COLD Episode 15: Josh Powell's Brother Speaks For First Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Towards the end of the Susan Powell investigation, police turned their attention to Josh's brother, Michael. Detectives were confused by Michael's involvement, especially after the immediate circumstances of Susan's disappearance. KSL's true-crime podcast COLD obtained video documentation of the police's involvement and questioning with Michael Powell.
I 100% believe that both the brother and the father were involved.
Powell family was involved in the disappearance of susan powell...& ...a life insurance policy was issued for the beneficiary Michael Powell!!
Alina too
@Grimm Reaper they say it could possible be her. There were other bones too.
@Grimm Reaper maybe!
@Grimm Reaper not confirmed as of yet
His suicide speaks VOLUMES....That powell family was MESSED UP....the dad having the hots for his daughter in law.....CREEPERS ALL OF THEM
The daughter is pretty levelheaded
Yup the daughter was no creep.
The oldest daughter is the sane one. The youngest was brainwashed completely and still supports her brothers and father, the monsters that they are
He wrote sexual stuff in his journal about his oldest daughter when she was 17 so why does daughter in law surprise you
At the end of everything did he get the 3 million.?
Police massively failed Susan Powell.
definitely failed . A earlier crime occurred in Utah and one of the detective said and I quote " there's a low rated crime in our district and we want to keep it that way" . they dont want to solved crime so they throw it in the cold case files .incompetent fools utah detectives
All authorities did!!!!!🙄🙄🙄🙄
The prosecutor is the 1 that said they couldn't arrest him Washington dshs is the biggest failure letting him have visits at home a direct violation of the judges orders because he made people at the center uncomfortable
AGREE!!!!
His eyes tell a different story than what he Is saying, as an army MI, we are taught the signs of lies and he exhibits them
He isnt smart, he just isnt saying anything and he looks completely like he is lying. Stone faced, expressionless. On the guilty questions, he says 1-4 words and then looks down. All of them totally weird.
The whole family of men here - are weird!
True and i agree
And the younger sister defends them! Out of that family, it seems the oldest sister is the only normal person.
Yvonne Charlton Not just weird but narcissistic, warped and sexually deranged!!
@@pamcollins1651 Absolutely Agree - of course!
Sexual Abuse damages every part of you including what you'll put up with. She's probably been a Victim herself and until she remembers it, she will continue to defend them. It's a Trauma Bond.
What a family is psychopaths, except for the sister who trued to get Josh to confess. The Powell men in the family were sick, cold, emotionless psychopaths. All of them complicit in murder, two died by suicide and the father (a pedophile) died in prison.
Even she is not to be trusted. For a while she blamed the children's death on the police and media. Saying they drove her brother mad and that's why he killed his children.
@@DrinkWhiskeyRaiseHell I agree their murders could have been prevented or handled more appropriately. Child protective services handled it terribly and the 911 operators were complete idiots.
@@DrinkWhiskeyRaiseHell That was Alina the youngest sister, the older sister Jennifer is the sane one who tried getting Josh to confess
@@DrinkWhiskeyRaiseHellThat was the fat one. I believe the youngest one. She pissed me off the entire interview until I had to realize, that’s her family and she’s in extreme denial. Also, that their behavior and family culture is normal to her.
How strange, he was definitely involved. He had some serious nervousness with his eyes going on. And the killing himself was the ultimate guilt in it all.
Yes.
Absolutely! That's why Michael commited suicide, he was involved and knew he could serve time for it.
I think Jeniffer murdered Susan and the brothers were covering up the crime for her. I think Susan thought Josh would crack so she blew him up and accidentally blew up the boys. She later murdered the last witness, Michael and made it look like an accident
@@eckankar7756 haha how silly can one be to just write anything. Did you even read about the case or say just about anything
@@eckankar7756 you are just as out of your mind as the Powell men.
It’s your brother and you haven’t talked about your wife’s or your brothers wife’s disappearance that’s not normal
The child drew a picture of three men, he is the 3rd
What happened
The whole fam is BEYOND CREEPY!
look up martin cabello listen to what he says
Evil
The whole Powell family are sickening, lying people!
