor told the 911 operator that there was "a loud, huge boom. And there's crap flying all over the place, dark smoke."
"Fire. Fire. There's a house on fire. Explosion," a male neighbor said. "The house is totally engulfed in fire, from front to back."
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53467329-78/dispatcher-powell-griffin-hall.html.csp
Call from male witness who saw house fire from the back of the home
Man: I just had a house explode.
Dispatcher: What’s your exact address?
Man: 8404 189th East Court East
Dispatcher: Hold the line
Man: There’s a house on fire and (excitedly talking, gives a couple different approximate addresses of the fire).
Dispatcher: You’ve changed the street numbers three times now.
Man: There’s explosions too.
Dispatcher: Is anyone home?
Man: I don’t know the house is totally engulfed.
Dispatcher: I’m getting help out there right now.
Man: I think it’s a possible meth house.
Dispatcher: Was anyone home?
Man: I don’t know, but if they were, they’re toast.
Elizabeth Griffin-Hall calls 911 again:
"There's two little boys in the house and they're 5 and 7, and there's an adult man, and he has supervised visits, and he blew up the house and the kids,"
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53467329-78/dispatcher-powell-griffin-hall.html.csp
Second call from social worker Elizabeth Griffin-Hall
Dispatcher: Hello. Were you calling about the fire on 189th street?
Griffin-Hall: Yes, he exploded the house. He exploded the house.
Dispatcher: Ma’am, do you know the exact address?
Griffin-Hall: It’s 8119 189th Court East in Puyallup
Dispatcher: What are you calling about?
Griffin-Hall: It exploded, the house.
Dispatcher: Do you know where you are?
Griffin-Hall: 8119 189th Street Court East in Puyallup
Dispatcher: Do you know if there’s anyone in the house?
Griffin-Hall: Yes, there was a man and two children. I just dropped off the children and he wouldn’t let me in the door.
Dispatcher: Stay on the line with me. I’m going to get the fire department. Hang on. Don’t hang up. Stay on the phone here with me ma’am. Fire this is Rose. I’m transferring the lady who has the exact address.
Griffin-Hall: I can hear the fire trucks, but they’re not here yet. It’s 8119
Dispatcher: We have an engine there.
Griffin-Hall: People are saying there is not somebody here, but there’s a couple of boys, 5 and 7, he has supervised visitation and he blew up the house and the kids.
Dispatcher: The kids and the father were in the house?
Griffin-Hall: Yes, he slammed the door in my face so I kept knocking. I thought it was a mistake, I kept knocking and then I called 911.
Dispatcher: You saw him go back in the house?
Griffin-Hall: He didn’t ever leave the house, he just opened the door, the kids were one step ahead of me, they are 5 and 7, they were one step ahead of me and he slammed the door in my face.
Dispatcher: Do you think he might have done this intentionally?
Griffin-Hall: Yes.
Dispatcher: County, go ahead with what you need.
Dispatcher: What is your name, ma’am?
Griffin-Hall: I’m Elizabeth Griffin-Hall, I’m the supervisor visitation (incoherent noises and crying)
Dispatchers: What is your last name?
Griffin-Hall calmly spells it.
Dispatcher: Where are you at right now?
Griffin-Hall: I’m at 8112 on the same court,
Dispatcher: So you are at 8112 189th Street Court East
Griffin-Hall: Yes
Dispatcher: Are you in the car?
Griffin-Hall: I was in it I’m standing outside it right now
Dispatcher: Is that your home address?
Griffin-Hall: No, I’m the supervised visitation coordinator.
Dispatcher: What is the person’s name
Griffin-Hall: His name is Josh Powell. Just a minute the sheriff is here.
Dispatcher: Go ahead and talk to the officer, ma’am
END OF CALL
12:16:03 — Sheriff's deputies are dispatched to the home.
12:21:45 — Josh Powell's sister, Alina Powell, is on phone with dispatchers, telling them she received disturbing emails from her brother.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15535154&sid=81
Powell's distraught sister, Alina Powell, called 911 to say she was receiving "weird" messages from her brother via email and voicemail that made her too "terrified to drive over there" herself.
"I'm not afraid of him," she told the emergency operator through sobs. "He's never hurt me. I'm afraid of seeing something I don't want to see."
lawyer Steve Downing, who represented Susan Powell's parents, Chuck and Judy Cox, in the custody fight. "The Coxes are absolutely devastated. They were always very fearful of him doing something like this, and he did it."
Downing also told the AP Sunday that the children had started talking to their grandparents about things they remembered from the night their mother vanished.
"They were beginning to verbalize more," Downing said. "The oldest boy talked about that they went camping and that Mommy was in the trunk. Mom and Dad got out of the car and Mom disappeared
Steven Powell didn't seem upset by news of deaths
When Steven Powell was informed of the deadly blast that killed his son and two grandchildren, he was put on suicide watch, according to Pierce County spokesman Detective Ed Troyer. "Steve Powell didn't seem very upset by the news, but was angry towards authorities who notified him," Troyer said. (Did he know about Josh's plans?)
