
When he reemerged on the afternoon of Dec. Investigators do not know where Powell was during those 18 hours. Josh Powell did not pick up the van until the following evening, after he put 807 miles on a rental car in the space of 18 hours. The stops are coming to light for the first time through an analysis of data from the GPS tracking device conducted by KSL’s “Cold” podcast.ĭetectives obtained court approval to mount the GPS tracker to the Powell family’s 2005 Chrysler Town & Country on Dec. There are also no indications that the locations were searched by police. However, there are no mentions of the Idaho stops in the more than 800 pages of reports prepared by detectives during the search for Susan Powell. West Valley police were monitoring Josh Powell’s movements with a GPS tracking device hidden on his minivan. Susan Powell has never been located and is believed to have been murdered. She had last been seen less than two weeks earlier, on Dec. The first stop lasted 10 minutes, the second only five.Īt the time, Powell was the primary suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Susan Powell. They were separated by 7 miles and came seven minutes apart. on a dark stretch of freeway between Burley and Twin Falls. The stops occurred just before and just after 2 a.m. TWIN FALLS, Idaho - Josh Powell made two unexplained stops along westbound I-84 in southern Idaho during a drive between his Utah home in West Valley City and South Hill, Washington, on Dec. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information.

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