Private Group Plans to Search Abandoned Mine For Susan Cox Powell

A private search team plans to re-examine an abandoned mine shaft in Utah’s West Desert over the next month.

The experts will focus on one mine where they believe it’s possible there could be bone fragments, clothing or jewelry linked to Susan. They will also search a few other nearby shafts.

The remote site is a few miles from where Susan's husband, Josh Powell said he took his two sons camping the night his wife vanished from their West Valley City home.

There was a tip received by the group about the spot in December from a man “who had a lot of information about West Desert mines” and the searches that took place there in 2010.

Susan Cox Powell was a young mother who disappeared 9 years ago. She was last seen on Dec. 6, 2009. No trace of her has ever been found. 

Her husband, Josh Powell said he left his wife at home that night when he took his young on a camping trip in the West Desert in freezing temperatures.

Josh denied any involvement in her disappearance and long suggested that Susan Powell ran away.

On Feb. 5, 2012, Josh Powell killed the boys and blew up the home with him and the boys inside.