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/02/07/2016830/police-want-to-interview-uncooperative.html
West Valley City Police Chief Thayle “Buzz” Nielsen said his department wants to interview Steve Powell about what he might know about his son’s actions.Attorney Mark Quigley, who represents Steve Powell, said law enforcement officials have not made a request to speak to his client through him.
Sheriff’s deputies on Sunday informed Steve Powell of the fatal fire and asked whether he knew what his son had been up to. He refused to cooperate and then was placed on suicide watch.
Cox Grandparents Find Out About Fire From Facebook
On Nancy Grace, Chuck Cox says that a friend saw it on facebook and called them. They rushed to the scene of the fire and identified themselves and asked if the boys were gone.
Chuck said he was at church when a friend called him and said he’d read on Facebook that Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5, had died in a fire.
appearance on HLN’s Nancy Grace Show Wednesday afternoon Chuck and Judy Cox, grandparents of the two young boys who were killed by their father, Josh Powell, in Washington State Sunday in a double-murder-suicide, said they learned of the “explosion” through a friend who saw the information on Facebook.
“It was outlandish, hard to believe,” Chuck said. “I thought to myself ‘it can’t be true, it’s Facebook’.”
Moments later he learned the AP was reporting their had been a "blast" at the home Josh was renting in Graham, Washington, about 17 miles from Puyallup where the Coxes live.
Chuck said his bishop drove him to the home. “When we arrived I saw the police line and black smoke,” Chuck said. “I still didn’t want to believe my grandchildren were in that house.”
He said when he approached police he said, “I’m the children’s grandfather.” It was then that he was told it was true - his grandchildren and son-in-law had died in the fire.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Chuck and Judy Cox learn of grandsons' deaths through Facebook - National missing persons | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/chuck-and-judy-cox-learn-of-grandsons-deaths-through-facebook#ixzz1mxcG3mQB
Date: February 7, 2012 Monday
Event: Salt Lake County DA acknowledges Susan Powell is likely dead, investigated as murder
The recordings were released just hours after authorities revealed they have been investigating the disappearance of Susan Powell as a murder for at least several months, while they publicly left open the possibility that the Utah mother might be found alive. A search warrant obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request Tuesday showed that police were investigating three felonies in Utah: first-degree murder, kidnapping and obstructing a public servant.
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill acknowledged for first time that they believe Powell is likely dead. He says in an AP interview that while the case points to her demise, it remains a missing persons probe for now. "I think when I talk about it as a missing persons case, that's because we haven't located the body of Susan Powell," Gill said. "Do we think that she may have met harm? Sure
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/02/07/disturbing-new-details-autopsy-reveals-josh-powell-attacked-sons-with-hatchet/police have revealed that Josh Powell attacked his two sons with a hatchet before setting his home on fire, killing all three of them.
Dan Springer revealed further details, including that Josh Powell poured five gallons of gasoline throughout the house, and then took an ax and chopped the necks of both of the boys, which didn’t kill them. He then lit another 5 gallon can of gasoline which caused an explosion. The two boys, and their father, all died of smoke inhalation.
Just a few minutes before committing this horrific act, Josh Powell sent emails to his lawyer, his cousins, and his pastor saying that he was sorry, and could not live without his kids.
there is growing speculation that Powell killed the boys because they were beginning to talk about Susan Powell’s disappearance, remembering details from the night she disappeared two years ago.
He reportedly showed almost no emotion when he was told about what happened to his son and grandchildren on Sunday and continues to be uncooperative with police.
ox was told by police, that had he lived, Josh Powell would have been arrested by June in the case of his wife’s disappearance.
- he laws in America seriously need to be changed!! They want to make sure something happens before they do anything, isn't that sort of pointless?? Same thing with domestic battery cases, they do nothing until the person in question actually beats someone then they give you a piece of paper saying they can't come within so many feet of their victim, really?? So i guess when that person comes back and you whip out your restraining order they'll flee in terror!!
- This psycho should have been watched 24-7 and the house should have had 24 hour surveillance until they had what they needed to lock him away for good!!
- MrjerorCollapse
- Major failure by the police and the legal system.
Tuesday Night:
Powell Relatives Say Josh was Victim, Blames government, religious bias
Two people who said they're related to Josh Powell blamed the government, "religious bias" and "the internet kangaroo courts" for what the family's endured since the disappearance of Powell's wife Susan in 2009, CBS affiliate KIRO-TV in Seattle reported Wednesday. Maurice and Patti Leach, who identified themselves as Powell's uncle and aunt, said in their Tuesday night statement that they were disillusioned by the legal system that granted custody rights for the boys to Susan Cox Powell's parents. "In our hearts and minds we feel that this family tragedy was set into motion from the beginning due in part to the various questionable government agencies' practices, religious bias, the internet kangaroo courts, and sensationalized news media, all of whom have circumvented the laws that protect all of our rights to due process," the Leachs said in the statement.
Date: February 8, 2012
Josh Powell's Cousins Blame Justice System for His Death
Josh Powell
Scott G. Winterton/AP
Josh Powell is being painted by his cousins, Maurice and Patti Leach, as a victim of outside influences.
"We felt that Josh represented himself using a great deal of restraint with patience and dignity at his children's custody hearing, even though it did not work out in his favor," they say. "We believe that Josh continued to use this restraint because of the fear of losing his sons and the love he had for all of his family members that he so desperately tried to protect."
