ELY, Nev. - Investigators returned yesterday to the remote Nevada desert in their search for a Utah mother missing since 2009, after an earlier check of the area yielded information.
Searchers began the day looking through abandoned mine shafts off Highway 50. The area is about 235 miles southwest of Susan Cox Powell’s home in West Valley City, Utah, where she was last seen Dec. 6, 2009.
Powell was 28 when she was reported missing Dec. 7 after she failed to show up for her job as a stockbroker.
Her husband, Joshua Powell, told police he left his wife at home about 12:30 a.m. that day to go winter camping in freezing temperatures with their young sons - then ages 4 and 2 - on the Pony Express Trail, about 80 miles west of Salt Lake City. The 4-year-old confirmed the trip to police.
Police have called Joshua Powell a person of interest in the missing person case.
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Might as well place a bet while we are there:
"Man gets 3 years for Bellagio holdup" August 24, 2011|Associated Press
LAS VEGAS - The son of a former Las Vegas judge, who wore a motorcycle helmet and brandished a gun as he carried out a Hollywood movie-style holdup of the posh Bellagio casino, was sentenced yesterday to at least three years in prison....
Carleo’s crime was captured by security cameras, which showed him wearing a helmet and carrying a handgun as he dashed out of the Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip. Carrying $1.5 million in chips, Carleo pointed his gun at a valet before jumping on a motorcycle and speeding away before dawn on Dec. 14. No shots were fired.
The eye-popping denominations of the Bellagio chips - many ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 each - drew intense media interest and comparisons to Hollywood movies like “Ocean’s Eleven.’’
--Bellagio bandit gets 3 to 11 years for casino heist--"
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