Josh Powell’s Sister: Josh Was Protecting His Sons When He Murdered Them

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/02/josh-powell-s-sister-josh-was-protecting-his-sons-when-he-murdered-them

ust days after killing his sons in a vicious hellfire explosion, Josh Powell’s sister is still denying that he had anything to do with his wife’s disappearance, and said he was trying to “protect” the little boys.

In a shocking interview, Alina Powell defends her brother’s murderous actions, during which he took a hatchet and chopped at both Charles, 7, and Braden, 5, before setting the house on fire and killing them all.

“I think he must have just felt that there was only one way left to protect his sons from the pain from all the emotional and physical pain that they’ve been experiencing,” Alina told Good Morning America on Thursday.

The reporter pushed Alina, and said “But he didn’t protect them, he killed them,” and Alina responded, “I wish it had been differently.”

[rfranklin]

1. Yes, he should be awarded a good parenting prize...

What is this woman smoking?

[teddy51]

5. The cousins yesterday came out with a similar line of crap. Josh Powell was nuts, why

can't they face the facts?

[woodsprite]

18. I've seen Josh and the dad doing interviews.

With what his sister and the cousins said, I'd say crazy was a familial trait.

[teddy51]

2. Talk about your crazy! I suspect that he murdered his wife as well as his son's.

The guy was out to lunch big time and how anyone can say he was protecting the son's by killing them is just as nuts.

[lpbk2713]

3. O - kay

I have to wonder if she has ever worked in the campaign for any rethuglican candidate?


Curious minds want to know.

[Lint Head]

4. Yeah. Chopping a childs head off is so protective.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. Boy she changed her tune. Before she felt he had something to do with his wife disappearance.

Maybe he has another sister. I don't know. But he supposedly were close. He was a murder. If I were her I'd keep quiet. There is no justification for what he did.

[Common Sense Party]

10. There is another sister, Jennifer, who is convinced Josh is evil

and murdered Susan. The rest of the Powell clan has turned against Jennifer, for daring to say anything bad about sweet lil' Joshie.

[southernyankeebelle]

11. Well I new there was one of the daughters. I am willing to bet her dad abused her.

She knows exactly what is wrong in that family.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I will have to ask the real obvious question here

Is she also suffering from deep depression, and what is the family history regarding this?

[southernyankeebelle]

12. I have a feeling this woman is pushing her feelings deep down and won't face it. She knows

that there was something wrong with her dad and her brother. If those boys had continued living with his dad and their grandfather no telling how they would have turned out. As it was since the children were awarded to their mothers side of the family they were coming out of their shell and that was dangerous for the father. In his eyes he had to do something. He was so selffish he had to kill his boys because he just couldn't give the kids to her parents. How very sad.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. I was making a deeper point

and that has to do with mental health issues and how they are usually ignored.

I am willing to bet that if they do a forensic psychiatric investigation they will find a history of mental illness that was never adressed...

Sorry, deep in that reading right now. Well right now deep in an article... photos next Oh and for those who clutch pearls, not to be posted here. Their loss, it was a beautiful event.

[southernyankeebelle]

21. Yes your point is very well taken.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Shock and denial from a sister...understandable given the circumstances.

I question why an entertainment outlet deems it necessary to publish this - what socially redeeming value does it add to the understanding of what happened? It seems like this is reality tragedy porn masquerading as news.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Most news is based on sensationalism, it seems. They have succeeded in making

tragedies like this into entertainment.

Sick, sick, sick.

[KharmaTrain]

15. Sadly...Cause It Sells...

The gory details are what our corporate media can't get enough of and have no scruples in publicizing it for their own financial gain. There's no downside...there's a huge market for tabloid "journalism" that pulls in big ratings and this is what drives the exploitation of what were once private family situations into national soap operas. As the adage goes..."if it bleeds, it leads..."

[peace frog]

9. Tragedy meets grief and denial

Sad, sad, sad. All the way round.

[cthulu2016]

14. Ugh. Why didn't he take her and leave the kids?

[surfdog]

16. If that crazy witch has any kids

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They should be taken right now before she tries to protect them herself

[SaintPete]

17. If that was his crazy justification

then why not give the kids some sleeping pills, so they die painlessly and without fear?

No. The monster chopped those little boys down, then exploded their remains.

Imagine the fear and pain he caused those boys in their last moments...

Fuck him, and fuck her.

[MicaelS]

19. Powell sounds like a Family Annihilator

Inside the Minds of Family Annihilators

Annihilators are overwhelmingly male (95 percent, he estimates), and mostly white and middle-aged. They feel inadequate as men and have often suffered childhood abuse. Having felt powerless as kids, many try to exert strict control over their households and seek to create an idealized version of family that they never experienced. When the economy is in decline, jobs are scarce, tensions are high, and the control these men seek becomes harder to maintain.

According to Websdale, these men fall along a continuum between what he calls "livid coercive" killers and "civil reputable" ones. The former are driven by rage: they are controlling and sometimes abusive figures who derive self-worth from the authority they exert at home. But that behavior typically plunges the marriage into crisis, often prompting the wife and children to try to leave. The resulting lack of control triggers feelings of humiliation, eventually leading the father to reassert his power in a final paroxysm of violence.

The "civil reputable" killer, on the other hand, is motivated by a perverse form of altruism. "His entire identity is in his family," says Richard Gelles, dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and an authority on domestic violence. The father is almost always considering suicide as the only escape from some sort of financial crisis. Murdering his family members, then, becomes a way of rescuing them from the hardship and shame of bankruptcy and suicide. "There is no other solution but the one you find today," wrote Russell Gilman, a Scottsdale attorney who murdered his wife and two kids after the family finances fell apart, in a note he left behind. (Economic duress can also play a role in rage killings, though it's not usually the main trigger.)

This narcissistic sense of chivalry is evident in the way many of these perpetrators execute their victims. The professional wrestler Chris Benoit, who murdered his wife and son and then hanged himself in 2007, is believed to have sedated the boy before strangling him.