Feb 08, 2012 · Josh Powell's aunt and uncle ... two young sons, Josh Powell's aunt and uncle released a statement, saying there's no justification for the loss of two innocent ...
they were also sympathetic to Powell, saying "internet kangaroo courts" and the media helped set the tragedy in motion.
In the statement released Wednesday, Maurice and Patti Leach states:
"When we arrived in the state of Washington we believed in America's legal system. After witnessing how broken the system was and the events that took place before our eyes, both inside the court room and outside, we left for home in disillusionment of the legal system and concern for our family's posterity."
Josh Powell's uncle and aunt write that they feel what happened Sunday was set into motion, in part, by "religious bias, the internet kangaroo courts, and sensationalized news media." Other members of Powell's family have said messages on social media critical of Josh Powell contributed too.
Below is the full statement released Wednesday by Josh Powell's uncle and aunt, Maurice and Patti Leach:
We are grievously saddened at the loss that the Cox and Powell families have suffered. There is no justification for the loss of two innocent children, Charles and Braden.
Josh had asked us to step in and offer our support in helping him as the next patriarchs of the family with the absence of Steve, his father. We were also asked by Josh if we would offer a safe haven for his sons should the need arise; our answer was absolutely yes.
We felt that Josh represented himself using a great deal of restraint with patience and dignity at his children's custody hearing, even though it did not work out in his favor. Our family's suggestions to Josh both before and after the hearing were that if he had any credible facts, no matter how disturbing, he should present it so that due process would be possible. We believe that Josh continued to use this restraint because of the fear of losing his sons and the love he had for all of his family members that he so desperately tried to protect.
When we arrived in the state of Washington we believed in America's legal system. After witnessing how broken the system was and the events that took place before our eyes, both inside the court room and outside, we left for home in disillusionment of the legal system and concern for our family's posterity.
In our hearts and minds we feel that this family tragedy was set into motion from the beginning due in part to the various questionable government agencies' practices, religious bias, the internet kangaroo courts, and sensationalized news media, all of whom have circumvented the laws that protect all of our rights to due process. We believe that the stewardship of the responsibilities that have been entrusted to those organizations and individuals has been completely compromised.
America, this is not only a tragedy, Sunday was a dark day for all of our families.
Uncle Maurice, Aunt Patti
P.S. Josh, Susan, Charles, and Braden, you will always remain in our hearts.
Josh had asked us to step in and offer our support in helping him as the next patriarchs of the family with the absence of Steve, his father. We were also asked by Josh if we would offer a safe haven for his sons should the need arise; our answer was absolutely yes.
We felt that Josh represented himself using a great deal of restraint with patience and dignity at his children's custody hearing, even though it did not work out in his favor. Our family's suggestions to Josh both before and after the hearing were that if he had any credible facts, no matter how disturbing, he should present it so that due process would be possible. We believe that Josh continued to use this restraint because of the fear of losing his sons and the love he had for all of his family members that he so desperately tried to protect.
When we arrived in the state of Washington we believed in America's legal system. After witnessing how broken the system was and the events that took place before our eyes, both inside the court room and outside, we left for home in disillusionment of the legal system and concern for our family's posterity.
In our hearts and minds we feel that this family tragedy was set into motion from the beginning due in part to the various questionable government agencies' practices, religious bias, the internet kangaroo courts, and sensationalized news media, all of whom have circumvented the laws that protect all of our rights to due process. We believe that the stewardship of the responsibilities that have been entrusted to those organizations and individuals has been completely compromised.
America, this is not only a tragedy, Sunday was a dark day for all of our families.
Uncle Maurice, Aunt Patti
P.S. Josh, Susan, Charles, and Braden, you will always remain in our hearts.
Still not enough evidence to file murder charges.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Warrant-Josh-Powell-withdrew-7-000-day-before-3131867.phpSalt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill acknowledged for the first time that investigators believe Susan Powell is likely dead, but he said in an interview with The AP that the case remains a missing persons probe for now.Gill wouldn't discuss the evidence but said authorities had lacked enough information to file charges.
Father-in-Law Now a Person of Interest in Susan Powell Case
BY TIM NUDD http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20568259,00.html
Following the horrific double-murder-suicide of Josh Powell and his two young sons on Sunday, police have called Josh's father, Steven Powell, a person of interest in the 2009 disappearance of Josh's wife Susan. Police are not calling the elder Powell a suspect at this time, but believe he may know something about what happened to his daughter-in-law, according to Utah's KSL.com. "They lived together in the house," West Valley City, Utah, police chief Buzz Nielsen tells KSL. "There are things he should want to talk to us [about], we hope."
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
9:00 am-10:00 am
We listen to the chilling, infuriating 911 calls made by the Powell childrens' state-sanctioned supervisor before and after they died in this weekend's house explosion. Attorney Steve Downing who works with the Cox family says the police encouraged the Cox family to put pressure on Josh Powell and force confrontations. Downing also has a theory about what happened to Susan Powell before she disappeared. He thinks her husband fed her pancakes laced with drugs that would put her to sleep. Listen | Download
We listen to the chilling, infuriating 911 calls made by the Powell childrens' state-sanctioned supervisor before and after they died in this weekend's house explosion. Attorney Steve Downing who works with the Cox family says the police encouraged the Cox family to put pressure on Josh Powell and force confrontations. Downing also has a theory about what happened to Susan Powell before she disappeared. He thinks her husband fed her pancakes laced with drugs that would put her to sleep. Listen | Download
(NOW HE FIGURES IT OUT???)
