Still Missing CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *arrest* #97

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SM got new tires on May 7.
We don’t know if she did a test run after that, but I wouldn’t think that the curvey part of HWY 50 would be a good spot to do it. JMO

https://twitter.com/laurenscharftv/status/1429859843704229889?s=21
Exhibit 93, 94: Pictures of #SuzanneMorphew bike found off of CR225. Scott Banks was interviewed and is a bike mechanic. He had put new tires on Suzanne's bike on May 7, 2020.

Was Suzanne's Friday bike ride pre-empted by the pizza run? If indeed that happened on Friday....

If Scot put new tires on her bike on Thursday, did Suzanne ever ride on those tires?!!!!!

Delicious if there wasn't so much as a pebble in the treads.

JMO
 
https://twitter.com/ashleykktv/status/1424747670254485508?s=21
Commander says the temperature on the morning of May 10th was around 38 degrees at 8am.
On May 14th #SuzanneMorphew bike helmet was found .84 miles from the bicycle. Commander says no significant damage to the helmet. #BarryMorphew @KKTV11News
more specific than the graph I saw between 8-9 am...It is safe to say she would have been riding in the high 30s to low 40s on a "morning ride".
 
I didn't find this episode very helpful. SR seems unprepared. He seems to be reading the documents for the first time, and he rambles. But you're right - he does have an interesting take on how the trial will go, and he remains very critical of the prosecution. Nonetheless, he doesn't think the judge will dismiss the case.

If anyone wants to understand better the position of the parties, I recommend the KKTV site article, Prosecution Responds to Defense Motion to throw out Barry Morphew Case. It has the motion and response embedded in the article, and they make interesting reading. I have the impression that there's a lot more drama than substance in the defense's tactics, and that the essential evidence will get to the jury.

IIRC, the prosecution stated last time that they intend to file a motion to exclude from the evidence at trial any reference to the foreign DNA found in SM's car. Judge L issued a ruling without hearing any evidence or argument, stating that the evidence would be allowed. However, he left the door open for the prosecution to show him why it should be rejected, and I hope they take the time to educate him (and us) about this topic by filing a motion.

If they file a follow up it would be interesting to read. I think the general public following the case want to understand why and how it was linked to a sexual offender, what the follow up was, and if that person who was considered a sexual offender had a name or was unknown. I think that is all people really want to know. Did they or did they not follow up... Most of what's the average person sees is that it's not relevant...well it would be nice to hear why they don't think it's relevant.
 
I wonder if we both have the same certain case in mind. I also can't shake that thought.
Now I am curious what case!?
Yes. The other word does not fit in the context of the quote. Page 34:

"This life on earth is a mear (sic) grain of sand compared to eternity."

He's dumber than I tell people.

He was likely thinking about "bear" because it seems that is all he could think of.. hunting
 
I don’t think you can take the “never would have biked there” as gospel. How would BH know? Was he with SM on her every ride? Did SM tell him about every ride? Imagine him being cross examined by IE.

It's possible in a conversation about trails in the area, she said something like "I don't go xyz way because of that big hill". I think that is totally possible. If going the other direction was a better path and didn't require that hill she may have said that also. I believe across the highway is some other trails too. If she always drove the car to those trails because of that hill, he very well could have known that info because of that type of conversation. If it was just an odd route to take, that is one thing, but specifically because of that big hill and being loose gravel road, I do think she could have said this in conversations about where she bikes.
 
Didn’t she just get her bike back from being worked on? So maybe taking it for a spin near the house to check everything was working correctly before driving to the trail? Why would she put on her camelback for that?

If I was the defense that is the tact I would take on the bike. The rest would be much harder to explain away.

IMO
Editing because it isn't the brakes, it was tires. I was remembering wrong and when the bike was found it was questioned if something was wrong with the brakes locking up or something like this.

Was it the brakes that were being worked on? I'm a mountain biker and there is just no way I'd take my bike I just got back from being worked on out for a spin on a steep hill on a gravel road. If they didn't work right then I'm in trouble.
 
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Mears, Michigan is where Suzanne's father's tree farm was.
Well, there you go. Plenty of places he could have heard or seen that spelling and simply thought "mere" was always spelled that way.

I've known plenty of reasonably smart people who were very accomplished at their chosen vocations who were terrible spellers. So, I don't really measure intelligence by that standard... perhaps poorly academically educated or learning-disabled in some way, but not stupid.
 
Editing because it isn't the brakes, it was tires. I was remembering wrong and when the bike was found it was questioned if something was wrong with the brakes locking up or something like this.

