State Sen. Pam Roach, a frequent critic of the Department of Social and Health Services, asked DSHS today what Utah police told the agency about the Powell children’s welfare before their deaths.
Pierce County sheriff’s detectives confiscated the cellphone of Josh Powell’s sister after she refused to give them emails and a voicemail he left for her before he killed his sons Sunday, newly filed court records show.
A notoriously anti-gay church plans to picket Saturday’s funeral for Charlie and Braden Powell and will be counterprotested by Occupy Seattle.
Highlights of the 911 log detailing the police and fire response to Josh Powell's home on Sunday:
Listening to the 911 tapes now, after we know what was about to happen at Josh Powell’s house, the 911 call takers seem agonizingly dense and rude.
The time and place of the funeral service for the two Powell boys killed Sunday in a house fire have been changed because of an overwhelming response from the community.
A couple saying they are an aunt and uncle of Josh Powell released a statement Tuesday night, several media outlets reported.
A search warrant affidavit filed in Pierce County Superior Court on Tuesday showed Josh Powell withdrew $7,000 from a South Hill bank branch Saturday.
She could hear a boy crying inside the house. She rang the doorbell. She begged Josh Powell to let her in. He ignored her.
Husband. Antisocial. Father. Awkward. Person of Interest. Erratic. Loving. Controlling. Abusive. All are words that have been used to describe Josh Powell, 36, but there is only one that will forever be associated with his name.
On Sunday, just hours after the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell and their father, several news media outlets were reporting that one of the children had made a drawing depicting a family outing that indicated their mother, Susan Cox Powell, was in the trunk of a vehicle.
A search warrant affidavit filed in Pierce County Superior Court on Tuesday showed Josh Powell withdrew $7,000 from a South Hill bank branch Saturday.
A memorial fund has been set up in memory of Charlie, 7, and Braden, 5, who were killed by their father Sunday afternoon. The money will assist with funeral costs.
Community members around Carson Elementary School have started to hang purple ribbons in honor of the two Powell brothers who were killed Sunday in a violent house fire.
A funeral service for the two Powell brothers who were killed Sunday in a violent house fire has been set for Saturday in Puyallup.
‘There but for the grace of God,” is a conventional and charitable attitude toward people who get in trouble with the law. The idea is that good guys and bad guys share a common humanity that the good guys do well to ack-nowledge.
The woman who took Charlie and Braden Powell on their last drive was a visitation supervisor who worked for Foster Care Resource Network, one of hundreds of businesses that contract with the state to provide social services.
Josh Powell put some thought into killing his sons. In the days leading up to Sunday, he gave away the toys and books he kept for the two boys at his Graham-area house and stopped somewhere to fill two 5-gallon cans with gasoline, authorities said Monday.
On Sunday, just hours after the deaths of Charlies and Braden Powell and their father, several media outlets were reporting that one of the children had made a drawing depicting a family outing that indicated their mother, Susan Cox Powell, was in the trunk of a vehicle.
Charlie Powell wanted a duck pond. And bugs. Lots of bugs. His grandparents, Chuck and Judy Cox, wanted a place for the rainwater to flow on their wooded South Hill property. They were in the midst of fulfilling the little boy’s wish – and their own – by building a storm water retention pond.
The woman who took Charlie and Braden Powell on their last drive was a visitation supervisor who worked for Foster Care Resource Network, one of hundreds of businesses that contract with the state to provide social services.
Chuck Cox, father of Susan Cox Powell and grandfather of Charlie and Braden Powell, said he was worried what might happen if the boys had been living with their father Josh Powell full time.
Timeline of the Susan Cox Powell case.
At Carson Elementary School in Puyallup, where 7-year-old Charlie Powell was a first-grader, candles, stuffed animals and other symbols of a school in mourning surrounded a sign near the front entrance.
Investigators searching through the rubble of Josh Powell's home found two five-gallon gas cans, including one near the bodies. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer also said Powell had sent emails to family members and his pastor, some notes including instructions of what to do with his estate.
