-- captions by vitac -- this is me. covering all my bases, making sure that if something happens to me or my family or all of us -- >> i believe me and my team may have just found some of part of susan powell's remains. >> the search happening hundreds of feet down deep inside of a mine in utah's west desert. this 12 year after her disappearance. >> found a shotgun. started finding bones. there was a rib here, a collarbone, a pierce of vertebra. clothing. >> when i pulled the pants out of the dirt i thought, this is different. >> i'm just grateful people are still looking for susan. >> the phone rang, and the voice on the other end said, when was the last time you saw susan.

and i instantly kind of felt dread. >> it has been three days -- >> four days and counting. >> been missing for a week. >> josh had taken the children on a middle of the night camping trip. it was freezing cold. none of this makes any sense. >> he was like, yeah, the kids are here. no, susan's not with me. and i was like, where is she? you know, and she whe was like, don't know. >> what were you camping with? >> my dad and my mom. >> the children said mommy was in the van but didn't come back with us. pretty significant thing for a 4-year-old to tell a detective. >> she even goes as far as to say, if i day it may not be an accident. >> one last question. >> how am i going to find your wife without your help? ♪

puyallup is a smaller town. it's located in an area that's kind of protected from wind and rain from the mountains around it. >> it's a suburb of seattle and tacoma. it's homey. it's growing. low crime. >> lots of children who live there, lots of families. >> many people are members of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. >> a lot of really nice people interconnected through the church. it's kind of a very typical american community. >> it is in puyallup, washington, where these two families and these two lives intersect. josh powell and susan cox. >> susan was one of four

daughters born to chuck and judy cox. she was just, you know, a really typical girl and teenager. she liked to ride horses. >> she was my partner in crime. susan tried to be rebellious, but she had too good of a heart. >> she was doing well in church and school. had friends. she loved choir. >> she liked her hair done, her nails done. wear stylish clothes. >> susan had gone to cosmetology school. she liked to make other people feel good about themselves. >> she got interested in boys as a teenager. she met josh when she was 18 at a social event for young mormons, and he was in his 20s. and she hadn't dated a lot. >> in the church of jesus christ of latter day saints, if you are unmarried, you can attend a congregation that is for other

unmarried individuals. and so josh and susan are both kind of circulating in this singles crowd. >> there are these incredible home movies taken by josh's dad, which were later released by police, that show the couple's blossoming relationship. >> you'll cut that out of the tape, right? >> when i first met josh, guess i thought he was cute. he was very confident, and he thought he could get any girl he wanted. >> susan said that he was treating her really well and he cared about her and he promised he'd make her happy. >> josh powell was an ambitious, strong headed, kind of nerdy guy. >> just tall, dorky, his head's too big for his shoulders. he just looked awkward. >> he's got a job. he's got his own place and he's going to college. sounded pretty good.

>> he's going to go to school for business, so he's somebody who is bright when he applies himself. >> they quickly fell in love. you see pictures of them, they looked to be completely smitten. >> josh and susan's relationship goes from not knowing each other at all in october to being engaged by the end of december. >> when she told me she was getting married, i wasn't that supportive. because she barely knew him. and she just assured me that she's going to be really happy and that he want in the life what she wanted in life. >> those videos also capture josh and susan's wedding and the home life they built together after. >> susan looked very pretty at her wedding.

very traditional. long, white dress. >> we you put the ring in that box, open it up, put it on. >> she was very excited to show off josh and start their lives together. >> let's see the ring. let's see that ring. hold you hand up, please. >> it's a young person's love story that quickly becomes dark. ♪ >> as the reception went on, josh was ignoring her more and more. taking pictures and hanging out with his family and then disappearing. i could tell she's getting more agitated. >> susan and josh didn't have much money, and they found themselves doing some odd jobs just to get by. >> susan actually was the financial provider.

he kept going in and out of jobs and was never really settled with anything. >> they moved to west valley city in utah because they were looking for a better life. they wanted to improve their economic situation. they buy a house, and they start to have a family. >> i still remember the day that she told me she was pregnant. it was probably the most impactful day of her life. she was so excited because she always wanted to be a mom. >> i would describe josh as an unattached dad. >> josh wanted to hold charlie when he wanted to show him off to people, but other than that, he didn't want to change his diaper or feed him or give him a bath. >> hey, buddy. >> come up here. >> here we go. okay. >> and then they had brayden. and if you look at the family

pictures, there is joy and there is sparkle. >> yeah. >> as little boys, they were rambunctious and mischievous and ran around being typical happy little boys. >> what are you watching? >> "cars"! >> "cars." >> and susan loved them more than anything in the world. >> monday morning, december 7th, 2009, they didn't show up. >> debbie caldwell. she is the daycare provider for charlie and braden powell. >> and by 7:00, still no susan. she had to be to work at 7:00, so that's not like susan to be late and not call. >> they don't show up that monday morning, as the snow storm is coming in,

and debbie caldwell becomes concerned. >> debbie tried to call susan on the phone, tried to call josh. couldn't reach anybody. >> so i got in the van, and i went up the street to her house. and as i pulled into her circle, there was no tire tracks in the driveway. so, i pounded on the door, and i got no answer. >> so debbie calls the emergency contact, which is josh's sister, jennifer graves, and josh's mom, terri powell. >> the conclusion that we came to was carbon monoxide. they're probably dead in their beds. we ended up calling the police >> 911. what is your emergency? >> my son and his wife and their two children -- they're not responding to calls, and they're not responding to people pounding on their door. there's no tracks coming out of their driveway. i'm worried that maybe gas has been left on or something like that. >> and a couple of officers come out on a welfare check. they determined that the best course of action is to break a window to see whether or not the family is in there.

