Update-Josh Powell, Husband of Susan Powell, Subject of Child Porn Investigation

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After last week's arrest of Steven Powell - the father-in-law of missing Utah woman Susan Powell - on child porn and voyeurism charges, Steven's son and Susan's husband, Josh Powell, is also the subject of a child porn investigation.

Josh and his two sons had been living in Steven's house. The Susan Powell case remains open and unsolved.

The accusation about the porn drew an immediate denial from Josh. "I have had nothing to do with any kind of illegal pornography," he said in court Tuesday.Steven Powell, 61, was arrested in his Puyallup, Wash., home and booked on suspicion of 14 counts of voyeurism and one count of possessing child porn.Some of the subjects in the images were videotaped without their knowledge and were as young as 8 and 10, according to prosecutor Mark Lindquist.

Steven Powell has pleaded not guilty.Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told Tacoma's News Tribune that everyone in Steven Powell's house is a person of interest: "We have not eliminated anybody and we are not at the point of arresting anybody else."Following Steven's arrest, the state Children's Administration removed Susan and Josh's 4- and 6-year-old sons from his home. The boys have been placed in the home of Susan's parents, Chuck and Judy Cox, until further notice.

Susan Powell

Investigators have launched a large-scale search of the Utah desert for the body of Susan Powell, nearly two years after the woman disappeared.With the help of cadaver dogs, detectives are scouring around the town of Delta, 130 miles southwest of Powell's home in West Valley City, Utah."We're very hopeful that we'll come up with something but we just don't know whether we will or not," West Valley City police told Fox 13 News.

Searchers on all-terrain vehicles are working a grid-pattern on the ground for signs of her body, with plans to add the assistance of a spotter plane.The search is at sign that the investigation is at its most active stage since Susan Powell, a married mom with two sons, disappeared in December 2009.She was 28 at the time.Last month, police searched the home of her husband, Joshua Powell, who after speaking with investigators early on has stopped cooperating.Josh, who says he last saw his wife when he took their sons for an overnight camping trip, suggested she may have run off with another man

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