Still Missing CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *arrest* #89

[mom2chloe]

Thanks, I see the crack in the door now. I don't think the scratches are from fingernails. They are way too narrow, like scratches from a tree branch.

IMO they look more like finger nail scratches whereas scratch marks from a tree would be both wider and significantly deeper. IMO

 

[Megnut]

I'm really surprised he didn't say, to explain away the gouges, that they were into rough steak.

JMO

 

[nyvictoria]

Those three tiny scratches, LOL That's laughable. I can't make out the door crack at all.

The crack in the door jamb is pretty long. Unless there’s damage to other wood in the house, such as that from humidity expanding and shrinking the wood, it looks like damage from someone trying to get into the bedroom. LE interviewed the previous owners, who said the damage was not there when they sold the house.

It may not make it into evidence at trial but it certainly adds dimension to the picture LE is painting of a determined Barry doing whatever it takes to prevent Suzanne from divorcing him.

 

[MassGuy]

The crack in the door jamb is pretty long. Unless there’s damage to other wood in the house, such as that from humidity expanding and shrinking the wood, it looks like damage from someone trying to get into the bedroom. LE interviewed the previous owners, who said the damage was not there when they sold the house.

It may not make it into evidence at trial but it certainly adds dimension to the picture LE is painting of a determined Barry doing whatever it takes to prevent Suzanne from divorcing him.

I can see no reason why that wouldn't come into trial. The debate will revolve around if it supports the prosecution narrative or not.

That crack appears to allow someone to bypass the latching mechanism, meaning that it's probably not naturally occurring.

The damning thing for Barry is that he claims to have never noticed it, which defies belief.

 

[MassGuy]

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[Volgal]

Ostensibly means allegedly. He has been accused of it.

There were password resets. He was lurking at the river when a blast of 24 friend requests went out to mostly males (three named Jeff) that Suzanne had very little connection to, but several were friends of Barry's. It's all in the AA.

(Facebook Friend Requests)
Subsequent to the issuance of a search warrant, your affiant received the Face book business record for the account of Suzanne Morphew. FBI SA Grusing and FBI Staff Operations Specialist (SOS) Robert Bos reviewed the results. Twenty males (three of them with the first name “Jeff”, though Jeff Libler was not on the list) and three females were “new friends added” to Suzanne’s Facebook account between Friday, May 8, 2020 at 9:04PM (MST), through Saturday, May 9, 2020, at 6:01 PM.

From a cursory review of Suzanne’s account dating back to January 1, 2020, these friend requests were out of the norm for Suzanne. Though Suzanne received over twenty friend requests from others in 2020, her Facebook account profile initiated no friend requests until May 8th.

Of the 23 people who received Suzanne’s request, none were able to confirm with Suzanne that it was actually her who sent the request. FBI and CCSO interviewed over ten of these recipients, most of whom live in Indiana.

Derek Thurston, who received a request from Suzanne’s account on May 10, 2020 at 10:12 AM, said he knew Suzanne from junior high and high school in Alexandria but was not a close friend of hers. Thurston thought it odd that Suzanne decided to send the friend request after not talking to him in over 25 years. He added that she did not seem like the type who was desperate to “friend” people whom she did not know well.

Bobby Huff, who became Facebook “friends” with Suzanne on May 9, 2020 at 9:33 AM, graduated with Barry from Alexandria Monroe High School (AMHS) in Alexandria, Indiana. Huff has not talked to Barry or Suzanne Morphew since 1985. Huff stated that Suzanne “would never see me and friend me (on Facebook).” Huff explained that her sending of the invitation felt “weird” to him and not something Suzanne would do after such a long time of not speaking, especially the day before she disappeared.

Huff added that many rumors were flying around Alexandria that Suzanne and Barry were not happy in their marriage, that Barry was in financial trouble and that he was involved in shady business dealings.

Shane Phipps became Facebook “friends” with Suzanne on May 8, 2020 at 9:08 PM. Phipps said that he did not know Suzanne because she was younger than him, but he and Barry knew each other from AMHS since Phipps was one year older than Barry.