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it is december 7th. snow and ice. two to four feet of snow in this. >> december 7th, 2009. i was reviewing a bank robbery case, and the sergeant asked me to reach out to patrol. they were out on a missing family out on the west side of town. >> jennifer gave permission to the police to break a window and go into the house. >> the smallest officer just kind of shimmied in. he was like, wait, what is up with the fans? there are two box fans pointed at the carpet in the living room, and we were all confused. >> the officers cleared the entire residence and found nobody inside the home. and the powell vehicle, which was a blue minivan, it wasn't parked in the garage. >> the first thing i saw was susan's purse was on a table, and i started pulling out things.

you know, i found her keys, her wallet. it had her driver's license and her credit cards. >> you would expect that if she had left on her own, was intending to go someplace, she would have taken those items. >> the kitchen, the master bedroom was fairly clean. i mean, the bed wasn't made. the bedroom for the children, the blankets were missing, but yeah, the house was pretty orderly. there was no sign of a disturbance, physical altercation inside of the residence. >> on the morning of december 7th, i was sitting in my family room, homeschooling my three kids, and the phone rang. the voice on the other end said, josh, susan and the boys are missing, and nobody's seen them since yesterday. it was the most horrible, sickening feeling. i just thought, what has happened? >> susan's friends were afraid that they'd gone out on a jaunt, because josh liked to drive and take photographs, and maybe had slipped off a cliff or they'd gotten stuck in the snow. >> i made a few phone calls

asking other people in the congregation if anyone had seen susan. jovanna goes, i actually had dinner with them last night. >> susan asked jovanna to come over to the house and help her with her knitting and crocheting. while she was there, josh, who never did anything domestic at all, offered to make people dinner. >> she was crocheting on her blanket. i was working on the yarn. josh and the boys were in the kitchen cooking. >> he called his father, steve, to ask for a recipe for pancakes. everything he did was a little bit different routine than anybody else would have. he made them one by one. he took a plate in to jovanna. he took a plate with different pancakes made, obviously, in to

susan. >> he and the boys ate at the table and he brought our -- our plates in to us in the living room. i think that was probably very unusual. >> i never, ever witnessed them ever eating in the living room. >> shortly after that, susan began to not feel well. susan laid down, and josh sort of suggested to jovanna that it was time for her to leave. >> he was going to take the boys sledding, and he and the boys actually drove out before i had finished putting on my seatbelt. that was the last time i saw anybody, around 5:00. >> my brother finally called. right away i asked about the kids, asked about susan, and he was like, yeah, the kids are here. no, susan's not with me. and i was like, well, where is she? you know? and he was like, i don't know. i have no idea. she went to work. >> josh drives all the way south to a place called point of the mountain, and he places a phone call to susan's phone.

>> hello, susan. we are on our way back, and -- anyway, i can't believe that somehow my brain missed a day. i thought today was sunday. that was really, really stupid. all right, i'll talk to you later. okay, bye. >> we sat there and waited. it was a long time. it was an hour, maybe more. josh finally showed up at the house. >> josh had taken the children on a middle-of-the-night camping trip. it was a freezing cold. none of this makes any sense, except to him. he does things spontaneously without any plan, and he took the kids. he said that he left susan in the house. she was sleeping. >> we really wanted to talk with josh, and we wanted to record it. we had josh follow us to the substation. he was adamant about taking the boys with him. >> when's the last time you seen her? >> probably about midnight of last night. >> where at? >> we were finishing up a movie. >> what movie did you guys watch?

>> um. >> more. more, more. >> here you go, buddy. >> josh is very evasive, and he uses the kids who are in the room to distract away. >> he wasn't forthcoming with answers or information, so it was very frustrating. >> and where did you drive to? >> well, i started heading south through tooele, turned onto the pony express. >> how far down the pony express did you go? >> not very far. maybe 20 miles, i don't know. >> so what did you do once you got there? >> hooked up a heater and lit a fire for the boys. >> josh said they drove to simpson springs and had s'mores over a campfire. it's not really very clear exactly what happened that evening and the next morning. >> we asked him if we could search his minivan, and he agreed. the minivan was full of camping supplies.

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down the street from the powells, kiirsi hellewell sat in a downstairs playroom wondering, where is susan? then came the news. it made her heart beat faster, her stomach turn in somersaults. >> i just lost it. >> 9:00 that night, jennifer told me that josh and the boys are home.

and i'm like, well, where's susan? and she said, we don't know. >> as soon as i heard that he was back and susan was not with them, i instantly said to myself, what has he done? >> it became like this game of telephone. where people were passing along these little bits of information, and suddenly a larger story was coming together. >> he said he was out driving around, he'd gone out camping with the boys. and i'm like, are you a crazy man? it was cold. >> that is 100% josh. he did that kind of stuff all the time. >> but susan would have never allowed him to ever take the boys out in the winter to the desert in the middle of the night, never. i never believed his story at all. >> it was determined we didn't

have enough probable cause to secure a search warrant for the residence, let alone book josh into jail, because we didn't have any physical evidence. >> the decision was a huge mistake. because he burns this metal object into oblivion. so thoroughly destroyed was this item that nobody to this day can say what exactly it was. >> bags and bags of things are shoved into the garbage. why would you do that the day after your wife disappears? >> the following morning, he is observed with the minivan pulled out of the garage, all the doors opened, thoroughly cleaning it, wiping it down, vacuuming it. >> it was really odd to me, because he was running around the house grabbing piles of towels and putting them in the washer. and finally, we're like, you've got to go to your interview with the police.

