Someone has some explaining to do.

Authorities in Washington recently received files from the authorities in Utah concerning the 2009 investigation.

It turns out that Powell's blood was found in the family home during the initial investigation, and what appears to be a hand-written letter was found indicating that she and her husband had had marital issues for an extended period, such that there was the likely prospect of an "accident" taking place.

The folks in Washington now want to know why no one moved to arrest, or even detain, Josh Powell sooner, as this would have been sufficient evidence (at least under Washington state law) to justify a murder prosecution.

So yeah - this kinda supports the prospect that Josh was under external pressure to end his marriage by any means necessary and that he might just have decided to resolve the matter by eliminating his wife.

Wonder if the District Attorney for Pierce County, Washington would also have proceeded to trial against Richard Ricci  in connection with the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart.  Sounds like he is a man of action who would have proceeded to file charges and request an arraignment.  Not sure how the court system in Washington works, but I assume a speedy court date would have been set.

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There's a new report out concerning Steven Powell, Josh Powell's father.

It turns out that he called in sick for a two-day period the day after Susan went missing.

It also says that he's refusing to cooperate in the investigation, raising some questions as to just what he knows and isn't sharing.

Apr 5, 2012 -- 9:13PM, wohali wrote:

Did you also ask what kind of man Timothy McVeigh was, religiously?

You're still kinda new here, so I'll explain something to you.

To most critics of the church, if a Mormon is involved in something, it is automatically the fault of the entire church.

Hence Theo's whole "This wouldn't have happened if Susan wasn't Mormon!" rant a few posts back.

If anything, what we're looking at may well be an anti-Mormon hate crime, with either Steve Powell murdering his daughter-in-law in an effort to help "save" his son or Josh Powell whacking his wife to appease his anti-Mormon dad. I don't think Theo quite grasps that yet, hence his flailing so badly.

Apr 5, 2012 -- 9:37PM, Ironhold wrote:

Apr 5, 2012 -- 9:13PM, wohali wrote:

Did you also ask what kind of man Timothy McVeigh was, religiously?

You're still kinda new here, so I'll explain something to you.

To most critics of the church, if a Mormon is involved in something, it is automatically the fault of the entire church.

Your view of the world is as twisted as the one you accuse "critics of the church" of having.

You generalize, criticize and judge, but you have a thin skin.

The sad part is that you don't seem to realize it no matter how hard Svet, Keb and I have tried to burst that bubble you're living in.

You must be real lonely living among all those non LDS Christians. Based on your posts here you seem to think they're all about ready to lynch you.

You recently posted something about what you think mainline Christians ought to do about the Westboro Baptist Church. Its absurd to think that they represent mainline Christianity at all. Most of that "church" are family members of the "pastor" Fred Phelps. Also, the wackos that hand out tracts don't represent the majority of Christianity either. Most of us, Christian or otherwise, think that they're WACKOS.

You blame the whole of non LDS Christendom for the idiocy of those on the fringe, yet when one finds fault with the church you accuse them of hating every Mormon that ever existed.

I don't know why I even bother. This has been explained to you over and over, but you just don't seem to get it.