The parents of missing mom Susan Cox-Powell spoke out Wednesday for the first time since chilling 911 calls were released from the fire that killed their grandsons.
In a primetime exclusive interview with HLN’s Nancy Grace, Susan’s father said his first reaction when he heard from a friend that his daughter’s two young boys were killed in a fire apparently set by their own father was disbelief.
Date: Feb 9, 2012
Even after murder suicide, evidence has not reached "threshold" for West Valley police to bring to prosecutor
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/53471711-78/powell-nielsen-josh-police.html.csp
Police: New tips about Susan Cox Powell case pour in after Josh Powell’s death BY BROOKE ADAMS
The Salt Lake Tribune
West Valley City police say they have received several new email tips about the case of missing woman Susan Cox Powell.
West Valley City Police Chief Thayle "Buzz" Nielsen, who spent Tuesday meeting with local law enforcement, said the information is "new stuff coming out." Officers are reviewing them to see if they yield any credible leads.
"When we get back from this, we’re going to debrief what’s happened up here, what we have," he said Tuesday at the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. "It will probably take about a month and we’ll reassess what we’re going to do. But we’re going to keep it active and open."
As far as Nielsen was aware, no one in law enforcement received an email from Josh Powell, the only publicly named person of interest in his wife’s Dec. 9, 2009 disappearance.
"He hasn’t been in touch with us before, I don’t suspect he is now," Nielsen said. "He’s not been cooperative ever during the last two years."
The chief said that while police had circumstantial evidence about what happened to Susan Cox Powell , it hasn’t met a "threshold" yet to take to a prosecutor.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2017469379_deathsofcharlieandbradenpowell.html
The rights of children
The story of the murdered Powell children in this week’s The Seattle Times leads me to the conclusion that the legal rights of children in our society must be expanded [“Grandparents say boys didn’t want to see dad,” page one, Feb. 7].
No agency should be allowed to force children to spend time with any noncustodial parent, or other adult, who the children are uncomfortable spending time with. When the Powell boys told their grandfather that they did not want to visit their father that day, their wishes should have been respected.
Children are not always able to articulate the reasons for their feelings, but that does not mean that their feelings should be disregarded. Children should be given a chance to have a say about what happens in their lives, especially when the adults involved may have serious problems.
— Wynne Schweid, Seattle
It is our job to protect the innocent
I am stunned and broken over the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell. How is it possible that this is the best protection that the state of Washington could offer those two little boys?
After all the bureaucrats from Utah and Washington are finished making excuses for themselves, there will be two little boys to bury. Children in the custody and under the protection of the state of Washington died an unthinkable death.
We as a society trust in the laws, police, judges, Department of Social and Health Services, etc. to protect the innocent, but that was a mistake in this case.
Our blind faith in justice wasn’t enough to save the lives of Susan Cox-Powells’ children. The failure of Washington state to prevent Josh Powell from murdering his sons should end the careers of all the state workers involved.
We pay the salaries of these people and should demand justice for Charlie and Braden. I don’t want to hear how no one thought it could happen, because that isn’t true. Charlie and Braden knew and were afraid, Chuck and Judy Cox knew and were also afraid.
— Cheryl Parrish, Redmond
Why was he allowed to visit them at home?
As a former Department of Children and Family services social worker, it is hard for me to fathom the court’s allowing visitation at the home. It should have been at a neutral, secure site under the circumstances.
How will DCFS and the court possibly explain this, especially since Powell was to undergo a psychosexual evaluation?
— Andy Thompson, Spokane
Letter from an 8-year-old
I read the newspaper Monday yesterday (I think it was the front page) about that man who killed himself and his kids [“Boys’ death ‘an act of evil,” page one, Jan 6].
I am very sad about that. I think the government should say that the police department should protect all kids that have criminals for moms or dads.
P.S. If they find Susan Powell alive, she’s going to be very sad.
— Samuel Merel Llanillo, age 8, Seattle
Date: February 10, 2012
Washington State Failed to Reveal Incestuous Images to Cox Family In Time to Save Boys
http://www.thirdage.com/news/josh-powell-had-incestuous-images-on-computer_02-10-2012
Josh Powell Had 'Incestuous' Images on Computer
The story of the murdered Powell children in this week’s The Seattle Times leads me to the conclusion that the legal rights of children in our society must be expanded [“Grandparents say boys didn’t want to see dad,” page one, Feb. 7].
No agency should be allowed to force children to spend time with any noncustodial parent, or other adult, who the children are uncomfortable spending time with. When the Powell boys told their grandfather that they did not want to visit their father that day, their wishes should have been respected.
Children are not always able to articulate the reasons for their feelings, but that does not mean that their feelings should be disregarded. Children should be given a chance to have a say about what happens in their lives, especially when the adults involved may have serious problems.
