Hi, Crime Junkeys. Ashley Flowers here. The case we have for you today is a dark one.

One that our listeners have requested over and over again.

It's the story of Susan Powell and her two young boys.

Part of the story revolves heavily around child protective services and case workers supervised visits.

All stuff that I have zero experience with.

So I have asked Brit to tell us the story this week. As a lot of you know,

she's fostered multiple kids in the system and along with the baby that she just adopted,

she's currently fostering another child as we speak.

So she has a lot of experience with the kinds of interactions that play into the case we're going to talk about today.

So Brit, are you ready to take us on a pretty dark ride? Yes, I am.

Okay, let's go.

So today's story actually ends on February 5th of 2012. Wait, you're starting to be ending? I am.

Ooh, you're totally shaking it up. Okay.

So a social worker was taking two little boys, Charlie and Braden,

for a supervised visit with their father.

And she had taken the boys on a couple of visits for the family before,

but they'd always done it in a public facility.

But because of the family's notoriety, which we'll get to in a bit,

they were actually ordered to now have visits in the father's home.

And the children had actually been removed from the father's custody and have been living with their

maternal grandparents. And I'd be lying if I said this wasn't the most difficult part of the

story for me. And honestly, it's kind of why I'm leading with it. I've known social workers.

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