Still Missing CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *arrest* #91

[CGray123]

Those mystery miles were for the trip from Puma Path to Broomington, correct?

Broomfield is about 160 miles from PP, so no.

 

[Hoss569]

Thanks @Hoss569 !

No problem, and for those interested the western edge of Chaffee county is the Continental Divide.

 

[Hoss569]

Of note, I think there are CCTV cameras up by Monarch so presumably he stopped short.

JMO

I believe it was determined early on the CCTV cam's at Monarch unfortunately do not record. The good news is no tickets by mail!

 

[HongKongPhooey]

RSBM

This is a great insight actually.

If he had woken up at home, wouldn't he shower, dress and leave?

Why shower in the middle of the day?

“Out, damned spot”

Although that presumes conscience…

 

[Murphy1950]

If suspects attempt to distance themselves in time or location, investigators must invalidate any fabricated alibis.

Fabricated ??? What about his alibi rings true?

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I think that is what they are trying to do with his GPS and truck telematics.

Who cares about that, time and distance., I'm talking the alibi. I have no doubts he was in Broomfield. He could have had a police escort to the HIE and no trash runs but the whole need to be there on MD is based on a FABRICATION. In fact the General Contactor says they wouldn't have allowed it. The city had an ordinance against Sunday work. He had no employees lined up until late Saturday. He even worked with MG Saturday morning and didn't mention it. He did 10 minutes worth of "set up" for his employees as he called it and spent his day in a hotel room. He told JP that the brick would be there Monday AM. It was never ordered. His company had screwed up the job initially. they had been back a few times and it was still not correct. BUT by his own words he had a druggie (MG) and a total unknown to him (JP) doing remedial work. Put that last thought aside BM's comments , along with the trash runs, clothes changing, and chlorine. His alibi still stinks...he shouldn't have been there period.

On the other hand

If Barry said "I went out of town, the household has been tense and the girls were camping: besides Suzanne's best friends daughter was getting married and Suzanne was participating in the wedding. I thought I'd get a room up there, scope out that job and watch a few games and wait for the girls to get home then head back home...." That I could buy, too bad he staged the bike.

 

[Megnut]

Giving out bonus points to whoever can direct me to this is the AA --

After Barry is "blown away" by this affair-- news to him his marriage was a mess -- he says something to LE like, he never cheated, but if he had, it was a mistake and he'd be willing to continue with his marriage, but now that they're telling him that Suzanne didn't want him anymore, he didn't think he could probably be with her again.

I want to re-read that but I can't find it again.

It must've killed him in his 26 promo to eat his subtext:

Oh, Suzanne, I'd have wanted you back, but only your old self, where you met my needs, and didn't have these women things where you talk behind your husbands' backs, and didn't get foolish ideas of your own or question mine. Whatever it takes, I'll take that Suzanne back. Well, I mean I would have. But then, well, oh Suzanne...

JMO

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Of note, I think there are CCTV cameras up by Monarch so presumably he stopped short.

JMO

I don't think he went up and over Monarch in his vehicle. I think it's pretty safe to make that claim. In someone else's vehicle maybe. Did Suzanne go up and over Monarch in someone's vehicle....possibly. As someone pointed out it is fairly easy to get to vast uninhabited land south of Poncha Springs also. LE would have no idea what vehicle they were looking for if it was not a Morphew vehicle. My guess is prosecution knows how they are going to get around the tampering charge other than by the fact Suzanne isn't at the home....but I can't guess.

 

[Megnut]

Barry said Suzanne gave him permission to go to Denver and he was okay with it because it wasn't Husband's Day and the girls were going to be there at lunchtime, right?

I wonder how enhanced LE's CCTV pictures are.

His pattern seemed to be:

Throw everything away used in conjunction with Saturday.

Get to hotel, shower, come out in a new shirt, head to a dumpster. Return to hotel, shower, sport a new shirt, head to the next dumpster.

Looks like every time he handled anything from Saturday, he returned to the hotel and changed....

Where are those shirts, Barry?

