the country, the case of susan powell. i was like, this can t be real. and he professed to love them. could it have been prevented? he exploded the house. as you listen to it now, what does it do to you? it s excruciating. the 9-1-1 dispatcher shares his story about that day. i wish i had recognized the urgency of the situation. also, the startling details of a plot unfolding. nobody knew what was going on. and a father s unraveling. he just saw that there was no way out. intimate emails from susan herself. the young mother s private fears in her own words. it s the genuine belief of a good many people that you killed her. her husband speaks a final eerie interview. i love my sons more than anything. i put them first. i put my family first. hello and welcome to dateline. the details are heartbreaking with the disappearance of a young mom and what befell her two little boys. you will hear from her loved ones searching for answers and justice,
this is dateline. i just dropped off the children and he wouldn t let me in the door. it was horrible. we re normal people in the person you re dealing with is a psychopath. it s a story that haunted the country, the case of susan powell. i was like, this can t be real. and he professed to love them. could it have been prevented? he exploded the house. as you listen to it now what does it do to you? it s excruciating. the 9-1-1 dispatcher shares his story about that. i wish i had recognized the urgency of the situation. also, the startling details of a plot unfolding. nobody knew it was going on. and a father s unraveling. he just saw that there was no way out. intimate emails from susan herself. the young mother s private fears in her own words. it s the genuine belief of a good many people that you killed her. her husband speaks of final eerie interview. i love my son s more than anything. i put them first. i put my family first. hello
this, this is just a couple and their kids. they are off, they are adults, they will be fine. then in the late afternoon, josh suddenly showed up with the boys, without susan. and i remember the feeling i had at that time which was what? which is josh has done something. josh told a story no one could believe, that the previous night, sunday, he decided to take the boys camping left around midnight, blew off work drove almost 100 miles. slept in the family vans in temperatures well below freezing, and drove back home to find susan go on. he said he had no idea what happened to her. when he came up with that story about going camping i just said no, i got a sick feeling, no, this is not good. and yet they did what they felt like they thought they should do, they rallied around
hi, ma am calling yes, he exploded the house. do you know if anyone is in the house? yes, there was a man and two children. i just dropped off the children and he wouldn t let me in the door. you will hear an exclusive interview with the man who took that call and who has been criticized for not getting help immediately. you find yourself vilified really, what was that like? well, it is awful. part of the problem is like most people, i think, i was aware of josh powell s story. but i didn t associate his name with the story. we will retrace josh powell s last steps, mysterious trips to gas station, a storage locker where police said they found a quilt with blood on it, and the bank where the surveillance photo he has the look of a man unglued. nobody knew it was going on,
that that story, or those stories rather, as told by your dad are accurate, and the stories told by jennifer graves and susan s friends, that susan was horrified by this and wanted to get the heck away from this as much as she could, that those stories are lies? that is right. so, on that night in december 2009, when you went out to the desert with the kids to go camping, what happened to susan? i think that susan simply left. simply left? i mean, midnight, 1:00 in the morning, just i ve had enough, i m out of here? was she angry those days? no. was she distressed? no. did she continue to assert that she loved you? yes.