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SALT LAKE CITY -- The family of Susan Powell says it has not seen the missing woman's children for nearly a month.
Family spokeswoman Shelby Gifford told KSL Newsradio Monday the last contact came Jan. 3, and Susan's parents have little information about the boys' well-being.
"There's tremendous concern," Gifford says. "They really want to take advantage of the fact that they're just down the street. Unfortunately, that just doesn't seem to be happening."
Gifford says the Cox family has reached out to Josh Powell a few times to try to see the children.
She says, "He has declined for reasons that we don't necessarily understand."
The family is hopeful something will change soon. Gifford says Josh's sister, Jennifer Graves, last saw the boys on Jan. 22.
The Cox family is also revealing more about why a family and friends Facebook page disappeared over late last week, then reappeared over the weekend.
Gifford says the family had received several messages from Susan Powell impostors before the page was taken down.
They had also received numerous threats. While most threats pertained to the page itself, Gifford says some alluded to knowledge of what the page's administrators were doing "at all times," and made them fear for their safety. Several of the threats were passed on to local law enforcement.
Josh Powell, has shunned the spotlight, telling police he doesn't know where she is. But his bizarre behavior, and hole-filled story of a camping trip at midnight Sunday, Dec. 6, with his two young sons in the west desert during a snowstorm has positioned him as law enforcement's sole person of interest.
Officers have searched the Powell home and interviewed dozens of neighbors, friends and family members, but have made no arrest.
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