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Josh Powell, Long Suspected in His Wife Susan’s Disappearance Killed With Sons In Explosion

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An explosion at The Washington state home of Josh Powell, long considered a “person of interest” in his wife Susan’s disappearance, has killed Powell and his two sons. The incident occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the boys to Powell’s Washington state home for a supervised visit.

Powell, who lost custody of the boys in September to their grandparents, reportedly allowed the boys in the house, then immediately prevented the social worker from entering. Seconds after the social worker called her supervisors to report that she could smell gas, the home exploded.

Last week, Powell lost a renewed effort to re-gain custody of his children, or to at least to remove them from the custody of the grandparents who have publicly questioned Powell’s role in their daughter’s disappearance..

Susan Powell was reported missing Dec. 7, 2009 and since that time many, including the authorities, have questioned her husband Josh’s account that he took his sons on a late-night camping trip the night Susan went missing.

When contacted about the news, ABC News Legal Analyst (and Mediaite founder) Dan Abrams who has covered the Powell case said:

“This is the worst case scenario that everyone fears most in a contentious custody battle. There are still details to learn, but regardless this is a truly heartbreaking ending.”

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  • Verreauxii

    Oh. My. God. Terrible…terrible situation. Poor kids. 

  • Anonymous

    Terrible story, but I wonder if anyone knows – how would he be certain to blow the house up instead of just cause a fire?   Presumably the CPS worker would have been parked at the street, and typically when homes explode the neighboring homes are significantly damaged, and I’d expect the CPS worker’s car would have been too.  In my area we had a natural gas explosion a couple years ago, destroyed one home and damaged about 5 others and blew out windows and through debris causing neighboring damage…

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Very sad… the kids are in all of our prayers!!

  • Anonymous

    What an ugly person he is, killing his children and probably killing their mother. He made them suffer for far too long. I am glad he is dead, but the disgusting jerk had no right to kill his children. How selfish of that despicable piece of crap.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Indeed.

  • Anonymous

    Enjoy hell, you piece of human garbage.

  • Anonymous

    This man is pure selfish evil. He could of just killed himself and let his children go. Tragic!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Deiss/100000462924000 Theresa Deiss

    Should supervised visit’s have been allowed in his home?

  • Anonymous

    Reading up on this gave me flash backs from Coast Guard days. A man jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge on Thanksgiving Day back in 1993. The station there was alerted to pick up his body, the also found his son too :( Later  found out he committed suicide and took his son with him because of a custody battle too.

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  • batlcrewzer

    Though we may never know what really happened, it appears that the bastard took the ultimate cowards way out. As usual the innocent suffer along with the depraved. I’m ashamed to say that I hope Mr. Powell finds his new diggs in the 10th circle of hell NOT to his liking.

  • Anonymous

    What an awful and tragically sad outcome.

    This man deserves nothing, but everlasting hell.

  • Anonymous

    What a tradegy.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    First Mediaite article to make me cry.

    Poor kids.
    Sad

    RIP children.
     

  • ganmerlad

    My god!  He would have been waiting a few hours for the house to fill with gas if the social worker could smell it at the front door, and he didn’t change his mind. The selfishness of it is overwhelming.

  • Anonymous

    disgusting, animal! 

  • TVNewsViewer

    Thankfully heaven has a special spot for the children.

    And hell has a special spot for Daddy Dearest. Hope the bastard burns for eternity.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    Punk ass bastard chump! This makes me sick.

  • Anonymous

     Hey Lenora, I appreciate you trying to cheer everybody up by posting such good news in a thread about a heartbreaking tragedy. Nice work

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jen-Brit/100003548220322 Jen Brit

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  • Joshua Lee Cummings

    It is a sad thing indeed, however I think more blame needs to be placed on Josh’s Dad, who was having an affair with his son’s wife (his own daughter-in-law), who was later found to have child porn in his home.  Clearly there were many issues taking place here…

  • Anonymous

    Oh my God… that just makes me numb.   