Jennifer is not part of that family mess she’s tried her best an I take my hat off to her dealing with that bunch of horrible bunch of narcissist bastards
@MisGuided Me there's still the youngest daughter
He didn't need to ask his brother Josh anything, because he already knew.
Jennifer is the only one in that family that turned out OK. I wish the boys would have been spared and placed with her and her husband. Such a tragic story.
Yes!! I like Jennifer!!
Even she is not to be trusted. For a while she blamed the children's death on the police and media. Saying they drove her brother mad and that's why he killed his children.
I wonder. Maybe Jennifer murdered her sister in law, her brothers were covering up for her. Her brother was about to break and the boys spill what they knew so Jennifer put a bomb in the house and killed the three of them. Did she murder Michael and make it look like suicide?
No they should have stayed w grandparents
He took the boys’ lives because he and his father had been harming the boys in the most unspeakable ways you can imagine. Think pictures, videos, and actions done to them and posted to the internet to share with their fellow “types.” Josh and his father weren’t just stalkers and killers, they were attracted to the most innocent human beings there are if you catch my drift. It was all on the computers.
Definitely an evil family who have a lot to hide!!
What kind of family did Susan got married into?
He killed himself because he knew and the guilt was to much
The cops were closing in on him. Thats why. Not because he was remorseful
As an Int. guy, Michael would know it was important to remove the battery of his cell phone and not use it whilst scoping out a mine shaft and disposing of a body. Michaels car breaking down in Bakers City, suggests he may have disposed of the body somewhere near.
How such a breathtakingly beautiful, young lady got embroiled with that bunch of mindless, knuckle draggers beggars all belief.
Their religious congregation!
It happens. When I'm out with my bf I get some very quizzical looks from people. It's not how someone looks that matters, it's much deeper than that.
I wouldn’t go that far. Breathtaking? Sorry to say this but there was screws loose in her as well. She stayed with all of these issues going on. She was also raised in a cult. Yes. Mormons & religious orgs are all cults in my eyes. Just bc she’s dead, and people do this quite often, doesn’t mean she was perfect. I’ve read, listened to, watched almost everything about this case. It was a case study we did for college. Her husband was creepy- she still wanted to be with him. Her father in law was creepy yet she stayed with her hubs who defended him. She and Josh took money from their church bc of their quacky decision. People who are raised in those cults use religion to overlook everything that’s F’d up & she did that as well.
She really was so pretty. 💔
All males of this family were sick and the legacy was started by the dad
To the sister that doesn't want Josh to be held responsible. Your brother apparently was didn't have a heart...he was poisoned by your sick father...I was in verbally abusive marriage for 21 years...your brother killed his own children. Wow
I love my sibling I understand that blood. But you shouldn't try to justify why he killed his boys..
He looked down and averted his eyes after every question and almost appeared to want to cry at times. Plus he committed suicide! I'd be surprised if he didn't help Josh dispose of the body...
He knew what they were looking for. If you're lying you look a certain direction. He had skill and knew how to move. Every move is calculated. What about the the other sister and brother?
just watchin
@@justwatching5617 yeah his eyes were darting all over yet he kept his head fairly still. Looked like someone very experienced at hiding their emotions.
The cadaver dog hit on the trunk of the car he sold the salvage yard
@kelly Mitchell. Did joshes brother Michael commit suicide too???
"My brother Josh, blew himself up, and his two kids"
Martin
These Powell men, Steven, Josh and Michael are very dangerous for sure
WERE= Josh & Michael
Man, I haven’t seen that much cold stonewalling since the Houck brothers in Bardstown, Kentucky. He was pathologically cold in every answer.
Well he was involved. He knew they were about to bust him.
Coward. Did the world a favor by getting rid of himself like Josh. Terrible 3 innocent people had to pay the price.
