The Mysterious Disappearance of Susan Powell

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Doesn't seem so mysterious - father/son killed her. Didn't investigators find a mattress covered with blood?

FIL was saving her nail clippings.

R2 I meant father in law and her husband.

It’s terrible hearing what happened to the children.,,,

I remember hearing about the murders/home explosion. Those poor children. And her remains will probably never be found.

Hmm...no possibility of a GAY HOOK-UP gone bad? PASS.

They state should obviously not have allowed any visitation (even supervised) to the husband who was accused of having horrific imagery on his computer and was suspected of murdering his wife with the help of his entire family...

What were they thinking?

Also: What WAS the deal with the husband’s family?

They all seem like pervy, psychotic messes. They also seemed completely unashamed about it.

What was the Genesis of so much crazy in one family?

Was the father of the husband incestuous with him and his brother or something?

Why did they kill the wife to begin with?

Was it so the FIL could rape her?

What was the motive?

Why are you posting frausleuths threads here, OP?

She was becoming increasingly unhappy with Josh, and was most likely planning to leave him. I have read that he might have been slowly poisoning her with homemade smoothies. He either poisoned or drugged her the day she "disappeared." Josh's father and brother helped him dispose of the body. Josh's cunt mother and cunt sister tried to collect life insurance on Susan and claim her estate, but Susan's sister defeated them in court. A pox upon what remains of that horrible family.

She was great in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

And hetero Christians still believe in holy matrimony. LOL Your God let all this happen!

Mormons.

BOMBSHELL TONIGHT!

Just watched the 2-part series on Oxygen. Highly recommend it.

If I hadn't actually found this on DataLounge and someone had mentioned this story to me, I would have believed that they had an overactive imagination - and in all likelihood, some mental problems: that's how horribly convoluted, twisted, scary, perverted and dark this story is. There's some truly terrifying evil in this world! :(

Something that I also find quite repugnant is the fact that they were involved with that creepy LDS cult that objectifies women and presents forced polyamory and underage marriage as something normal. So utterly creepy and unhealthy. Also, I cannot believe that this woman would have stayed with her husband after seeing that he refused to sever all ties with his father (the man they had escaped from because he had started to sexually harass her and had tried to force her to sleep with him), and was increasingly violent toward her.

What happened to Susan Powell and her children is a tragedy that could have been prevented if she had had an adequate social and family network that had rushed to her aid in the face of her in-laws' degeneracy. What a horrible situation. Poor mother and children.

How did Josh get the kids that day? Weren't they living with her parents at the time.

R18 you’re talking about Utah where patriarchy and corruption thrives under Mormonism, which keeps their problems to themselves. Elizabeth Smart never got professional help after her ordeal but was swept back to the church.

So not only did the moronic judge allow visitation but the supervisor was a woman who could do nothing if the guy slammed the door in her face or even if allowed in could do nothing if he got confrontational when everyone knew he was a very sick fuck. None of this makes any sense.

The judge who handled this should have been brought up on charges. And still should be questioned as to what happened and why they made such homicidal decisions.

The whereabouts of her remains are a mystery. But there's no doubt about what happened to her. Her deranged husband Josh Powell killed her (maybe for money; she had a huge insurance policy on her life) and disposed of her body, probably in an abandoned mine, and probably with the help of his brother. What IS a mystery is how Susan Powell ended up married to Josh Powell in the first place. She was attractive, vivacious, well liked. When she married him he had the unprepossessing look of a skinny, weak, geeky teenage boy, even though he was 26 years old. He was socially unskilled, a compulsive talker who couldn't seem to shut up, rude and unmannered. Most people couldn't stand him. Her mother speculated that Susan married him because she "felt sorry" for him and hoped their marriage would change him for the better. Of course it didn't. After a brief period of happiness, he because a controlling, abusive monster who treated her like shit and spent the money she made on whatever he desired. I tend to think that she married him because she had a maternal feeling towards him; he must have seemed so helpless and weak and friendless and of course he came from a very troubled family. Actually, an insane family. I guess she thought she would be "good" for him. What a tragic mistake. All her marriage to him did was bring about death and destruction.

Mormonism, R21. Mormonism is why she married him and why she stayed married to him despite his abuse.

"Mormonism is why she married him and why she stayed married to him despite his abuse."

I don't think Mormonism is why she married him, but I do think it's why she stayed with him. Their marriage was "sealed" in a Mormon temple, which means that it was forever; they were married not only in THIS life, but the next one, that is, for all eternity. If you're a Mormon and your marriage is sealed you're not supposed to remarry if your spouse died because you're still married to them even after they're dead. Of course there are Mormon who don't adhere to never getting divorced for remarrying after the death of a spouse but that's what they're SUPPOSED to do. She was trying to be a good Mormon and make it work. Poor thing; she should have grabbed her kids and a few clothes and ran for her life. There were plenty of people who would have helped her. She KNEW she was in danger! It really pisses me off that he just didn't pack up and get the hell away from her obviously very sick husband.

[quote]she should have grabbed her kids and a few clothes and ran for her life.

Run for her life. She should have run for her life, not should have ran. It’s the conditional perfect tense.

I finished streaming both episodes. It is truly a bizarre story. And that creepy father in law Steve Powell was really a piece of work. The episodes show him shirtless, showing off his old man bod, sticking his rabbity, grinning face in the camera. You hear him expressing his lust for his daughter in law as he video tapes her without her knowledge. Seems he would also video tape other women (and teenagers) without their knowledge, and jerk off to his videos. When the police finally raided his home they found plastic bags containing cotton balls that Susan had used, her toenail clippings, underwear that belonged to her and "feminine hygiene products (used tampons?)." And lot of voyeuristic videos and ponnography. The guy was like something out of a horror movie. And his children, except for one daughter, Jennifer, were the same way.

I have no idea why Steve Powell's obese, fugly youngest daughter Alina Powell was interviewed. All she did was defend her sickening father and brother. There was no "new" information from her at all.

The podcast "Cold" gives probably the most detailed account of all this. I do like true crime podcasts, if they are well made and researched and this one is among the best.

This is such a creepy case--that husband is clearly closeted and gay while the father is fucking creepy. He records himself constantly and even stranger, he records Susan all the time, even if she was walking from a parking lot to some building. The father made a joke in front of Susan with his son about how they should both "Share" Susan. What kind of family is that?

[quote] If I hadn't actually found this on DataLounge and someone had mentioned this story to me, I would have believed that they had an overactive imagination - and in all likelihood, some mental problems: that's how horribly convoluted, twisted, scary, perverted and dark this story is. There's some truly terrifying evil in this world! :(

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I’d rather unravel the Mysterious Disappearance of Susan Powter.