Sept. 3, 2026

A Marriage of Secrets: The Susan Cox Powell Case

A Marriage of Secrets: The Susan Cox Powell Case

A Marriage of Secrets: The Susan Cox Powell Case Susan Cox Powell disappeared from her West Valley City, Utah home on December 6, 2009, launching a homicide investigation that centered on her husband, Josh Powell, before he killed himself and their...

A Marriage of Secrets: The Susan Cox Powell Case

Susan Cox Powell disappeared from her West Valley City, Utah home on December 6, 2009, launching a homicide investigation that centered on her husband, Josh Powell, before he killed himself and their two young sons in a 2012 murder-suicide. Despite a decade of searches, forensic evidence, and a $98.5 million negligence verdict against the state of Washington, Susan's body has never been found.

A husband tells police he took his toddlers camping at midnight, in a blizzard, on a work night, and came home to find his wife gone. That's the story Josh Powell gave investigators, and it barely survives contact with the evidence. Behind it sits a father-in-law running an obsessive surveillance operation out of his own house, a marriage built on quiet financial control, a will Susan wrote a year before she vanished warning that her death might not look like an accident, and 807 unexplained miles on a rental car. This is the story of what investigators found, what they missed, and the stretch of Idaho highway that's never been searched.

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A husband tells the police that he took his two toddlers camping at midnight in a blizzard

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on a work night and he comes home without his wife.

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That's the story Josh Powell gave to investigators in 2009 and it fell apart piece by piece.

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A social worker named Elizabeth is standing

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on a front porch in Graham, Washington,

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and she can smell gasoline through the door of the house.

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It's February 5th, 2012.

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She just saw a man pull his two little boys inside

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for a routine supervised visit,

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and the door slam shut in her face

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before she could follow inside.

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Within minutes, she's calling 911,

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and within minutes after that,

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the whole house is going to blow apart.

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To understand how this father got to that point,

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you have to go back to a young woman in Washington state

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who just wanted to keep everybody around her happy.

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Susan Cox was born in 1981,

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the third of four daughters in a devout LDS family,

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warm and perceptive with an instinct

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for smoothing things over before they turned into real problems.

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She met a guy named Josh Powell

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through an LDS Institute course,

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and they reconnected at dinner at his place

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in Tacoma in November of 2000.

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By every account, he came on charming and attentive,

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flattering enough that a 19 year old

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wouldn't think to question it.

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What Susan couldn't have known is that Josh

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had been keeping audio journals around that time.

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A psychologist who later reviewed them

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found something that reads less like a guy falling for someone

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and more like a guy working through a checklist.

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He'd basically been hunting for a wife with specific traits.

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And when Susan showed up, he said that she checked those boxes.

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They married in April 2001.

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Within weeks, they moved in with his father.

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That one decision to move in with Josh's father

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shaped the rest of Susan's life.

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Josh's father, Stephen Powell,

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might be one of the strangest people

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you'll ever run into in a true crime story.

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Police released more than 2,700 pages of his journals

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after his conviction, describing an obsessive fixation

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on his daughter-in-law almost from the moment

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that she moved in.

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He installed a mirror under the bathroom door to watch her,

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took her underwear and toenail clippings,

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and built a fantasy version of Susan out of a pillow

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and one of her photographs.

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He filmed her at family gatherings

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and from his van in parking lots,

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narrating out loud these fantasies as he recorded.

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In 2003, he told her how he felt

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and recorded that conversation, too,

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without her knowledge.

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Susan turned him down flat.

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Stephen wrote afterward that he still believed

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that she was attracted to him.

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Susan and Josh moved to Utah not long after,

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partly to put distance between themselves and Stephen,

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but Josh never cut his father off, though,

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and he kept in close contact with him for years,

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so that distance was never really something that existed.

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Stephen Powell exposed his kids to pornography, young,

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and taught them to look down on church and authority,

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according to his ex-wife's divorce filings.

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Josh's sister, Jennifer, later wrote a memoir,

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describing a brother who found satisfaction,

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hurting small animals as a kid.

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She's also the sibling who broke away,

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wore a wire to confront Josh,

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and became a domestic violence advocate herself.

