TxLady2
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Pressure cooker anyone???? *sizzle*
West Valley Police Chief Thayle "Buzz" Nielsen admits he takes the case of missing mother Susan Cox Powell very personally.
"I promised (Chuck Cox) that we would do everything that is humanly possible, that we just wouldn't give it up," he said of his vow to Susan's father to resolve the case.
In a sit down interview with Nielsen in his office Tuesday, the chief used phrases like being "in the fourth quarter" and the "tipping point" when describing where the investigation into Susan's disappearance is now at.
"We're right here on the verge of this. We get through the evidence in that trailer, I'm greatly optimistic we will be ... oh man, all that hard work is paying off I think," he told the Deseret News.
Josh Powell also recently said in an interview that he would be willing to talk to the FBI but not to West Valley police.
In the coming days, Nielsen said his department plans to draft a letter personally inviting Josh Powell to sit down with the FBI and his department will take care of the expenses. :floorlaugh:
As for the "Monday morning armchair quarterbacks," Nielsen said he has told his investigators to mostly ignore them.
"They don't know that we've got more stuff than they can even imagine," the chief said.
When asked whether the public search of Ely was also meant to "shake the trees" of potential suspects to see how they'd react, Nielsen admitted that was a small part of their motives.
"Whatever we say here today, Josh will be reading tomorrow," he said.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=17426938
This article gives me great hope that this case is close to being solved and an arrest made. Nielson sounds like he knows what he's doing and intends to do it by the book and have no room for mistakes.
So glad the boys will be placed with the Coxes, I am hopeful it will turn out to be permanent. BUT... with them being so young, the grandparents' ages might be a factor. I don't know how old the Coxes are, maybe they're young enough that it won't impact the decision. But when people are close to sixty or so, some judges will hesitate to place very young children with them on a permanent basis.
Which brings me to another point. The boys were about 2 and 4 when their mother disappeared, right? I wonder how much they would be able to remember about that night, and if investigators would consider any of it valid. Even a 4 y.o.'s memories will fade with time, or become distorted by what a parent tells them. And a 2 y.o. would likely not remember much at all, so I doubt if questioning them at this point would net any real results. They have likely been told things that would no doubt cause their real memories to be erased, or at the least, altered to a degree. IOW, getting any useful information from them now would probably be impossible.