stunning evidence in the disappearance of susan powell. his boys didn't have to die. >>> and perfect harmony. singers from different countries making beautiful music together. >>> good evening. we begin this sunday night with march mad onsurgeoning into an act of april aggression and fears. an ugly seen on one big campus on one campus could repeated tomorrow night. police in lexington, kentucky, are bracing for violence of fans went into a rampage in the wee hours of the morning. riots flipped cars and people are wondering, what will happen tomorrow night when they play for the national title. >> reporter: flames and passion lit the night sky. what started as a celebration of win went into a mayhem. thousands of fans whipping each other into a frenzy. fans climb on top of cars to the cheers of others. and the officers screamed to the partyers, down, down, get off the car. police were out in force, giving a new meaning to march madness. watch as revelers torched this overturned car. and some burned anything they could find. by the time it w

law the only person josh powell told investigators he took his two young sons camping the night susan powell powell killed himself and those little boys during what was supposed to be a supervised visit to the home. all three died in a gas fueled inferno. outside of the home a desperate social worker was pleading for help. investigators found blood and a hand written note inside of powell's utah home not long after she disappeared. police never arrested josh powell. susan said if josh had been in jail, those children would be safe. boy this hurts. >> it is so tough to look at the video and the anger that everybody experienced. the hand written letter was stapled around the edges and she ask that her husband josh not see it in the letter she said they had been having marital troubles and if she died, it may not be an accident. it said josh threaten tod destroy her if they got they found her blood next to a sofa that was cleaned and life insurance policies totaling woand half million with josh as a beneficiary. all this would be reason enough for a arrest what happened in washington state. and

stunning new evidence in the disappearance of susan powell. as her family says her two little boys did not have to die. >>> and perfect harmony. almost 3,000 singers from far flung countries making beautiful music together. ♪ >>> good evening. we begin this sunday night with march madness turning into an act of april aggression. and fears an ugly scene on one big campus could be repeated tomorrow night. with the college basketball championship on the line. police in lexington, kentucky, are bracing for new violence after some university of kentucky fans won't on a rampage into the wee hours of the morning to celebrate the kentucky basketball win. rioters flipped cars and people are wondering, what will happen tomorrow night when they play for the national title. abc john muller on what went wrong and what is next. >> reporter: flames and passion lit the lexington skies a cars burned openly on state street. what started as a celebration of win quickly descended into mayhem. thousands of fans whipping each other into a frenzy. armed with beer bo

newly released documents show investigators found susan powell's blood inside the family's home. handwritten will, saying she feared her husband would kill her. in february, josh powell killed himself and his two sons. karen desoto is a former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney and she joins us here. hey, karen, good morning. >> good morning, jenna. >> thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> so, there's all this new evidence now, new evidence that investigators and prosecutors actually had in this case. we'll get to the specifics in a second, but is there an easy answer to why none of this was brought in or used against josh powell? >> well, first of all, there's no body, so that's one of the difficult problems with this case. so, even if you have blood evidence -- now remember, they're sharing a home, so the likely answer is going to be, well, she was cutting onions, she had a nosebleed. it's very likely that if we go into somebody's home, we're going to find their blood there. so, that's not exactly direct evidence that a murder took place. >> sure. >> so, now you coup

you know in every way that i could to help her. >> jennifer graves was privy to the turmoil in susan powell'sher disappearence in 2009 she saw the unhappy marriage susan was in with her brother josh. >> she said if the counselling stuff she was going through at that time didn't work out if he didn't make progress, and actually shape up, then she was planning on leaving him. that next spring. so, her anniversary was coming up and she was -- that was her target. >> josh powell killed himself and the couples children back in february he has been called a person of interest in her disappearence, jennifer says he was abusive >> i think that was the greatest thing that susan suffered was the verbal, and emotional abuse, my brother was intensely controlling, and he just wanted to control every detail of her life. >> if court documents police revealed susan penned a last will, expressing fear for her life. it said if anything happened to her to cotact jennifer graves >> i am really grateful she trusted me that much i wish there was more i could have done. >> now she is wright a book hoping to reach o

