Would you take a 2-year-old camping at midnight in a blinding snowstorm?

​That was the alibi Josh Powell gave police when his wife, Susan Cox Powell, vanished from their home in West Valley City, Utah, in December 2009. He claimed he had no idea where she was because he had spontaneously decided to drive his young sons into the freezing West Desert to roast s'mores.

​But the evidence told a darker story. From a secret "If I die" letter hidden in a safety deposit box to a terrifying statement from their 4-year-old son about "where the crystals grow," every clue pointed to a carefully calculated murder.

​In this deep-dive episode of Crime Beneath the Pine, we unravel the timeline of one of the most heartbreaking mysteries in the Pacific Northwest.