>> let me grab my notebook and i'll be right back, okay? >> okay. >> josh powell kind of has a uniform of sorts. it's typically a t-shirt, it's a leather jacket, it's denim pants, and it's dingy white shoes. when josh goes in to talk to the police, in the tape, you see him initially acting very emotional. >> i don't -- i don't know. i didn't even think it was that i didn't -- it didn't sink in yesterday. >> he starts crying. his voice is shaking. he's just trying to hold it together. but as detective maxwell continues to push josh about what's going on, josh's demeanor changes. >> i can't even remember what we

were doing. >> okay. so you don't remember what you guys did from 6:00 till you guys went to bed on saturday night? >> i just don't remember what activity we were doing. >> josh is not a participant at all in talking about his missing wife. >> shows no urgency in getting out to go look for her. >> have you checked any places where she could be? >> i haven't had much of a chance to do any of that yet. >> he asks police no questions about what they're doing to find her. >> what places should we go check to see if we can find her? >> beauty supply. i don't think she would be there, but she likes them. >> and he offers no suggestions really about where they might look. >> i'm leaving. >> let me ask you this before you go out. >> okay, go ahead and ask one last question. >> how am i going to find your wife without your help?

>> while i'm interviewing him, another colleague conducted a child forensic interview. >> right there. yeah! good job. it's got nice lights, huh? pretty. >> we went to the children's justice center and they were able to interview charlie. braden really wouldn't talk to them. >> okay, well, what did you do last night? >> go camping. >> you went camping? who were you camping with? >> um, my dad and my mom and my little brother. >> the children said mommy was in the van but didn't come back with us. a pretty significant thing for a 4-year-old to tell a detective. >> we got in the airplane, and the airplane went to

dinosaur national park. >> oh. you went to an airplane yesterday? >> charlie's interview was perplexing because he says a lot of things that don't make much sense. >> okay, so, charlie, when you guys came home from camping, who came home with you? >> my dad. >> and? >> and my mom stayed at dinosaur national park. my mom stayed where the crystals are. >> there was one particular statement that raised a lot of eyebrows. "mommy is with the crystals." and how some people interpreted that was that the boys had been with their mom, and she was not alive. >> your children are telling our detectives that mom went with you guys last night and that she didn't come back. >> she did not go with us. they know that she didn't go with us.

>> so, your kids lie then? so, your kids lie. >> sometimes they do. >> with children, they're going to go from threads of truth and reality to fantasy. and maybe things that happened long before mom disappeared, they're still in his memory. and in his mind sort of fuses together. >> she was not with us. i didn't leave her at the pony express. i didn't just take her out and anything. her off or even do - i do want the lawyer 'cause at this point i definitely want a lawyer. >> could have i went and booked him into jail? yeah, i could have. but we wanted to find susan, so we were putting a gps tracker on his van. we wanted to be out and about and see where he goes. >> instead of picking up his van, he went to the airport, he

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a developing story -- the search continues this morning >> for a missing wife and mother in west valley city. >> we had been hearing some buzz in the community that there was a woman who was missing. >> 28-year-old susan powell was

last seen -- >> sunday night at family dinner with other friends. >> it has been three days -- >> four days and counting. >> missing for a week. >> utah gets missing persons cases almost every day. so this didn't really stand out as anything out of the normal. >> live at the west valley police station tonight. >> until the details start to unravel. >> we have learned the search warrants for the powell's home have been sealed off. >> it's strange that he came home with the kids and not her. >> west valley city police calling this one a puzzle. >> call it suspicious. >> not even a clue. >> if you see her, please contact the west valley police department. >> her friends and family were just starting to ask questions. they were out there with flyers, just trying to find out where she might be. >> volunteers fanned out, handing out flyers of susan powell. >> josh, after susan went missing, he went from the guy who was talking about everything and knew everything to somebody who said nothing, knew nothing. >> a husband who says he doesn't know what has happened to her. >> we know the answers are out there, and we need those who know where she is and what happened to come forward. >> i held a candlelight vigil a few days into her disappearance,

and josh came to that late. >> after the candlelight vigil was over, josh powell did show up here in the park with his two children. but he quickly left without saying anything. >> charlie had come up to me, and he was telling me, debbie, my hands are cold. my hands are cold. and josh scooped charlie up and kind of pulled him away like this. >> and reporters were trying to chase him through the snow, and he was walking away from them. >> you were camping with the boys? >> i have to go get my boys. >> there was no point at which josh ever seemed to even be concerned that susan was missing. >> if he wanted to help on the website, he should have detailed a timeline. he never participated in any of the massive, massive efforts that myself and relatives and friends launched to put out flyers in malls and parking lots. >> he didn't seem like he was engaged at all in what was going on. he seemed like his mind was somewhere else. he spoke very briefly with local media. >> i've been trying to figure out what i can do so i don't sit idle.

i'm dealing with this repeatedly. >> people were upset that he didn't seem upset that she was missing. and so people thought that's because he's guilty. >> josh, will you give us a comment today? >> pointing the finger at joshua -- i don't want to do that. ♪ >> it seemed like initially josh and susan were a pretty conservative couple. loving family, couple of kids. we learned that there was a lot of distress, a lot of turmoil in their marriage. >> he controlled the money even though she was the breadwinner. >> josh is very willing to spend money building himself a fancy computer. susan doesn't get that privilege. >> my new printer. with the drawers underneath, the shelving. >> it's sad to look at that family and know now what was actually going on.

susan was tormented about how troubled the marriage was. >> she'd been really happy. he'd been a great husband, and she said that he really changed. he became not affectionate. >> we're taking a picture of the back of your head. >> a little awkward to talk about, but they also had issues in the bedroom. susan was this beautiful girl, but josh just was not interested in her sexually. it was just really weird. >> he kept her at arm's length. he wouldn't kiss her anymore. he wouldn't touch her. he wouldn't hold her hand. >> josh and susan's marriage reaches rock bottom in the summer of 2008. josh and susan are constantly fighting. they're arguing in front of the kids. josh is exhibiting extreme control over susan. >> she said, one time, we were having a screaming fight and i shoved him. pushed me back and he goes, if you ever do that again, i'm gonna hit you.' but she said he never did. >> susan is now starting to think about, i've got to get out of this marriage.

