Emily Simpson
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It's unsolved.
And two, because we lived in Utah at the time that this took place.
We did.
So Shane and I were married back in 2009.
And we lived in Utah together.
And this case takes place in 2009 in Utah.
So when Shane and I were living in Utah together, we were actually following this case in real time on the news every night, where Susan Powell, she disappeared.
And we're going to go through this case because the layers in this case are
The players, all the people involved, the tragedy of it just within this family and case is just, it's unreal.
So anyway, all right, let's go through it.
Well, we know he did it.
We know he did it.
We know he did it.
But it was never really legally charged or anything.
So anyway, we'll get through it.
So Susan Cox Powell was a Utah mother of two, and she disappeared, this is back in December of 2009, under suspicious circumstances.
Shortly after she vanished, her husband Josh Powell was named a person of interest, but was never charged in her disappearance, and her body to this day has still never been found.
In February of 2012, during a court-ordered supervised visit, Josh...
killed his two young sons before taking his own life and a house explosion.
The case later led to a wrongful death lawsuit against Washington's child welfare agency with Susan's parents arguing that the state failed to protect the children.