the family of susan cox powell knows that they can't bring susan back. but with the release of a new mountain of evidence linking her husband josh powell to her possible murder now questions for police are only growing more intense. could they have prevented the death of powell's two boys and why did they fail to act? >> look what it did. it killed my nephews. by not putting him behind bars when he should have been. >> reporter: denise cox is susan's sister and is simply stunned to learn how much police in utah knew. >> they didn't act on anything that they should have acted on. it's hard enough that he took my sister away, but he took my mef fews away. >> reporter: like susan's blood on tile in the powell's home. two fans were set up and blowing on to a sofa that had been cleaned. and susan's especially disturbed about a letter that police never told the family about. found in susan's safety deposit box. asking specifically that it not be shown to her husband joshua. >> that's not okay. and i don't see how they let him leave the state. >> josh powell sho

information in search warrants that raise questions about susan powell's disappearance. >> i don't seeleave the state with at the kind of stuff on his computer and with a missing mom. >> reporter: police found susan's blood inside the powell home just after her disappearance. josh set up fans to dry a sofa and carpet that appeared to have just been cleaned. josh once bragged to a friend about how to dispose of a body and not get caught. police found a gas can, tarps, and a shovel many hin his car. they found susan's cell. josh could in the say why. susan kept a secret safe deposit box. inside, letter saying if she died, it may not be an accident even if it looks like one. susan's botd was never found. west valley police call it a missing person's case. >> we have an active investigation and are not willing to intersphefere with t. >> reporter: susan's family says if they had reacted, the outcome could have been different. last month, josh murdered their two young suns before killing himself in an infer know. >> if he had been in jail, our grandchildren would have been alive. >> reporte

another very awful story that we have followed for you for the last couple of years, and now susan powell'sutraged over new revelations of evidence against their son-in-law, all the way back to when susan disappeared, back in 2009. >> i need that answered. he's been arrested so long ago. obviously something was dropped, somewhere. i mean, the judge should have never allowed the visitation. martha: parents of susan powell join us here live in "america's newsroom", moments away, to talk about a secret note that their daughter left in a safe deposit box. bill: here we go, forget save this for another day, like for when the roads are a bit better! a truck was being towed when it loses traction on the icy roads of norway. skipping over the rail, plunging down a 200-foot cliff. you see the tow truck driver in the lead, he's able to jump out but the truck driver is still inside of his truck. he goes down with the ship! miraculously, he only suffered a few broken bones. must have been wearing his seat belt. that's about the only thing you can do to survive inside of a cab when you go down a cliff l

>> thanks youshocking revelations continue to emerge about susan powell's disappearance. never charged and more than two years later he killed himself and their two young sons. now utah police are suggesting that others besides josh powell may have been involved. here's nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: one of steven powell's co-workers said steven was with josh and his sons on a camping trip weeks before susan powell disappeared back in 2009. a spokesperson for steven powell's employer tells nbc news that steven powell was out on sick leave for two days after learning about susan's disappearance. in another major development, a colleague says josh once bragged at a party about knowing how to get away with murder and knowing how to dispose of a body. >> he was excited about his theory on how you can kill someone and get rid of the body. you poison them so they don't struggle and you dump them in a mine shaft. >> reporter: josh powell was never charged with a crime and the police department was under question for not arresting him long before he had a chance to kill himse