Wade Pulliam called the Suzanne Morphew tip line. Pulliam wanted to report receiving a Facebook request from Suzanne on Friday May 8, 2020, at 10:05 AM, which he found strange because he has not spoken with her in thirty-plus years.

Ricky King became Facebook “friends” with Suzanne on May 9, 2020 at 9:31 AM. King had his phone with him when he received the friend request on that Saturday, May 9th. He accepted the request though he had no real contact with Suzanne or Barry since high school. King described the friend request as “strange,” considering the timing and the fact that he did not know Suzanne or Barry well.
...
When Barry is told that all of the people sent the Facebook requests said it didn’t seem like it was Suzanne sending them, then Agents wonder if Suzanne was doing this just to make him mad. Barry said Suzanne has “never done that in her life.”

When asked if Suzanne told him she befriended these people, he said no and then said, “But I have her phone. She gave me full access to her phone. She gave me the passcode- I mean, do you guys have her phone? Do you have her phone?”
...
Barry was asked about his phone pinging down by the river during the Facebook posts on Friday night and asked if he was outside. Barry said, “I could have been. I don’t remember. I chase critters around the house all the time. There’s a bear that got in the garage. He completely destroyed my garage. And I’ve been looking for him ever since he came in the garage. I wasn’t going to shoot him, but I was just going to scare him off and uh, coyotes, are always outside.”
...
SA Grusing showed Barry a page showing friend requests on Suzanne’s Facebook on Friday, May 8th and asked him if he was responsible.

Barry said, “No.” He added, “I never did anything on her Facebook.”

SA Grusing said by this date in May, Suzanne had the text fight with him, and they were accusing each other of having lovers. Barry was asked if he was sending the requests to see if she had boyfriend.

He said, “Absolutely one hundred percent no. No, I absolutely did not. I never went into her phone, into her Facebook. Ever. The only time I touched her phone was in Mexico when I thought she was secretly doing something- I think I told you that story, and she said, ‘Here,’ and gave me, and, ‘You can look.’ And she gave it to me and let me look cause there’s no way I could find out what you guys found.”

Barry continued, “And I went to Snapchat and I looked through all of her Snapchat people and I looked through all of her text people, and I didn’t see anything and I gave it back to her.”
...
SA Grusing returned to the Bobby Huff and Facebook requests, confirming it was not Barry and he said, “No, absolutely not.”

Barry continued, “If you look at my Facebook account, you’ ll see that I’ve never communicated with anybody, maybe a high school friend here and there, but never any of these women I don’t know. Never had communication. And, you know, she was bothered by that and I said, ‘You know, if you want me to cancel it, I’ll just cancel it.’ And I ended up just canceling it and it wasn’t worth me having to fight my wife about it. And we’ve talked about Facebook before because we had a friend’s marriage blow apart because of a Facebook contact with an old boyfriend, and I said, ‘I just don’t think it’s good for us to even have it.’ So, obviously, look what happened.”

Barry continued, “She had it. Contacted somebody and here it is.”
...
41 Fisher told the FBI that he thought Suzanne’s Facebook had been “hacked” and he checked her account online upon receiving the request. Fisher said he is a close friend of Gene Moorman, Suzanne’s father, and said “it didn’t seem like her” to send him the request.

42 Huff told the FBI that he did not think Suzanne sent the requests, that “she would never see me and ‘friend’ me.”
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I know you don't ascribe to Barry's tells, but from the information provided, I have extrapolated that Barry logged into Suzanne's Facebook while standing down at the river to friend 24 people Suzanne wasn't friends with. So have the CCSO, CBI, and the FBI. I'm in good company.

What’s interesting to me is the friend request on May 10th.

 

[NWLady]

I regret that my initial post after following this sordid history from the beginning, must itself be sordid.
My thought is that BM carried his anesthetized angel, draped with only that brown towel, down to the stream, laid her in the gentle current, and bled her out.
He left her there that evening as he had much to attend to back at their home.
Later, in darkness, there would be still more - much more - to do.

Welcome to Websleuths!

I have been in the camp from the beginning that BM utilized the river/water-way, basically in their backyard, in some way related to SM's demise. For example, to possibly dismember her and/or clean things he may have needed to clean and/or to dispose of her phone or clothing, or for a number of other things. I have mentioned this possibility several times from the beginning but the idea is usually met with resistance due to the flow of the river, a nearby dam or something or other.

JMO

 

[Trebor5591]

Ostensibly means allegedly. He has been accused of it.

There were password resets. He was lurking at the river when a blast of 24 friend requests went out to mostly males (three named Jeff) that Suzanne had very little connection to, but several were friends of Barry's. It's all in the AA.

(Facebook Friend Requests)
Subsequent to the issuance of a search warrant, your affiant received the Face book business record for the account of Suzanne Morphew. FBI SA Grusing and FBI Staff Operations Specialist (SOS) Robert Bos reviewed the results. Twenty males (three of them with the first name “Jeff”, though Jeff Libler was not on the list) and three females were “new friends added” to Suzanne’s Facebook account between Friday, May 8, 2020 at 9:04PM (MST), through Saturday, May 9, 2020, at 6:01 PM.

From a cursory review of Suzanne’s account dating back to January 1, 2020, these friend requests were out of the norm for Suzanne. Though Suzanne received over twenty friend requests from others in 2020, her Facebook account profile initiated no friend requests until May 8th.

Of the 23 people who received Suzanne’s request, none were able to confirm with Suzanne that it was actually her who sent the request. FBI and CCSO interviewed over ten of these recipients, most of whom live in Indiana.

Derek Thurston, who received a request from Suzanne’s account on May 10, 2020 at 10:12 AM, said he knew Suzanne from junior high and high school in Alexandria but was not a close friend of hers. Thurston thought it odd that Suzanne decided to send the friend request after not talking to him in over 25 years. He added that she did not seem like the type who was desperate to “friend” people whom she did not know well.

Bobby Huff, who became Facebook “friends” with Suzanne on May 9, 2020 at 9:33 AM, graduated with Barry from Alexandria Monroe High School (AMHS) in Alexandria, Indiana. Huff has not talked to Barry or Suzanne Morphew since 1985. Huff stated that Suzanne “would never see me and friend me (on Facebook).” Huff explained that her sending of the invitation felt “weird” to him and not something Suzanne would do after such a long time of not speaking, especially the day before she disappeared.

Huff added that many rumors were flying around Alexandria that Suzanne and Barry were not happy in their marriage, that Barry was in financial trouble and that he was involved in shady business dealings.

Shane Phipps became Facebook “friends” with Suzanne on May 8, 2020 at 9:08 PM. Phipps said that he did not know Suzanne because she was younger than him, but he and Barry knew each other from AMHS since Phipps was one year older than Barry.

Wade Pulliam called the Suzanne Morphew tip line. Pulliam wanted to report receiving a Facebook request from Suzanne on Friday May 8, 2020, at 10:05 AM, which he found strange because he has not spoken with her in thirty-plus years.

Ricky King became Facebook “friends” with Suzanne on May 9, 2020 at 9:31 AM. King had his phone with him when he received the friend request on that Saturday, May 9th. He accepted the request though he had no real contact with Suzanne or Barry since high school. King described the friend request as “strange,” considering the timing and the fact that he did not know Suzanne or Barry well.
...
When Barry is told that all of the people sent the Facebook requests said it didn’t seem like it was Suzanne sending them, then Agents wonder if Suzanne was doing this just to make him mad. Barry said Suzanne has “never done that in her life.”

When asked if Suzanne told him she befriended these people, he said no and then said, “But I have her phone. She gave me full access to her phone. She gave me the passcode- I mean, do you guys have her phone? Do you have her phone?”
...
Barry was asked about his phone pinging down by the river during the Facebook posts on Friday night and asked if he was outside. Barry said, “I could have been. I don’t remember. I chase critters around the house all the time. There’s a bear that got in the garage. He completely destroyed my garage. And I’ve been looking for him ever since he came in the garage. I wasn’t going to shoot him, but I was just going to scare him off and uh, coyotes, are always outside.”
...
SA Grusing showed Barry a page showing friend requests on Suzanne’s Facebook on Friday, May 8th and asked him if he was responsible.

