She knew.  No way around it ever again.  Susan Cox Powell knew her husband Josh, father of her toddler sons Charlie and Braden might kill her one day.  Eighteen months prior to her disappearance Susan opened a safety deposit box and in an almost metaphoric gesture, she stapled all the edges of her prophecy shut.

As if to insure the words sealing her fate could not escape, they remained in the cold steel secret until they rang true.

The release of unsealed warrants in the pending voyeurism and child porn possession case against Susan’s deviant father in law Steven read like a Cornwell novel.  The non-fiction version.

Unsealed, Unsavory NOT Unavoidable

If I tried hard I could not come up with a sicklier, skeevier fictional plot of an aging government corrections and furniture employee splitting time between surreptitiously taping his sons wife in her under things for his collection of “ things to jack-off to while recording it” collection and taping innocent neighbor children taking a bath through the window.

That same paternal perv was the recipient of the last phone call made on Josh Powell’s cell December 6, 2009  before it was turned off for an extended period.   In contrast, the last call made from Susan’s cell at 2:29 on the same day was to her friend Jovanna Owings, whom she invited over to an impromptu dinner of pancakes prepared by Josh.

Immediately after eating,  Susan was overcome with fatigue, went to bed by 5 PM and left her guest unraveling yarn while Josh announced he was preparing to take the children sledding.  In the dark.

In retrospective fantasy our minds create the conversation as we wish it had played.

Hi J, It’s Susan.  Come for dinner.   I am having Susan’s sleepcakes.    Come save my life.

Or, should have been, so as to unravel the other yarn that seemingly bound the fate of Susan and her beloved boys.

On June 28, 2008 Susan wrote what she titled The Last Will and Testament of Susan Powell with express instructions that whoever located the document in her safety deposit box, it was not to be shown to or shared with Joshua Powell.

Susan went on to describe the couples marital strife over the last four years  and threats made to her should she divorce him.  Susan requests the reader speak to her sister in-law Jennifer Graves and cautions if her death appears to be an accident, it most likely is not.

According to the Interpleaded suit filed by New York Life in an effort to have the court decides it’s beneficiary designation and obligation, that letter was written exactly one year to the day after Susan became insured by a $500,000  5 year term life policy on June 28, 2007.

The policy had an additional rider to increase the face value of the policy added on May 15, 2008 to $1,000,000.

On August 7, 2007 Joshua Powell became covered under a separate NY Life police for $1,000,000 with 2 additional riders on both Powell children totaling an additional $500,000.

On February 4, 2009, also according to NY Life, Josh and Susan Powell executed a revocable trust and designated same as the secondary beneficiary on both policies with Susan named as the sole trustee. Only a portion of the Declaration of Trust was provided to NY Life, the details of the entire revocable trust have not been made public.

On February 5, 2012 Joshua Powell attacked his sons Charlie and Braden with a hatchet after locking the court appointed social worker out of the house, and set the home he was renting ablaze, killing all 3.

The relevance of the date coincidences of the testament, insurance policies and deaths of Josh, Charlie and Braden are unknown.

Although named as a possible trustee, Chuck Cox, Susan’s father, was unaware of the policies existence until the children’s death.

However, Michael C Powell, Josh’s brother and former Democratic candidate for the Washington House of representatives,  also a named a possible trustee, definitely was.

In fact, on December 5, 2012, Josh submitted a change in beneficiary to the policy, in apparent contradiction to the trusts requirement that only a court order could remove or replace the trustee to name himself as the sole beneficiary.  Should he be alive 15 days after the deaths of the insured the cash was his, and if not, Michael Powell.

Apparently faced with some down-time on Valentine’s Day, exactly 9 days following the suicide of Josh Powell and murder of Charlie and Braden Powell, the “other insured”, both Michael and Alina Powell contacted NY Life for assistance in processing a claim as beneficiaries under the life insurance policies of their brother and nephews.

Charlie and Braden Powell were interred the day before on February 13, according to the death certificates issued by the Medical Examiner.

The following day, February 15, Alina Powell, accompanied by her Mother Terrica, visited Woodbine Cemetery and reserved a plot for Joshua, in close proximity to the grave of his sons, whose funerals were February 11.