tests on this blood indicated it was susan powell's.also discovered a chilling set of papers in a salt lake city safe deposit box owned by susan. even though she had used the box twice, the warrants say at the time she wrote how she does not trust her husband and he has threatened to destroy her if they get divorced. it ends with an ominous warning that if susan powell dies, it may not be an accident even if it looks like one. sources reveal that josh powell changed his story several times and he hid sim cards for cell phones that could have been used as evidence. the search has caught powell's father in a web of child porn. they found multiple tapes and media said to contain pornography images of children in the family's puyallup home. detectives have warndz that revealing the -- warned that revealing the investigation could have jeopardized the investigation because the pouls were so -- powells were so high profile. >>> a denver news anchor is back at work now after she's bit nn the face by a rescue dog on tv. denver's kyle dyer was a

earlier this year, powell lit his home on fire killing himself and the couple's two young children. susan was never found and josh powell was never charged. >>> there's a tornado right there, guys, look. a funnel cloud. a tornado on the ground. >> surveillance video capturing the terrifying moments a deadly tornado touches down in indiana. the driver of the bus quickly evacuated students 3 minutes before the twister struck. he turned the bus around and brought all the students back to school averting a tragedy. the twister then took the empty bus, tossing it into the school building. wow. >>> someone in maryland is holding a very hot ticket in their hands tonight. one of threat winning megamillions tickets was sold in the baltimore suburb of millford, mill. the winner bought the ticket at 7:15 last night. peter took the trip to the convenience store where the history making ticket was sold. >> $656 million divided by three. friday's record breaking megamillions jackpot split between three states. in the end, winners in kansas, illinois, and maryland taking it all. their identities unknown

ball in the case of missing mom susan powell?g new detail -- disturbing new details, husband josh brags about the perfect way to dispose of a body. former prosecutors, now both criminal defense attorneys, joey jackson and richard patele join us tonight. the utah d.a. says that she didn't have enough evidence against josh powell to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. right or wrong, joey? >> are you kidding. they had more than enough evidence. first of all, him bragging about disposing of a body under perfect conditions. a four and a two-year-old. when do you take them out in the dark of night in the dead of winter camping and then one of them says to the police mommy was with me and she doesn't come back. blood in the house. >> her blood. >> her blood in the house. her cell phone found in his car. a couch stained. where do i begin? should i keep going. he should have been arrested and prosecuted? >> where did the crime happen? >> judge jeanine: where did it happen? >> arizona, utah, nevada, perhaps california, oregon, idah

susan powell disappeared in 2009. a search warrant revealed police found her blood in the family home. it also shows police found two fans set up and blowing on to the living room sofa that app r appeared to have just been cleaned. it says she left a note in her will that said she didn't trust her husband, josh powell. police never arrested him for her murder. josh powell killed himself and the couple's two young sons earlier this month -- rather, last month -- earlier this year when he set the house on fire. coming up on the "today" show, susan powell's parents will share their reaction to these latest revelations. >>> a developing story in north korea. this morning, we're getting a look at new satellite images of a rocket site. north korea says it's preparing for a long-range missile test. some in washington are calling it a cover for a nuclear weapons teft. the images show a mobile radar trailer and rows of what appear to be empty fuel and oxidizer tanks. north korean leaders say it will burst a functional satellit

susan powell's loved ones are expressing outrage and demanding to know why her husband josh was never arrested. he killed himself and their two young sons in an explosion two months ago. >>> and later this half hour, it's obvious we did not win friday's record mega millions jackpot. >> because we're here. >> we're back at work. but the world is waiting to see who did win, including people in a small illinois town where one of three winning tickets was sold. >> we still don't know who all the lucky folks are. >> maybe they're keeping it quiet. >> i would, frankly. >>> first, police near the university of kentucky are ready to control the crowds after tonight's title game. >> that's right. they were forced to make adjustments after saturday night's postgame violence. abc's john muller reports. >> reporter: flames and passions lit the lexington sky as cars burned openly on state street. what started as a celebration of a win quickly descended into mayhem. thousands of alcohol-fueled wildcat fans whipping each other into a frenzy. armed with beer bottles and bravado, fans climbed on top o

