Cold

By KSL Podcasts | Wondery

Society & Culture

What's Cold about?

Susan Powell vanished on Dec. 7, 2009. Her body has never been found. From the beginning, West Valley City, Utah police suspected Susan's husband, Josh Powell, had murdered her. They never arrested him. COLD dives deep into the case files, uncovering never-before-heard details. You'll learn why Susan stayed with an abusive husband, why Josh did what he did and how the justice system failed Susan and her two boys.

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03.03.2021

A persistent theory surfaced in the days immediately after Susan Powell disappeared: perhaps Josh Powell had hidden her body in Nutty Putty Cave. The narrow passage on the fringe of Utah's West Desert had been the site of a high-profile ...

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03.03.2021 Bonus episode 3: Nutty Putty Cave A persistent theory surfaced in the days immediately after Susan Powell disappeared: perhaps Josh Powell had hidden her body in Nutty Putty Cave. The narrow passage on the fringe of Utah's West Desert had been the site of a high-profile ...
03.03.2021 Bonus episode 2: Marshal Misdirection West Valley City police did not act alone in their investigation of Susan Powell's disappearance. This bonus episode of Cold, first released in 2019 on the Wondery+ subscription service, focuses on the work of U.S. Marshal Derryl Spencer. He played ...
03.03.2021 Bonus episode 1: Anatomy of an Audio Journal Josh Powell's audio journals provide unique insight into his mindset during a formative time of his life: the period when he first met and married Susan Cox. Josh's secret audio diaries had never been heard before by anyone but police ...
09.16.2020 Bonus: Justice Delayed Secret police wiretap records in the Susan Powell case come to light for the first time, even as Susan Powell's parents fight for change in the state of Washington. This bonus episode takes you behind closed doors, into the private ...
12.11.2019 Bonus Episode 8: Project Sunlight Cold returns at the 10-year anniversary of Susan Powell's disappearance with new episodes focused on previously undiscovered evidence in the case. For this episode, Dave Cawley dives into the digital evidence gathered by police during their investigation. Digital forensics experts ...
12.04.2019 Bonus Episode 5: Car Crash Con Cold returns at the 10-year anniversary of Susan Powell's disappearance with new episodes focused on previously undiscovered evidence in the case. For this episode, we hear from three people who were involved in car crashes with Josh Powell. In each ...
11.27.2019 Bonus Episode 4: Dumpster Drops Cold returns at the 10-year anniversary of Susan Powell's disappearance with new episodes focused on previously undiscovered evidence in the case. For this episode, we examine data from a GPS tracker that police hid on her husband Josh Powell's minivan ...
03.13.2019 Ep. 18: Angel of Hope Nearly 10 years have elapsed since Susan Powell's disappearance. Her body has still not been found. The investigation remains a cold case. In recent years, Susan's friends and family have focused their effort on sharing the story as a cautionary ...
03.06.2019 Ep. 17: Cold Case West Valley City police made one final push before declaring the Susan Powell case cold in 2013, interrogating Josh Powell's uncle Maurice Leach in Oregon. Meanwhile, Susan's family fought for change, both in the courts and at the Washington statehouse. ...
02.27.2019 Ep. 16: Chasing Leads A jailhouse informant calling himself "Cowboy" provided police with a promising tip early in the search for Susan Powell. He said Josh Powell had spent time with an elusive stripper named Summer. Find Summer, find Susan. Detectives launched an all-out ...
02.20.2019 Ep. 15: Fall of the House of Powell After the deaths of Josh, Charlie and Braden, West Valley police refocused their investigation on Josh Powell's youngest brother. The mercurial Michael Powell made a play for Josh and Susan Powell's life insurance, ending up entangled in an interpleader lawsuit. ...
02.13.2019 Ep. 14: Killing Susan's Sons Josh Powell carries out his final act, killing his sons Charlie and Braden by setting fire to his rented home in Graham, Wash. during a court-authorized visit. In the wake of the fire, Susan Powell's family and friends find comfort ...
02.06.2019 Ep. 13: 4theKidzz Josh Powell went to court in Washington in a bid to get his sons, Charlie and Braden, returned to him. West Valley City police warned the social workers they'd found incestuous cartoon pornography on Josh's computer. After reviewing those images, ...
