Susan and Josh Powell - Part 1
🕑 Added 2024-06-15 18:00:08 +0000 UTCSusan Powell was last seen on December 6, 2009. She and her husband of 8 years, Josh Powell, lived in West Valley City, Utah. In recent years their marriage had been strained due to financial issues and Josh’s detachment from his marriage. When the Powell’s two young sons, Charlie, 4, and Braden, 2, didn’t show up at daycare and Susan didn’t show up at work, their friends and family were instantly worried. Hours later, Josh was reached on his cell phone. He said he’d left at 1 am and taken his sons camping despite the cold and snowy conditions while Susan stayed home. Josh assumed she went to work. Police interviewed Josh but he was evasive and unhelpful. However, he was not arrested. What followed was a frustrating years-long investigation, a creepy obsession, an ugly custody dispute, and a tragic end.
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Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20101209044541/http://stevechantrey.com/Pages/About/MeetSteve.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RaOOO7lzBU Steve Chantrey Bush
If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children, Gregg Olsen, 2014
https://web.archive.org/web/20110404172123/http://susanpowell.org/
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Comments
Rich Bentley
They really did. I think it was a multiple system failure.
Jarna Jouhki-Kuosmanen
So sad❤️❤️ but so important to keep talking about it. Child protective services failed bigtime.
Emily M.
Ugh I bet. Awful story. 💔
Rich Bentley
It’s the hardest one we’ve covered. 😔