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The Josh Powell Case

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The Josh Powell case is a tragic one that tells the story of a clearly emotionally unstable man that reached the end of his rope and made a horrible decision. In 2009 the police were looking into Josh as a possible suspect in the missing of his wife Susan. Josh was never charged for the disappearance of Susan and was allowed to have full custody of his two sons following the investigation. Josh’s father Steven resided with him and his two boys and when he was arrested for possession of child pornography the boys were taken away from Josh to protect them. Josh was sent through a series of obstacles to regain custody of the boys including a polygraph test and a psychological exam, after which he was then only granted supervised visits. During one of their routine visits the case worker arrived to bring the children to Josh. At that time Josh took the boys and locked the case worker out of the home. After she smelled gasoline she called the police but they did not arrive in time and Josh set the home on fire killing himself and Braden and Charlie whom were 5 and 7 at the time of their …show more content…

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