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The 10-88 Podcast is a true crime series featuring retired Police Detective Ellis Maxwell, who served as the lead investigator on the Susan Cox Powell case in Utah. Detective Maxwell has previously appeared on the Cold Podcast and several television networks presenting documentaries related to this investigation. This season, titled Escape Safe Season 1: The Susan Cox Powell Investigation, offers in-depth insights into Detective Maxwell's investigative process, experiences, and perspectives during the original case. Additionally, it examines his ongoing efforts to locate Susan Cox Powell's remains and discusses the lessons that can be learned from her story to help prevent similar tragedies.
Ellis Maxwell counts the tip calls while you count the warning signs around Susan Cox Powell.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Stacy's account traces how control over sex, money, and daily life can become abuse.
The episode looks at how control can take hold in a relationship before abuse is easy to name. Stacy, a close friend of Susan and Josh in Washington, recalls a relationship that appeared steady at first, even as intimacy problems surfaced within months.
A planned wire and a church visit tighten the episode's focus on manipulation, abuse patterns, and accountability.
The episode follows Josh's sister as she asks Ellis Maxwell to wire her before confronting Josh in Washington, tying the search for Susan Cox Powell to the season's wider attention to domestic violence and intimate partner abuse.
A January case timeline where subpoenas, warrants, and a rented U-Haul sharpen the unease.
January 2010 gives this episode its uneasy shape, as investigators press for Susan's emails, internet search history, phone records, bank and credit records, and a power of attorney while Josh Powell rents a 26-foot U-Haul and starts loading it with help from people around him.
A focused case update links domestic warning signs, witness memories, and the December 2009 investigation into Susan Cox Powell's disappearance.
Susan Cox Powell's case is handled through small domestic details that carry real weight: Josh locking himself in his office, Susan calling for him to come out, and a sitter remembering Susan arriving barefoot after an argument.
A case-focused review of how everyday control can hide danger before a disappearance.
Control comes through in ordinary choices here: Susan weighing Josh's mood if she leaves, and a remembered demand that she stop working out and showering every night to save water.
True crime through evidence, judgment, and consequence.
Cannabis culture, rights, business, and real talk.
High-profile cases, read closely for the signals underneath.
A retired Captain on crime, policing and their roots.
10-88 Podcast episode 15, "Recognizing Warning Signs: Accounts of Abuse and Control in Susan's Relationship," revisits day 57 of the Susan Cox Powell investigation and opens with a listener question about a December 6 grocery-store sighting of Josh, Charlie, and no Susan or Braden.
Ellis Maxwell's Escape Safe episode 14 follows the Susan Cox Powell disappearance through wire-operation planning, witness interviews, and lab work tied to the 2009 case.
Ellis Maxwell says he is tracing the Susan Cox Powell disappearance through January 2010 records, with 13 subpoenas and 10 search warrants already served since December 7.
10-88 Podcast's 'S1 Escape Safe: #12 - The Warning Signs We Heard' covers December 20-31, 2009 in the Susan Cox Powell case, with Ellis Maxwell logging 334 tip calls and 28 cleared mines in December.
Escape Safe #11 follows Day 12 and Day 13 of the Susan Cox Powell investigation and ties the case to domestic-violence awareness.
Retired detective Ellis Maxwell introduces his true crime podcast series focusing on the Susan Cox Powell investigation.
Retired detective Ellis Maxwell introduces his new true crime podcast, explaining the meaning of 10-88 and previewing his in-depth look at the Susan Cox Powell investigation.