McLachlan noted that the police department there had two missing women cases of its own that were still unsolved, reports the Deseret News. Susan Powell, 28, was reported missing December 7, when she didn't show up for work and her two children were not dropped off at day care.
Police went to the family's residence in West Valley City, a suburb of Salt Lake City, and found it empty, but did find two fans pointing at a wet spot on the rug. In January , less than a month after his wife disappeared, Josh Powell said he had sought to get away from media attention and moved with his sons into his father Steven Powell's house in Puyallup, Washington.
Steven Powell then kicked Graves out of the house. All the while new details began to emerge about Steven Powell's unusual fixation and inappropriate behavior toward his daughter-in-law, Susan Powell. I enjoy doing that. That's not to your benefit," Graves said of her father. I don't know. Denise Cox-Ernest said her sister, Susan Powell, had complained about her father-in-law's inappropriate advances and that she had told Josh Powell about them, too.
Investigators found home videos taken by Steven Powell that showed secret recordings of his daughter-in-law's body parts and video diaries in which he smelled her underwear and expressed his love and sexual feelings toward her. The search also yielded dozens of computer disks containing images of women and young girls that focused on their private parts, according to prosecutors.
Police arrested Steven Powell in November and charged him with voyeurism and possession of child pornography. Following Steven Powell's arrest, Josh Powell lost custody of his two sons. Chuck and Judy Cox were awarded temporary custody of the children in which they acted essentially as foster parents -- the state had official custody -- and Josh Powell was given weekly supervised visitation.
A judge then ordered Josh Powell to undergo a psychosexual evaluation and take a polygraph test. But before Josh Powell could take the evaluation or polygraph test, he killed himself and the two boys. On Feb. He locked the official out, incapacitated the 5- and 7-year-old children with a hatchet, poured gasoline on them and around the house and then caused an explosion, according to authorities.
A few months later, in June , Steven Powell was convicted on the voyeurism charges and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. Josh was named a person of interest shortly after Susan's disappearance, but he was never charged in connection with the case. To this day, Susan Cox Powell has not been found.
Crime Time is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. Sign up for Oxygen Insider for all the best true crime content. Sign Up for Free to View. While authorities believe the brothers were responsible for Susan Powell's disappearance, they said repeatedly Monday that they never had enough evidence to bring charges - an assertion that has been questioned in the past by legal experts as well as law enforcement in Washington State.
His fellow deputy chief, Mike Powell, added, "We didn't have a body. We don't have a crime scene. The case file shows that in August , police contacted a West Valley City woman, whose full name is redacted, after her phone number was discovered in Josh Powell's phone records. She told police she had a sexual relationship with Powell after meeting him through a dating service about six or seven months before Susan Powell disappeared.
The woman said she knew Powell by the name John Staley, and she didn't know he was married. It wasn't until after she saw news coverage of the case that she discerned his true identity. She also gave detectives a tour of areas where she said they conducted their encounters - always during daytime, Maxwell wrote.
The woman initially called just days after Susan Powell disappeared and claimed she had been having an affair with Josh for the past two months, Maxwell wrote - but at the time, she declined to provide corroborating information.
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