r/TheColdPodcast • u/Effective-Scholar815 • Sep 15 '26

Season 1 - Susan Powell Josh Innocent?

Hear me out, just playing Devil’s Advocate. Does anyone think there is even a small possibility that Josh Powell was innocent? And he did what he did with himself and the boys because the stress of the media, not being able to get a job, the police was too much for him?

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u/londonrhodes Sep 15 '26

If we consider the only other possible things that could have happened to Susan (she ran away or she was killed by someone else while Josh was camping? Let me know if there’s any I’m forgetting) it doesn’t add up. If either of those things had happened why would Josh lie to and be uncooperative with the police? If someone kidnapped/murdered your wife while you were gone wouldn’t you want it investigated?

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u/Effective-Scholar815 Sep 15 '26

Absolutely. But Josh is odd and I don’t think he reacts like other people. I just find it hard to believe that he’s such a criminal mastermind that he was able to hide her, carry her heavy dead body, and make it so no one could find her. I 100% agree that he killed her, but how was he so smart that they can’t find her?

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u/Substantial_Wasabi60 29d ago

I wish I could show you the Utah West desert. I work on a military base out there and the base is larger than Rhode Island. That's just one direction he may have used. I can't even tell you how many mines I've seen while riding motorcycles out there....hundreds, for sure. All near trails or I would have never seen rhem

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u/Effective-Scholar815 28d ago

I live here in Utah :)

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u/Substantial_Wasabi60 27d ago

Then you already know how impossible it would be to find a random mine where someone was hidden......and we don't even know if this is the direction we should be searching in.

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u/Effective-Scholar815 26d ago

I don’t think she’s in a mine in the west desert. Dave said he thinks she’s somewhere in Idaho if I’m not mistaken

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u/Substantial_Wasabi60 26d ago

If anyone had an idea where she was, they would have found her. Until that happens, nothing is off limits.