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What was really going on inside the marriage of Susan and Josh,

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we'll never really know the full scope of.

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But Josh ran the finances completely,

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racked up over $200,000 in debt,

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and filed for bankruptcy in 2007,

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while Susan was working at Wells Fargo Investments

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without any real access to her own accounts.

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He decided which grocery stores that she could shop at

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and told her to bike to work to save gas.

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In July of 2008, Susan filmed a video diary

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and hit it in a safe deposit box at her own branch,

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pointing a camera at holes punched into the walls,

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and jewelry that Josh had destroyed in a rage.

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She said it plainly, "I'm an abused wife.

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I just don't have the bruises."

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That line follows this case for the next 15 years.

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In June of 2008, more than a year before she disappeared,

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Susan wrote out a will stating her marriage was

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an extreme turmoil, then added a line

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that reads like a message left over for whoever found it.

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If she died, it might look like an accident, even if it isn't.

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She wrote that Josh had threatened to destroy her

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if she ever left.

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She stayed anyway, because that's what coercive control does,

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abuse with no bruises and no police report.

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And in 2009, the law barely had a name for it.

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December 6, 2009, Susan went to church that morning

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with her boys.

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Her neighbor and friend, Jovanna, came over for lunch

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that afternoon and left around 5 p.m.

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The last confirmed sighting of Susan Cox Powell alive.

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Her purse, wallet, and ID all stayed at the house.

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Her phone turned up in the minivan.

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Josh's story to the police was that he'd bundled their sons

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up, ages 2 and 4, put them in the van at midnight,

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and driven them to the Utah desert to camp.

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In a blizzard that was going on on the day before a work day,

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and then he came home to find Susan Gone.

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Police searched the campsite that he described and found nothing.

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No tire tracks, no fire ring, nothing

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resembling a December camping trip.

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Therefore, your old later confirmed the camping trip had

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happened, but told the police that his mom came to,

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and she did not come back.

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Their five-year-old months later at daycare drew a van

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with three people in it and told staff,

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"Mommy was in the trunk."

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Two days after Susan vanished, while detectives

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served a search warrant at his house,

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Josh slipped out of the police station

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and disappeared for 18 hours, leaving his phone behind

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and renting a car.

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He came back, having put 807 miles on that car,

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though he told detectives it was closer to 300 miles.

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Years later, a journalist named Dave Cawley

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working on his podcast called Pull GPS Data

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from the Family Minivan and found two unexplained stops

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on a stretch of highway in rural southern Idaho

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near a canal feeding into the Magic Valley farmland.

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Those stops were never searched.

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Josh drove back to that road in 2010 and photographed it.

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To this day, that stretch of highway

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is considered the most credible lead in this whole case.

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Josh's younger brother, Michael, lived with Stephen

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in Washington at the time and his whereabouts

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that first week were never pinned down.

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He showed up in Utah days later to help Josh pack.

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He stayed through the search warrant

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and later helped Josh move out of the state for good.

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Police concluded that he was likely

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involved in covering something up,

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though they could never prove it.

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In February 2013, about a year after Josh died,

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Michael jumped from a parking garage in Minneapolis,

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taking whatever information he might know with him.

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West Valley City police threw a massive amount of manpower

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at this case, clearing more than 400 abandoned mind

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shafts across the Utah desert, not a number

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that you'd expect to attach to a missing person case.

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They logged 361 pieces of evidence

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and traded over 20,000 emails internally.

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Still, the 18 hours lost when Josh walked out of that police

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station may turn out to be the 18 hours that

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decided everything.

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And I know you're wondering, why did they

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let him walk out of that police station?

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And the reason is you have to have evidence to hold someone.

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You have to charge someone to keep them in custody.

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If they're there and they're not under arrest

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and they're not being detained, they can leave at any point.

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And that's what Josh did.

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The years that followed turned into a drawn out custody

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fight.

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In 2011, Stephen Powell was arrested on voyeurism

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and child pornography charges tied to filming two neighbor

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girls and arrest that finally got Charlie

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and Braden into the grandparents care.

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Josh was ordered to complete a psychosexual evaluation

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and polygraph before he could regain custody,

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a process that would likely have exposed

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more than he could survive.