>> she went to see a divorce lawyer one time for a free consultation, at my advice, and he told her to make a video tape of everything in your house. >> this is me, july 29th, 2008. covering all my bases, making sure that if something happens to me or my family, or all of us, that our assets are documented. >> and here is our safe, got all sorts of files, financial information. speakers, 5.1 surround sound. broke this and threw all my dvds and made a mess. there's a hole in that wall. beautiful diamond necklace my mom bought. jade, that's a family heirloom. not worth thousands of dollars, but i have assets. hope everything works out, and we're all happy and live happily ever after as much as that's possible. >> after she would email me a lot and just say, i want to do everything in my power to save my marriage before i walk away. >> josh had warned her, if you divorce me, you'll never see the children. so she stayed.

>> police ended up discovering the safety deposit box that susan kept secretly from josh at the bank where she worked. in it, they found a dvd, some savings bonds, and there was a makeshift will and testament. >> the last will and testament handwritten on one piece of paper. both sides, top to bottom, side to side. there was no room to write another word. >> she wrote about how bad the marriage had become. she talked about $1 million life insurance policy that josh had taken out on her. and she told her boys she would never leave them. >> she even goes as far as to say, if i die, it may not be an accident. >> that is our biggest piece of evidence. it's her last words. there was no doubt that this document was authored by susan. >> the biggest mystery of this case is why didn't police arrest josh powell?

>> i was frustrated because they hadn't arrested him. i felt they had plenty of evidence to arrest him. >> police have officially named joshua powell a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife susan. >> the west valley city police department took a lot of heat for not throwing the handcuffs on josh. >> there's a pile of circumstantial evidence. is there enough there to arrest him and book him into jail and hold him accountable? absolutely there is. could we? no. the district attorney's office would not file any charges. they were very specific and told us that we needed to wait 12 months with no body. >> abc news reached out to the d.a. at the time, who declined to respond to this claim and refused to comment on this case. >> within days of susan's disappearance, he had closed their bank accounts, cashed out her retirement fund, took the boys to puyallup. >> people we talked to say they can't believe joshua powell has emptied the house and left what is ground zero in the disappearance of his wife.

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the haystack. >> a lot of questions unanswered at this point. >> there is a big part of you missing, and you want to know the truth. >> but the family won't give up hope. there are still purple ribbons at their home. there are still stickers on car windows. >> josh decides that he's going to take the boys up to his dad's house in washington to try to get away from the media circus. >> do you have anything to say? >> josh, will you give us a comment today. >> >> you're a person of interest, josh. >> josh's dad, steve powell, he takes control. he shields josh from the media and becomes his ardent defender. >> i call it ft. powell because it became a fortress. >> they had the window's blinds drawn. they kept the house dark inside. when the media would knock, they'd open a crack and say, no. they weren't talking to anybody. >> hi, i'm trying to find josh powell. >> they were just their own little country. >> josh isolates himself from the world.

he's not talking to police. he's not talking to media. he's certainly not searching for his missing wife. >> i suddenly had this thought, i should try and get josh to confess. >> even josh's sister, jennifer graves, doesn't believe him. so she goes to police and she volunteers to wear a wire and go inside her dad's house. >> they were just about to have dinner, and we went in, and the boys were so excited to see us. >> my birthday! >> it is. it's your birthday, charlie! >> i didn't know exactly how to force this confrontation with josh. we've been hearing rumors that you will probably be arrested soon. >> well, i don't know. >> suddenly i just -- i just shoved josh into the bathroom. and at that point, i was like, drop all pretense. just tell me where her body is.

are you trying to cover it up? where is susan? >> jennifer did a phenomenal job. >> i'm just not buying it anymore. i can see it in your eyes. there's something there. >> you're wrong. i don't know what to say. >> i think you need to confess now and get it over with. >> don't be ridiculous. i know what i've done, and i haven't done anything. >> you killed her. >> i already told you every fact. i'm not going to violate my attorney's direction. >> he still wouldn't budge. he still would not give me anything. i was so frustrated. >> eventually steve kicked jennifer out of the residence, calling her derogatory names. >> you are a [ bleep ] is what you are to talk about your brother and my son that way. >> i regret not getting the confession, but i don't regret going. >> this is "good morning

america." >> and joining us now, susan's mother and father. judy. >> susan's parents, from the moment she was missing, they were very involved with the press. >> when did you suspect your son-in-law? >> but very quickly, the tone changed. >> we made a conscience decision. the politeness wasn't working, so we basically called him out. josh is a desperate person. he has no valid explanation for where he was. >> chuck cox and the family, they are putting up the purple ribbons. they've got the billboard outside the neighborhood. >> all these things, i'm sure, are driving him crazy, but for 18 months he sits in isolation and doesn't talk to anybody about it. >> to try to get josh to talk, we put together a honk and wave. >> what in the world is a honk and wave? >> thank you! >> and he said, you're going make these huge signs, you stand