could susan powell's family say some of these guys didn't do their jobs?ell, i think we would all agree that basically you need one or the other of two factors. one, you would need a specific promise by the police is my understanding of the law to protect. so, for example, if they said something like, don't worry, we will protect the boys. and then the other correlator which goes with it, obviously, is a specific threat, and that's communicated to the police. and that's why i said a moment ago that the mother left a note alerting the police that she felt she was in danger. there is a causational disconnect, however, because the point is even if somebody's going to murder their spouse, that doesn't mean it's reasonably foreseeable that they might murder their own children. jenna: and, john, some have pointed out that when the father is still alive and his bloodline, his sons are out there, it's very hard to keep the sons away from him. so some ask the question why didn't the judge in washington state not permit this visitation, but did the judge really have

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tests on this blood indiccted it was susan powell's.""olice also discoverrd a chilling set of papers in a salt lake city safe deposit bbx owned by susan, even though she had only used the box twice, the warrants say at the tiie she wrote ""ow she does not trust her husband and that he hhs threatened to destroy her if they get divorced."it ends with an ominous warning "if susannppwell dies t maa not be an accident even if it looks like one."the warrants &pstory multippe times, did not help much in the investigation, and that he hid pim cards with cell phones that could have been used as evidence.the searches also caught powell's father stevee porn aad voyeurism,, ome of it focusing on susan.ttey found multiple tapes and digital pedia said to contain pornographic images of chhldree at the family's puyallup home.they set up a new angle on the already difficult cass.detectives had warned that revealing the information could jeopardize the --investigation bbcause the powell's are so high profile. the search warrant also revealee josh canceled

. >> fresh details tonight about disappearance of the utah woman, susan powell. she went missing in 2009. blood was found in her house. she knew something was wrong. she linked it to her husband. but whenever rested her husband. >> they have more evidence than we relate to believe. body has never been found. sunspowell killed 30 the to theirtting fire home and killing himself. >> mitt romney has been or the other presidential hopefuls. paul ryan endorsed romney. voters in maryland and the to thet will be heading polls. 7 is on your side with the major security breach involving possibly millions of credit card customers. your accounts could be vulnerable. little you can do to prevent it. americans rely on credit cards for almost everything. for use my credit card groceries and a coffee purchase. >> millions of mastercard and accounts could be affected. the security breach but is critical gang. there is a company called global payments. they are one of the major in the united states. if bad guys got into the it could affect 10 cards. or more >> the larger banks hav

stunning new evidence revealed in the susan powell matter. family now say police bungled case, ignoring clues that could have saved susan's two young sons. >> i need that answer. he should have been arrested so long ago. obviously something was dropped somewhere. i mean the judge should have never allowed the visitation. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band... ♪ an old man shared some fish stories... ♪ oooh, my turn. ♪ she was in paris, but we talked for hours... everyone else buzzed about the band. there's a wireless mind inside all of us. so, where to next? ♪ bill: we are 24 minutes mast the hour right now. unemployment in europe reached a record 10.8% that is the highest since 1999. spain has the most people out of work. unemployment more than 23% in spain. record rain derailing a train in northern idaho. authorities say the ground just gave way. no one there was injured as a result. surfs up in southern california. 15 foot waves are spotted along the beaches. huntington beach, manhattan beach. su

. >>> some new evidence in the case of missing mom susan powell.ems to link her husband josh to her disapeerchlts powell killed -- disaperns -- disappearance. powell killed himself and his children. police found a gas can, tarps and a shovel in his car and found susan's cell phone. susan also kept a secret safe deposit box with a letter. her body has never been found. >> the search for a missing california teen has expanded. the 15-year-old walked away from her home on saturday and has been missing ever since. they went door to door handing out flyers. over the weekend clothes were found near a boat ramp. >>> beautiful day. >> a littleçó windy at times, gt the rain out. >> yeah. >>> we have a chilly night on the way. there will be frost to deal with. we're getting there. we're going to get there with these overnight freezes. let's take a look. sunshine on tap. look to the upper right of your screen. you see the flags whipping around. the wind at bwi is at 14 miles an hour gusting to 20 to 25. humidity is bone dry, 27%. it was all blue sky with a fe

