So Stephen and Josh Powell now publicly suggest that Susan ran off with Steven Koecher, abandoning her children in the process?
I read SP's 9 page letter to the FBI (via link from Josh's site), my favorite part was where he suggested that SK has avoided recognition by wearing a hat. Seriously.
Goodness me, he goes into great and tedious detail about how Susan and SK could have travelled to Brazil in various ways, and how Susan had use of the Powells' minivan on many days (contrary to what everyone else tells us).
In order for Susan to go off with SK, she apparently hid out in a safehouse for several days until he could come and pick her up. The safe house would of course have to be a neighbor or known associate.
SP ties himself into knots trying to propose possible scenarios where his dear Josh is the victim, a cuckolded and unsuspecting husband who has been abandoned. Susan, apparently, had been cooking up her plan for ages, and waiting for the ideal time to light the fuse. Thew ideal time, according to the Powells, was the early hours of a Sunday morning during a snowstorm.
Ahem. If Susan wished to abscond, with or without her children, she could simply have driven off in the van on a day when she had just dropped Josh off at work. She could have emptied the Powell bank account (since she allegedly had the debit card). She could have met SK (if that were her plan) anywhere they chose, and driven on in either of their vehicles to a departure point for Brazil. They could have abandoned the unwanted vehicle in a place where it wouldn't be spotted for weeks (e.g. a 24-hour WalMart parking lot), rather than a quiet cul-de-sac where it got attention immediately.
SP makes a poor conspiracy theorist, but then he has had to start with a lot of difficult-to-explain-away material. When all else fails, Josh's behavior is explained away as "just being Josh".
raying:
