Susan Powell. missing mom. JESUS CHRIST JOSH KILLED THE KIDS!

[Cracker]

Now they are saying the boys had hatchet wounds on their necks. They were still alive when the fire started. Poor little boys.

[JsMom]

Them poor babies. How could he! What a worthless kurupt MONSTER. RIP precious boys. :(

[Lady Cop]

Services for 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stake Center and will be open to the public, according to Anne Bremner, an attorney for the Cox family.

On Tuesday, investigators said Josh Powell withdrew $7,000 in cash from a bank the day before the deadly blaze. Police from Utah and Washington also searched a storage unit tied to Josh Powell in Pierce County, Wash.

[Lady Cop]

i wish someone would lob a grenade at these whackos.

SEATTLE – A notorious anti-gay church known for protesting military funerals says members will be at Saturday’s memorial service for Charlie and Braden Powell, claiming their deaths are payback from God over the state Legislature's support of gay marriage.

An online campaign is already under way to keep the Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the funeral, which will be at Life Center Church in Tacoma at 11 a.m.

[Lady Cop]

Mrs. Hall

ABC

Josh Powell told his sons he had a "big surprise" for them as they ran toward his home Sunday just moments before he attacked them with a hatchet and then blew them up, social worker Elizabeth Griffin Hall told ABC News today.

"He caught my eye, his shoulders were slumped. He had a sheepish look," Hall told "20/20" in an exclusive interview. "He just shrugged his shoulders and slammed the door."

Hall said she had been taking the boys, Charles, 7, and Braden, 5, on supervised visits to Powell's house for three months.

Powell, who was the sole suspect in his wife Susan Cox's disappearance in 2009, had lost custody of the children in September and lost an appeal to get his children back just four days before he decided to kill them.

Hall said the children loved being with their father. "One of them said what he wanted to do was go home and live with his daddy," she said.

And during visits with Powell, "I would see them light up."

On Sunday, the children bounded out of her car and took off running for their father's house with Hall a few steps behind. Powell let them in, gave Hall his odd look, and locked the door.

As Hall banged on the door, "I heard him say, 'Charlie, I've got a big surprise for you'... And then I heard Braden cry out."

Powell often had surprises for the boys, Hall said, and the younger boy had a sore foot that Hall thought he had banged into something, but police later determined that Powell had used a hatchet to chop at his sons' heads and necks.

"I'm saying, 'Let me in, Josh, let me in,'" Hall said. "I realized I didn't have my phone in my hand and I could smell gas. Too much time had passed and I could smell gas."

Hall said she went to move her car and call 911, whom she said did not acknowledge that it was a true emergency. She called her supervisor, but it was too late.

"I said to [her boss] Lynne, something terrible is happening here, and I was on the phone with Lyn when the house exploded," she said.

Powell had laced the home with gasoline and accelerants and set it on fire, blowing up the home. All three were killed.

"I wanted to get to the kids," she said. "I wanted to get to the kids. I would have broken in if I could."

Hall told the story of what happened over and over again to authorities as they arrived and assured her she could not have done anything differently. She blames Powell fully for what happened, and said she never thought he would hurt the boys. But now, she said, she knows he would have done anything to kill them, even if they had the supervised visitation somewhere else.

"How this happened is that Josh Powell was really, really evil. I couldn't have stopped him," she said.

"I did everything I was supposed to do. I did everything right and the boys are still dead," Hall said. "It took just a second. When I close my eyes I see him and he was so normal. He did not look like a monster."

She has sweet memories of the boys.

"I loved the boys. I was like a grandma to the boys. They crawled all over me," she said with a laugh.

Braden, who was just 5, "was a free spirit" who "smiled all the time."

"He was always making things and giving them to me," she said.

The older boy "was smart and funny. He loved bugs and frogs. He had a bird." Charlie was looking forward to having his own frog pond when he moved back with his dad, she said.

"They are not going to grow up," Hall said later. "They're not ever going to look at bugs and frogs again."

Hall said she loves working with children. "God called me to do this," she said.

"I am not going to be his victim. He's not going to destroy my passion for children. He's not going to stop me from working with children," she said.

But the memory of Charlie and Braden will stay with her forever, Hall said.

"The world lost two beautiful boys to a monster."

Watch "Sins of the Father" on "20/20" Friday at 9 p.m. ET for more on the Powell story. A preview of the report including more with social worker Elizabeth Griffin Hall, on Friday's "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. ET.

[Midwest Spy]

I haven't wanted to comment on this, because everytime I think of the few seconds that these boys realized what their Dad was doing to them, makes me almost physically ill.

Evil, fucking, coward.

So spiteful. Spiteful (even though he killed his wife) enough to butcher his own children.

I'd honestly like to know how this spiraled out of control. Did Susan cheat on him, and he found out?

Was he just a control freak, and she talked back to him?

His kids obviously loved him, so he couldn't have been ALL bad.

WTF happened, that you would end up killing your wife, and then your children, just to ensure her family wouldn't raise them?

As others have said... If there is eternal damnation, he surely has a reservation.

[Lady Cop]

she wasn't a cheater. she wanted to leave his perverted sick ass. as well as his perverted sick daddy who hit on her and worse.

as for the kids...kids always love their parents, even when they are abusers.

[HairOfTheDog]

she wasn't a cheater. she wanted to leave his perverted sick ass. as well as his perverted sick daddy who hit on her and worse.

as for the kids...kids always love their parents, even when they are abusers.

