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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU-Rebecca Morris

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

A DEVOTED MOTHER GOES MISSING

Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's eyes…Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden. When the pretty Utah mother went missing in December of 2009, the media was swept up in the story?with lenses and microphones trained on Susan's husband, Josh. He said he had no idea what happened to Susan?and that he and the boys had been camping in the middle of a snowstorm. It was hard to know what, or who, to believe.

AND A CYCLE OF DEVASTATION BEGINS…

Over the next three years, bombshell by bombshell, a world of secrets about the Powell family came to light. Josh's father, Steve, who was sexually obsessed with Susan, would ultimately be convicted of unspeakable perversion. Josh's brother, Michael, would commit suicide. And in the most stunning event of them all, Josh Powell would murder his two little boys before killing himself. Why did he do it? What really happened to Susan? This is the shocking true story of the Powell family that no reader will soon forget. IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children-Rebecca Morris

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them.

1:09.4

Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker, DTK, every week, another fascinating author talking about the most shocking

1:19.2

and infamous killers in true crime history. True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski.

1:37.2

Good evening. Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's

1:43.2

eyes. Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden. When the pretty

1:51.2

Utah mother went missing in December of 2009, the media was swept up in the story with lenses and microphones trained on Susan's husband, Josh. He said he had no idea what happened to Susan, and he and the boys had been

2:05.2

camping in the middle of a snowstorm. It was hard to know what or who to believe. Over the next three years, Bombshell by Bombshell, a world of secrets about the Powell family came to light.

2:17.2

Josh's father, Steve, who was sexually obsessed with Susan, would ultimately be convicted of unspeakable perversion.

2:25.2

Josh's brother, Michael, would commit suicide. And in the most stunning event of them all, Josh Powell would murder his two little boys before killing himself. Why did he do it? What really happened to Susan? This is the shocking true story of the Powell family that no reader will soon forget.

2:44.2

We're featuring this evening as if I can't have you. Susan Powell, her mysterious disappearance and the murder of her children. With my special guest, journalist and author, Rebecca Morris. Welcome back to the program and thank you very much for a green in his interview. Rebecca Morris.

3:01.2

Hi Dan, thank you so much for having me again. It's always nice talking to you.

3:06.2

It's always a pleasure and this is one heck of a story if I can't have you. Let's talk about why you came to want to write this book, how you came to be in a position to write this incredible book.

3:24.2

Well, and I wrote this with my co-author, Greg Olson, my sometimes co-author. We write some nonfiction, some true crime together. And he also writes a lot of fiction. But in we started following this case pretty much as soon as Susan disappeared in 2009.

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