Family Court Crisis: Rewarding a Killer Visitation for Charlie and Braden Powell ends in Murder

On Sunday, Charlie 7 and Braden 5, the children of missing Utah mother Susan Cox ,were murdered. The children were blown up in an explosion during a court ordered visitation with a dangerous psychopath.

Susan vanished on December 6, 2009 from her Utah home.  If you recall Josh Powell had suddenly, taken the children then ages 2 and 4; camping in freezing temperature at midnight.  When interviewed Susan was reported missing, the case covered by the media just prior to securing an attorney, Josh said he didn't know where his wife was and she just left.  In the days following, Josh would say she left with another man. He would be the only person named by police in the case.

As in each one of these intimate partner missing homicide cases, the last person to see their wife or girlfriend, is almost always the person responsible for making them vanish. The pattern of conduct in this case prior to Susan vanishing, then afterwards, is significant, and often overlooked by law enforcement.  Josh Powell was allowed to leave the state of Utah moving  into his father's home with the two young boys.

Many experts of across the country, Reporter Isabelle Zehnder, Statement Analysis Expert Peter Hyatt, Attorney Anne Bremner, Legal commentator and defense Attorney Holly Hughes, among others, discussed the imminent danger to the boys lives.  At one time or another we predicted if the legal system didn't remove the children, they would be murdered. Last week permanent placement of the boys was given to Susan's parents Chuck and Judy Cox.  Josh Powell by a judge was given supervised visitation like a prize for being the biological father. What was this judge thinking? Powell posed a threat to his own children's lives.

The murders of Charlie and Braden's were by all accounts preventable.

The family of Susan Cox requires not only prayers, but the promise that on the blood of their grandchildren, the epidemic and ignorance in the family courts across the country will do more than award murder's visitation and custody of children, especially when their mothers are missing intimate partner homicide victims!

Let's also remember Susan Cox is still missing and she requires our attention to be found.


The Murder Of Susan Powell's Two Young Boys At The Hands Of Their Father by Diane Fanning
http://www.forbes.com/sites/crime/2012/02/05/the-murder-of-susan-powells-two-young-boys-by-the-hands-of-their-father/

West Valley City Police issues statement re Josh Powell's double murder-suicide by Reporter Isabelle Zehnder: http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/west-valley-city-police-issue-statement-re-josh-powell-s-double-murder-suicide

Obsession Leads to Murder?
http://murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com/2011/08/susan-powell-case-obsession-leads-to.html


Revenge of Josh Powell: Murder Suicide
http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/2012/02/murder-suicide.html

Susan Powell's Killer Plays A Game of Catch me If You Can?

Susan Powell's body has yet to be found since she was reported missing by her family on December 6, 2009.

The facts to this case are like so many other women who wanted nothing more than to get out of their abusive marriage, divorce and move forward with their lives. Instead, in my opinion, Susan Powell was murdered.

In November of 2010, Josh Powell the estranged husband breaks his silence along with his father and gives an interview to the Salt Lake City Tribune. I found many disturbing red flags in the interview that I did a three part series on this missing woman and in my opinion an individual who has yet to be arrested for her murder. The links to the series are provided below.

Now, it appears the father-in-law has decided to release a journal written by Susan when she was a teenager. The site these people have created, plastered with photos and other information about Susan is nothing more than a psychopath’s attack on a woman who is missing in hopes of disarming the truth in the case. Frankly, this is the first time I have seen a father and son team up. The smear tactics will change nothing, Susan Powell, is missing. If Josh Powell in my opinion was innocent why did he run like a big coward to another state? Why didn't he cooperate with law enforcement? Why was there a need to hire a criminal defense attorney on December 14, 2009? Why has he never allowed Susan’s family contact with the children?

In cases of intimate partner violence that leads to homicide, a guilty person in my experience will do everything they can to disarm the truth. A guilty person immediately lawyers up. A guilty person in these cases never cooperates with authorities. A guilty person in these cases, never, ever searches for their wife. A guilty person, in cases of intimate partner homicide waits patiently in their world of “catch me if you can.”