Exactly. Stinkin' Steve Powell and his murderous son Josh couldn't find one person to say that Susan was anything but a devoted mom. Not one person to say she ever cheated (which of course is not cause for murder in any case). The slimy fuckers had to go so far as to try to link Susan to a missing man from Utah who had never met her to try to malign Susan, the victim. Epic fail. What next? Accuse Susan of being a temptress who "asked for" her perverted father-in-law to peep on her and basically stalk her with his hidden camera, creepy songs and gropes. And now the Powell family blames the public, the PD, and the media for Josh murdering the boys. Total evil bullshit.

I too think Susan found out what her husband and her husband's family were really all about and was trying to get herself and her boys out safely. The Powell pervs weren't having it; they'd kill them first. Which is just what they did.

[Lady Cop]

it just gets more sickening.

2/10/12

Dateline and 20⁄20 both will be covering the Powell case tonight at 10 PM eastern.


AP
SEATTLE – Before Josh Powell was going to try to win back custody of his children last week, Washington state authorities received materials from Utah police that had been discovered on a computer in Powell's home two years ago. Authorities say the images depicted "incestuous" sex and were disconcerting enough that they prompted a psychologist to recommend that Powell undergo an intensive psychosexual evaluation.

But a lawyer for Powell's in-laws, who had custody of the boys, wasn't invited to see the materials before the custody hearing - even though a Utah judge had specified in a sealed court order that he was one of the few people allowed to see them.

Had he seen the images, attorney Steve Downing said, he might have asked the court to change the terms of Powell's supervised visitation with the boys, such as by asking for the visits to be in a public place. Instead, Downing said he didn't learn until Thursday morning - four days after Powell killed himself and the boys in a house fire - that he was allowed to see them.

"That would have absolutely given me the opportunity to submit a declaration about our deep concern. I was approved ... to view those pictures and I was never notified," Downing said. "I could have gone into all the reasons why the visitation could have or should have been restricted."

Pierce County Sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer told The Associated Press on Thursday night that the images collected by investigators from Powell's home computer in Utah two years ago were realistic computer-generated depictions of "incestuous" parent-child relations.

"It's family-oriented in nature," Troyer said. "It is incestuous."

[Red_velvet71]

i wish someone would lob a grenade at these whackos.

SEATTLE – A notorious anti-gay church known for protesting military funerals says members will be at Saturday’s memorial service for Charlie and Braden Powell, claiming their deaths are payback from God over the state Legislature's support of gay marriage.

An online campaign is already under way to keep the Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the funeral, which will be at Life Center Church in Tacoma at 11 a.m.

Fred and Shirley Phelps are the most disgusting fuckers ever!! I absolutely hate religious idiots that claim to love God and hate people! They need to move to Syria, I'd help pay for their one way trip there.

[Lady Cop]

Funeral services for Charlie and Braden Powell are Saturday, Feb. 11 at the Life Center Church in Tacoma, Wash.
Services begin at 11 a.m. and will be streamed live on KSL.com.

[LuciferLynn]

This story sickens me. He's a sick fuck and the apple certianly didn't fall far from the tree in this instance. My heart breaks for those children, to know their last minutes were terror at the hands of their own father.

[QueenBee]

It is just so sad when a parent kills a child. He did not deserve to die..what he needed was to go and rot in jail and have pictures of his wife and kids all around him.

[d505]

LC what is your take on the dispatchers etiquette regarding the 911 call about powell locking the childrens supervisor out of the house.

[Lady Cop]

LC what is your take on the dispatchers etiquette regarding the 911 call about powell locking the childrens supervisor out of the house.

i know dispatch has been criticized and is under review in this instance.
i want to give them the benefit of the doubt. nobody thinks "oh this guy just murdered his kids and blew up the house". kind of hard to wrap your mind around.
even if dispatcher was inadequate and possibly even incompetent, nothing would have saved them.
the dept. may want to review their training of 911 personnel.

more tonight:
datelinenbc Dateline NBC
"I wish I had recognized the urgency of the situation," #Powell 911 dispatcher tells #Dateline. EXCLUSIVE story at 10p/9c
25 minutes ago

[aussiefriend]

Regarding the funeral. If people turned up heckling a funeral like that they would get beaten up. And here in Oz, it's very unlikely charges would be laid. They would be seen as provoking a situation like that. I can't imagine it happening, I hope it never ever does.

Why don't a whole lot of bikkie gangs turn up on the day and threaten them? That's what would happen here.

[Duchess]

Didn't those dreadful people show up at Elizabeth Edward's funeral?

[HairOfTheDog]

Didn't those dreadful people show up at Elizabeth Edward's funeral?

Yep, same disrespectful bigoted assholes. Unbelievably ignorant people.

[Adub]

LC what is your take on the dispatchers etiquette regarding the 911 call about powell locking the childrens supervisor out of the house.

i know dispatch has been criticized and is under review in this instance.
i want to give them the benefit of the doubt. nobody thinks "oh this guy just murdered his kids and blew up the house". kind of hard to wrap your mind around.
even if dispatcher was inadequate and possibly even incompetent, nothing would have saved them.
the dept. may want to review their training of 911 personnel.

more tonight:
datelinenbc Dateline NBC
"I wish I had recognized the urgency of the situation," #Powell 911 dispatcher tells #Dateline. EXCLUSIVE story at 10p/9c
25 minutes ago

I listened to the calls today on a local radio station. The man that answered the first call was an IDIOT! The CPS lady was very patient with him. Explaining again and again and again. He was not with-it at all. Has anyone else heard the actual recording of the first call?

[Adub]

http://video.seattletimes.com/1439539651...-his-home/

http://video.seattletimes.com/1439575840...en-inside/

http://video.seattletimes.com/1439543778...ng-emails/