— Wynne Schweid, Seattle
It is our job to protect the innocent
I am stunned and broken over the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell. How is it possible that this is the best protection that the state of Washington could offer those two little boys?
After all the bureaucrats from Utah and Washington are finished making excuses for themselves, there will be two little boys to bury. Children in the custody and under the protection of the state of Washington died an unthinkable death.
We as a society trust in the laws, police, judges, Department of Social and Health Services, etc. to protect the innocent, but that was a mistake in this case.
Our blind faith in justice wasn’t enough to save the lives of Susan Cox-Powells’ children. The failure of Washington state to prevent Josh Powell from murdering his sons should end the careers of all the state workers involved.
We pay the salaries of these people and should demand justice for Charlie and Braden. I don’t want to hear how no one thought it could happen, because that isn’t true. Charlie and Braden knew and were afraid, Chuck and Judy Cox knew and were also afraid.
— Cheryl Parrish, Redmond
Why was he allowed to visit them at home?
As a former Department of Children and Family services social worker, it is hard for me to fathom the court’s allowing visitation at the home. It should have been at a neutral, secure site under the circumstances.
How will DCFS and the court possibly explain this, especially since Powell was to undergo a psychosexual evaluation?
— Andy Thompson, Spokane
Letter from an 8-year-old
I read the newspaper Monday yesterday (I think it was the front page) about that man who killed himself and his kids [“Boys’ death ‘an act of evil,” page one, Jan 6].
I am very sad about that. I think the government should say that the police department should protect all kids that have criminals for moms or dads.
P.S. If they find Susan Powell alive, she’s going to be very sad.
— Samuel Merel Llanillo, age 8, Seattle
Date: February 10, 2012
Washington State Failed to Reveal Incestuous Images to Cox Family In Time to Save Boys
http://www.thirdage.com/news/josh-powell-had-incestuous-images-on-computer_02-10-2012
Josh Powell Had 'Incestuous' Images on Computer
Before Josh Powell was going to try to win back custody of his children last week, Washington state authorities received materials from Utah police that had been discovered on a computer in Powell's home two years ago. Authorities say the images depicted "incestuous" sex and were disconcerting enough that they prompted a psychologist to recommend that Powell undergo an intensive psychosexual evaluation.
But a lawyer for Powell's in-laws, who had custody of the boys, wasn't invited to see the materials before the custody hearing - even though a Utah judge had specified in a sealed court order that he was one of the few people allowed to see them.
Had he seen the images, attorney Steve Downing said, he might have asked the court to change the terms of Powell's supervised visitation with the boys
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53483190-78/josh-terrica-steve-powell.html.csp
But a lawyer for Powell's in-laws, who had custody of the boys, wasn't invited to see the materials before the custody hearing - even though a Utah judge had specified in a sealed court order that he was one of the few people allowed to see them.
Had he seen the images, attorney Steve Downing said, he might have asked the court to change the terms of Powell's supervised visitation with the boys
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53483190-78/josh-terrica-steve-powell.html.csp
Divorce documents shed light on Josh Powell’s trouble
Puyallup, Wash. • If there are any clues to the terrible events that culminated in the disappearance of a Utah mom, a dead father and two murdered children, they may lie in documents filed two decades ago.
Long before Josh Powell killed himself and his 7 and 5-year-old sons in a fire on Sunday, the pages of his parents’ divorce file portrayed him as a seriously troubled teen who attempted suicide, killed pet gerbils, once threatened his mother with a butcher knife and early on adopted his father’s allegedly disparaging view of women.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/02/09/2019909/detectives-investigate-josh-powells.html
Detectives investigate Josh Powell’s visit to recycling center
Pierce County sheriff’s investigators have roped off part of a Graham recycling center after receiving a tip that Josh Powell threw some paper away there before he ignited a deadly house fire Sunday.Pierce County sheriff’s investigators have roped off part of a Graham recycling center after receiving a tip that Josh Powell threw some paper away there before he ignited a deadly house fire Sunday.
Date: February 11, 2012 Saturday
Saturday, both families temporarily set aside their differences as they remembered Charlie, Braden and Susan. A large number of relatives from the Cox family, including Kirk and Jennifer Graves, Josh Powell's sister from West Jordan, sat in front rows of the Life Center Church. About two dozen members of the Powell family, including Josh's other sister Alina and his mother, Terrica, sat in a balcony to avoid cameras and the main congregation. There was no mention of Josh Powell during the memorial service in Tacoma, nor at a private service held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' South Hill Ward following the initial gathering. Members of the Powell family, including Terrica Powell, also attended at the LDS church. The bodies of both boys were placed in a single, adult-sized blue casket in accordance with the wishes of the Cox family, who did not want the boys to be apart.
Dozens of members from local motorcycle clubs, including Bikers Against Child Abuse, the Gargoyles and Patriot Riders, also arrived early to the service. They said they were there both to counter any possible protest and to give support to the Powell children. Police were also parked along the street in front of the church.
There were no signs of protesters or confrontations prior to the funeral. But biker club members tried to form a barricade around the hearse and the limo to prevent the media from taking pictures of the Cox family and the hearse.
