{"id":57,"date":"2012-02-08T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100.42.52.148\/~klaaskid\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:33:16","slug":"the-son-of-a-bitch-tried-to-chop-off-their-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/the-son-of-a-bitch-tried-to-chop-off-their-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"The Son of a Bitch Tried to Chop Off Their Heads!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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N<\/span>o wonder he always looked like he was sucking on lemons. He was holding back a taste much more acerbic than lemon juice. First he killed their mother, his wife, and concocted a cockamamie alibi that carried him forth until he could commit the ultimate betrayal. Then the son of a bitch tried to chop off their heads before immolating them in a homemade inferno that also spat him back into the hell from which he came.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The disappearance of Susan Powell was never a real mystery. Josh murdered Susan on December 6, 2009. The weather was bitter cold. I can almost imagine Susan watching the 5:00 pm weatherman predict that a winter storm was projected to drop more than a foot of snow overnight. Of course she agreed when he closed his forecast with, \u201cYou do not need to travel tonight.\u201d<\/span>
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Susan, her husband and sons, were reported missing by her parents the next morning. Josh and the boys showed up later that evening, but not Susan. She was never seen again!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Josh\u2019s story was a poorly fabricated lie. But it seemed to fool the authorities, because, as we found out only after the fact, her disappearance was not reclassified as a murder until almost two years later. Josh was considered a \u201cperson of interest\u201d, but apparently not enough interest to actually hinder his style.<\/span><\/div>\n
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About a month later Josh packed up the boys and moved out of state to live with his father, another lemon-sucking pervert, in Puyallup, Washington. Josh and his father Steven launched a campaign to assassinate Susan\u2019s character and threatened to publish her childhood journals online. A judge issued a permanent injunction stopping that plan. Shortly thereafter Steven Powell was arrested on child pornography and voyeurism related charges. Steven\u2019s daughter Jennifer Graves expressed relief after hearing that her father had been arrested, telling a reporter, “They’re getting him off the streets now and he won’t be able to take advantage of innocents in the future.”<\/span> Steven remains in Jail, but somehow Josh was able to slither under the radar one more time.<\/span><\/div>\n

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He lost custody of the children to Susan\u2019s parents, but not access. A judge gave him supervised visits. The boys began to blossom once they escaped Josh\u2019s toxic influence. I\u2019m using toxic as a synonym for evil here. They may have even begun to talk about the night Susan disappeared. I wonder if Josh was aware that his son Braden may have drawn a picture of a van with three people in it and told caregivers it showed his family going camping and that, “Mommy’s in the trunk.\u201d \u00a0We could ask Josh, but\u2026oh no, we can\u2019t because he\u2019s in Hell and still not cooperating with the authorities.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Josh Powell carried more red flags than a Chinese New Year parade. He showed no remorse or regret that his wife was missing. His alibi was a pitiful fabrication. He wasn\u2019t cooperating with the police. His own sister hated him. His father was a known pervert. He segregated the kids from Susan\u2019s family as he allowed them to be exposed to perversion. He tried to assassinate Susan\u2019s character. It was all there in plain sight. Why couldn\u2019t the court see the facts that screamed from the headlines for more than two years?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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