Mommy goes missing, cracking hubby's secret computer code wide open

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Susan Cox Powell's family hopes efforts to peer into an encrypted computer hard drive will give them answers about what happened to the Utah mother who disappeared in 2009. The computer belonged to her husband Josh Powell who later killed their two sons and himself. Susan's sister Denise Ernst, Cox family lawyer Anne Bremner and Cox family investigator Rose Winquist discuss the latest the case with Nancy Grace in this episode. Forensic tech expert Ben Levitan explains how the hard drive could be unlocked.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	CRIME STORIES WITH NATSY GRACE ON SERIOUS XM TRY-UP, CHANNEL 132.
0:11.2	Susan Cox Powell vanished from her West Valley City home in December 2009.
0:15.4	Her husband, Josh, was suspected in her disappearance.
0:18.4	He killed himself and their children in 2012.
0:21.6	Susan has never been found.
0:23.2	This case is still being actively investigated.
0:25.9	A private investigator working for Susan Cox Powell's family tells me they've made
0:29.5	significant progress in cracking a computer owned by Josh Powell.
0:33.3	If they can get into it, they think this could be a big breakthrough in the missing person's case.
0:37.9	No one, especially in 2009, put that kind of encryption on their computer unless they were
0:42.6	trying to hide something.
0:43.6	We really like to find on that hard drive.
0:45.6	Is any kind of information that leads us to a body?
0:48.2	This is the most hopeful lead we've had yet in the process of trying to find Susan.
0:53.5	As long as I live, I will never forget when Susan Cox Powell disappeared.
1:00.7	As long as I live, this beautiful young, I think she was a stockbroker and investment banker.
1:07.8	But what always sticks out in my mind is that she was devoutly religious and a mother of two beautiful baby boys.
1:18.2	Beautiful.
1:19.2	I've listened over and over and over to her friends and neighbors that said she has such a happy
1:24.1	marriage to her husband, Josh.
1:26.3	Well, I didn't see that at all when I first heard that Susan was missing and that the
1:32.8	day she goes missing, she had a lady over at the house.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.