Here are a couple of Facebook groups set up for Susan Cox Powell and her sons.
The Eastside Neighborhood Advisory Council of Tacoma will host a candlelight vigil tonight for Susan Cox Powell and her two sons.
One by one, they added to the growing memorial.
Susan Cox graduated in 2000 from Rogers High School in Puyallup and married Josh Powell about nine months later. The two had met at church. They later moved to Utah and had two children: Charlie and Braden.
As late as last week, Josh Powell was fighting for custody of his two boys and planning a future with them.
One by one, they added to the growing memorial. About 50 people gathered Sunday night at Carson Elementary School in Puyallup for a vigil to remember Charlie and Braden Powell. Charlie was in first grade at the school. Braden had yet to start school.
The man who gave life to 7-year-old Charlie Powell and his 5-year-old brother Braden apparently took it away Sunday in a fiery blast that left behind only charred walls at a Graham-area home.
As late as last week, Josh Powell was fighting for custody of his two boys and planning a future with them.
According to Pierce County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer, emails are being received from Josh Powell’s email account. “We are getting emails from him,” Troyer said. “They lead us to believe that this is intentional, this is planned.”
Three bodies have been found in the Graham-area home where Josh Powell was living and where he was to have a supervised visit with his children today, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said this afternoon.
Josh Powell suffered a setback in his quest to get his kids back Wednesday when a Pierce County judge said she wouldn’t consider returning the boys to him until he underwent a psycho-sexual evaluation.
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah – Police this year conducted public searches for any sign of Susan Cox Powell, using cadaver dogs to search the vast desert around Topaz Mountain in Utah and rappelling into scores of mine shafts near Ely, Nev.
The husband of missing Utah woman Susan Cox Powell has asked a Pierce County Superior Court judge to move his sons to a neutral caretaker, contending his missing wife’s parents are turning their two sons against him and have even encouraged the boys to call him “Josh” rather than “Daddy.”
This week marks the second anniversary of the disappearance of Puyllup native Susan Cox Powell from her Utah home. In updating the case, The Salt Lake Tribune is asking a key question: What happens if her body is never found?
Friends and family today observed the 30th birthday of Susan Cox Powell, a Utah mother who mysteriously vanished in December 2009.
SPOKANE – Susan Cox Powell’s father-in-law once was accused of inappropriately discussing sex with children and keeping pornography in his home against the wishes of his wife, according to court documents.
Wednesday was a brutal day in court for Josh Powell. First, he listened as an assistant state attorney general disparaged him and his family in front of a bank of television cameras and a courtroom full of spectators. Then, a Pierce County judge ruled Powell’s home wasn’t a fit place to raise his two young sons, at least not right now.
A Pierce County judge ruled this afternoon that the sons of a missing Utah mother cannot be safely returned to their father, who has long been a person of interest in his wife's 2009 disappearance. Judge Kathryn Nelson awarded temporary custody of the boys to Susan Cox Powell's parents, Chuck and Judy Cox. Josh Powell has been granted supervised visits.
The parents and husband of missing Utah mother Susan Cox Powell have returned to a Pierce County courtroom this morning as part of the ongoing custody battle over her two young sons.
For at least one more day, the sons of Susan Cox Powell will live in limbo.
A child custody hearing involving the sons of missing mother Susan Cox Powell won’t be decided until Wednesday. Superior Court Judge Kathryn Nelson requested an additional day to review materials provided by Chuck Cox, Susan’s father, and Josh Powell, Susan’s husband, before determining where the couple’s two sons will reside.
The parents of a missing Utah mother have filed for custody of her two sons after the boys’ paternal grandfather was arrested on criminal charges.
The County-City Building in downtown Tacoma on Friday became the epicenter of the Susan Cox Powell saga, whose twists and turns have begun to border on the surreal.
Diaries written in childhood and adolescence by missing Utah mother Susan Cox Powell will remain private, according to a court ruling issued this morning.
Steven C. Powell, the father-in-law of a missing Utah mother, has pleaded not guilty to charges of voyeurism and possession of inappropriate pictures of minors.
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