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Earlier to setting a deadly fire Sunday at his Puyallup, Washington, home, Josh Powell was the only bodily identified by law enforcement authorities in West Valley City, Utah, as someone they were investigating in the disappearance of his helpmate, Susan Cox-Powell.
According to a search warrant request by Tunnel into County, Washington, Sheriff's Detective Ryan Salmon, last Sunday "several people began employment 911 saying they had received e-mails from Joshua Powell, tattling them goodbye, that he could not live without his kids, and to take care of several things related to his finances."
Before authorities arrived, Powell is accused of snatching his unfledged sons from a social worker who was delivering them for a supervised visit, locking the door, hacking the kids with a hatchet and starting an precarious fire in the home.
The search warrant request noted that the medical examiner's department found "sharp impact wounds ... on the back of the head of the two children," that a hatchet was recovered mean their bodies, and that "accelerant was apparently used on the bodies.
Source: CNN