Sources unwilling to speak on the record citing “concern for being dragged into this nightmare further” have confirmed to BOC that a completed insurance claim form was presented by Alina Powell as proof of payment for the plot and burial arrangements.  Charles and Judy Cox were made aware that the Powell family was considering purchasing the plot for Josh near his sons AND of the existence of the policy to pay for it- and promised immediate legal action.

Not to leave such an unscrupulous possibility to chance,  Paul Pastor, Pierce County Sheriff and Ed Troyer, Executive Director of CrimeStoppers,  put up their own cash and began taking donations resulting in the purchase of both plots on either side of Charlie and Braden.

Josh Powell was subsequently cremated on February 17 and his family has not specified what they plan to do with his remains.

Photo Courtesy ABC News

Alina was also the recipient of $7,000 transferred to her account from her Brother Josh’s withdrawal the day before the murders. The content of 4 emails she exchanged with Josh over February 4^th and 5^th have not been disclosed publicly.  Alina also claimed in a 911 call following the explosion at Josh’s home that he called her and left her a goodbye voice mail 20 Minutes PRIOR to him chopping the children he claimed she was a co-caregiver of, with a small axe found next to him in the charred death den.  She appeared exclusively in a Good Morning America Interview February 9, 2012.

“..I think he must have just felt there was only one way for him to protect his sons from the pain,..

Interviewer response: But he did not protect them, he killed them.

“I wish it had been differently.”

Initially Alina appeared cooperative with Pierce county detectives, until they learned that she had received four emails and a voice mail from Josh leading up to fateful events of February 5^th.

She became agitated during questioning when confronted with the information that an unidentified teller at the Bank Of America had informed them of Josh’s transactions February 4^th and surveillance footage and receipts were enroute to the PCSO via subpoena.  When asked to allow police to copy the voice mail and emails from Josh via her cell phone, she refused.   Alina’s cell was seized immediately.

Pierce County Sheriff’s Office has not disclosed whether Ms. Powell is currently under investigation.

In a motion on behalf of Charles and Judy Cox seeking to be named administrator or Guardian Ad Litem in the estates of The Powell children in the absence of their Mother filed March 7, 2012, the Cox’s announce they are aware of two additional life insurance policies through Beneficial Life Insurance Company.

The policies are believed to be a total face value of an additional $1,000,000 to the estate.

Charles and Judy Cox were declared Special Administrators of the Powell children’s estate on March 12.

Reasonable, Rational Then Reality

Whoever thinks Susan Powell left her home alive raise your hand.

Cricket.     Cricket.

The reality is nobody can be remotely surprised at what an abysmally inept liar Josh Powell is.

Anyone following this case for 5 minutes can deduct his ability to be the poster child for LIAR LIAR 2 would be an underachievement. Criminals are often luckier than smart and Josh Powell is no exception.  No new news on any of this so far.

So what is?

It would seem the initial finger pointing exercise by the West Valley Police Department and the Pierce County Sheriff’s office can cease.  BOTH offices had substantial information that Josh Powell was a person of interest in the first degree murder and aggravated kidnapping of his missing wife Susan.

Immediately after the unsealing of the warrants last Friday, Pierce County WA prosecutor Mark Lindquist did not mince words:

“..Based on the facts that we now know, I can say that the case against Josh Powell for the murder of Susan Powell is one that we would have charged..”

 According to the newly released search warrants including Pierce County, which are largely narrative as conveyed by West Valley detectives regarding the current evidences against Josh and Steven Powell, there is no indication that a grand jury was ever specially convened, a sitting grand jury ever heard any evidence in Susan’s disappearance or that an arrest was imminent.

Actual warrants executed by WVPS and subsequent property inventories were not offered as exhibits in support.

That is in stark contradiction to  information given to Chuck Cox by WVPD according to his lawyer Steve Downing.

Downing maintains that the Cox’s were used to “ruffle the feathers” of Josh to progress the investigation and were told his arrest was imminent in late August, confirming the report published exclusively on www.blinkoncrime.com on August 25, 2011.

Susan’s blood was on a tile near the sofa which was being dried after cleaning with 2 large fans still running when police entered the home in response to a request to a missing persons report in the presence of Terri Powell and Jennifer Graves.

Jennifer informed police there was a 2ft round pink stain under an adjacent couch.