on really busy corners and get people to honk and wave to show their support. >> thank you! >> it can cause anxiety and disruption in your suspect's mind. people start to do things as the stress tends to build. >> they picked a busy street near a store that they knew steve and josh shopped at. and chuck and judy and others were out there with signs and everything. and there were television cameras there. >> we're not going to stop looking for her no matter how long it takes. >> they had these shirts with susan's face. i think it said, have you seen me? they had some big posters, and they were waving and balloons, and handing out flyers to cars as they went by. >> steve pulled by, and the next thing i know, he's stomping over towards me. you can't do this. >> this is a store i shop at. they only places where they passed out flyers about susan, the only place where they put up billboards, the only place where

they duct taped flyers to light posts -- >> how is you coming here helping to find susan? >> it isn't helping to find susan. how is your standing at our neighborhood market helping to find susan, chuck? >> an extraordinary, personal, and very public confrontation that erupted in the middle of the search for susan powell. several family members were clashing in front of the cameras. >> all over the media. if somebody has seen her, then they can report to the police. >> and you're only going to do this -- which other stores are you doing this at, chuck? >> and it was ugly. it was weird. it was really contentious. i was waiting for the cops to come and haul one of them away. >> you come out against my family. >> josh showed up midway into this confrontation on the street corner, and he had the boys in the van with him. >> chuck cox uses my sons as pawns in the media to drive whatever message he is trying to drive. >> are you doing okay? >> yeah, it's all right. >> i get a call from josh. we were telling josh, okay, are you going to do this interview

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>> josh, do you have anything to say? >> you're a person of interest, josh. >> we can't talk about susan or camping. i -- i -- i always keep things a secret. >> during that interview, it's very clear charlie has been coached. >> he looked more and more like a psychopath. he was running out of places to hide. >> slams the door in her face and locks it. >> this is a story you can't write in a hollywood script. no one would have thought in a million year that's how the story would have ended.

susan powell was a young, beautiful mother of two adorable children. she just, one night, vanished. >> detectives have named josh powell a person of interest in the case. >> he did some local news, some ambush-style interviews where they would ask him something on the fly. >> you were camping with the boys? >> i need to go get my boys. >> but he never really sat down and talked about what happened. i'll never forget the first time that i met him, i shook his hand and a chill just, like, raced up through my spine. i just shook the hand of a killer. are we rolling? why talk now? >> oh, man. i wanted to come out and say something. people who know me know that i'm

a good dad. i was a good husband. i provided for them. susan also contributed. >> nothing he told me during that interview convinced me that he was not part of what happened to her and why she disappeared. >> i know that you've told police that you were camping. you brought your 2-year-old and your 4-year-old camping. is that where you were? >> i'm not going to talk about anything that my attorney has specifically told me not to. >> okay, why not just answer where you were when she disappeared? >> josh, can i suggest something? >> his father was there, and his father really wanted to be interviewed, which was odd.

and i had really no desire to interview steven powell at that time. zero. i just thought, this is such a waste of time. this is pointless. >> you think she ran away with another man. >> it was another man. >> i don't think josh was in the room for that part of the interview. and before you know it, he ends up revealing the biggest bombshell out of all of the interviews that i had done out of the whole case. what makes you think that she would leave? leave her kids, her two young sons and run away with another man. >> and one away with another man. >> susan was very, very sexual with me. she was very flirtatious. i mean, she was just -- she did it. i did it. i mean, we interacted in a lot of sexual ways because susan enjoys doing that. >> but this is -- >> i enjoy doing that. >> why are you telling everyone that?

that's not to your benefit, but somehow in my dad's own twisted mind, he thought that that was the greatest strategy to keep the dogs off josh or something. i don't know. >> one day we were at an animal park. i was holding braden in my arms, and i had my hands like this. the part i remember is that susan came over to take him from me, and instead of just reaching out and grabbing him, she pressed her breasts against my hands tightly, and she wouldn't let my hands out. and that's nice. it was a cold day, so it was a nice, warm feeling. >> give me a break. but he loved to talk about it. >> josh and susan early in their marriage move in to steve powell's home. >> susan had often referred to her father-in-law as creepy, but she, i don't think, had any idea

how creepy the man truly was. >> i'll do this. >> and during this period of time, steve powell is constantly filming susan. this is a man who is collecting video for his own perverse gratification. because steve powell is a voyeur. >> he wrote a number of songs about susan. >> steven powell even recorded them and posted them on his website. ♪ i can love you in a secret way ♪ ♪ i can love you each and every day ♪ >> he had a pseudonym he used, steve chantrey. >> while josh and susan were living with my dad, there was a point where she was alone in the car with my dad for a short time while josh was in the house. and my dad actually hit on her. >> he has put his camera in the

bag on the center console and left it recording, and so the audio of this conversation is captured. >> i'm really falling in love with you. you know, for the last year and a half, you're about the only thing i can think about. just for example, when we were sitting on the couch, it just felt like you were very -- i mean, i was extremely aroused, and i think you were somewhat aroused, at least i thought. >> i don't know where you're going with this. >> that audio was an opportunity to hear susan in her own voice telling steve, in no uncertain terms, she was not interested. >> i was kind of meaning to talk to you about this, because i realized the last time i came over that my own father doesn't kiss me, and you -- you kiss me. and i didn't like that.