Where were all these bags and pots? In the bed of the truck? In the passenger seats? Does LE have any CCTV showing the bags, as they did with FDulos or the flipped-latch tote in the bed of PFrazee's truck?

I wonder if one part of Barry's truck was inexplicably cleaner than others.

JMO

 

[fcavanaugh]

DBM. Messed up Quote.

 

[mrjitty]

I wonder what prompted Barry to cop to turning left. He went all in, with the elk story.

Elite cognition

 

[fcavanaugh]

[B][I]What about his alibi rings true?[/I][/B]

[COLOR=#000000]RSBM for focus.
IMO, nothing about ‘his alibi’ rings true because what he claims to be his alibi (I was 3 hours away in Broomfield on 5/10/20) isn’t a real true alibi, rather it’s a concocted, manufactured fake alibi to go along with the 5/10/20 concocted, manufactured fake bike ride/never returned from bike ride narrative. IOW, having a true/valid alibi means and can be proven you were somewhere else when the crime occurred, therefore couldn’t have committed the crime. Per the investigators and the state’s theory which I agree with and believe they will prove at trial, the[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]crime [/COLOR]([COLOR=#000000]Suzanne’s murder) did not occur on 5/10/20. It occurred the day before, on 5/9/20 and he was not somewhere else on 5/9/20 when the crime occurred. [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]He was home alone with Suzanne on the afternoon of 5/9/20 when her footprint both real and digital ceased and is the responsible perpetrator of Suzanne’s murder, therefore he has no alibi.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#000000]IMHOO

#FindSuzanne
#BringSuzanneHome
#JusticeForSUZANNE[/COLOR]

 

[Warwick7]

Giving out bonus points to whoever can direct me to this is the AA --

After Barry is "blown away" by this affair-- news to him his marriage was a mess -- he says something to LE like, he never cheated, but if he had, it was a mistake and he'd be willing to continue with his marriage, but now that they're telling him that Suzanne didn't want him anymore, he didn't think he could probably be with her again.

I want to re-read that but I can't find it again.

It must've killed him in his 26 promo to eat his subtext:

Oh, Suzanne, I'd have wanted you back, but only your old self, where you met my needs, and didn't have these women things where you talk behind your husbands' backs, and didn't get foolish ideas of your own or question mine. Whatever it takes, I'll take that Suzanne back. Well, I mean I would have. But then, well, oh Suzanne...

JMO

Barry said Suzanne gave him permission to go to Denver and he was okay with it because it wasn't Husband's Day and the girls were going to be there at lunchtime, right?

I wonder how enhanced LE's CCTV pictures are.

His pattern seemed to be:

Throw everything away used in conjunction with Saturday.

Get to hotel, shower, come out in a new shirt, head to a dumpster. Return to hotel, shower, sport a new shirt, head to the next dumpster.

Looks like every time he handled anything from Saturday, he returned to the hotel and changed....

Where are those shirts, Barry?

Where were all these bags and pots? In the bed of the truck? In the passenger seats? Does LE have any CCTV showing the bags, as they did with FDulos or the flipped-latch tote in the bed of PFrazee's truck?

I wonder if one part of Barry's truck was inexplicably cleaner than others.

JMO

Good one! Bam! I can see on page 27 of the AA its says: "Barry stated, "I change shirts all the time," when told by CBI that he changed shirts twice after getting to the hotel.

When asked why, he stated, "I don't even recall changing shirts that day."

What an idiot!

Did he really think there weren't cameras---- oh yeah that's right he told law enforcement to go look at the cameras and prove where he was. What an idiot!

 

[justtrish]

Anybody have working theory for why Barry contacted backhoe buddy on MDW?

A weird deflection? He seemed to know LE might look at his phone, which having scrubbed to his satisfaction, he was probably proud to hand over.

Was that contact staged?

Toward what end?

(Did he help himself to the backhoe PRIOR to the day, and the contact was to make it appear he had no idea where to find it?)

I wonder.