David Lohr's article about the journal can be read by going to the link HERE

Part 1 http://murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com/2010/11/susan-powell-to-be-chewed-up-like.html

Part 2 http://murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com/2010/11/

Part 3 http://murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com/2010/11/susan-powell-part-3-she-knows-she-will.html

Created because of women like Susan Powell, my mother Roberta Murphy, or Stacy Peterson who went missing on October 28, 2007, without a trace is the book, or the safety "prescription" as it is called Time's Up: Guide on How to Leave Abusive and Stalking Relationships"

The guide is a life raft providing structure in the midst of chaos and it has kept many victims of intimate partner violence, to date, alive.

Among the tools and forms, is the procedure of an “Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit”, a sworn statement detailing the facts of an individual’s victimization, preserving the specifics so they are not lost even if the victim is reported missing. It is difficult to think about speaking from the grave, but no different than any life insurance policy obtained in consideration for those left behind.

An “Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit" and video has the additional psychological benefit of being forced to face reality and admit that the potential for the ultimate kind of violence exists…and that if it occurs the perpetratorwill be held accountable.

The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit: A Victim’s Voice(c)
Domestic violence or intimate partner victims now are able to provide information, in their own words, about the fears, dangers, experiences they have had at the hands of their abuser. The" Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit" or "EAA" records victim's stories, histories, and experiences which are preserved and stored on their behalf. These videos will provide answers to the many questions, allegations, and fears that arise when a person has disappeared, gone missing, or been found dead.

Recent cases, such as missing mother Susan Powell of Utah, Kelly Rothwell of Florida, and women likeStacyPeterson, where the victim’s police officer husband is the person of interest, is the classic example of the benefits of this type of evidence. If Stacy Peterson, or any woman found murdered or is missing, had done an Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit, ON TAPE, from following the information in the “Time’s Up" book on a flash drive, they would be able to describe:

- threats made against her life or wellbeing, including details of how the perpetrator would carry out the threat
- incidents of past abuse that the victim has endured
- admissions or comments made to her about other victims or people abused
- where evidence or weapons would or could be located
- possible alibis that the perpetrator would make up in his defense (including identification of people who could be co-defendant’s or co-suspects)
- portray visible injuries or marks

Just think if we incorporate an effective plan and have it available for every prosecutor, law enforcement, church, family law office and social service agency across the country, lives would be saved. And I wouldn't be writing about women similar to Kathy Brados, killed by a man hell bent on power and control.

http://murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com/2011/07/house-on-highland-street-crime-scene.html

http://murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com/2011/07/keeper-of-silent-secrets.html

Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit by Susan Murphy Milano from the Book "Time's Up" from Courage Network on Vimeo.

Susan Murphy Milano is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education. She is an expert on intimate partner violence and homicide crimes. For more information visithttp://www.saferelationshipsmagazine.com/

Susan is the author of "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships," available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and wherever books are sold. Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talkhttp://www.herewomentalk.com/and is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated The Roth Show with Dr Laurie Roth. Susan is a survivor- the daughter of a police officer family intimate partner homicide by her father who murdered her mother before committing suicide.

Susan Powell: Part 3 "She knows she will be chewed up like hamburger?"

Time's Up: How to Escape Abusive and Stalking Relationships Guide(Part 3 of 3 on missing mother Susan Powell who vanished from her home on December 6, 2009)
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Josh Powell told police a crazy story when he arrived from his famous below zero trip saying he took his two boys, ages 2 and 4, camping in the early morning hours of Dec. 6 and returned later in the evening to find his wife missing. Susan was reported missing on Dec. 7 when she failed to show up for work.

On the eleventh month anniversary of her murder in my opinion, Josh Powell breaks his silence giving a "devoted deadly daddy dearest" interview with the Salt Trubune.
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There are many remarks in the interview that scream deliberate murder.  While Powell attempts to talk all he is doing is tiping his hand, showing the world, in my opinion in real time how the mind of a controlling abusive killer thinks. 

A loving and caring person does not place blame or make crude remarks of  person with whom they are in a relationship.  Not once do you see any concern for Susan Powell's well being. As a wonderful mother, good woman or devoted wife.  What we see by his non-actions and read is hate as if he is telling the world she didn't perform to my expections.  She did not do as she was told.  She had to be dealt with in a manner that required her to be punished.  Josh Powell's words  “She knows she will be chewed up like hamburger when she comes back,” this statement says what I believe he did.

