He Took the Children Camping at Midnight. His Wife Was Never Seen Again.
On a freezing December night in two thousand nine, Josh Powell says he made an unusual decision.
Shortly after midnight, he woke his two young sons, put them into the family minivan and drove into Utah's remote West Desert to go camping.
His wife Susan stayed home.
By the following morning, Susan had vanished.
Inside the house, police found fans blowing across a recently cleaned area. Inside Josh's minivan, they found Susan's phone, turned off and missing its SIM card.
Josh's explanation was that he had gone camping.
The problem was not simply that the trip sounded strange.
It was that almost…
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