The Disappearance of Susan Powell

True Crime Society

True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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UPDATE - February 24, 2022. The bones that were found in the search for Susan do not belong to her and have been determined to be animal bones.

SUSAN’S STORY

When Susan Cox met Josh Powell, she envisioned her own ‘happily ever after’. They were both members of the LDS church and seemed to have similar values and goals in life.

The couple settled down and had two sons, Charlie and Braden.

One early pressure point in their marriage was interference and unwanted advances that were continually being made by Josh’s father, Steven Powell. Steven would film Susan without her consent and he wrote many cringe-worthy love songs for her. Susan became fed up and the family moved states from Washington to Utah.

Not too long into their marriage, Josh began to change. He became increasingly controlling - even though Susan was the breadwinner in the family, he would control their finances so tightly that she did not have enough money to feed her children. She began to grow vegetables to make sure they had enough to eat. Susan also told family and friends that Josh threatened to "destroy her" if she filed for divorce. She then said that if she dies "it may not be an accident, even if it may look like one."

One cold December day in 2009, Susan’s neighbor visited the Powell family and they ate together. Susan said she felt tired and wanted to nap. This was the last time anyone would see Susan alive.

Josh’s version of events on the day that Susan disappeared is that he took his two young sons camping, at midnight, in ‘blizzard like’ conditions’. He told police that when he arrived home, Susan was gone.

Josh moved with Charlie and Braden back to Washington and they lived there for the next few years. Susan’s family battled for custody of the boys for years, and it got to a point where Josh was only allowed to see them during visits that were supervised by a social worker. When it became evident that he was never going to regain full custody of his sons, Josh killed both children and then himself in one of the most horrendous crimes that you could imagine.

Police closed their active investigation into Susan’s case in 2013. I think we all assumed that her case would remain cold indefinitely. Until now. Just a few days ago, searchers recovered bones and clothing from a mine in the Utah desert. Susan’s family have said they are hopeful the remains belong to Susan.

Join us for this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast as we tell the story of Susan Cox Powell and her sons, Braden and Charlie.

You can read our blog for Susan here - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2022/02/21/the-disappearance-of-susan-powell/

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:24.0	What's up guys? I want to know another episode of the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie
0:27.9	and Olivia. It is February 17th Thursday. It is 4.30 here in New York. What time is it in Australia?
0:36.0	We got it now. 8.30 in the morning. You. I know. I'm just saying to you, I've accomplished a lot
0:42.4	this morning and it's already, it's only 8.30 so I can relax after this. Yeah, it's been a day.
0:48.9	I feel like I want to say that but it's always been a fucking day. Yeah. We're just gonna get right
0:53.2	into it because like we always say it's a big one. They're always big ones but it really is
0:57.4	another big one. Yeah. One day we're gonna be like it's a small one. It's not just a mini one.
1:02.7	Mini one this week but not another big one. Yeah, well you guys should like the big ones anyway
1:06.8	at least. So for this one we are doing it on Susan Powell which we honestly probably if anyone
1:15.1	asked us a month ago like hey are you gonna do a podcast episode on Susan Powell? We would have been
1:19.3	like um probably not because it's been done a billion times. There's tons of things you could watch
1:24.5	or read or listen to on it. There's a really good very in-depth podcast on it called Cold
1:30.4	that you should all listen to if it if you listen to this episode and you want to know
1:34.5	way way way way way more. That was probably one of the best podcasts I've ever listened to. It's
1:39.2	a series just on this case like. I was thinking that too. Very in-depth. It's like I would love to be
1:45.9	able to do a podcast like that but the amount of time in research. I don't remember how long he said
1:49.6	it took him but it would take probably at least a year just to come by. Yeah all that. I was going
1:55.2	to say like I thought it was years he'd been with him. I was gonna say years too. But I second-guess
2:00.5	myself. But anyways we'll mention it again but if you find yourself interested that's a great
2:05.9	podcast to check out tons of info. Anyways back to what I was saying before I derailed myself.
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