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On February 1, 2012, a judge denied his request.

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Four days later, a social worker brought Charlie and Braden

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to Josh's rental home for that visit.

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Josh met them at the door, told them

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he had a big surprise waiting for them inside.

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He then pulled them in and locked the door.

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In the 24 hours before, he had withdrawn $7,000 in cash,

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given away the boy's toys, and emailed instructions

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on where to find that money.

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Inside, he attacked both boys with a hatchet,

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then doused the house and gasoline to set it off.

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All three of them died, officially of carbon monoxide poisoning

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since the gas filled the house before the explosion hit.

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All of that, while the social worker was locked outside.

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Susan Cox Powell has never been found.

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Her mother, Judy, spent the rest of her life hoping otherwise

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and passed away still hoping this past February.

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Her father, Chuck, has spent over a decade

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pushing this case forward.

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And in 2020, a jury awarded the boys' estates $98.5 million.

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After finding Washington's child welfare agency negligent

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for allowing the visit to even happen,

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what keeps pulling the investigators back

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is how much Susan documented on her own.

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The video, the will, the one line about the bruises.

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She built a paper trail for a crime nobody had proven yet,

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because on some level, she already knew.

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Her case has helped push coercive control toward becoming

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its own recognized criminal offense in places

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that never even had a name for it before.

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Somewhere, along a quiet stretch of highway and southern Idaho,

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near a canal most people have never heard of,

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there's still a search that's never happened.

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Susan Cox Powell is still out there,

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and this case is waiting on someone to go find her.

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Thanks for listening to 10 Minute Murder,

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binge-able true crime stories.

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I'm Joe, hello, and I'm the host, here's an email,

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subject from the other side of it, Joe.

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My brother is serving 22 to life.

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I'm not going to tell you his name or what he did,

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but I'm writing to let you know that I listen to your show

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and I've never once heard anybody in this genre think about

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people like me.

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The families on the other side, we don't get episodes,

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we get looked at at the grocery store.

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He did it.

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I'm not one of those sisters who says that he didn't.

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He did it and he should be where he is,

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but I still drive four hours every other month

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because he's my brother and I still love him.

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I don't want you to cover his case, God know.

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I want you to know that we're listening to,

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and when you talk about a killer's family,

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like they may have been part of it,

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somebody out there flinches.

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I'm not accusing you personally

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because I've never actually heard you do it,

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but it does happen.

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You seem to be better than most about this.

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That's why I sent you the email.

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Rachel in Indiana, in Rachel is in quotes,

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so I'm assuming that's not her real name.

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Rachel, thank you for taking the time to send the email,

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and yeah, I don't make it a habit of talking about

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the killer's families in a way that makes it look like

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they were involved unless there is evidence pointing

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to the fact that they are involved.

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And I will never, like in this case,

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that I just got finished talking about,

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Josh Powell's brother was more than likely

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involved in the cover-up of what happened.

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That's coming from the police, not coming from me.

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So me personally, I won't speculate

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on if I think that he was involved in the cover-up

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because I don't know.

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I know what the police said,

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and that's what the police believe.

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I don't think it does anybody any good

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for me to sit and speculate on things like that.

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So that's why I don't talk about that.

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And I do think you're right.

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There is not a lot of attention given to families

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of the person that did the crime.

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They have to be going through it as well,

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although I reserve my empathy, the majority of it,

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for the victim's families.

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And I'm not gonna apologize for that,

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because at the end of the day, your brother is still alive.

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Whoever he did something to is not.

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Their family doesn't have them in their lives.

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You get to go see him every other month.

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You can write him letters.

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So I do have empathy for what you're going through,

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but I reserve the majority of it for the victim's family.

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Again, thank you for the email, and thank you for listening.

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You can go to 10minuteMurder.com

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If you're an OG listener,

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been listening for a long time,

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I really do appreciate you so much.

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More than I can even say with words,

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and keep doing what you're doing, please.

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Sending me cases as well, that's a huge help.

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You OG listeners, I love you so much.

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And that's gonna do it.

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That's your episode for today.

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Thank you again for listening to 10minuteMurder.

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See you next time.

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