At the below link is a video for a statement from Josh Powell via King5 tv Seattle.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=16858047
For anyone who cannot watch the video... or cannot stomach watching this fine upstanding young man... :innocent:
Interview is in a grassy area with the sounds of children playing in the background....
Josh: It's frankly the best news I've heard in 2 years almost.
Reporter: Did the police contact you at all... or was it just...
Josh: Nope, nope, just the media.
Reporter: Is that odd?
Josh: *laughs* No, it's not odd for the police to not contact me. They don't contact me. They don't make attempts to contact me.
Reporter: Do you try to contact them?
Josh: We've learned through experience that
they say what they want to say and that's all they say.. and it's usually a lot of nothing.
Reporter: What has this... what has the last year and half, almost two years been like for Josh Powell?
Josh: Well... I mean
it has been hard. You know. It's a hard two years.
It's been lonely you know. :boohoo:
I mean, you know, Susan is my wife. I will always love her.
There's a lot of relationships that are destroyed
because of the way people have behaved over the last two years.
And............. it really just changes things.
Reporter: Can I ask how the boys are doing?
Josh: Yeah, They're doing phenomenally well. They're happy, they're smiling, they're laughing, they're giggling.
They're boys. They you know, they're loving life as boys.
Josh: It's hard on them, I mean they're, you know again it comes down to people's behavior toward... toward our family.
It has the deepest impact on my sons. Something that has been acknowledged by some of the people responsible.
And unfortunately....... but luckily though, the entire community, schools, organizations, multiple churches...
I mean there's a lot of people who have been extremely, extremely supportive of me, of my sons, of our entire family.
Josh: And you know... It doesn't make up for what other people are trying to put us through...
but you know it's... it's a good commentary on humanity. :waitasec:
Reporter: Part of the stress on you these last couple years has to be not just your wife not being there... but as you talked about, being the target, the focus, I don't know what you want to call it. But there are people that think you had something to do with it.
Josh: Well luckily, the police have a credible lead.
I can't say that...
I can't say that doesn't cross my mind, that this will be vindication as well.
But mostly I tend to think about my sons...you know it's 100% about them.
Josh: Secondarily it's about Susan... to be quite honest and you know that's the way she wants it... I guarantee it.
Reporter: I asked you earlier about this and
you told me I could go with this earlier.
The whole thing with the camping trip... that's one thing that people remember.... can you tell me what.... you know....
*Josh shakes his head*
Reporter: you don't want to talk about that?
Reporter: Okay... um do you....
Josh: I think that...
I think that I've said a little too much. :giggle:
Reporter: Already...
Reporter: You got the point across that you camp all the time with these boys, anytime of the year, anytime of the night and I just...
Josh: I'm not the one to talk about it, it's not relevant coming from me. :waitasec:
Josh: And I don't... can you turn off....
:liar: The END. :waiting:
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