According to the parents of Susan Powell, the Utah woman that disappeared in December 2009, the children started talking about what happened to their mother on the night she disappeared.
The Huffington Post is reporting that the oldest son, Charles told his grandparents that his mother was in the trunk of the car that night that they went camping. He said his father, Josh Powell was driving the car and he said that his Mom and Dad got out of the car and then his Mom disappeared.
Could this be the reason Josh Powell decided to kill his sons and himself too? Why is this news coming out now, that Josh Powell is dead? According to the police Josh Powell was the only person of interest in the disappearance of his wife. He told the police that he took his two sons out camping at midnight that night even though the temperature was freezing and it was snowing.
When Josh’s father, Steven Powell was arrested for child pornography and voyeurism, Josh lost custody of the two boys and just recently was back in court with the ongoing custody battle and he lost again only this time he was ordered by the court to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation. The police have stated that Josh was pretty upset about having to do that. Custody was once again given to Chuck and Judy Cox, Susan’s parents.
Josh was however granted supervised visits which he could see the boys twice a week. Yesterday a social worker brought the children to the home of Josh Powell and when they got to the door he brought the boys inside and then shut the door and locking it, not letting the social worker in. She turned around and called in to report that she could smell gas at the door way and right about that time the house exploded, killing the two boys and Josh Powell. The social worker was not harmed.
This to me sounds like Josh may have known the police were narrowing in and getting close to arresting him for the murder of his wife and he got scared. I don’t understand why he had to kill the two children he was just in court for to try and gain custody of. If only that judge had ordered him to go through that evaluation before he was granted visitation. Those two boys might be alive today, but sadly, they are gone now. Two innocent little boys were taken from this world because of their father.
My prayers are with Chuck and Judy Cox and the rest of the family. I pray they can find some sort of relief in their grief. Not only have they lost a daughter but now their two grandsons. How sad this is. It just breaks my heart. May God be with this family now, to help them get through this.
Jan Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThis is so horrifying. Josh Powell murdered his whole family! Jan you are right that Josh knew his time was just about up. He did it because of the coward he is! He could not face his punishment of the needle with everyone watching him die, but he also took his adorable,innocent sons. Josh was a self -serving murdering dirt bag!!!!! I hope the fire and brimstone is hotter than its ever been for Josh Powell. I pray Josh NEVER has any peace.JMO
God bless the Coxs. Their ultimate fear became reality. God Bless Susan as she now holds her two sons in her arms in heaven.jmo
I do not understand why this visitation was done at his home???? This is a murder suspect not a regular run of the mill father going through a nasty divorce. This should have taken place at the DCF building or Courthouse, lawyers office. This was not thought out by the courts correctly or the lawyers… I am sad but I am also very angered by the fact so many balls were dropped that could have saved this from happening. These peole deal with this every day they know what can and does happen when custody fights occur. Sorry for the rant but I am so mad that these little boys didnt have educated people thinking ahead and it cost them their lives. jmo
I has been said that the children were beginning to talk about their mother more now that they were living with the grandparents. The older son drew a picture of his mother in the trunck of the car. He said they went camping and daddy and mommy got out and mommy got lost.. Josh was probably sure that the children would blow his cover so he took all of their lives. Why couldn’t he just take his own and leave the kids alive. I hope like this case, Jr, ron cummings son starts remembering what happened the night Haleigh went missing.
Josh Powell was someone so easy to read in his demeanor that I’m shocked he was allowed “in-home” visitations. Especially since there must of been some reason to order a physco-sexual evaluation. Why oh why let him have opportunity to harm those babies. I feel very sorry for the Cox’s. They knew he was who he was.
I personally will never berate the councelors and specialists of CPS. They are very well educated, and make minimal salaries, I believe they choose their field to try and make a difference by protecting children.
Unfortunately Josh Powell was not charged with any crime, or made to stay in the state of Utah, until Susan Powell was found. He left that state with complete and total custody of his two children. I do applaud the state of WA for being able to (finally) remove Powell’s custodial rights, allowing only supervised visitation.
I think this animal (Powell) would have put a gun in his sock, dynamite down his shorts or taken a knife to kill Susan’s precious little boys, the place of their murder was not his driving force. He and his loser father were getting too close to being caught, and both are cowards and a murderer.
I don’t understand how CPS is responsible for such an insane act, whether it was his home or at McDonald’s. I pity the social worker that also must live this horror.
I do find it amazing that Utah allowed full parental rights, and the ability for him to leave the state while being a “person of interest” in his wife’s disappearance/death.
I guess we all have to draw the line of what
civil liberties we are willing to give up today, and not when we are talking like a Monday morning quarterback about one more tragedy.
people ask why Josh did it, ill take a punt and say it was a combination of revenge and fear. The fear was the cops were closing in,daddy is in jail and he lost all his support, as twisted as that support must have been. His revenge, he made sure he would cause the most amount of hurt and damage to those left behind, he was such a narcissist. NO ONE was going to have his children, no regard to those kids at all, just a selfish coward, he is not so hard to understand, in fact he is basic. That why this is so sad,i think the children fell thru ever crack in the system. Blind Freddie could see this man should never have been near those boys. Rip Susan and your lovely boys
As I have said before, offer Josh-s father, Steve, immunity from the charges he is presently sitting in jail for and awaiting trial for, namely, voyeurism and child pornography,in exchange for information on whereabouts of Susan Powells remains and what happened to her. Josh and his father Steve were such scumbags that they would sell their souls to the devil for self benefit.
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