Several references were made throughout both services, including by Chuck Cox, that the children were now with their mother, who went missing in West Valley City, Utah, in December 2009 and is presumed dead.
Candy "Bear Mama" Gonzales said her grandson was friends with Charlie.
"He came home from school Monday and said, 'My friend Charlie died. I cried all day at school,'" she said. "We have to stop these child abuse things. We have to take a stand.
Memorial service for slain children
Memorial service held for Charlie and Braden Powell
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Date: February 15, 2012
Josh Powell never lived in Graham house
Pierce County detectives say the rental home that Josh Powell used to murder his two boys was nothing more than an empty shell that he used to fool state social workers. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Josh Powell did not live in the rental house at the end of the cul-de-sac where he murdered his boys and then killed himself.Neighbors never saw him. They never saw the kids. Everyone in the neighborhood thought the house was abandoned. Powell was still living at his father's home, though he rented the home he eventually blew up three months ago.
Ed Troyer with the Pierce County Sheriff's Office says the house appeared to be set up only as a place where Powell could see his kids on supervised visits.
"There was no furniture," Troyer said. "There were some kids toys, a little bit of clothing, some pictures of Susan [Powell] on the wall, and that was about it. It was very, very sparse, not like it was set up for anybody to actually live in
Crime Stoppers buys plots so Josh Powell can't be buried next to sons
Salt Lake Tribune - 21 hours ago
Josh Powell's family visited the city-owned Woodbine Cemetery in Puyallup, Wash., on Tuesday and picked a plot about 25 feet from where the boys are buried, ..
Steven Powell tells authorities he wants to remain silent
MyNorthwest.com - 19 hours ago
(AP Photo/File) As Josh Powell's family members make plans for laying his body to rest, one family member is doing all he can to remain silent.
When Steven Powell was informed of the deadly blast that killed his son and two grandchildren, he was put on suicide watch, according to Pierce County spokesman Detective Ed Troyer. "Steve Powell didn't seem very upset by the news, but was angry towards authorities who notified him," Troyer said.
Josh Powell's Dad Takes the Fifth on Susan Cox Disappearance
KABC - 21 hours ago
Josh Powell's father has filed paperwork stating that he will not answer any questions from law enforcement authorities about the disappearance of his ...
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(NewsCore) - Josh Powell's father has filed court papers saying he will not cooperate with investigations being conducted by law enforcement agencies, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday.
Steven Powell, whose son killed himself and his two children earlier this month, is currently jailed as he awaits trial on voyeurism and child pornography charges. He filed a notice in Pierce County Superior Court Tuesday, saying he does not want to speak with the FBI, Utah law enforcement or West Valley City police.
In the one-page filing, Powell asserted his right to remain silent and said he "does not wish to discuss or make statements of any kind regarding any subject matter, including, but not limited to, statements pertaining to any alleged or suspected criminal activity."
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Date: Feb 16, 2012
Josh Powell's family backs away from decision to bury killer near sons
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- Date: FEbruary 17, 2012
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Josh Powell's death certificate released by Washington health department
PUYALLUP, Washington—
Josh Powell’s death certificate indicates he was cremated last Friday.
The certificate, released Tuesday, does not say where his family took his remains. The cause of death is listed as carbon monoxide poisoning resulting from the house fire he started by allegedly igniting canisters of gasoline.
The certificate, released Tuesday, does not say where his family took his remains. The cause of death is listed as carbon monoxide poisoning resulting from the house fire he started by allegedly igniting canisters of gasoline.
- Date: Feb 18, 2012
Date: February 19, 2012News 9 new results for josh powell Josh Powell Had 400 Cartoon Sex and Incest Images
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Three weeks before Josh Powell killed himself and kids in a violent inferno, Utah authorities disclosed to social workers for the first time that his computer once contained some 400 images of cartoon sex and incest. Investigators had initially told ...
See all stories on this topic »Social workers had worried that Josh Powell would harm 2 sons
Bellingham Herald
That Josh Powell might harm his children one day lingered in the minds of state social workers even as they took the steps to reunite him with his two young sons. Notes dropped into the voluminous records they kept on Powell show they were wary of ...
He smiled at them, hugged them and made eye contact with them, according to reports filed by Griffin-Hall.According to her reports, Powell often had activities planned, from building bug houses to carving a pumpkin to reading stories. He gave them juice, brought them lunch or made “beautiful” breakfasts.Powell set boundaries for the boys and officiated squabbles between them.“Dad is very attentive to the boys and listens carefully to their words and ideas,” Griffin-Hall wrote after an Oct. 23 visit.Initially, the visits were at the Foster Care Resource Network. Powell was always waiting for Griffin Hall to arrive with the boys, who after a brief stay in foster care were living with their maternal grandparents, Chuck and Judy Cox of Puyallup.By November, the visits, with the blessing of Jacobson and Griffin-Hall, had moved to Powell’s home near Graham. Griffin-Hall noted the home was clean and child friendly.The boys were happy to see dad and showered him with hugs and kisses. They often ran from Griffin-Hall’s car to see their father.visit Nov. 27, Griffin-Hall noted Braden told Powell, “They found Mommy in the desert.” When Powell asked the boys who said that, neither answered.“Dad became agitated and turned red,” the report noted. “He asked the boys again and they did not respond. I changed the subject back to eating dessert.”On Nov. 10, it appeared social workers were preparing to recommend the boys be returned to Powell on Jan. 19, the records show.West Valley City police then notified them about the sexual images found on Powell’s computer, and that plan changed.
