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  • SoCalCoug
    Ragnar Lodbrok Descendant
    • Nov 2008
    • 5214

    #136
    Originally posted by Non Sequitur View Post
    Great movie. William Hurt and Kathleen Turner (when she was hot). She gets William Hurt to murder her rich husband and is eventually burned up in a fire in her boat house. You find out, though, that it wasn't really her in the boat house, so she gets off free.
    I remember when Kathleen Turner was hot. Man, was she sexy.
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    • LA Ute
      Receiver of Memory
      • Nov 2008
      • 19512

      #137
      Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
      I thought when they said the social worker smelled gas, they meant natural gas. Turns out it was 10 gallons of gasoline.

      Why would one kill one's own kids by burning them up? How horrid and unimaginable.
      Now I am more heartsick than before.
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      • Green Monstah
        Royal Rooter
        • Aug 2010
        • 13918

        #138
        Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
        I thought when they said the social worker smelled gas, they meant natural gas. Turns out it was 10 gallons of gasoline.

        Why would one kill one's own kids by burning them up? How horrid and unimaginable.
        I had hoped that it was a natural gas explosion and that the boys wouldn't have felt a thing. This is horrifying.
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        • Non Sequitur
          Where did I put my bodkin
          • Nov 2008
          • 5773

          #139
          Originally posted by Green Monstah View Post
          I had hoped that it was a natural gas explosion and that the boys wouldn't have felt a thing. This is horrifying.
          I'm pretty sure they reported from the beginning that there was no explosion.
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          • Shaka
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2008
            • 10437

            #140
            I was under the impression that natural gas caused the explosion but that JP also made sure to also use gasoline as an accelerant.

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            • Viking
              Banned
              • Jun 2009
              • 6470

              #141
              I just saw this, allegedly written by Josh Powell: http://susanpowell.org/Home

              The link has nothing but ramblings of a very sick person. I had not followed this case before but after reading some of the blog posts, I have to wonder how the police couldn't get this guy to contradict himself several hundred times??

              The de facto allegations that she ran away with some guy from St. George are just nuts.

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              • LA Ute
                Receiver of Memory
                • Nov 2008
                • 19512

                #142
                Originally posted by Non Sequitur View Post
                I'm pretty sure they reported from the beginning that there was no explosion.
                The first reports called it a "powerful house explosion." Maybe that idea stuck.

                “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                ― W.H. Auden


                "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


                "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                • TripletDaddy
                  sweet triple
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 58186

                  #143
                  Details of premeditation.



                  Josh Powell, who is believed to have set off the explosive fire that killed him and his two young sons in Graham, Wash., began giving boxes of the boys' books and toys to Goodwill over the weekend -- an indication that he planned the deadly blaze, police said Monday.

                  In the first detailed hints of what preceded Sunday's fire, Pierce County Sheriff's Det. Ed Troyer also said that Powell sent a series of relatively detailed emails minutes before the conflagration to family members and his pastor.


                  In the communiques -- sent too late for anyone to avert the disaster -- Powell gave some hints of why he had made his decision and logistical details about what others should do afterward, including how to shut off the utilities at his rented house.
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                  • Colly Wolly
                    Junior Member
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 1824

                    #144
                    Fox News reporting the boys bodies had hatchet wounds.... yikes.

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                    • DU Ute
                      RIP CUF
                      • Dec 2008
                      • 7393

                      #145
                      Originally posted by Colly Wolly View Post
                      Fox News reporting the boys bodies had hatchet wounds.... yikes.
                      what a sick piece of shit
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                      • Color Me Badd Fan
                        Senior Member
                        • Jan 2009
                        • 12519

                        #146
                        Originally posted by Colly Wolly View Post
                        Fox News reporting the boys bodies had hatchet wounds.... yikes.
                        I've got to quit following this story. So awful. How could someone do that to anyone, let alone their own children?
                        Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”

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                        • The_Tick
                          Made something of myself
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 7266

                          #147
                          On a side note...Natural Gas is odorless. They put Mercaptan in it to make it have a scent. They do this so you know if you have a leak in your home. (When you are driving behind a tanker truck, that is the difference between "odorized" and "non-odorized")

                          A teaspoon of Mercap spilled on the ground can cause an evacuation of a neighborhood for up to a mile.

                          Trust me...

                          (This may be the one time that I have something industry related that I can share on here.)

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                          • TripletDaddy
                            sweet triple
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 58186

                            #148
                            Facebook is to blame?

                            Nathan Leach, a cousin of Josh Powell’s in Texas who was among those to receive communication from Powell minutes before the fire, defended his cousin on Monday, saying a cyberbullying campaign against Powell pushed him over the edge.

                            Leach on Monday contacted the Seattle division of the FBI with screen shots taken from the "Where is Susan Powell?" and "Friends and Family of Susan Powell" Facebook pages in recent months and asked the agency to investigate whether people were contacting Child Protective Services with bogus claims so Josh Powell’s children would be taken away from him.
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                            • DU Ute
                              RIP CUF
                              • Dec 2008
                              • 7393

                              #149
                              Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
                              Facebook is to blame?
                              Yeah, this is all I needed to read:

                              defended his cousin
                              Maybe he can sit in for Josh's scheduled psycho-sexual evaluation.
                              "In conclusion, let me give a shout-out to dirty sex. What a great thing it is" - Northwestcoug
                              "And you people wonder why you've had extermination orders issued against you." - landpoke
                              "Can't . . . let . . . foolish statements . . . by . . . BYU fans . . . go . . . unanswered . . . ." - LA Ute

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                              • Portland Ute
                                Junior Member
                                • Dec 2008
                                • 5647

                                #150
                                Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
                                Facebook is to blame?
                                What kind of sick fuck defends a sick fuck like Josh Powell?

                                I hope the community turns on the cousin.

                                End of rant.

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