>> she was extremely upset about that and disturbed. but even more disturbed when josh just said that that's his dad. >> i mean, he was obsessed with susan. he was absolutely obsessed, and he wanted to talk about it. to me, this was the headline, and it also put a target on steven's back. and maybe he had something to do with this. the focus was less on josh, and it shifted straight to josh's father. because it was so creepy. that was my big takeaway. >> police raided the home of husband and father-in-law, seizing several computers and sealed boxes after those disturbing allegations made by both of them on "gma" yesterday. unleash the freshness... ♪

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like she was looking to leave the marriage and abandon her children. >> susan cox kept a diary, a secret diary. >> let's stay focused on the journals, okay? because i think that's very interesting. >> i believe that susan had a liaison with somebody who disappeared the same week she did. she was very open sexually. and when i read her journals, it's clear that most of the male -- the relationships she got into with males were ones that she initiated. >> basically, josh and steven, on their own stupidity, were telling, hey, this is the holy grail. this is telling us where susan is, how susan acted. so that gave us the nexus through the judicial system to get into the house. >> when josh moved in with his father after his wife's disappearance, he took some things from his utah home, including susan's journals. >> susan powell's diaries have taken center stage. according to the search warrant left at the powell's home, police came looking for seven very specific diaries all written by susan, diaries that

her husband insists will help explain her disappearance. >> they went through everything in the house, including all of steve's, you know, files, journals, computers. >> they also find steve powell's collection of voyeur videos. steve powell is doing things like sliding mirrors under the bathroom door, attempting to get images of susan while she's undressed. >> i love putting her underwear against my face, just smelling her scent. >> steve would narrate his videos to himself as he's shooting video of her dirty underwear. >> steven powell would save things of susan's she'd throw away in a bathroom garbage. things like cotton swabs, wax strips, tampons. he'd mark each one of them, like, for specific storage.

>> in his walk-in closet, there was a filing cabinet that was locked, and once we got into that, that was kind of like the unwanted treasure that we found. >> police say inside powell's bedroom, they found thousands of images of mostly young girls, many naked, being video taped without their knowledge. prosecutors say two former neighbors, sisters just 7 and 12, were repeatedly videotaped while bathing. police say powell shot from his bedroom window into the bathroom window using a telephoto lens. >> they've looked at steve powell as a suspect in susan's disappearance and ruled him out, but it's obviously of grave concern to detectives as they're scouring through all the material they take out a steve powell's home when they see underage neighbor girls undressed on steve powell's tapes. >> powell entered a plea of not guilty to 14 counts of voyeurism and one count of child pornography. >> steven powell was eventually convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for possession of child pornography. >> because of all the things that the police encountered in the search of the steven powell home, it became apparent,

eventually, these boys were at imminent risk of harm. >> the best part that came out of the search warrant was steve's house was child family services of washington stepped in and shared with us that they would take custody of the children. >> the boys, ages 4 and 6, were taken last night by the state and now susan's father is fight to keep them with him. >> they were going to be placed, relative placement with us, so we were essentially foster parents. josh didn't want them with us. >> my sons are safe with me. they are safe in my home. they are safe with my family. >> i think josh's main fear probably was that once charlie started talking to their grandparents, the story would get out. >> they were saying things like, our mommy went with us on the trip, but didn't come back. we can only see our mom again if we go camping again. >> braden drew the picture of a

minivan with stick people inside and who's this? oh, that's me who's that? that's charlie. who's that? that's daddy. and he volunteered, that's mommy in the trunk. >> we wanted to interview them. >> will you sit right there? >> so i wrote the search warrant for that. >> charlie, has anybody talked to you about your mom? no? >> i do not know where she is. she got lost somewhere. >> during that interview, it's very clear that charlie has been coached. his answers are extremely evasive. >> we can't talk about susan or camping. i -- i -- i always keep things as secrets. >> the only thing we got out of that time was that at one point, he said that she went camping and -- butshe didn't come home with them and, and then he kind of clammed up after that. >> i didn't want to talk to you

on this long -- i mean, on this many minutes. now i'm done? >> while the coxes were fighting for custody of the kids and had temporary custody of the boys, they were still essentially wards of the state. washington state had control over these children, and the coxes were glorified foster care. so the boys are living with grandma and grandpa, and josh is getting supervised visitation with the boys. >> the visitation is at first understood to be taking place at a secure third party facility. but in short order, josh takes steps to rent his own house, and he begins pushing the social workers, asking them if they can move visitation to this new house that he's rented because

it's not steve powell's house, it shouldn't have the same concerns. >> i think the boys were the ones who originally told me, hey, we got to go to daddy's house, or something. and, and i went, "oh, really?" i was concerned about that. >> they were very excited. they were thrilled about the new house, and they were thrilled about the yard at the new house. >> i am in their best interest as their father, and i should be raising them. >> through december into early january, he was confident that his reunification motion was going to be granted. >> who has custody of your kids? >> well, that was doomsday for josh powell. >> this is a story you can't write in a hollywood script. no one would've thought in a million years that's how this story would have ended. (mail recipient 1) thank you. that's open.

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that i know he wouldn't pass, but it included a polygraph. >> that means that josh is going to have to do what he's avoided doing from the very first days after susan disappeared, which is take a lie detector test. >> he'd been able to get away with murder, so to speak, for a long time. but a polygraph, i think he was really afraid of. he didn't want to answer all these questions about susan and how she went missing. >> he truly had gone down in flames from being pretty sure that he was going to get his kids back. >> are you disappointed the kids aren't going to be coming home with you? >> i think the air was taken out of them. he looked bad. you just saw his welfare diminish. >> he looked more and more like a psychopath. he was running out of places to hide. he was running out of options, and it was tearing him down as a person. >> the custody hearing between chuck and josh essentially was

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no one would have thought in a million years that's how the story would have ended. when you talk about a tragedy, this is it. >> the morning of sunday, february 5th, elizabeth griffin hall, arrived at the rental house, parked out front. and as children do, charlie and braden got out of their car seats. >> they rushed to the front door, which is what they always did. i was one or two steps in back of them. the kids just rushed in. i saw josh for just one second. his eyes caught mine, and he had a look in his eyes. >> she looks him straight in the face, he slams the door in her face and locks it. >> i knocked and i knocked and i rang the doorbell, and i started yelling, josh, let me in.

