http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016295279_powell24m.html

I haven't seen any posts on this recently.

This keeps getting weirder and weirder.
Publishing Susan's journal pages from when she was a teenager.
The love songs seemly written to and for Susan by her FIL.
Then the interviews recently where the FIL claims that Susan was into him sexually.
Now...voyeurism and child porn.

What a fvcked up family.......

I think the husband AND the FIL had something to do with her death

Her parents haven't seen them for months.

ChurchCo, in these cases, acts to protect its image. They'll ex someone (Ted Bundy, etc.) in a wink when their reputation is at stake.

Is there a MIL involved? Is she collateral damage?

If someone offered odds on what happened, here's where I'd place my bet:

I think Susan knew (discovered?) something that could put FIL away for a loooooooong time and DH or FIL or both together did away with her to prevent her going to the authorities.

Sooner or later, a piece of evidence will pop up that will link it all together.

When her FIL mentioned that Susan Powell made passes at him and "he wished he acted on those" it threw up warning flags and bells ringing.

Wow... I didn't realize the boys were in state custody. Maybe they will transfer custody to the mother's parents after all. They have been trying to do that.

I think this is one of those cases that the investigators "know" who is responsible - know who killed Susan -- but obviously, don't have enough proof to take him to trial.

When police officers "just KNOW" who committed a crime, they might be right. Or they might be very wrong. And sometimes, witnesses, police officers and forensic scientists lie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lesley_Molseed

Excellent Point, matt.

Exercise? I don't need to Excercise!

I get PLENTY of exercise Jumping to Conclusions!

I agree as a general principle, but it is kind of hard not to be suspicious of a father who woke his toddlers up in the middle of a snowy and cold winter night to take them camping and who returned to find his wife missing.The wet carpet being dried by fans doen't make it any more believable.

The kind of idiot who would wake his toddlers to go out camping late at night ("duh! The spirit moved me!") would be exactly the kind of clown who would then trample snow all over the carpet and then think: "Better get that carpet dried!"

But in the above case I quoted, the police ascribed all sorts of evil motives to even the smallest and most innocent thing the suspect had done.

I'll be willing to listen to the evidence and could change my mind, but right now I think he looks guiltier than sin.I do get your point though. Things are misreported and not always as they seem. People get railroaded too. IMO, Amanda Knox is an example of that.

I remember the weather in Utah that night very well. It was very snowy and frankly ruined my own plans with my kids that evening + next Monday morning. It snowed about 8+ inches very unexpectedly. Nobody in their right mind (unless they needed to get rid of a dead body) would've been out in that weather that night.

That must have been some ex-mormon group the FIL attended.
Seems someone should have known about his'interests'.

Sad, in leaving Mormonism the same problems follow people out of Mormonism that were found within the organization.

Same people, same personalities, same problems in or out.

The case you put in your post to prove that innocent people are sometimes convicted has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN COMMON, should I pepeat that, to the Susan Powell case.

She was married to the guy. He goes camping at the oddest time of year, the oddest time of night, freezing weather, and his wife is gone when he returns?

How in the hell do you begin to compare the case you mentioned with this one?

Get real! Use your brains and find a case with some small measure of similarities so people can at least take your comment seriously.

Perhaps they got into it about FIL and what a pervert he was. The argument got out of control, he accidently killed her and then had to get rid of the body.

Had it been a planned murder, he might have opted for a more convenient opportunity.

I'm with twinker.

One possibility is that Susan found out about the father-in-law's porn stash, and in trying to persuade her not to turn him in, the father-in-law accidentally killed her. Many murders are accidental.

When Josh found out, he got scared. "Daddy, what do I do?" The father-in-law told him to get the boys and go camping. The alibi shows lack of planning.

When this happened, I took a lot of heat for saying that Josh did it. It doesn't take a genius to know that most murder victims know their killer, and the spouse is where detectives start. I might be wrong. Maybe the father-in-law did it, and Josh just helped in the cover-up.

I also took heat when I said Josh set off my gaydar. I still think he's gay. I don't think that the two have anything in common, but I think Josh knows exactly what happened, and I think Josh is gay.

T-Bone



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