Comments about ‘Worker: Josh Powell told son he had 'surprise'’

Do we really need to keep putting out a new story every day with yet even MORE gruesome details about how this disgusting excuse for a human murdered his two innocent children?

Oh my word. He is really wicked. I am even more mad after reading this.

Little by little...more horrifying information is found out about Josh Powell. When will it end? What a wondeful father he was to his two boys to lure them into the house by saying there was a surprise waiting for them only to meet their death in a horrible and gruesome fashion.

I agree, Sanpaco...but I still open the stories and read them! Then I wish I hadn't...

The real 'surprise' will come at a later time for Josh by another judge. The more I read of Powell, the more sickening I get & feel.

Breaks my heart, every time a new story comes out. I wish Josh's dad would fess up about where the body is. Then Susan could be buried next to her beautiful boys.

Yeah- the surprise was that they were going to be with their mom in a few moments-- loathsome, despicable, evil, selfish, vile excuse of a human being

That comment made by Josh s just pure evil. If we didn't hate him before, we do now.

I send my condolences to Chuck and Judy Cox as well as the Graves family. I send sympethetic thoughts and hope the best for you during this horrible time.
As for the rest of the Powell family who are having a field day blaming everyone else for Josh's actions, I will say this. Nobody held a gun or strapped an improvised explosive device to Josh's behind and compelled him to do what he did. his actions were his and only his choice alone. Spare us the denial and deal with the dysfunctional issues in your family before you make bigger fools out of yourselves.

There are times which english, or any other language spoken on earth are not enough. Words spoken to the f-th-r by one who is better to judge than I will be just words. [Just as in justice] I hope ^^^^ is allowed as I just can not bring myself to add the "a" and "e".

He wasn't lying he did have a surprise for them, they were going to get to see their mother for the first time in several years.

Josh got the big surprise, he wasn't going to be seeing their mom with them. He is all by himself and more miserable now then before this horrific act. And I honestly think it will only get worse for him, not better.

Ir would have been better if Josh Powell had never been born.

Am I the only one who thinks the 8 minute delay from the 911 dispatcher did make a huge difference? My wife called the police due to a suspicious van near my house and they responded in exactly 90 seconds from the time we hung up the phone here in midvale. Seems to me that it"s pretty presumptious on the part of the authorities to assume that an 8 minute delay in response wouldn't have changed the outcome.

All the first dispatcher heard was a social worker complaining that a parent was not allowing her to supervise a court ordered supervised visit. I found her to be incredibly clear and calm.

Every call is an emergency and they are first come first serve or go through triage.

They wouldn't have started shooting with the boys in the house and Josh wasn't negotiating their release if someone had gotten there. All that would have happened is a few officers would have been taken down. Or maybe if the police shot up the place there would be conspiracy theories they triggered the fire what with all the accelerant already down, their acting too hastily?

I wonder if it is appropriate for the social worker to be going to the press, this early in the investigation.

I believe that both the reaction time on the law enforcement arrive at the scene and the child procetion service, need to have some overhauling done to it to prevent an horriable result, such as lost of life to children don't happen again. The child procetion service should condut supervised visites at their office and not at the parent's home, that way the person supervising the visit can't be locked out of the home. When calls are made to 911 were where gas is smelled and a person that is handing the supervised visit is locked out of the home should take a higher spot and needs to be handled very swiftly, to procect the children. My heart and prays goes out to both families for their lost of the loves ones, and also the caseworker that will have to live with the witnessing of the lost of life when she could do nothing but standby after making the call.

"Griffin-Hall said Charlie and Braden loved being with their father.
"One of them said what he wanted to do was go home and live with his daddy," she told ABC, adding that the boys would "light up" during visits with Josh Powell."

I am glad to see this report from the social worker. All we have seen in the past is Susan Powell's parents lying about how the boys never wanted to see their father. I'm happy to see that during their visits they were joyful visits. I think with the lies that the Cox family was spreading about the relationship between these boys and their father that, unfortunately, the boys are in a much better place now, although the route they had to take to get there is horrific. Those boys would have likely been the victims of family members lying to them and about them thru their entire childhood, which is no way to have to grow up.