Barry said, “No.” He added, “I never did anything on her Facebook.”

SA Grusing said by this date in May, Suzanne had the text fight with him, and they were accusing each other of having lovers. Barry was asked if he was sending the requests to see if she had boyfriend.

He said, “Absolutely one hundred percent no. No, I absolutely did not. I never went into her phone, into her Facebook. Ever. The only time I touched her phone was in Mexico when I thought she was secretly doing something- I think I told you that story, and she said, ‘Here,’ and gave me, and, ‘You can look.’ And she gave it to me and let me look cause there’s no way I could find out what you guys found.”

Barry continued, “And I went to Snapchat and I looked through all of her Snapchat people and I looked through all of her text people, and I didn’t see anything and I gave it back to her.”
...
SA Grusing returned to the Bobby Huff and Facebook requests, confirming it was not Barry and he said, “No, absolutely not.”

Barry continued, “If you look at my Facebook account, you’ ll see that I’ve never communicated with anybody, maybe a high school friend here and there, but never any of these women I don’t know. Never had communication. And, you know, she was bothered by that and I said, ‘You know, if you want me to cancel it, I’ll just cancel it.’ And I ended up just canceling it and it wasn’t worth me having to fight my wife about it. And we’ve talked about Facebook before because we had a friend’s marriage blow apart because of a Facebook contact with an old boyfriend, and I said, ‘I just don’t think it’s good for us to even have it.’ So, obviously, look what happened.”

Barry continued, “She had it. Contacted somebody and here it is.”
...
41 Fisher told the FBI that he thought Suzanne’s Facebook had been “hacked” and he checked her account online upon receiving the request. Fisher said he is a close friend of Gene Moorman, Suzanne’s father, and said “it didn’t seem like her” to send him the request.

42 Huff told the FBI that he did not think Suzanne sent the requests, that “she would never see me and ‘friend’ me.”
​

I know you don't ascribe to Barry's tells, but from the information provided, I have extrapolated that Barry logged into Suzanne's Facebook while standing down at the river to friend 24 people Suzanne wasn't friends with. So have the CCSO, CBI, and the FBI. I'm in good company.

What would be Barry's motivation to send 24 friend requests from Suzanne's Facebook account? It really makes no sense to me. What would he hope to accomplish by doing this?

 

[rainbowshummingbird]

What would be Barry's motivation to send 24 friend requests from Suzanne's Facebook account? It really makes no sense to me. What would he hope to accomplish by doing this?

Maybe Barry isn’t computer savvy and while he perused Suzanne’s FB he made some kind of an error. Or maybe he wanted to float the idea of Suzanne contacting many men, to intentionally muddy the water? Or maybe he hoped he would get a telling message from one of these men that would indicate with whom Suzanne was having an affair?

 

[Lyanna]

Evidence in the Suzanne Morphew case

There are some really great color photos here, to include the door frame and the scratch marks. And lol, tree branch scratches my *advertiser censored*. The spacing. The thickness. The location. Wow.

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Wow! They some good photographs. Tree branch scratches my *advertiser censored*$e Barry! Those are gouges, from fingernails, imo.
Suzanne's vehicle, was untidier than I expected, considering the house was reported as being orderly and well kept, that car was messy, looks like items have been flung on the passenger seat and bottles just thrown in passenger footwell, again jmo.

Haven't got a clue what's happened here

 

[mom2chloe]

What would be Barry's motivation to send 24 friend requests from Suzanne's Facebook account? It really makes no sense to me. What would he hope to accomplish by doing this?

Perhaps he thought that their acceptance the following day might lead to others believing Suzanne was alive. Proof of life for the day he did the murder. This is Barry we’re talking about. IMO

 

[Lyanna]

Those "scratches" that look like fingernail gouges...
For them to be where they are and the position they are in, wouldn't he have to be standing behind Suzanne with his left arm wrapped round the front of her or across the front of her as if to restrain her - and it would be her right hand fingernails digging into him?

Jmo

 

[Cindizzi]

Page 64 of 129 in the Arrest Affidavit.

BM talks about the time he “ clipped SM’s nose by accident “.
He says she “ came at him “ several times during his life and he would just have to “ be a man and take it”.
Says he would have to lie to people about scratches on his face.