Files show Josh Powell's twisted legacy of porn, hate
Salt Lake Tribune
Among nearly a thousand pages of documents released Friday detailing the child welfare case involving Josh Powell and his sons, one observation stands out. In a psychological evaluation he prepared for a Feb. 1 custody hearing, psychologist James ...
In a psychological evaluation he prepared for a Feb. 1 custody hearing, psychologist James Manley wrote that Powell had excellent parenting skills but needed to learn to "consistently place his children’s need for an emotionally safe and stable environment ahead of his own [needs]."Powell was oblivious, Manley said, of his "intensity and his overbearing manner toward his sons" and "cannot or will not stay focused on his children’s needs enough to leave his apparent suspicions, vigilance, and perceived threats out of his communication." The boys, as shown in documents released by Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services, repeated their father’s skewed observations, including hatred of Mormons and Jews.the psychologist was even more adamant that Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5, not be returned to their father’s custody until he received psychological help. Powell, he noted, had denied visiting any pornography sites that involved minors and said he did not have any knowledge of child pornography on his computer.after Steve Powell’s arrest, law enforcement began monitoring phone calls between him and his children, including Josh. The records also show the Coxes expected Josh Powell to be arrested some time between March and July.concerns of day care providers, a school principal and law enforcement about inappropriate statements made by Charlie and Braden which, given their ages, a social worker wrote could not have been "generated of their own mind/opinion." The anti-religious comments, many documented before the boys were placed with the Coxes, included statements about the "Mormons trying to steal them" and about hating Jesus. Most were made by the older boy.The principal at Carson Elementary in Puyallup, where Charlie was a first-grader, contacted a case worker after the boy began acting out in class. On one occasion, as students discussed siblings, Charlie claimed to not have a brother any more because "the Mormons killed my brother and my mom. Yeah, it’s just me and my dad.".. filed a report last June after Charlie threatened to kill a classmate and made disparaging comments about Mormons and Jews to other students and staff.When a little boy sat next to Charlie in class and asked to be his friend, Charlie replied, "No, I do not want you to sit by me. I am going to come to your house at night and kill you," documents state. Charlie then stated, "I hate Mormons."The outburst led to Charlie being sent to see a school counselor, where he repeated such comments. He also told the counselor he wanted to kill the boy because he was a Mormon and that Mormons "kill people; they are ordered to kill people and all scientists who believe in Jesus," the documents state. He added he "hates Jews and he speaks the truth but no one is listening."incident report, dated Aug. 20, 2010, detailed how Charlie apparently demonstrated to others at day care how to kill and bury a bear, something he said he’d learned by watching television. The comment would normally have been dismissed but seemed noteworthy, the school officials said, given his missing mother.Charlie also told people his mother was "hiding from everyone to keep from being abused" by her parents — something the case worker said reflected statements the boy had overheard "others make in his presence.
Pornography was "laying out" in Steve Powell’s room and it was unclear whether the boys had been exposed to it. The report noted that John Powell, the boys’ uncle, "runs around nude in the house and in a diaper.""He has met the police at the door naked before. Uncle John has a hangman’s noose and a gallows built in his room. He has a picture of a woman with a sword coming out of her stomach and into her vagina," the documents state.A report dated a month after the boys’ removal shows they struggled with the change in their lives. Charlie complained to a social worker his grandparents were abusing him and that he missed his pet bird. He "didn’t smile once during the visit and appeared sad,he boys wanted to live under their "dad’s rules," which included walking around the house naked and having an 11 p.m. bedtime, the documents state. They also made inappropriate "sexualized comments" about their parents and about the CoxesManley found Powell to be highly intelligent but also "subtly evasive and dodgy" in their sessions, particularly when asked about teenage troubles. Powell denied attempting to commit suicide as a youth,t there "appears to be a pattern of poor sexual boundaries between the family members.Josh Powell's confidential psychological evaluation includes images of adult ...
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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - ABC 4 News has obtained Josh Powell's last and very disturbing psychological evaluation. I want to warn you - vyou read on - this is adult themed, graphic in nature and will most likely make you angry, ...
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- http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/josh-powell-dshs-documents-what-they-reveal-part-2-josh-was-narcicistic
Josh Powell DSHS documents: What they reveal (Part 2 – Child porn, dysfunction)
He said he was not privvy to details of Steve Powell's case and that he was unsure if the events were related or coincidental. He said, "There appears to be a pattern of poor sexual boundaries between the family members. This area, in addition to his self-focus, over-control of the children, and his difficulty adjusting to his present situation are topics for therapeutic inquiry."Dr. Manley said, "Given the gaps of information about Mr. Powell there seems reason to conclude he may not presently be stable and appropriate for his children." He suggests that until Josh could overcome his defensiveness and openly discuss himself in all areas of his life including sexuality, family, and healthy boundaries, any additional change of visit structure was not recommended.