True true and I agree
He thought. They had, had the car for some time. Nothing in it. They had it tested. I just don't get this. They have to be overlooking something. All the phone calls all the emails, there's got to be something
@C R that's the fight Apple has with the people that did the shooting in San Bernadino. They are still refusing to unlock their phones
@@justwatching5617 I heard the car trunk had a decomposed body smell in it when they put cadaver dogs on it. Was this just a rumor? Why did he want sat images of the junkyard if the car had nothing to do with Susan’s disappearance?
If anyone looked suspect it’s him and now he’s dead👀🤨
Jack Epapara , yes, water boarding would have been a great help!
He definitely was involved some way, shape, or form, there's no way he wasn't for 3 reasons, he was adamant about getting that satellite imagery of the wrecking yard where the car was, his eyes kept wavering and was very careful and selective in his interview, and he killed himself amidst all of this, I guarantee the father of these sons had knowledge of these things to right along with both sons.
The little 4yr old son said john didn't say where he took his mommy. See? Kids don't miss anything.
Who’s John?
I’m just now looking further into this!!
What a family crazy people and all dead father and two sons something wasn't right in that family
look up martin cabello
Looks like any other goofy TH-cam type. What does he have to do with something so serious ?
@@lorimiller4301 he knew him and talks about it a lot
@@OceanGrownYT oh ok thanks for letting me know I'm going to check it out. 🙂
This case is so heartbreaking 💔 TBH..I wouldn't be surprised if his dad assaulted him and Josh when they were young🥺My thoughts and prayers are with Susan's family🕊🙏💜
When I first saw this documentary on t.v. I was convinced that the father molested Josh especially,when he was a kid
Definitely :((((((
I’m 100% sure he did something to his sons when they were kids !!!
Sick people breed more sick people. The family were all royally screwed up
Bar none the creepiest family ever.
I only learned of this case yesterday . Father in law Steve must have taught his sons well . Shame the pressure got to the boys . Hope there is closer for Susan's family soon .
i also learnt about this case very recently and decided to dig deeper. i found out theres a crew who only a week or two ago dug out a mineshaft that had gotten burnt and collapsed on purpose the same time Susan went missing. they found pieces of bone and clothing and they have been sent to forensics to test for DNA. this is probably the strongest evidence ever found and if it turns out to be hers we will know what happned. i also watched an interview with one of the children the from the day she went missing and he said that "she had stayed where the crystals are". Josh also stated at a dinner party that the way he would hide a body would be to throw them into an old mineshaft and collapse it. it all ties together and i think the case is getting solved within 30 days of this point, i atleast hope it does.
I hope there is closure also.
Every person in that thumbnail is dead...incredible.
Alina and her brother are still alive. They need to he charged with obstruction
Ikr! I thought I was the only one who noticed. Very eerie
The brother seems so involved, I think they are, how sad they did not take a polygraph test and that car really had something to do of her disappearance. Disposing it away so far too much suspicion already and checking if it's was already destroyed. It's so frustrating like you are almost there to find out but it's still end up nothing.
I think the dad was hitting on Susan increasingly crossing appropriate physical and moral boundaries. When they moved to Utah she couldn't keep quiet anymore and insisted Josh cut off ties with his dad to protect her. This created an ultimatum in Josh's mind and he chose his scumbag dad over his wife. Michael's suicide...well you can fill in the blanks concerning that.
Very good and well thought out post !! I’ve watched and kept up with this case since the day it started. I think about all three of those morons have been removed from the earth. The worst part was those children and sadly questions that will never be fully answered. Creepy dad that I believe happened now most likely very close to the that you have surmised . I think creepy dad crossed a line with Susan and he was afraid that she was going to tell Josh or that she may even go to the authorities with. I think that Josh choose his creepy dad over his wife and children. You’ve certainly given me a different angle to think about it.
Great podcast. Very professional. I listened to 3-4 hours in one day it was so compelling
Wow. Even the brother killed himself (in 2013). I am finding more and more short videos about this case.
Wish it was all put together in the correct order in a documentary. These poor families. Both sides must be horrified. 😢
Theres a book called If I Can't Have You. I just finished reading it. Unfortunately it only goes up to 2014 but not much new has been discovered since.