 

[justtrish]

Welcome to Websleuths!

I have been in the camp from the beginning that BM utilized the river/water-way, basically in their backyard, in some way related to SM's demise. For example, to possibly dismember her and/or clean things he may have needed to clean and/or to dispose of her phone or clothing, or for a number of other things. I have mentioned this possibility several times from the beginning but the idea is usually met with resistance due to the flow of the river, a nearby dam or something or other.

JMO

I spent some time today trying to figure out where/how the Arkansas River flows through that area and if it was in the direction where he entered the house on the Saturday afternoon when he didn't pull into the driveway. I still wonder if he used the trailer to move her to the river and that is how the dogs alerted to that area. Maybe wrapped up in the sheets and he then returned to the house to wash them. Somehow all these pieces fit and the water sure would be an easy way to get her out of there and wash away DNA on her.

 

[justtrish]

Perhaps he thought that their acceptance the following day might lead to others believing Suzanne was alive. Proof of life for the day he did the murder. This is Barry we’re talking about. IMO

This makes a lot of sense to me! Something I didn't consider before. I have been thinking it was to show she was seeking out men or somehow to tarnish her name and make it more likely for others to believe she just left. I do think this idea is likely more what he was thinking though to show some activity the following day or the day after and prove she was alive.

 

[BDAJAG]

Wow, look at those full color scratches.

... AND, compared with the rest of the arm, it looks to me as if the wounded area of his arm has been depilated/shaved, and that this was done sufficiently in advance of this photo. NB, the progress/extent of the healing/scabbing of these, (? perhaps the more/most serious of his), wounds.
Such, of course, may be accelerated with prudent and *immediate* first aid if one receives injuries of this type: gentle cleaning, H2O2 application, Bacitracin-type ointment, and periodic clean bandaging (Recall: *Finger nails are very yucky weapons*). (Read; "infectious").
[Srcsm button: ON] But, I must concede, such knowledge and the requisite materials would have been unfamiliar to Barry, having only just recently joined a volunteer fire/rescue brigade. [Srcsm button: OFF] Everything preceding scrsm: OMO

 

[Cindizzi]

On January 5th Jury Trials in the 11th Judicial District were suspended until January 28th due to Covid-19.

Today Chief Judge Patrick Murphy has extended that date to February 14th.
(Scroll to bottom )

https://www.courts.state.co.us/user...22-01 Jury Trial Suspension First Amended.pdf

 

[Cindizzi]

In this clip reporter AF says that BM told LE he would tranquilize deer to get their antlers.
Then she says “ and we see evidence of this by all the antlers he has in his garage “. WHAT the…. ?
She makes it sound totally normal & not at all highly illegal.
JMO

VIDEO

https://twitter.com/cbsmornings/status/1484524358735441922?s=21
After Suzanne Morphew was last seen on Mother’s Day in 2020, police investigated her husband in her disappearance.

But investigators found a puzzling mountain of evidence, including a pen straight out of a James Bond film.

The full report airs Saturday on @48hours.

 

[Seattle1]

From the AA, pg 66/131 -- FBI asserts that from their victimology of SM, investigators know that when frustrated, SM would physically come at BM. Investigators seem to believe the scratches on BM's arm were by SM:

 

[Megnut]

... AND, compared with the rest of the arm, it looks to me as if the wounded area of his arm has been depilated/shaved, and that this was done sufficiently in advance of this photo. NB, the progress/extent of the healing/scabbing of these, (? perhaps the more/most serious of his), wounds.
Such, of course, may be accelerated with prudent and *immediate* first aid if one receives injuries of this type: gentle cleaning, H2O2 application, Bacitracin-type ointment, and periodic clean bandaging (Recall: *Finger nails are very yucky weapons*). (Read; "infectious").
[Srcsm button: ON] But, I must concede, such knowledge and the requisite materials would have been unfamiliar to Barry, having only just recently joined a volunteer fire/rescue brigade. [Srcsm button: OFF] Everything preceding scrsm: OMO

Hmm. First aid? Maybe Barry had a special friend with some nursing skills.

JMO