SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The father of a Utah mother who has been missing for two years says he will fight the release of pages from her diary.
But the family of her husband Josh Powell, who is under a cloud of suspicion in Susan Cox Powell's disappearance, said the pages show she had tried to commit suicide as a teen and could have walked away from her family, as they suspect.
In a journal entry about the incident, a document which The Associated Press couldn't independently verify, Susan wrote that she was repeatedly being asked if she had been trying to kill herself after taking some headache pills. The journal entry reads: "No!!!"
The debate comes days after authorities searched a sprawling network of abandoned mines outside Ely, Nev., but didn't reveal any new evidence.
Chuck Cox, Susan's father, and Steve Powell, Josh's father, argued loudly in front of reporters and television cameras in Puyallup, Wash., on Saturday. The families are scheduled to meet in court Tuesday, with Josh Powell requesting a restraining order against Cox.
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