Uncle John Powell's Problems:.... also reported that the boys' adult uncle, John, who also lived in the home, ran around the house naked or in a diaper. Police say they found a hangman's noose and gallows in John's bedroom and disturbing posters on his bedroom walls. His sister, Jennifer Graves, has long said her brother John suffers from Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder...Terri Powell, attached a story her son, John, wrote as an exhibit to one of her many affidavits explaining why she was afraid of her sons, Josh and John, and why she believed Steve was the one responsible for their behavior. Josh and John were 16 and 14 at the time, respectively John's story was of a man who physically and sexually tortured a woman against her will.- Josh told his sons grandparents Cox were abusing them: ...The social worker asked the boys if they liked living with their grandparents and both said yes. The social worker then asked if their grandparents were nice to them and Braden said his daddy told him that grandpa was mean and said “but that is just silly and dumb.” When asked if grandpa was mean Braden said no.
Date: February 20, 2012
Listen: DSHS defends the handling of Josh Powell case
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Charlie spoke up and said his grandpa (Chuck Cox) abuses him. The social worker asked what grandpa does to abuse him and Charlie said that grandpa doesn’t abuse him when he (Charlie) is there but that he does abuse him when he (Charlie) is gone. Charlie then said, “It doesn’t matter if you share blood with someone, it only matters how a person treats you. If you abuse my dad then you abuse me. My grandpa abuses my dad and so he abuses me. My grandpa abuses my dad through media and so he abuses me with the media too.”
Charlie repeated these statements. The social worker said it was very clear that Charlie meant what he was saying but that the thoughts were not his originally as he would say that his daddy tells him this.
When the social worked asked the boys if their grandparents do anything else to abuse them they both replied “no.”
Date: February 21, 2012
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True crime author Ann Rule to write Susan Cox Powell story
BY MELINDA ROGERS
The Salt Lake Tribune First published Feb 21 2012 05:51PM
The bizarre twists and turns in the case of missing West Valley City mother Susan Powell have all the makings of an interesting true crime story.
And now, the case will become just that: Renowned crime writer Ann Rule — who has tackled the stories of serial murderer Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer, Gary Leon Ridgway, during her 35-year career— plans to publish a book on the story of Susan Powell, who disappeared two years ago, and her husband, Josh, who killed himself and his two sons in a fiery blaze earlier this month.
Chuck Cox, Susan Powell’s father, confirmed Tuesday that he and his wife Judy will meet with Rule on Thursday as the Seattle-based author continues work on a project about his daughter and son-in-law.
Cox said it’s unclear whether the family will profit from Rule’s latest venture, but said the writer made a contribution to the Susan Cox Powell Foundation, and any other money entitled to the family would be used to advance the foundation’s mission.
Movement on boards to take down anti-Susan site.
http://susanpowell.org/Outsiders/Chuck-Cox-official-spokespersons/Jennifer-Kirk-Graves-ousted-from-family-hysterical-behavior
This is a page of mis-information from SusanPowell.org about Jennifer Graves.
Apparently, Jennifer disowned her father 20 years prior. And Terri Powell was still co-dependent with her ex and her children.
Lots of pictures and what looks to be one of Steve & Terri Powell and 2 young children.
This is a page of mis-information from SusanPowell.org about Jennifer Graves.
Apparently, Jennifer disowned her father 20 years prior. And Terri Powell was still co-dependent with her ex and her children.
Lots of pictures and what looks to be one of Steve & Terri Powell and 2 young children.
Now that the sicko is imprisoned and Josh has done what he's done... I cannot help but wonder why the site is still up. I mean, who is helping SP keep it up or if it's just him doing it, how is he able to do it? I hope someone strong arms whoever is behind it to take it down.
I hope Jennifer plans to stay far away from that scary bunch for safety's sake. No one is safe around those people.
Is there any way we can have it removed? Anyone know? I know nothing about this area. How do we find out who is allowing them to keep that ugly site up? Maybe we can petition their server? I'm technically challenged as you can tell. That site has got to go.
Date Feb 22, 2012 National Enquirer Finally Breaks the Obvious Poison Pancake Breakfast Theory
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/susan-powell-was-poisoned-hubby-dumped-body
SUSAN POWELL WAS POISONED BEFORE HUBBY DUMPED BODY
Published on: February 22, 2012
'I am certain he poisoned her': Sister of missing Utah woman believe Josh Powell cooked lethal dinner for his wife on night before she disappeared By Rachel Quigley Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104872/Sister-missing-Utah-woman-believe-Josh-Powell-poisoned-wife.html#ixzz1nDvXVVD9
Date: June 28, 2012
Susan Powell Story is on Japanese TV, viewers leave condolences on Facebook page. This story has now hit Asia bigtime.
Torataro Takaki
I watched your story at Japanese TV.
I pray for two grandchildren and I hope that your daughter is found.
June 28 at 7:49am near Tokyo, Japan
Kiirsi Branham Hellewell Thank you for the prayers, Torataro!
June 29 at 10:11pm • Like
Riri Watanabe
I just heard about this today.. and i just can't help but crying.. i can't believe the two innocent kids also died..:( My prayer goes to this family. I hope susan will find.:(
June 28 at 7:43am
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