JMO

These are some things I was thinking as I looked at the AA again. I am reviewing the photos and the time stamps on those photos of him at the backhoe place, the call to Suzanne after he left Sat. afternoon to go meet the backhoe guy. Why call her right after leaving the house and just seeing her? His odd texts to her about coming home and "did you leave".. her odd texts asking if he wants to hike and twice that morning. His movements that day, his truck reversing in the driveway while his phone was in airplane mode.. why did he need to reverse 90 something feet. I wish I had a view reenactment of this.. was he moving it to get into the garage to get another car or piece of equipment? What was in the back of his truck during that backhoe trip?

We know he is capable of "Staging" things because he did it with the bike and the helment. We also know he deleted stuff from his phone and attempted to reset his truck data thing. When did he delete those messages and searches on his phone? Was it immediately or did he do that sometime in the previous day or two to when Suzanne went missing? So many things that are just put out there, but not really put together. It's like we have all these puzzle pieces, but we don't know if we have them all and we can't quite see the full picture yet in order to put them all in the right spot.

 

[justtrish]

MOO

I wonder if BM owned night vision googles or binoculars. Does anyone know if it was mentioned in the AA?

It wasn't mentioned, but I'd be willing to bet a lot on the fact that he did. He was a very prevalent hunter who admitted to doing illegal activities in that area. I have no doubt he had something night vision that he could stalk animals at night. He had game cameras also.

 

[ar3593]

One daughter may be team Dad, but sadly I think one will feel she has no choice

Moo

ITA Lyanna. Very difficult, risky and lonely to be the odd man out. MM2, I would believe, is probably terrified of her father and rightly so. With it out in the open that MM2 supported her mother by telling her she thinks she should divorce BM and get a restraining order, that has to be unnerving for MM2. After all, if BM was indeed responsible for Suzanne's disappearance/death (which I believe wholeheartedly he was), MM2 is smart enough to realize that she could be next if not on TEAM DAD/BARE. BM is capable of anything and that in and of itself is frightening..Also, she is/was a minor without her own income / freedom to escape.
Just my opinion as always

 

[Cindizzi]

Good one! Bam! I can see on page 27 of the AA its says: "Barry stated, "I change shirts all the time," when told by CBI that he changed shirts twice after getting to the hotel.

When asked why, he stated, "I don't even recall changing shirts that day."

What an idiot!

Did he really think there weren't cameras---- oh yeah that's right he told law enforcement to go look at the cameras and prove where he was. What an idiot!

And “ showers relax me “ is a very lame explanation. JMO

 

[sk716]

These are some things I was thinking as I looked at the AA again. I am reviewing the photos and the time stamps on those photos of him at the backhoe place, the call to Suzanne after he left Sat. afternoon to go meet the backhoe guy. Why call her right after leaving the house and just seeing her? His odd texts to her about coming home and "did you leave".. her odd texts asking if he wants to hike and twice that morning. His movements that day, his truck reversing in the driveway while his phone was in airplane mode.. why did he need to reverse 90 something feet. I wish I had a view reenactment of this.. was he moving it to get into the garage to get another car or piece of equipment? What was in the back of his truck during that backhoe trip?

We know he is capable of "Staging" things because he did it with the bike and the helment. We also know he deleted stuff from his phone and attempted to reset his truck data thing. When did he delete those messages and searches on his phone? Was it immediately or did he do that sometime in the previous day or two to when Suzanne went missing? So many things that are just put out there, but not really put together. It's like we have all these puzzle pieces, but we don't know if we have them all and we can't quite see the full picture yet in order to put them all in the right spot.

There are a lot of answers that only Barry has and I don't think he's ever going to say.

 

[CGray123]

“Out, damned spot”

Although that presumes conscience…

Barry now seems more like the besieged Macbeth, informed of his wife's guilt-induced suicide but rendered incapable of compassion by the horror his narcissistic grandiosity has unleashed:

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.

Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."

 

[Boxer]

Just thought I’d share an interesting article I came across by a FBI Special Agent assigned to the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Behavioral Analysis Unit 4, for anyone interested. It specifically relates to missing persons investigations from first report, type of missing person case i.e., voluntary, foul play/criminal etc, how the cases are initially investigated, how they rule voluntary disappearance out and investigation transitions to no-body homicide case.

