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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 Powells sister is still denying that he had anything to do with his wifes disappearance, and said he was trying to protect the little boys.
In a shocking interview, Alina Powell defends her brothers 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 theyve been experiencing, Alina told Good Morning America on Thursday.
The reporter pushed Alina, and said But he didnt protect them, he killed them, and Alina responded, I wish it had been differently.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)What is this woman smoking?
teddy51
(3,491 posts)can't they face the facts?
woodsprite
(11,924 posts)With what his sister and the cousins said, I'd say crazy was a familial trait.
teddy51
(3,491 posts)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
(42,766 posts)I have to wonder if she has ever worked in the campaign for any rethuglican candidate?
Curious minds want to know.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)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
(14,139 posts)and murdered Susan. The rest of the Powell clan has turned against Jennifer, for daring to say anything bad about sweet lil' Joshie.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)She knows exactly what is wrong in that family.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Is she also suffering from deep depression, and what is the family history regarding this?
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)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
(154,021 posts)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
(11,304 posts)Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)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
(31,528 posts)tragedies like this into entertainment.
Sick, sick, sick.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)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
(5,609 posts)Sad, sad, sad. All the way round.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)surfdog
(624 posts)Last edited Thu Feb 9, 2012, 03:49 PM - Edit history (1)
They should be taken right now before she tries to protect them herself
SaintPete
(533 posts)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
(8,747 posts)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.