Josh Powell’s Final Words: ‘I’m Sorry To Everyone I’ve Hurt. Goodbye’

Posted on Feb 07, 2012 @ 04:00PM

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By Neil Woulfe - Radar Senior News Director

Josh Powell left behind a haunting voicemail for his family just 20 minutes before attacking his two young sons with a hatchet and torching his home in Graham, Washington on Sunday afternoon.

In the short voicemail -- exclusively obtained overnight by ABC News -- Powell pointed to his boys, Braden 5, and Charles,7, for the reason behind his heartbreaking act that left all three dead.

"Hello this is Josh. I’m calling to say goodbye. I am not able to live without my sons, and I'm not able to go on anymore. I'm sorry to everyone I've hurt. Goodbye," Powell said in the voicemail.

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As RadarOnline.com has previously reported, Powell had long been considered a “person of interest” in the disappearance of his wife Susan, who vanished in December, 2009 while Powell claimed he was away on a spur-of-the-moment overnight camping trip with his sons.

As a caseworker pounded on Powell’s front door Sunday, authorities say he rounded up the boys in a room behind the family’s garage, where he ignited two 5-lb cans of gasoline and then attacked the boys with a hatchet in an apparent attempt to kill them.

In the end, Powell and both boys died of smoke inhalation, Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office investigator Melissa Baker said Monday night. However, Baker added that the boys suffered "chop injuries" that contributed to their deaths -- Charles was struck on his neck and Braden had injuries to both his head and neck.

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Authorities say they believe Powell felt threatened by the boys starting to remember details of their mother’s disappearance, including a drawing made by one of the boys showing his mother in the trunk of the family’s car.

On Good Morning America Tuesday, Susan Powell’s parents remembered their two young grandsons, who stayed with them.

“They were very happy…kept safe.,,and they were enjoying their time with us and were becoming more and more loving,” Chuck Cox said.

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Susan’s parents also said the boys once told them that the last time they saw Susan “mommy was on a camping trip.”

Susan’s parents said when they would question the boys about it, they would go into a “rehearsed” response that they didn’t remember.

Detectives have said the tragedy was a planned attack and that in the days before the tragedy, Powell donated his son’s books and clothes to charity.

He also transferred the money from his bank account to someone else’s account, according to ABC News.

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Sick-ass family!!! what KIND of CHILDHOOD did this Josh have?? his father is rotting in jail on child-porn charges!!

by the pale rider
Posted Wed, 02/08/2012 - 1:19am

This makes me so angry, I want to scream! Why wasn't more done to protect these two beautiful innocent little boys from this monster? Where's the accountability in allowing this "POI" the opportunity to commit this heinous crime.

by Eva
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 9:03pm

He was the kind of man who thought of his wife and kids as proporties not he woudn't let them live or leave him
without his total control. People like him do this. This isn't the first time, remeber Lacy and Conner?

by Meadow
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 7:10pm

This is the kind of man who see his children as belongings, not human beings. He thought of his wife this way.
She was probably going to leave him and he wouldn't let her. Bless thoese sweet boys. I hope he suffers in hell.

by Meadow
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 7:05pm

The braindead judge that allowed this home visit needs to be fired. Or thrown in a fire. Grrr. Too bad Josh didn't take Casey Anthony with him.

by snowberries
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 6:00pm

That monster will burn for eternity.

by psychomama
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 5:58pm

This whole story makes my skin crawl. How could anyone do something like this to their own flesh and blood??? And with a hatchet. Oh dear Lord ...Something about this guy when this story first appeared skeeved me.

by smilingwidley
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 5:15pm

what is WRONG WITH FAMILY COURT? That visit should have been in A SECURE GUARDED LOCATION - you can never tell what a man who killed his wife will do? FAMILY COURT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE!

by realitybaby
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 5:13pm

I say a lynch mob forms like the old days and goes after any family members of his that are sympathizing with him or trying to shift the blame somewhere else. Since we can't kill him just light those people on fire.

by ProfessorChaos
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 4:43pm

Josh was probably violated by his father. His son's were in danger being near these evil men. Why else was he ordered to undergo a physosexual evaluation. He killed his wife period. What is this world coming too.

by waterlover
Posted Tue, 02/07/2012 - 4:16pm