@@conniebauer4128 amazing book. Very scary.
I just watched a 2 part mini series on HLN network, "How it Really Happened"
Check out Stephanie Harlowe. She did a video on this case and she’s extremely thorough.
So was it Michael that killed himself?
What blows my mind is that Michael was such a crotch that he didn’t throw out a lifeline to his sister-in-law’s parents by telling them where her body is in a suicide note....everybody knew he was involved, his suicide only confirmed that, so it’s just horrid that he didn’t reveal where her remains could be found by the people who loved her most....her parents. What a depraved family of male psychopaths, with only sister Jennifer possessing a heart of gold!
Jennifer is the white sheep of the family.
The body was probably badly abused to conceal it. A man that hatchets his infant sons to death...
He committed suicide, possibly couldn't handle what he knew.
My opinion.
They probably had this planned and learned a way to communicate. On the phone for hours.. as adult men? Even though they're brothers, adult men have their own lives and wont spend hours on the phone unless they're working on something. Men are not like women. They dont babble on and on. And if they do, it's at a bar. But certainly not over the phone. He definitely felt terrible. I'm sure they didnt plan for the boys to die and he more than likely felt a big part in their deaths.
@@bobbigarcia882 they were tied together with their sicko father by their interest in kiddy porn. Found on their computers.
Maybe he was just as guilty as the sicko dad and brother.
@My Own Private Idaho
Yea Michael killed himself about a year after. Probably didnt think it would turn to his brother and nephews dying as well. How sad. Imagine what he was going through for that year. Probably couldn't sleep.
My opinion also.
Eyes shifting everywhere!
Wait! What?! He killed himself too 😮 They are all GUILTY!! This is one of the most macabre stories ever, its almost as if its fiction.
Everyone in that photo are dead now
Yes and is so bad
So sad that every person in the thumbnail is dead... I wish Susan and the kids were still alive.
Bet the reason that Michael got rid of the car is because he moved a body in it and guessed they would check his car. It's possible that he killed someone else and used his car and it had nothing to do with Susan.
I was thinking the same thing....the detection of a decomposing body could've belong to someone else.
Their sister Jennifer Graves is the only decent one in that whole family!!! Rest in Heaven to Susan and their 2 babies. 😭🙏
Jennifer was the only one in the family that was against her dad Steve and her brother Josh.
Whose corpse had been in Michael’s car? I don’t believe it was Susan, unless the two brothers moved her from the original site.
It was Susan's. DNA degrades and it had been 21 months...almost 2 years. If there was no root attached to her hair they could not get DNA off of it. The bodily fluid or skin sample was way past its prime. Let michaels actions speak for themselves. Right after he found out he was a suspect in the disappearance of Susan, he jumps off a 7 story building. That is an INSANE way to commit suicide
Just tell her family where her body is so they can have some peace😓😓
They are all dead as far as I know.
My heart goes out to her family
You also will face the real Judgement of all!!
Body language, body language, body language. Guilty, guilty, guilty!
Test the car for the missing reporter!
Yes!!! Wish they would have! I think you are on to something!
What missing reporter??
I agree
One must wonder whose body was in that car if the cadaver dogs alerted! Perhaps Susan is not the first person to "disappear" at the hands of these men.
He killed her where the planes are. Mom told him she was to stay at the park they visited b4. She was going for the a while.
With a child, sleeping there is a way to tell children it will be for a day or more. He shot her. Where the planes flew over head. That's when he shot her. You can't here anything while the planes are taking off. She explained this to them because she knew she was being killed and wouldn't be going back with them. Where he took the body after that was camping with them. That late at night, the child gets confused very easy. Giving him many things to keep his mind confused and dad then can guide him as to what he wants him to believe. And not make sense to the cops. He was being groomed for that night all along.
Thank you
These Powell men are beyond creepy 😳 I cried my eyes out the day Charlie and Brayden were murdered. Those poor innocent souls.
That family is completely is evil, only the sister seems honest…
I doubt John did not know about this creep dad and I wouldn't be surprised if his dad convince him to allow him to act like that. The men in that family are twisted.