There’s lots of great info in the article at link below.
Something I learned was that the FBI BAU 4 has created a database of hundreds of no-body cases to include prosecutors’ contact information, and states that prosecutors with no experience prosecuting a no-body case should contact one of these experienced prosecutors for support and guidance. Since the FBI has been involved in this case since early on, I would imagine District Attorney LS is aware of this and my hope is she will/already has contacted one of these experienced prosecutors for help with the case against BM. I know it was mentioned the 4th Judicial District was going to assist them with the evidence organization, etc, so my best guess is most likely they (LS and team) has also reached out for help preparing the actual prosecution for trial court. Maybe LS has been busy with that and might be reason she wasn’t in attendance at the recent motion hearings, moo.

Snipped and BBM are some things that stood out in relation to the case at hand, or should I say, the case in the hands of DA Linda Stanley et al:

Investigators sometimes receive inadequate information in the beginning of a missing person investigation. If people portray the victim as routinely running away, being reckless, or acting irresponsibly, others may express less concern and possibly not even file a formal report. Investigators could treat the case as a reported event, rather than a potential criminal act. However, when facts and circumstances indicate a strong possibility of foul play or the disappearance occurs due to criminal action, investigators should consider the missing person case as a potential homicide.

People falsely report someone missing for various reasons. Perhaps the person died due to negligent homicide, accidental death, or murder, and the individual responsible for the death wants to create distance (time and space) from the act by establishing an alibi, obstructing justice, or avoiding detection.
A no-body homicide often begins as a missing person case. In such scenarios, an early determination that the matter is more than a routine case often results in successful prosecution.

While a motive may prove unnecessary, it helps explain the reason for the murder. The motivation for the crime provides important clues, particularly when investigators have no body to confirm death or location where the murder occurred. Investigating circumstances leading up to the disappearance emerge as critical to the case. Sometimes, what appears on the surface as a perfect, harmonious domestic situation in reality equates to an abusive relationship. Understanding the missing person’s background often exposes truths known only to the offender and the victim.

Many criminals strive to create an illusion of distance in time and physical proximity from the victim’s last-known whereabouts. Successful disposal of the body is another way offenders detach from the crime. The body itself provides the best evidence of an unlawful death. However, other ways exist to determine that a person died. Many homicide prosecutors often base their cases on circumstantial evidence. They must establish 1) that the victim died; 2) that the person was murdered; 3) the approximate time of death; 4) that the likely location of the crime is within the prosecutor’s jurisdiction; and 5) the person responsible for the murder.
In one particular case, the judge determined that “the fact that a murderer may successfully dispose of a victim’s body does not entitle the offender to an acquittal.”

If suspects attempt to distance themselves in time or location, investigators must invalidate any fabricated alibis. A concise timeline, forensic evidence, and behavioral analysis help link offenders to the crime scene and wipe away any false illusions. BAU 4 aids investigators and prosecutors by assessing the strength of the homicide investigation and providing collaborative recommendations for a successful outcome.

Since the 2012 symposium, BAU 4 has created a database that contains over 660 no-body homicide prosecutions in the United States, including over 477 cases prosecuted since 1995, along with the prosecutors’ contact information.
BAU 4 often recommends that a prosecuting attorney who never has taken on a no-body homicide case and plans to should contact experienced prosecutors who can help assess the strength of the current case and provide guidance and support. The FBI’s database serves as a conduit for individuals to locate fellow prosecutors to discuss best practices for no-body homicide cases and investigative steps to cover before proceeding.

No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Approach — LEB

IMHOO

#FindSuzanne
#BringSuzanneHome
#JusticeForSuzanne

Thank you. Terrific post.

 

[Megnut]

Imaginary exchange:

Prosecution: Barry, you say Suzanne asked you to get her bike down, right? So you were the last person to handle her bike?

Barry: well, exactly

JMO