. >>> there's newly released evidence in the 2009 disappearance of susan powell in utah.r family asking why wasn't he arrested sooner? the just unsealed court documents say investigators found susan's blood inside her family's home, along with a handwritten will saying she feared her husband would kill her. last month the husband josh powell snatched his two sons from a social worker and killed the children and himself minutes before the house exploded. joining me now is criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor holly hughes. this is amazing, this new information coming out. why wasn't he arrested? >> this is extremely tragic because now we have two dead children as well as a dead mother, and let's just call it what it is. she's been missing all these years. >> the body was never found. >> it's a homicide case now, and it's actually just been reclassified as a homicide case, which should have been done a long time ago, randi. your question to me is why didn't they arrest him? i can't think of a good answer, quite frankly, inity l itlight we're hearing now. there's m

we'll get exclusive reaction from susan powell's parents in just a moment. but first, nbc's miguel almaguer has the latest. hey, miguel, good morning. >> ann, good morning. the search warrant shows that police began to gather evidence against josh powell, susan's husband, immediately after she disappeared. he was named a person of interest, but never charged with a crime. now some say that utah police have blood on their hands. >> he blew up the house and the kids. >> reporter: february 6th, 2012. josh powell murders his two young boys in a house fire, taking his own life. while under suspicion in his wife susan's disappearance. newly released search warrants now reveal detectives in utah seemed to suspect josh powell murdered susan from the beginning. susan vanished december 6th, 2009, the night josh claimed he took the couple's children camping in a snowstorm. search warrants showed detectives discovered in his car, a generated, blankets, a gas can, tarps, and a shovel. and inside the couple's home, investigators found susan's blood, and two fans set up, bl

. >>> the parents of missing mother susan powell says they believe susan's father-in-law knows where e parents lashed out at steven powell. the father of susan's late husband josh powell in an interview with fox news. they say they're convinced steven powell may have had something to do with susan's disappearance. court documents unsealed last week shows he had an obsession with his daughter-in-law and susan called him a pedophile in personal journals and left a note behind saying if she died, it may not be by accident. >>> former governor tim kaine will wrap up his two-day tour of the state. he's rolling out his plan to boost economy and create jobs. kaine a democrat, is vying for the seat currently held by jim webb. h'll make several stops in the shenandoah valley and charlottesville. >>> meanwhile jormg allen is blaming president obama for the high gas prices. he far gets the president and others say abouting soaring gas prices have touched every part of our economy. just about all goods become more expensive because manufacturing and delivery depend on oil. the economists have war

. >> next "anderson," susan powell's death is still unsolved. her parents and sister will be here for a daytime exclusive. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> we are following breaking news. the faa, the coast guard, and norad dealing with an unconscious pilots in a private plane over the gulf of mexico. plane is continuing to circle above the water right now. the pilot is unresponsive. our report plane's windows appear to be biasediced over or fogged over. we will update you on that situation. >> and "time" magazine has list of 100 most influential people in the world. >> many of the names are jeremy lin, warren buffett, president obama, and a bethesda woman is on the same list. psychologist barbara van dahlen spoke with me about her group that provides free mental-health services to u.s. military members and their families. >> congratulations. >> it is humbling to be on that list of those people making such a difference in the world. initial reaction was this is a gift and i am a messenger and now i get to go o

