Powell Family Tragedy: A Timeline of Events

How horrible! I just can't understand how someone could do that to their own kids. Killing yourself is one thing but killing your kids because you can't deal with your own problems is just cowardly.

Disgust pure and utter disgust that something like this could happen.

"Father-in-law - daughter-in-law flirting with each other, maybe some sexual touching or whatever," ?????!!!! EEEEEWWWWWWW!!

The husband/dad seemed pretty messed up, but with THIS guy as HIS father? No surprise.

A tragedy all around.

Nothing to say but what a horrible, horrible fate to these innocent boys and their mom. Godspeed.

WHAT A SICK FAMILY ON THE FATHER'S SIDE----how sad..........................................................

What a sonofabytch.

WOW! What happened to divorce and shared custody. Now its murder then, murder-suicide. I have had more problems than him, I never once thought of killing myself, exes, or especially my kids. Problems don't last forever and then the kids grow up. What a coward and a jerk.

Too bad the father of that murdering thug wasn't in the house when it went up in flames. Those two guys, Powell and his useless father, are going to find out what fire is REALLY like where they are going to end up. I hope the two of you burn for an eternity.

The fact that he essentially committed suicide shows his probable guilt and not wanting to take a polygraph test would of shown he was guilty of murdering his wife! Who in their right mind would take 2 very small children on a camping trip at midnight in a blizzard??? Answer: Someone who was trying to have an alibi because he committed murder!!!....

The visiting should have been done somewhere other than the father's home. In one article, it said the one child told the grandparents that "mommy was in the trunk", when they went camping. Either Josh killed her, or Steven killed her, and Josh disposed of the body.

Steven Powell knows what happened. My question is how he feels about protecting his son now? How about charging him, Steven, with aiding a criminal act to start? How could any father let this happen to their son and grandsons!!!

Seems to me that this guy should have already been locked up...they put people away for less...maybe this tragedy would have been avoided.

This tragic, we most likely will never know what really went here, seeing all the witnesses are now dead.

I am sick to my stomach- how awful!! What a evil, selfish monster!!

What a horrible, evil coward. He could have killed himself and left those boys alone. I heard a report on the news this morning that they had started talking about the night their mom vanished, he must have been scared of what they would say.

CPS, the court, and the police department are as much at fault for these deaths as the cowardly, evil Josh Powell!!! They had every opportunity to protect these babies and they FAILED!

The Dude ACTED in a really GUILTY manner! ;)-~

His actions and those of his father, surely showed his guilt!!! Condolences to the Cox family for the sadness and sorrow they now face! :(

Very sad and tragic. The father was obviously a very disturbed lunatic. My condolences and sympathy to the surviving family. The system should have never allowed those poor kids to be with their nuthead father.

He killed her and the father buried her, she probably found out the the two of them were pedophiles and peeping Toms.. OR.... He found out his father was interested in his wife and through a jealous rage, killed her. The boys were old enough to start talking about mommy and he just had to shut them up..Rest in Peace little Angels, mommy is waiting for you.