What a emotionless brother.
There is only one human who knew where Susan was and we will never know. If he remains to breath, I’ll not be able to rest mindfully. Guess what? Boogeyman is not under the bed anymore. They walk among us every day. The system failed this poor family and it’s unforgivable
This must be a much older video released two years ago because there's no way he believes his brother is innocent after murdering his two children by chopping them up and setting them on fire. I mean...only a VERY ill man can do something so HORRIFIC.
he never chopped the kids up, once the child care woman brought them back to his house he locked her out and blew the house up.
@@Narque you don't know the whole story then. He went after them with a hatchet before they died to make sure no one could put out the fire and rescue them. The man was sick.
@@Narque he used a hatchet and chopped the boys in the heads and in the back of the necks
Of course it broke down, it's a Taurus! 🤣
I live out here where it all happened and went to the funeral of the two young boys. The father Steve Powell recently died in a hospital. This is truly an evil family.
Michael knew something and couldn’t bare the guilt anymore.
Alina is the only living person who knows what happened and possibly where Susan’s remains are located and could help put this case to rest. But it may also incriminate her and regardless or not her lips are sealed and her heart is as black as all the others in her family (sans Jennifer, the good sister). Sadly, she will probably go to the grave with her secret
There is a TH-cam channel that thinks they found Susan's remains in an abandoned mine shaft. Look up HeavyDSparks channel.
@@offhandacoustic I watched that. The remains weren't Susan's but they have another lead they will be checking out shortly. Hopefully they find her ❤
His eyes softened when asked if she was alive or not as if he knew the real answer and felt bad. Odd family especially the men.
Whatever Michael I don't trust him at all...this guy is in it too. Evil family
His brother is the BENEFICIARY?!
The most important aspect of this horror story is that Powell was, of course, extremely religious. Of course, he was. Only the insanity of religion could allow someone to think he had divine permission to burn his house down with his kids inside. Someone saying he's religious is a massive red flag, no matter what issue may be at hand. Religious people should be the first suspect in this sort of horror story. Amen.
How can one family be so screwed up?
It was totally SUSANS DNA IN THE CAR. However it degraded over 2 years
I was working as a mobile technician in a skilled labor trade in the exact area of Josh Powell's house where he committed his murder suicide and was actually unable to get to the address of my work order due to police tape it was that close to where the crime scene was. House was still smoldering, when I heard on the news what it was I had no idea that Josh Powell was even in my county and I thought he was in Utah or something.
My theory is josh killed susan with that pile driver that apparently was missing from his collection. He struck her with it, wrapped her body in the blanket police found in his storage unit which had her blood on it.
He drove out there to the springs to dump her body.
But he had trouble getting that done.
In that some 17 hours in the rental car with accounts unknown he called Michael and begged him to help him get rid of her. I'm sure Michael was reluctant to do it but went anyway because well its josh and apparently Michael was always cleaning up his brothers messes all his life.
If you look at their history. Michael had moved away from all of them to go into the service. His future was set before John dragged him back into his crap.
Not excusing him for being his accomplice just stating his fact.
Michael wanted to get away from his sick family. He might have had that chance like Jenny. He was in a masters program in Chicago so far away from Seattle and his sick family.
His future was bright before all this sick 💩💩💩💩💩💩
Then josh calls in a panic I killed my wife etc and Michael drops his whole life to go
Clean up joshs boo boo 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Susan is stuffed into Michael car and God only knows where they dumped her.
Michael trashes his car at Lindells thinking his involvement will be scrapped. Then police get the tip and seize the car and sent dogs go right to the trunk but there no dna to collect. But hey you can figure it out.
Now Michael is trapped cannot go back to his life because josh is falling apart being hounded by police so Michael moves in to the family home and is sucked back into insanity support his brother as always.
Yes I do believe as the police started to figure it all out and Michael couldn't live with his shame. As a military man he went fir that code death before dishonor and did a swan dive off the parking garage. His guilt and disgrace drove him to it.