martha: some shocking emails have surfaced in the case of susan powell.he says her husband josh changed dramatically from the man she married. in them she writes this. thanks for the input. just found out if i use the counseling services through my employer plan it cannot be reported or used against me. i don't know how you can help except talk with me and be another individual who would know about the individual if questioned. sad that i'm this paranoid. she said josh powell had become moody and controlling and had crazy beliefs. in february josh powell killed himself and his two young sons by blowing up their home and susan remains missing. bill: jose rodriguez retired from the cia, says the program provided valuable intelligence from high-profile detainees. >> president obama is entitled to his opinion. when president obama condemns the core action activities of a previous government, he is breaking the covenant that exists between intelligence officers who are at the pointy send of the spear hang way out there and the government that authorized them a

susan powell's parents speak out about the newly released evidence in the case of the missing mom.nd a surprise "today" show legend will return with a very special announcement. and now, keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

jamie: some brand new information for you this hour on the disappearance of utah mom susan powell. ishing e-mails from powell describing some very scary changes that she saw in her husband just days before her disappearance. our patti ann browne following this from our new york newsroom. patti ann, more than two years since she disappeared yet they're still on the case. that is interesting i think. >> reporter: yeah, jamie. this case far from over. susan powell disappeared from her home in utah in december of twine and she has never been found. many fingers pointed to her husband, josh. he will will recall, tragically killed his two kids and himself earlier this year in a dramatic house explosion in washington state. now for the first time we're seeing e-mails that susan sent t friend in the months before she vanished. the nine e-mails were sent between june and october of 2008. they were provided to the salt lake trib bruin later that year but not published until now. in one from july 2008 she says, i want him in counseling, on meds. i want my husband, friend, lover back. no more,

have been a lot more solid with the body. >> yep, that's seaweed. >> reporter: weeks after susan disappeared, powelloved with his children to washington state, where police there say they waited for the call to arrest him. >> there's direct evidence, motive, everything but the body. >> reporter: susan's body was never discovered and utah police never charged powell with murder. investigators have always defended the handling of their case and won't go into details about the latest developments. >> as dift as it may be at this time, i am not going to address any specific questions. >> reporter: the search warrants were released because josh powell's father faces separate charges in a case he's pled not guilty to. the documents became public late friday. another twist in the tragic story that's left two children dead as their mother remains missing. miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. >>> when "nbc nightly news" continues, scientists sound the alarm about our wild, extreme weather and what's in store for our future. >>> and later, the smallest town in america up for sale and wait until you see wha

josh powell has been the only person of interest in his wife's disappearance, but susan powell's fatherhe father-in-law, was involved in his daughter's disappearance. >>> now for a look at what is trending today. our quick roundup of what has you talking online. google and yahoo! are hot with speculation of a possible budding romance between kim kardashian and kanye west. they've been friends for years but have recently been spotted spending time together in public and kanye mentions kim in lyrics to a new song. so, kim is here, she's going to address all these rumors and a lot more coming up in a few minutes. >>> new jets quarterback tim tebow is already getting his hands and feet in shape for the new season. tmz has been good enough to release an exclusive picture that's raising some eyebrows. that's tebow getting a mani-pedi at a nail salon. >>> and this video is going viral. simple in concept. that dog stares as it's trying to unlock the secrets of the soul, with south park's cash for gold music playing underneath. the moral of the story, do not get in a staring contest with that do

this is a jeer before susan powell went missing. in february powell murdered his two stones and killed himself in a fire he set. police have searched for susan powell in two mind shafts. >>> well, a tugboat cap sideses. the crew was trying to lift something with a crane when they visceral -- vessel tipped over. the three crew were not injured. >>> police in gavin strength, texas, caught up with the dancing burglar. he was a sanitation thanks to this surveillance video. it shows him busting a move, so that speak, at the scene of a robbery. now students at a local high school identified the teacher. attorney. he was taken into custody. police had a sense of humor. >> we saw his moves and swag. we were dealing with a smooth criminal. the mother looked towards thesome, signature move, what is that that is my swag, momma. >> all right. charges are pending against the 16-year-old and two adults for taking fire extinguishers. no word on whether or not they used them. i know -- we cannot get through the story. they used it to put out the red