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Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Part 2 | Obsessed: The Susan Powell Case

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast By Kelly Jennings

Jim Chapman

True Crime

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast by Kelly Jennings concludes the story of the 2009 disappearance of Susan Powell, examining her troubled marriage to Josh, his controlling behavior, and Susan's documented fears, setting the stage for a deeper investigation into her case.


Timestamps
05:20 Stephen Powell's Obsession
08:38 Voyeurism and Its Consequences
13:24 Family Dynamics and Control
15:05 The Divorced Parents' History
18:50 The Search Warrant Execution
24:27 The Arrest of Stephen Powell
26:32 Custody Battle Over the Boys
29:08 Children's Perspectives
42:23 Visitation Day
51:42 A Dangerous Situation
54:54 The House Explosion
58:38 The Aftermath of Tragedy
1:04:33 The Unraveling of Josh's Actions 

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Executive Producer: Jim Chapman

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0:00.0

Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims,

0:11.7

whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering, how is this even real?

0:30.9

I use my experiences in law enforcement, corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts.

0:34.4

Some so evil, many feel they are unspeakable.

0:53.6

Warning, unspeakable is intended for mature audiences.

0:56.3

If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl.

1:03.2

Listing discretion is advised. Hey y'all, it's KJ here back for another episode of Unspeakable. How's it going in your neck of the woods?

1:11.2

I am having a fantastic week. I have knocked some things off of my bucket list that I'm going to be releasing to y'all soon, and I'm just tickled pink about everything that's gone down of the last few days in my life. I hope that you have met some goals yourself because it's just the best feeling, you know, whenever you're you're meeting dreams and goals and all of that. Let me do some shoutouts for you though. Right now, this one's pretty cool. This is going to be from Miss Vicki Armitage. I know you wanted your shout-out girl,

1:11.6

and I'm giving it to you. you though. Right now, this one's pretty cool. This is going to be from Miss Vicki Armitage. I know you

1:29.4

wanted your shout-out girl, and I'm giving it to you. She is from Emu Plains, South Wales,

1:34.5

Australia, across the world from me and listening to this podcast, and I'm just, I'm just so tickled

1:41.2

pink by that. I've never been to Australia. Well, I was at the Thunder Down Under in Vegas one time, the male strip show, but I don't know if that counts. I hope you're doing well, Miss Vicki. I hope that you're having a wonderful week. I know you told me also that I believe one of your sons had his birthday this week. So you tell him I said happy birthday,

2:01.2

and I hope that things are going great for y'all in your neck of the woods. I've also got Beth Whitaker from, and I hope I don't jack this up, Beth Whitaker from New Bronfels, Texas. I hope I said that right. How are you doing over there in Texas, Beth? I hope things are going great for you. I'm a fan of Texas. I have a whole lot of listeners there. And so y'all are my people.

2:01.8

And I love for you. I'm a fan of Texas.

2:18.0

I have a whole lot of listeners there. And so y'all are my people. And I love having you. Another text that I have from San Antonio, Texas, Catherine Van Horn. That's a good name. That's a solid name. My name is Catherine Van Horn. I hope you use that. Put your chest with it when you say it, girl. I love it. I hope you're doing well. Thank you so much for joining my Patreon. And then last but not least today, I've got Ms. Leslie Colb from Derrida, Louisiana, right here in my neck of the woods. That's awesome. All right. So we're going to start part two. And yes, I will finish this story today. But it took me a full two episodes to get this done. So let's go back

2:54.4

to Washington, where we were with the Joshua Powell, Susan Powell fiasco that's going on.

2:59.2

I left off last episode with the cringe-worthy song that Stephen Powell wrote for his missing

3:05.1

daughter-in-law Susan. And by the way, if you're a new listener,

3:08.0

don't start on this episode. Go back one before you listen to this one, because this is going to be

3:11.8

a continuation of the last one that I did. But Stephen Powell's obsession with Susan was off

3:17.9

the charts. And it was something that definitely was problematic. There was something very wrong

3:23.9

with the situation at hand, and everyone agreed, including Stephen's own daughter. She was stunned by the things that her father told the media about he and Susan's supposed affair that they were supposedly having. It was absolutely insane. And his own daughter thought,

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