Powell was under investigation in the disappearance of his 28-year-old wife, Susan Powell, from their home in West Valley City, Utah, in December 2009. He claimed he had taken the boys on a midnight excursion in freezing

5, 2012, at the Washington home of Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah mother Susan Powell, killed an adult male and two children, officials say, just minutes after Josh Powell emailed his lawyer to say, "I'm sorry, goodbye," according to The

Just one day since the shocking Powell murder-suicide in Washington state, Susan Powell's best friend Kiirsi Hellewell shared her first reactions with Piers Morgan: "I just hoped it was an awful rumor. I hoped that it wasn't true," said Hellewell.

Powell was under investigation in the disappearance of his 28-year-old wife, Susan Powell, from their home in West Valley City, Utah, in December 2009. He claimed he had taken the boys on a midnight excursion in freezing

Kiirsi Hellewell, a friend of Susan Powell's, joined America's Newsroom to react to the apparent murder-suicide this weekend in which Powell's husband, Josh, the prime suspect in her disappearance, took his life and that of