01.30.2019 Ep. 12: Topaz Mountain With the wiretap winding down, West Valley police returned to Utah's West Desert with cadaver dogs. They found what at first appeared to be a grave site, but soon discovered it held no sign of Susan. Meantime, digging of a ...
01.23.2019 Ep. 11: Operation Tsunami West Valley City police were running out of options. Every traditional approach to the Susan Powell case had failed. So, during the summer of 2011, detectives began brainstorming plans for a major, multi-state operation code-named Tsunami. It all hinged on ...
01.16.2019 Ep. 10: Charlie Josh and Susan Powell's oldest son, Charlie, started to open up about his missing mommy in 2010 as he attended the Mel Korum YMCA and started kindergarten at Carson Elementary School. Charlie's comments about killing bears and Mormons raised alarm ...
01.09.2019 Ep. 9: The Light of Seattle Steve Powell sang to the FBI just months into the search for his missing daughter-in-law Susan Powell. Agents tried to warn him that his son, Josh Powell, was likely a murderer and could kill again. Steve's bizarre views came under ...
01.02.2019 Ep. 8: Wearing a Wire Josh Powell abandoned his home on Sarah Circle less than two weeks after the disappearance of his wife, Susan. He retreated to Puyallup, Washington and the home of his father, Steve Powell. On both ends of the move, he called ...
12.26.2018 Ep. 7: Scouring the Desert Josh Powell told a group of his wife's friends and coworkers a year before she disappeared that if he were ever to commit murder, he'd dispose of the body by dropping it down an abandoned mine. That and other clues ...
12.19.2018 Ep. 6: Josh in the Wind Josh Powell went off the grid for 18 hours after avoiding arrest on Dec. 8, 2009. He popped up the next afternoon in Tremonton, Utah. Police soon learned he'd put 807 miles on a rental car. The news media learned ...
12.12.2018 Ep. 5: 10 Minutes The criminal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance kicked into high gear on Dec. 8, 2009. Josh Powell frantically cleaned his house and minivan before meeting detective Ellis Maxwell for a tense second interview. In secret warrants, West Valley City police ...
12.05.2018 Ep. 4: Find Susan Josh and Susan Powell's daycare provider, Debbie Caldwell, sounded an alarm when the couple's boys, Charlie and Braden Powell, failed to arrive at her home on the morning of Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. West Valley City police detective Ellis Maxwell ...
11.28.2018 Ep. 3: Faith and Finances Susan Powell feared for her life. She braced for divorce as her marriage to Josh Powell reached its lowest point in 2008, but worried how he would react. She even wrote a secret last will and testament that said, "If ...
11.21.2018 Ep. 2: Wake Up, Little Susie Susan Cox married Josh Powell after only 6 months of courtship. She immediately found herself under the lens of her father-in-law Steven Powell's video camera. The camcorder even captured Steve's confession of love for his daughter-in-law Susan Powell in July ...
11.14.2018 Ep. 1: To All the Girls I've Loved Before Josh Powell believed in his own greatness from at least age 5. So why wouldn't any girls date him? Why did his only other serious girlfriend before Susan Cox run away in fear? Perhaps because he inherited some of his ...
11.08.2018 Prelude Susan Powell vanished from her home in West Valley City, Utah on a cold December day in 2009. Her husband, Josh Powell had taken the couple's two sons out camping in a blizzard. He claimed to have no idea where ...

Cold

What's Cold about?

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Cold episodes:

Bonus episode 3: Nutty Putty Cave

Bonus episode 2: Marshal Misdirection

Bonus episode 1: Anatomy of an Audio Journal

Bonus: Justice Delayed

Bonus Episode 8: Project Sunlight

Bonus Episode 5: Car Crash Con

Bonus Episode 4: Dumpster Drops

Ep. 18: Angel of Hope

Ep. 17: Cold Case

Ep. 16: Chasing Leads

Ep. 15: Fall of the House of Powell

Ep. 14: Killing Susan's Sons

Ep. 13: 4theKidzz

Ep. 12: Topaz Mountain

Ep. 11: Operation Tsunami

Ep. 10: Charlie

Ep. 9: The Light of Seattle

Ep. 8: Wearing a Wire

Ep. 7: Scouring the Desert

Ep. 6: Josh in the Wind

Ep. 5: 10 Minutes

Ep. 4: Find Susan

Ep. 3: Faith and Finances

Ep. 2: Wake Up, Little Susie

Ep. 1: To All the Girls I've Loved Before

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