and i heard him say, charlie, i've got a big surprise for you. >> and immediately she smelled gasoline and she knew it was an emergency situation. >> i'm on a supervised visitation for a court-ordered visit, and something really weird has happened. i think i need help right away. he looked right at me and closed the door. >> all right, we'll have somebody look for you there. >> okay. how long will it be? >> i don't know, ma'am. they have to respond to emergency, life-threatening situations first. the first available deputy -- >> well, this -- this could be life threatening. he went to court on wednesday and he -- he didn't get his kids back and this is really -- i'm afraid for their lives. >> okay. has he threatened the lives of the children previously? >> i have no idea. >> all right. we'll have the first available deputy contact you. >> february 5th, 2012. super bowl sunday. >> i went to church, i came home. super bowl sunday. i remember watching the super bowl that day and seeing the reports come in.

>> good afternoon everyone. we are interrupting your programing for some breaking news. >> and i got a call from my neighbor, and he said, "change the channel." >> i was actually in indianapolis. the patriots were playing the giants at the super bowl. >> patriots lead the giants at halftime, 10-9. >> and i was there with my family, and it was half time and madonna was about to take center stage. >> as madonna takes the stage to perform "vogue," abby's in the stadium concourse trying to absorb the text she just received. ♪ look around ♪ ♪ everywhere you turn baby it's everywhere you go ♪ >> i get a text. >> their has been a fatal explosion at the home of josh powell. >> i couldn't believe it. i couldn't believe it. i thought, i'm going to get help from the neighbors. they're going to be able to help me get the boys out. so i went screaming to the neighbors.

i said, there's two children in there. there's two children in there. >> i said, oh, my god. i thought, like, natural gas or something. and they said they found three bodies. >> there's a fire. the house exploded, and we're hearing that josh and charlie and braden are inside. >> this can't be. this can't be. >> and i thought, no, that can't be real. i would have heard something. >> i called susan's father and i said, chuck, is it true? >> chuck, chuck, is it true? is it true? he said yes. i didn't even say good-bye. i just hung up the phone and started crying. >> and i was looking at a house with steam still coming out of it and fires, and he went and talked to his sargents or whatever. he said, yeah, they're there, and they're dead. >> honestly, i wasn't surprised. and the actions that he made after she went missing, i never underestimated him.

>> and then to find out the details, it just breaks your heart. >> the pierce county medical examiner said both boys had chopping wounds on their heads and necks, but that's not what killed them. the cause of death for all three was carbon monoxide poisoning. >> we believe he bought two five-gallons worth of gas. and one was used in the room where the boys were killed, where we found the hatchet, the boys, and one of the gas cans. >> and then after he had incapacitated them, he arranged them on the floor next to each other and poured gasoline on and around them and around the house. and then he sat on a gas can and lit a match. they were still alive when the fire started, and they died of smoke inhalation. and there was also gasoline in their lungs. >> police say there is clear evidence that josh planned out this house explosion and meant to kill himself and his children.e h,se a c tt sses oim

his sister alena found one when-too late to intervene after the explosion. >> what did he say? >> i think he said, hello, this is josh. >> i'm not able to live without my sons, and i'm not able to go on anymore. i'm sorry to everyone i've hurt. good-bye. >> when you heard the audio recording, what did you think? what did you make of that? >> i thought he had lost all hope. >> to find out that, you know, he used to ax first, and to find out he said to them, i have a surprise for you -- any little

bit of doubt that anyone could've possibly had that josh killed susan had to have gone out the window. s e fact that he could've done th was deey ot kill little kids. >> police are convinced the explosion and the fire that destroyed josh powell's home is a murder/suicide. >> i don't know anything else i could have done. and they're still dead. my daughter's still missing, and now the children are dead. i had them safe. they were in my care. they were gone. >> i was frustrated with the child protective service agency. >> why would they put this single woman in charge of these boys and send her into the lion's den? >> they had the right to grow up. >> the cox family is determined to hold the state accountable and make them pay for the deaths of their grandchildren. we're 25 million prescriptions strong. we're managing type 2 diabetes... ...and heart risk. we're working up a sweat before coffee.

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>> you'll cut that out of the taping right? >> braden. >> hold still. >> that's the saddest part is you look at photos of josh and susan, charlie and braden, you think about what could've been. those boys deserved to grow up and they never got the chance. >> we have been robbed of three precious lives, and it's just unthinkable that the same person did it. ♪ amazing grace, how sweet the sound ♪ >> why take the kids? why? it makes absolutely no sense. >> my worst nightmare had just happened.

but i went from praying that somehow susan was alive to praying now that she was dead so that she could greet her boys in heaven. >> outside the fenced off crime scene, strangers visit the memorial that has risen. flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals offered in memory of charlie and braden powell. >> why would he go through so much to get custody of the boys only to murder them? >> come here, charlie. >> here you go, charlie. hey, buddy. >> well, one of the possibilities is he destroyed the evidence. those boys were starting to talk and by destroying the evidence, basically he committed murder on his two boys. >> it shows how much of a monster he really was. and it shows how many people dropped the ball in this case. >> i was frustrated with the child protective service agency.