Susan’s cell phone was in the console of the family minivan he used to drag his sleeping toddler sons out in frigid weather.  According to statements made by Charlie Powell, at some point, Susan was with them.  Her purse and contents normally contained in it were located in the master bedroom.

It is also “news” to Dr. James Manley .

According to the Psychological Evaluation Josh Powell consented to in his commitment to regain custody of his children, Dr. Manley had some concerns about Josh’s candor about some of his past, but that all changed when Pierce  County detectives shared the 400 images reflecting various caricatures, animations and 5 or 6 photos depicting incestuous child molestation and child porno-esque images from the seized computer belonging to Josh, in 2009.

Not a misprint. Although none of the actual WVPD warrants executed in December 2009 were included in exhibits within the August 2011 and September 2011 PCSO previously sealed submissions, they reference the creepy cache.

It is unclear how those images were not the basis of a child welfare complaint or possible criminal action in Utah before Josh skipped town and rented out his home in the first place.

If two precious and innocent lads end up brutally murdered after spending the bulk of their life with an alleged pedophile that is likely responsible for killing their mother is not enough to prompt structure for change,  I do not know what is.

Do You Know What Happened To My Mom?

“No, what happened to your Mom?”

According the cell phone reports, Josh’s cell phone was off until 3:02PM December 9, 2009.  After a fake call to Susan’s cell which is sitting next to him, he drives  approximately 20 miles south of West Valley City.

Robin Snyder, a Comfort Inn employee in Sandy Utah, says Charlie Powell asked her if she knew what happened to his Mom earlier that morning in the breakfast area of the hotel.  Snyder was called into the kitchen to continue breakfast service and when she returned Josh, Braden and Charlie Powell were gone.  She recognized Josh Powell when Susan’s disappearance hit the news a few days later and called the tip line.  Snyder did not receive a return call.

Comfort Inn Contintental Breakfast Area

When Josh Powell murdered his two young sons and killed himself in Puyallup Washington on February 5th, she called West Valley Police again,  and has since been interviewed.   The Comfort Inn  is in the cell ping radius.

Another tipster wishing to remain anonymous believes she saw a very unfriendly Steven and Josh Powell visiting the Topaz Mountains in October 2009, three months prior to Susan’s disappearance.  Topaz Mountain was the site of the largest organized law enforcement search for Susan Powell in September, 2011.

Josh’s first cell phone ping on Dec 9  West Valley City in the general area where a  strip club  bouncer, bartender and patron say to the supreme annoyance of other patrons -Josh visited on the day Susan was reported missing.

Kimberly Sherman, a co-owner of Deuces Wild Strip Club called West Valley Police a week later.

WVPD confirms they investigated the tip but could not confirm it was Josh.

Steve Powell was the last call from his son’s phone prior to Susan’s disappearance- where was he that fateful weekend?

If Josh was at the Deuces Wild- who was looking after the children?

Powell Purgatory In Perpetuity

For me, seeing pornography was like lighting a fuse on a stick of dynamite. I became stimulated and had to gratify my urges and explode….  Arthur Bishop

During the battle for custody that ensued following Steve Powell’s arrest for felony voyeurism,  Jennifer Powell Graves,  openly contradicted Mother Terrica’s affidavit  about her brother Josh’s stability as a parent.  At the time,  Terrica  was  living with her daughter’s family.

..”Jennifer also says her father’s arrest did not surprise her and that as a child she was exposed to her father’s pornography addiction…” People Magazine

..”Jennifer Graves has also said she was not surprised by her father’s arrest. She claimed that Steve Powell made sexual advances toward his daughter-in-law and said her father had a pornography addiction that he exposed his own children to while they were growing up in Washington…”

 Salt Lake Tribune

Putting aside the obvious uncomfortable living arrangement that such a difference of opinion would create,  isn’t it clear Jennifer Graves is accusing her father of  a crime, or crimes?

Exposing children to porn is definitely that.  What kind of sordid heinousness went on in the Powell home?

Plenty.  Sealed Powell family information obtained exclusively by www.blinkoncrime.com

Continued in Part 2:

Analysis of The Analysis- Who and What Failed Susan, Charlie and Braden Powell when The Cox Family warned All.