Emily Simpson
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And we're going to get into that a little bit more as we go through this.
Now we're going to go in order.
Yeah, but now let's go back and let's just go through this timeline.
So in April of 2001, Susan and Josh are married.
So Susan and Josh were both members of the LDS church.
And I was also thinking what also seems to be a reoccurring theme is that a lot of people within the Mormon community or the LDS church keep coming up in our podcast.
So we talked about our last episode just on regular Legally Brunette was Elizabeth Smart, which was an LDS family.
And actually, Elizabeth Smart's father, Ed, became very close with the Powell family.
Not the Powell family, the Cox family.
Not the Powell family, the Cox family.
And who's the Cox family?
That's Susan Cox Powell's family.
Father, mother, he became close with them because she had disappeared.
So the parents of the wife that was killed became friendly and friends with the Smart family.
Well, with the father, Ed Smart, right.
Yeah.
So Susan and Josh were both members of the LDS Church.
They met at a church function for single adults.
They were engaged just a couple months after meeting, and they got married back in 2001 when Susan was only 19 years old and Josh was 25 years old.
Okay, first of all, let me say...