why would they put this single woman in charge of these boys and send her into the lion's den? it made no sense to me. >> i wanted to get the kids. no matter what, i wanted to get the kids. if i could have gotten through the door, i would have. >> she did what she could. she did everything right. there's -- there's no blame on her at all. anybody that puts any blame on her, it's misdirected. >> the coxes have filed a lawsuit against the state of washington on behalf of braden and charlie. it's a wrongful death lawsuit. and their position is that the state of washington put josh's parental rights before the welfare of these boys. >> the cox family lawsuit didn't include elizabeth griffin hall or any other individuals as defendants. >> the fact is, she was in the the one that made the decision for this to be in the home, so to a certain extent, she's lucky she's alive, and she's, i think,

a victim in a lot of ways, too. >> they failed this lawsuit, $35 million for braden, $50 million for charlie. $5 million for each minute that these boys suffered at the hands of their father before they were ultimately blown up in josh's rental house. >> please be seated. good morning, everybody. >> you have a civil case against the state that started in february. it was disrupted because of covid-19. >> please now give to mr. buck as he presents the plaintiff's final argument. >> it is out of the state's failure to live up to their own primary directive of assuring the safety of the children that this tragedy was born. >> what was the place that had the least protection? josh powell's home.

what about the level of risk? then the state learned of the boys' statements. it learned of the incest images. it learned that he was going to have to undergo a psychosexual evaluation, a polygraph. if the state had followed its policies, its guidelines, common sense, investigated, had visitations where it was supposed to have them, none of this would have happened. thank you very much. >> ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this will be the only and final time thaw hear from the state in this matter. the state took this very serious. they did their job. they followed their policies. yes, the fact that susan powell was missing was known, but after more than two years after her disappearance, still no arrest, no charges against josh powell.

it actually takes facts and proof to remove a child from their parent to keep them out of the home. the guides on visitation shows the number one preferred location is at a parent's home. that's why transition to a home occurs. the goal in these type of cases is always family reunification. i'm going to submit to you that mr. powell is the sole cause of the murder of his sons. it was not due to any negligence by the state of washington. it was mr. powell who did this. >> the truth or the fact of the matter is, they're the only ones who could have protected t

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>> court is reconvened. >> has the jury reached a verdict, ma'am? >> it pleases the court, we have. >> was the state of washington negligent? answer, yes. what do you find plaintiff charles powell's total amount of damages? >> $57,500,000. braden powell's total amount of damages? $57,500,000. >> for eight years, the cox family has been trying to find justice, and it took us a long time. and we took a long hiatus with the pandemic. today justice has been kneaded out. >> what i intend to do is use the award to try and help other people in that so that we can save more children. >> jury members told abc news they didn't believe any one individual at child protective services was responsible for what happened. they blame a systematic failure for the tragedy. >> it just came down to this --

you cannot have reunification, you know, as your goal at the expense of child safety. and you know, lawsuits change things. brown v. board of education, roe v. wade. that's how things change. >> "20/20" reached out to several agencies in both states, and they declined to comment or referred us to other departments. in the end, we were unable to get an answer to our questions. could the actions of these agencies, or their inactions, have contributed to the murders of braden and charlie powell? >> my heart absolutely breaks for chuck and judy cox. think about what this couple has gone through. they lost their daughter. both of their grandbabies were hrrifically butchered. and the only three people that could shed any light on this are dead. >> it should have never have got to the point where you had josh getting his kids into that house

and blowing it up. >> josh's actions are definitely an admission of guilt. she was going to divorce him. if he can't have her, nobody will. so he kidnaps susan and most likely murders her and disposes of her body. where? nobody knows. i know. >> i know there are 10,000 abandoned mines in utah. that's a lot of places where you can dump a body. >> we do begin tonight with the search happening hundreds of feet down deep inside a mine in utah's west desert. the search for susan powell's body continues. >> what happened to susan powell is still unknown and her family may never get closure. but now a crew is searching a mine shaft in the west desert. >> dave and i, since we were kids, we've been out exploring

this sort of stuff since a long time ago. our dad was one of these desert rats that just fell in love with the wide open spaces, the ghost towns. it's not surprising that we end up 30, you know, plus years later out there, doing it all over again. >> our business specializes in doing things other people can't or won't do. but every once in a while, we get a cool opportunity to, you know, get involved in a missing person case, like this one with susan powell. i was very fascinated with the idea of maybe helping find susan. i've kind of just been following along ever since and then we got a tip that there is a chance she is out here. the majority of our search, rescue, and recovery operations are all pro bono. we are not part of law enforcement. as a private entity and a volunteer search group, we can kind of just move faster. >> early on in the excavation, roughly at about the 75-foot level -- we did just find a bone, we think a rib. we were more motivated to get down there and removing more and more material. every bucket load that we pulled out after that, we'd find a piece of vertebrae or a piece of

rib. that's when we started to get to some really exciting stuff, which was where we found, you know, a pair of pants. first phone call with susan's dad was like, okay, this is my guy. he drove through the night, all the way down from washington to be on site with us. >> the likelihood is pretty low that we are going to find something, but on the other hand she is still out there somewhere. >> and chuck kind of came over to me quietly. and he's like, hey, i know how to operate a radio. do you need help down there? and i said, chuck, do you really wanna go down in this hole? and he said, "absolutely." he went from a father who was looking for the body of his daughter to part of the search team. we're still at a point where it's like, are the bones animal or are they human? and so we're, we're excited to get the dna test back. >> it's a blessing and i'm just so thankful that they are doing it and i'm just grateful that people are still looking for susan. >> we should point out tonight that the judge presiding over

the cox civil case cut their original award from $98 million to approximately $32 million, $16 million for each of the deceased boys. >> the cox family appealed the decision, as well as the fact that washington state has been granted a new trial. that's our program for tonight. i'm amy ro bach. >> i'm david muir. for all of us here at abc news and "20/20," good night.

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