Posted on 12/22/2009 10:44:18 AM PST by sodpoodle
The husband of a missing Utah woman rented a car two days after his wife was reported to have disappeared, logging hundreds of miles on the vehicle as police try to determine where he traveled, the Deseret News reported.
Police in West Valley City, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, say that Joshua Powell — a person of interest in his wife's disappearance — rented the car for 24 hours while police had his minivan in custody to process it for evidence.
Police are now looking into where Powell drove during that 24-hour period because the car lacked a GPS tracking device but had "several hundred" extra miles on it when he returned it to the rental car company, the Deseret News reported.
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No GPS....Doesn’t mean they haven’t been following him. His stofry was ridiculous from the beginning. I’m sure they got him...they just want some physical evidence to tie it all up...just like Scott Peterson....and his going fishing on Christmas....uh huh....
hey you;)
I agree - they probably had him on radar - but they need her body before they do anything pre-emptive.
This is so much like Drew Peterson getting rid of Stacy.
Guiltier than sin
The police botched this by not tailing him after they impounded his car.
You are absolutely right. Even though his claims to have left the house near midnight on a sunday night and taken his young sons camping in the freezing cold to subsist on smores, while forgetting that he had to work the next day, and not checking in with his wife once, he is presumed to be innocent and we owe it to him to throw all sense and reason out the window to make sure he gets his due.
too bad she was in the trunk....
http://www.fox13now.com/videobeta/?watchId=9752073a-2fc2-4321-90a3-fdaf9bed499d
video from Utah Fox Station
Have a Merry Christmas and Great New Year/Sac
yep. I enjoy driving, it helps me to clear my head. I enjoy it even more when the car is a rental (particularly a nice one) and I'm not putting the miles on my own wheels. "Several Hundred" miles (200? 900? doesn't say...) doesn't take long to drive on an interstate.
After having his wife disappear, this guy may have had more than his share to think about.
Not defending the guy, per se. Just sayin' that there may be a legit reason for his actions. Cops are right to look at what he was doing, wrong to convict him based on these actions alone....
Back atchyah;)
Take care and give joy.
sod
p.s. here we are again - with our superior instincts and intuition - miles ahead of the professionals.
Forget about HealthCare. Whoopee, a wife murder to get excited about. He’s guilty. I knew it from day one.
don’t leave town.
***Forget about HealthCare.***
Murder and politics.
Crimes which we can only observe and analyze, after the fact, and over which we have no influence.
Feeling helpless?
Me too!
Perhaps he was worried that he didn’t hide the body well enough? I hope they are able to find out where he went and search the area!
He does not seem to be the type to have a girlfriend stashed away. From everything that has been reported so far - he was a controlling husband. He probably had a raging explosion sometime on Sunday afternoon - with just enough time to come up with the wild camping alibi and has been sticking with it.
As you suggested, he may have felt compelled to go back to wherever he left the body to make sure it is still hidden. Still controlling!!!!
I have a strong suspicion about this guy, but there isn’t much evidence there right now. I’m keeping an open mind on this one.
I have ridden horses on the part of the Pony Express Trail that this husband claims he took his two very young kids for camping in the middle of the might.
From where he lives, he would have had to traverse Lookout Pass, go past Simpson Springs Pony Station remains campground, just south of Dugway Proving Grounds, continue up and over Dugway Pass to get to Fish Springs Wildlife Preserve Area, just east of Callao, Utah.
The road is barely defined in the middle of summer, and while I have been over it 4 or 5 times since 1987, on a horse or crewing for another rider, I would never tackle it in winter, when a layer of snow- WHICH WAS PRESENT ON THAT WEKEND- would have obscured the roadway even more so. It is about 50 miles from Fairfield to Simpson Springs, and about 40 more to Fish Springs.
Quite a distance on a gravel road covered with snow, and not well delineated, in the middle of the night, with 2 young kids which you are “taking camping”.
I think he went out into that area ahead of time, and dug a hole for her body- when she was still alive. Then he drugged the kids- even a dose of bourbon would do the trick- and killed his wife and took her out and buried her and covered her up.
It is very remote, and if he left the body on the top of the ground, the buzzards would lead authorities to her remains. They are very easy to spot when they are circling.
This guy is guilty as hell, IMO, and I have pictures from the last time I rode across that road- July of 2001. It is beautiful, open land, with a rich history of the Pony Express and the Overland Stage Company.
From your vivid description of the place - I would bet he probably didn’t go to that area at all - he may have been there in the past and since his excuse to the children was “we are going camping” he substituted the area from previous trips.
I suspect on the night she “disappeared” he drove far & fast, in a panic, to a more accessible & less “wild” area and that is probably the same route he traveled in the rental car...to check on his work.
Liars always put a “bit of the truth” in their concocted alibis. I hope LE is as observant as you - especially the vulture activity.
guessing she was on the trip in the rented car also
in the trunk
dead
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