

Josh Powell was never charged or arrested with the disappearance of his wife, Susan Cox Powell, even after her blood was found in their Utah home. Susan’s sister, Denise Cox says police could have saved Braden, 7, and Charlie, 5, from dying in a fiery explosion if Josh was arrested, according to The Daily Mail.
Months before killing himself and his two sons in a tragic murder-suicide — Braden, 7, and Charlie, 5 — Josh Powell altered the terms of a $2.5 million life insurance policy on himself, his sons and his missing wife Susan Cox Powell to have his brother be the main beneficiary, according to ABC News. Now his siblings are trying to claim the money!
Detectives are now revealing some shocking news in the Josh Powell case: Josh didn’t actually live in the house he turned into an exploding bomb, killing him and his two young sons — Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5. According to the Tacoma News Tribune, detectives told local residents that Josh had obviously pre-meditated this terrible tragedy.
Social Worker Elizabeth Griffin-Hall describes the final moments of Charles, 7, and Braden, 5, Powell’s lives in a revealing new interview with ABC’s 20/20. She says as the boys ran up to the house, Josh Powell announced that he had a “big surprise” for them. “He caught my eye, his shoulders were slumped,” she says. “He had a sheepish look. He just shrugged his shoulders and slammed the door.”
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Josh Powell stunned the world when he killed himself and his two sons in a fiery explosion. Now details about his troubled history — such as holding a knife to his own mom and the discovery of shocking incestuous porn on his computer — are coming out. “I believe that he understood that there was no way he was going to bluff his way through this, not with the lie detector test on top of the examination, and that this was it,” Josh’s father-in-law Chuck Cox tells The Today Show. “The truth was going to come out.”
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Faced with losing custody of his young sons Charles, 7 and Braden, 5, a desperate Josh Powell, the lead suspect in the 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan, did an unspeakable act: Murdering his sons by cutting them with a hatchet and setting the house on fire. His sister Alina Powell told ABC News the tragedy was an act of protection: “I think he must has just felt that there was only one way left for him to protect his sons, from the pain, from all the emotional and physical pain they’ve been experiencing.”
“They’re innocent children killed by their father,” said an indignant Chuck Cox, calling what father Josh Powell did as a “cowardly and desperate act.”
On Feb. 5, Josh Powell, the lead suspect in the 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan, killed himself and his two young boys — Braden, 5, and Charles, 7 — in a horrific fire. Now autopsy results reveal that Josh cruelly chopped his sons with a hatchet before the explosion, according to The Daily Mail!
Police say On Feb. 5, Josh Powell, the lead suspect in the 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan, killed his two young sons and himself by setting his house on fire. But now the lawyer for Susan’s family says young Braden, 5, and Charles, 7, had recently begun revealing details about the horrible night their mom disappeared, according to CBS news.
The case of missing Utah mother Susan Powell-Cox, 28, took a sad turn Feb. 5 when her husband Josh Powell killed himself and his two sons — Braden, 5, and Charlie, 7 — in a terrible explosion at his Puyallup, Washington home, according to CNN. Shortly before the murder-suicide, he sent his attorney an email. “I’m sorry. Goodbye,” he wrote.
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