Associated Press - Boys Played Happily Before Fatal Visit - Granddad

By MIKE BAKER

The Associated Press

GRAHAM, Wash. The maternal grandmother and grandfather with Josh Powell's two sons said Monday that the boys performed luckily as well as decided not to want to check out their father should the time frame came up for their weekly Sunday visit.

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But Charles plus Judy Cox told KIRO-TV in which the particular grandmother written these people into a court-ordered, supervised baby custody pay a visit to utilizing papa your selection your woman at this point regrets.

When your traders have arrived at Powell's Washington express home, their mother barred some sort of public employee out of entering and subsequently torched the actual house. All a few died.

"Look exactly what happened," Judy Cox tearfully instructed your station. "But I suspected that they are thought to be able to view their particular dad."

Charles Cox explained your dog failed to think there was any more your court might have accomplished by law to guard their grandchildren, nevertheless he wanted at this time there acquired been.

"There ended up a great number of alert clues that I think were known, but owing to legitimate limits ended up can not always be acted upon," he said.

The Coxes opened up his or her home to be able to reports reporters Monday to supply a peek with the boys' life with them. Charlie, 7, plus Braden, 5, had been recently to control these given that previous fall, when your state taken away all of them from their dad's custody.

Josh Powell have always been an individual of great interest in his wife's disappearance from their property around West Valley City, Utah, a couple of years ago. He said he or she experienced considered this males over a midnight hiking visit inside blisterly temps any time your lady vanished.

Police who came to the property to consider the household determined a couple enthusiasts specific with a rainy identify with the actual floor, nevertheless simply no know of Susan. Her human body features never happen to be found, inspite of intensive is searching with Utah and also Nevada.

Powell maintained custody in the males since the scrutiny after him or her intensified over the years. He relocated to his or her mother Steve Powell's house inside Puyallup. Last fall, should the elder Powell ended up being in jail in a voyeurism and little one pornography case, this condition turned your traders more than on the Coxes.

On Monday, bodies extended sifting with the smoking cigarettes rubble in the dwelling looking for evidence, plus the health examiner's business office seemed to be lifetime determine source of death.

It continued to be blurry how a deaths may well impact the research directly into Susan's disappearance. The Pierce County Sheriff's Office thought out a great morning news conference.

On Sunday, the legal representative to get Susan Powell's mom and dad claimed they had started talking to their particular grandma and grandpa regarding things they loved on the nighttime their mother vanished.

"They were being starting point to be able to verbalize more," said law firm Steve Downing, whose customers experienced custody in the children. "The oldest boy described make gone camping knowning that mommy was in this trunk. Mom and my dad got out from the car or truck and also mom disappeared."

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Associated Press writer Martin Griffith contributed. Skoloff documented from Utah, Johnson from Seattle.

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February 06, 2012 04:41 PM EST