  • Joshua Lee Cummings

    Lets not forget about the Daddy’s daddy who was sleeping with his SOn’s wife, that was likely the spark that started it all.

  • Anonymous

    Good grief…what a nut!  Shoot yourself idiot…take your sons?

  • rick R

    Sickening to hear, absolutely the most sickening thing Ive heard since that mother afew years ago drove her kids into a river to drown them.

  • bob ross

    Yeah there are some guys out there that are just rotten SOB’s and are looking around for ways to make other peoples lives just as miserable they are, It’s a shame he didn’t get killed in a car crash or got his head blown off in a bar fight years ago.
    Well at least the CPS worker got out of it with her life.

  • Anonymous

    Talk about having a sick need to have the last word and be in control, and what madness to take your own offspring with you.

  • sid_id

    To You, O Lord, we humbly entrust these children, so precious in Your sight. Take them into Your arms and welcome them into paradise, where there will be no sorrow, no weeping nor pain, but the fullness of peace and joy with Your Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.   Amen

  • Anonymous

    Really Jen, you chose this story to trot out this tripe?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    I watching Nancy Grace a year ago or so and his wife’s disappearance was very suspicious.  His alibi made absolutely no sense.  

  • Anonymous

    that story had no legs, and you bringing up vile cramp that slime threw around is sickening.  

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/ZP2EBMXPZGCGDSNGESED2C4QRY Jenny

    My friend Vanessa, a 25 yrs lady, just met a million’aire man on SeekRichSingles ℃Om, it’s where for men and women looking for c’ompanionship for a fabu’lous lifestyle, maybe you want to try out :)

  • Anonymous

    Your children are not your property. He was a loser. If he wanted to take his own life, that’s up to him, but he had no right to decide for his kids. He like his father was an abomination.

  • Anonymous

    He was NOT ‘killed with sons in explosion’.  He KILLED his sons and himself in explosion.  There is absolutely no doubt.

  • Joshua Lee Cummings

    He said: ‘Susan was very very sexual with me, very flirtatious. She would do a lot of things to me, we interacted in a lot of sexual ways.It was a fact and he interviewed about it on camera.

  • Anonymous

    You’re one sick piece of slime.  The “fact”?  You know the facts?
    The only one “Dad” was having an affair with was his hand.  You creepy fool.  Spreading dirt about a poor woman who was killed by her creep of a husband and then bad mouthed by creepy husbands creepier dad.  

  • Anonymous

    You are a freaking idiot.  You “liked” that fools post about his Dad?  Are you insane?  His Dad is charged – a pedophile, creep and you liked that the pedophile creep said vile things about the Mother of his grandchildren that his son just killed.  One sick family and you “liked” it?  

  • Verreauxii

    Guffaw. What post are you referring to, doofus? You need some caffeine or something. 

  • Anonymous

    No I don’t need caffeine.  You gave Josh a “like”.  You’re sick. 

  • Verreauxii

    I found the post that got your panties all tied up in knots.

    “It is a sad thing indeed, however I think more blame needs to be placed on Josh’s Dad, who was having an affair with his son’s wife (his own daughter-in-law), who was later found to have child porn in his home.  Clearly there were many issues taking place here.”

    I totally endorse that post. There is nothing irrational with it. Who knows? His wife’s affair with his own dad may (it is a THEORY) have precipitated the whole thing. That does not mean that the wife (if dead) is responsible for her own demise. There is no excuse for what this murderer did to her (not yet proven) and what he did to his own children. That is common sense. Just because his wife is missing or probably dead does not mean we should cast her as a paragon of virtuousness. She is or was a pos for sleeping with her own husband’s father. his father needs to shoulder more blame for this insane tragedy. Keep the political correctness to yourself. Switch to decaf.

  • Anonymous

    You creepy jerk – the “wife” did not have an affair with his dad!  Are you nuts?

    The wife hated his dad and didn’t like her children around his creepy dad.  You perpetrating a foul, disgusting man’s story and giving it credibility makes me puke.

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