At one point he might have had a chance to be free of the sick powel secrets but them josh pulled him back into that orbit with no place to go but down.😢🤢🤯💩☠️
He also committed suicide as soon as they find out he was involved
How did the sister make it out that family?
All her brothers dad are nasty pedophiles.
Smh 🤦🏽♀️
The sister the one with her sister in laws family that was normal and tried to find her and right for the kids safety and well-being.
Well shut I hope sue normal and ain't faking it.
Did you ever discuss her disappearance?
No.
Then 2 seconds later.....he said he wasn't involved.
So you _did_ discuss it!!
I hope they crack Josh’s hard drive(s) and can find where Susan is.
She talks about never being able to break him...his eye movements spoke volumes...is she blind? I reached this conclusion before I found out the details of the case...as convoluted as they are...If she had pressed him hard on his involuntary movements during that disposition then maybe she would have gotten somewhere
The attorneys should have anticipated his skill in interrogation. I have fifteen years in the private intelligence sector and the tactics used by local state and federal agencies would have been easily seen by Michael. But it’s for naught because obviously he couldn’t live with himself in the end.
michael debriefed Josh before and after his interrogation. he was in the military
How horrible to have a brother who kills.
Life insurance shouldn't be paid out for people who are missing or murdered. Sure would prevent some deaths.
On all the other videos I've commented that I believe her body is in battle mountain up on your way to Pendleton, omg
She was so beautiful.
Far too beautiful Josh.
It's such a shame.
She deserved real love.
Watch Michael's head when he's being truthful in answering no. His answer no matches his head body language. Now, when asked if he had a hand in Susan's death, then watch his head. It doesn't move.
*you added a couple unnecessary spaces between asked and if. There should only be one, grammar goob. 🥴😉
What a creepy family!
LDS syndrome
of course he'll stick up for his brother .....just as much a coward as josh was......he knows what went down
Life insurance is very bad idea 👎 for some people
So who ended up getting the money?
The money should have been given to Susan’s family and a percentage to Josh’s sister, who did a lot to help catch the killer brother and psycho father.
Thank you very much for giving me this thumbs up you are a very nice person
What a horrific man Steve Powell was😱😱😱 It's hard to believe how unfiltered he is. He has no filter. Imagine Josh and Michael chilhood 😱 Poor Susan and the kids
yep michaels mom said she was finding hardcore p0rn mags in michaels room when he was 8 years old. Steve had them all over the house
All of those Powell kids, except the one sister are screwed up because of one man. Steve Powell
This true Crime Case is interesting, fascinating, chilling, weird, creepy, sad and more it has all the factors that keep you gripped to it I just want to know what they did with her body, it seems the only way to track it down since their phones were off would be cameras on the road or gas station cameras or I'm sure they already went through his bank card purchases at the time, which just leaves cameras and that's a needle in a haystack. After seeing this her dead body had to be in that car, and he then killed himself fearing he was the only one left and they were still looking.
Look up HeavyDSparks here on TH-cam. They think they found her remains in an abandoned mine shaft.
@@offhandacoustic There was an update I saw earlier today. They weren't Susan's bones. They have another lead they will be checking out.
All of them were involved! Why would they commit suicide? Answer = murder & they didn't want to be held accountable for it.
Boy, the males in this family are a real treat!
I bet he believes it now!
He s dead he killed himself
I know Heavy D found some interesting evidence in the bottom of a mine. Some very strange things to find.
The husband did it and he definitely knew something.
Maybe he was in on it too. He should have been arrested too.😮
Then He is PART of THATS crime
Very strange case...
Guilty was all over Josh's face since day one
SO THIS IS WHY SUSANS LITTLE BOY SAID . "MICHAEL KNOWS" ... when asked if he knew where Susan was.....OMG!
this 💩 .... KNEW EVERYTHING
Didnt Charlie say “John knows” several times? Never heard him say Michael’s name
I agree
@@raerae6422 yes they probably told him to say that
@@raerae6422 Charlie said John knew that's Josh's other brother he did not mention Michael.