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Blast kills husband of missing Utah woman, 2 boys

I've felt that so many times - I agree. But we can't keep falling back on the idea of a hell in order to make ourselves feel a little better about things that happen. We have to learn from our grotesque mistakes in our legal system and improve things so these same problems don't continue to happen time and again. Our law is broken and must be repaired lest more and more children continue to suffer at the hands of their already known to be ****ed up parents.

I agree, although in this case Susan Powell was also a victim not a perp. I doubt that was what you meant anyway. I have friends that knew her. They are devastated by this and says she was every bit the nice woman that she has been portrayed.
 
This is one of those rare instances when I truly wish hell existed. This man deserves eternal torture and pain for what he's done.

We certainly have common ground on this...
 
I agree, although in this case Susan Powell was also a victim not a perp. I doubt that was what you meant anyway. I have friends that knew her. They are devastated by this and says she was every bit the nice woman that she has been portrayed.

I was speaking more broadly - not just this case (and of course I didn't mean to imply that susan was a bad mother by pluralizing 'parents' - but you realize that) I was refering to a broader spectrum of different cases in which troubled parents were suspected - and law was semi-involved . . . but they still managed to bring harm to their children. Or - law had evidence but didn't take any action.
 
I was speaking more broadly - not just this case (and of course I didn't mean to imply that susan was a bad mother by pluralizing 'parents' - but you realize that) I was refering to a broader spectrum of different cases in which troubled parents were suspected - and law was semi-involved . . . but they still managed to bring harm to their children. Or - law had evidence but didn't take any action.


Just a few minutes ago I received word that an 11 year old boy named Braydon is cancer free after his bone marrow transplant (November). Freaking awesome news...why do I mention it?

His Mother went to High School with Susan Powell. One of Susan's late sons was named Brayden.

On one hand, in the same community, you have a Father throwing his son's lives away like yesterday's garbage...and on the other hand an entire family and community fighting tooth and nail to save a boy's life in the other...

The irony is painful.
 
This entire story makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. The state dropped the ball on this. He should never have had home visitation with these kids. He should have had to go to a neutral location, be searched, and then have visitation in full sight of at least two adults.

There isn't a name vile enough to describe this foul creature. He went after his children with axes, then set the house on fire while they were still alive. I cannot imagine the anguish the grandparents and other relatives of these children must be going through, knowing that the man who killed their loved one was left free to slaughter his children as well.

Repulsive. :(
 
Hah - he wishes that were the case.

he's a ****tard - good riddance . . . it's just so tragic he murdered his children. He couldn't have just killed himself, had to destroy them too?

That's what I don't understand either... why did he have to kill his kids? He already looked guilty, even more guilty now. But they are saying that the kids were talking about the night their mom disappeared, so maybe he just didn't want her body discovered?

This guy is sick and demented.
 
Oh, I'm pretty sure he's facing the eternal music now. But maybe not because Josh Powell was sick. I'm not making excuses for him--I mean, whatever his special brand of "disturbed," all he had to do was wait a couple of minutes, max, and then Boom! Instead, he took an axe to his babies' necks.

That makes him "sick" by definition, at least to me. So he offed his wife and his story was a middle-of-the-night "camping trip" with two little kids in the middle of a blizzard. And one of the kids was getting older and had already verbalized that mommy was in the trunk. So the jig was going to be up.

Still, his father's in jail for having kiddie porn. That didn't just start a couple of years ago. I doubt we'll ever know what Josh Powell grew up with. But there's a big clue in the kiddie porn and also his father's saying that his daughter-in-law came onto him. Real sickness here, whatever the details are.
 
I was speaking more broadly - not just this case (and of course I didn't mean to imply that susan was a bad mother by pluralizing 'parents' - but you realize that) I was refering to a broader spectrum of different cases in which troubled parents were suspected - and law was semi-involved . . . but they still managed to bring harm to their children. Or - law had evidence but didn't take any action.

First, though I am using your post, I am not directing this comment AT you, but using the post to make my point.

Our legal and social service systems are organized to minimize these kinds of events. For those that think government is too big and too intrusive, realize that our legal and social service systems are already understaffed (and overworked) such that they miss many things. If you believe we should cut their budgets further, then you must accept the fact the more crazies will slip through the cracks. Things like law enforcement and social services are usually the first things cut out of local budgets. They just will not be sufficiently resourced to do the job well. If you want to balance the budget, but are unwilling to raise taxes then don't feign outrage when government fails to protect....
 
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I read about this. I'm so glad he was able to meet is baby girl before he passed, but I'm so terribly sad that this little girl will never truly know her father.

But to think...how lucky she was to have a Father who loved her. And while she will grow up without him, she will surely know he loved her. Clearly those boys left this world without ever really knowing that love.

How sad and ironic...
 
Steve Powell had kiddie and incest porn on his computer, and it's now known that his son Josh did too. This was the reason the psychologist who had done Powell's eval changed his opinion and recommended a more "intense" eval. I think this is what prompted Powell to kill his little boys and himself--he knew he'd never regain custody.

From the Washington Post: "Many of the approximately 400 images described in documents released under Washington state public records laws Friday included sexual depictions of popular cartoons, including child-focused characters such as Rugrats, Dennis the Menace and SpongeBob SquarePants. Another 15 images showed 3-D depictions of sex involving parents and their children."

Josh Powell had some 400 images depicting sex of cartoon characters and graphic incest - The Washington Post
 
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