The Susan Powell Case Files | Scouring the Desert | 7
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Josh Powell told a group of his wife's friends and coworkers a year before she disappeared that if he were ever to commit murder, he'd dispose of the body by dropping it down an abandoned mine. That and other clues led West Valley City police to launch an exhaustive search abandoned mines in Utah's West Desert, beginning just days after Susan Powell's disappearance. They kept that effort secret, even as frustrated volunteers launched their own searches for Susan's body across the Great Basin. Now, the full story of the secret mine search comes to light for the first time.
For the past three years, investigative reporter Dave Cawley has been studying thousands of police documents, journals, videos and diary entries. He has tracked down new sources, followed new leads and traced Josh Powell's trail from West Valley City, Utah, through Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and on to Washington State, where Powell killed himself and his two sons. Cold is the most complete retelling of the Susan Powell story ever. Join Dave Cawley in his search for truth.
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My thought is maybe he didn’t end up putting her body in a mine because it was too difficult to get her body in one. Maybe he feared for his own safety, since he was such a narcissist. Josh sounded like somebody who thought he knew everything but when acting on it, things don’t work out as well as he envisioned. If he strained his shoulder, trying to drag her to a mine, he probably didn’t anticipate that thought beforehand. Maybe he ended up burying her somewhere with the shovel that was in the van.  or ended up disposing of her body in a different way .