Powell in that statement is telling us that she has already been chewed up.  He did not randomly select his words, instead he was telling folks what he did in this one very important sentence. In the area of Utah that they lived it is a known fact that deadly wild animals roam.  In my opinion, Powell covered her in something that an animal would chew up and make into hamburger.

Josh Powell said he allowed the Coxes (Susan's parents)  to see his sons periodically after Susan’s disappearance but that he told them not to discuss the children with reporters.  The Coxes did discuss the boys, though it was usually to say they wanted to see them more often. Josh Powell said he considered discussion of the issue to be a violation of his sons’ privacy and that he will not let the Coxes visit the children if they continue to discuss the children.

Now carefully read the words Powell uses in his interview:
“Whether or not they ever have contact with my sons is their choice based on their own behavior,” he said.  Here again notice the language- ever- contact- behavior.  Powell is punishing Susan's parents for keeping the case alive and speaking out by contuing to use and hold his own children hostage.  He is blaming them for all this mess that just won't go away.  Someone from the Department of Children and family services needs to get a handle on the boys well being before something happens. Powell is at a breaking point and there is no predicting now, what he will do next if boxed in a tighter corner.

At the conclusion of the article, the father-in-law chimes in with very disturbing words:
Steve Powell said he and his son expect to see Susan again. People wanting to find his daughter-in-law’s body to produce closure are “a bunch of morbid f------ assholes,” Steve Powell said.

“She absconded,” Steve Powell said. “We don’t believe she was abducted. We don’t believe she was murdered.”

Again, Steve Powell using interesting and telling words: body-closure-produce-morbid-, Only a person whom knows the truth, first hand of what really happen to Susan Powell would make such statements. 


[Susan Murphy Milano, is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Psychopathy Education for more information visit http://www.saferelationships.com/ and is the author of the new book "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and where ever books are sold. ]


She is the host of Time's Up on http://www.herewomentalk.com/ and she is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated show with Dr. Laurie Roth on http://www.therothshow.com/)

Susan Powell: Part 2 "To be chewed up like a hamburger?"

[Part 2 of 3 of the continuing series on missing Utah mother Susan Powell pictured above with her children]

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If I have learned one thing in my 20 plus years on these cases of intimate partner homicide, a mother's love for her children is unconditional.  In my opinion Josh Powell is doing the "devoted-deadly-daddy-dearest-dance" with the assistance of his own father. 

Quotes in the long winded interview include Steve Powell, (the suspects father) a man with a unique past himself.  What did his own son witness growing up?  Could the mistreatment of a mother, Powell's mother have anything to do with his actions on the evening of December 5, 2009?   I would be willing to bet the farm on that.

When asked about a red stain on the carpet Powell's father answers the question for the reporter:
As for the wet spot police found on the carpet of Josh and Susan Powell’s home the day after her disappearance, Steve Powell said his daughter-in-law had decided to clean the carpets. There was a red spot on the carpet underneath the couch, he said.



“It was probably juice or something,” Steve Powell said.

How would this man know about a juice stain?  Was the father-in-law living in the home?  And why the hell is he responding to that question, unless, it was a rehearsed response.  One that has likely been repeated too many times to count.
 
The interview goes on:
 
Police there have said Josh Powell has not responded to requests for additional interviews. However, Steve Powell said when his son returned to Utah from Washington in December, his attorney told police he would meet them for another interview. Steve Powell claims the detectives said they only work Monday through Thursday. Josh Powell was arriving on a Friday. The interview did not occur.



“How interested were these people in talking to Josh?” Steve Powell asked rhetorically.


Josh Powell said he will not meet with West Valley City police again.

Once again, the father is reponding to questions and not Josh Powell.  Amazing that the father-in-law is also certain Susan ran off with a boyfriend.  Do we have description of the so called "mystery man"?  I know perhaps there will be a sighting at a local Kroger store in Alaska and a fuzzy Internet image will suddendly appear of the happy couple. Did the boyfriend pick her up from the home?  Perhaps Josh saw the boyfriend carry her from the back bedroom where she was knocked out by a seditive placed in her food at dinner that evening?

Steve Powell believes his daughter-in-law ran off with a boyfriend. He said Susan talked with her friends about sex and the sexual encounters she had before meeting her husband.“Susan’s very sexually motivated, and she’s very financially motivated,” Steve Powell said.

Mr. Powell or the reporter should produce the "so called friends."  It is so telling when individuals spew whatever sticks to a wall because the person with whom they are talking about has vanished.  She is not here to defend one word of these lies.  And who makes statements about a loving caring mother who has vanished without a trace that was your daughter-in-law?  Unless old grandpa knows something which is highly, likely.  Whatever would motive a person unless they are in my opinion, covering up the truth or in this case for their own son.
 
(Part 3 of the series continues Thursday 11/11/2010)
 
Susan Murphy Milano, is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Psychopathy Education for more information visit http://www.saferelationships.com/ and is the author of the new book "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and where ever books are sold.

Susan Powell Part 1 of 3 "To be "chewed up like hamburger"?

Susan Powell's body has yet to be found since she was reported missing by her family on December 6, 2009.

The facts to this case are like so many other women who wanted nothing more than to get out of their abusive marriage, divorce and move forward with their lives.  Instead, in my opinion, Susan Powell was murdered.

Now, 11 months to the date, her husband breaks his silence and talks to the Salt Lake City Tribune. The words "JOSH POWELL speaks: my wife; Susan, left us behind."  I had a difficult time getting past the 36' dark bold headline.  Sounds like this guy has been reading far too many news stories with his captain munch cereal.  Come to think of it, all our loving killer fathers, in my opinion: Drew Peterson, Michael Stebic and Shaun Pernice swear that Captain Munch is the breakfast of devoted and caring fathers.

Powell takes a bolder step forward to insert his personal killer brand of truth in mouth.  He wants the reporter to know he broke his silence to say his wife is “extremely unstable,” and that he believes mental illness drove her to leave her family behind.

Interesting how he labels his missing wife "unstable." Here is a man that took his  boys ages 2 and 4 on a camping trip in the middle of the night in freezing temperatures.  When he returned with the children the police were already at the home doing a wellness check on Susan Powell. Police found her purse, car keys and cell phone in the home, but no Susan.  And again, no mother especially one who is planning to leave goes without their children. In my opinion this captain munch decoder killer is no different then others whom decide that murder is the only way to "remove the problem" in their lives. And to Josh Powell not being able to control his "property" in his eyes meant his was not a man.

Powell continues his song and dance to say "only reduced scrutiny from her family and the public, he said, will speed her return." “She knows she will be chewed up like hamburger when she comes back,” Josh Powell said in a Wednesday interview with The Salt Lake Tribune.

Was hamburger meat what Susan Powell was served that day for a meal, especially prepared by Josh?  Is Powell telling us he watched her chew her food that he made and within minutes she was suddenly saying "she was tired and needed to go lay down,"  according to the witness at the table that evening.  Or is Powell telling the world too late, she is already gone, been chewed up by something.  Clearly the comment has an interesting tone, as it is laced with deception and guilt.

Interesting how Powell uses the word "scrutiny" as if to say the public needs to back off that's why she won't come out of hiding.

The killer's words, in my opinion are reported in an extensive article I will break it down this week.  Part 2 of this series runs on Tuesday 11/9/2010.


Had Susan Powell been able to create "The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit" either she would still be with us or the person who murdered her would be behind bars and not discussing hamburgers.

This new tool which has been proven to empower victims and save lives. It’s been proven to change an attitude of a victim and give them hope that they may move forward and away from the violent situation knowing that their wishes will be carried out should the unthinkable happen. It’s been proven that the Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit will stand up in court against Crawford vs Washington rulings, allowing a victim’s testimony to heard and seen, just like a will, should they be silenced.
Take it upon yourself today to get this information into the hands of everyone who comes in contact with a victim. Go the extra mile; it could be that one time you gave extra care and extra time beyond what’s expected that will matter to someone, and save their life. Our fight to end intimate partner violence isn't over till it's dealt with in a manner that's effective.

  Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit by Susan Murphy Milano from the Book "Time's Up"
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(Susan Murphy Milano, is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Psychopathy Education for more information visit http://www.saferelationships.com/ and is the author of the new book "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships available for purchase at the Institute, Amazon.com and where ever books are sold. 


She is the host of Time's Up on http://www.herewomentalk.com/ and she is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated show with Dr. Laurie Roth on http://www.therothshow.com/)