Was it the brakes that were being worked on? I'm a mountain biker and there is just no way I'd take my bike I just got back from being worked on out for a spin on a steep hill on a gravel road. If they didn't work right then I'm in trouble.
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https://www.courts.state.co.us/user.../21CR78/21cr78 Morphew Redacted Affidavit.pdf
 

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I don’t think you can take the “never would have biked there” as gospel. How would BH know? Was he with SM on her every ride? Did SM tell him about every ride? Imagine him being cross examined by IE.

@Pyrite .Thx for your post. Yes. Seems extreeemely unlikely SM's dau's rode eveeery trip W SM. Unless SM had discussed biking & routes w dau's BF extensively, difficult to know whether the BF's "never would have biked there" stmt is true. my2ct
 
From August 23 Preliminary .
LE testimony about bike mechanic interview.


https://twitter.com/laurenscharftv/status/1429859843704229889?s=21
Exhibit 93, 94: Pictures of #SuzanneMorphew bike found off of CR225. Scott Banks was interviewed and is a bike mechanic. He had put new tires on Suzanne's bike on May 7, 2020.
https://twitter.com/laurenscharftv/status/1429861016414871554?s=21
Handlebars were twisted 180 degrees. Can be called "ghost riding," this is seen with kids when they push a bike the tires want to turn. If the bike had been wrecked the mechanic said the handlebars and bike seat would not be centered but that wasn't the case here. #BarryMorphew
 
Editing because it isn't the brakes, it was tires. I was remembering wrong and when the bike was found it was questioned if something was wrong with the brakes locking up or something like this.

Was it the brakes that were being worked on? I'm a mountain biker and there is just no way I'd take my bike I just got back from being worked on out for a spin on a steep hill on a gravel road. If they didn't work right then I'm in trouble.
Did you see the change in Barry’s demeanor when the investigator mentioned that something was up with the bike at the scene? He went from meek upset Barry to the hand gesture and the very controlled matter of fact statement about the bike flipping over. I think that’s what he was trying to sell through TN in the beginning. Mountain lion, then flipped bike, and onward, what was next?
 
@Pyrite .Thx for your post. Yes. Seems extreeemely unlikely SM's dau's rode eveeery trip W SM. Unless SM had discussed biking & routes w dau's BF extensively, difficult to know whether the BF's "never would have biked there" stmt is true. my2ct
I don’t know, I think if it was a climb so crazy that most experts had trouble with it, one could easily say that a novice would not attempt it, much less accomplish it. MH has a pretty extensive knowledge of the area, and I would say his athletic skills are up there. If he doubted a certain path, I would take his insight over Barry’s. Not that I wouldn’t look there, but trails are trails and you know what you know.
 
@Pyrite .Thx for your post. Yes. Seems extreeemely unlikely SM's dau's rode eveeery trip W SM. Unless SM had discussed biking & routes w dau's BF extensively, difficult to know whether the BF's "never would have biked there" stmt is true. my2ct

This statement was made before anyone (well maybe except for Barry) knew there was a "wrecked bike", before they knew Suzanne was actually missing for sure, and without anyone being able to speak to MH to sway statements. It is in my opinion, one of the most innocent conversations we see. LE talking to this teenager who has not spoke to anyone to be guided on what to say.

He said he went looking for her already, but hadn't went that particular way because she wouldn't have went that way. He went down by Fooses (I think he knew she went that way before) and back to check and see if she returned home before going to look other places. He had no reason to lie or make anything up and he seemed genuinely shocked when told the bike was found and where. He had already said she wouldn't ride that way BEFORE he knew the bike was found there. He spoke of marriage trouble. I think we can learn a lot from that. Those statements were made before there was any suspicion of Barry or anyone harming her. I think he knew she wouldn't ride that way because she said that before. He would have rode down that road to look for her, but he said he didn't go that way because she wouldn't ride up that hill.
 
Well, there you go. Plenty of places he could have heard or seen that spelling and simply thought "mere" was always spelled that way.

I've known plenty of reasonably smart people who were very accomplished at their chosen vocations who were terrible spellers. So, I don't really measure intelligence by that standard... perhaps poorly academically educated or learning-disabled in some way, but not stupid.
I’ve also known poor spellers who were smart, though these smart poor spellers didn’t say things like “we was” and “I seen”.
 
Didn’t she just get her bike back from being worked on? So maybe taking it for a spin near the house to check everything was working correctly before driving to the trail? Why would she put on her camelback for that?

If I was the defense that is the tact I would take on the bike. The rest would be much harder to explain away.

IMO
Not without her phone. Would you?
 
Was Suzanne's Friday bike ride pre-empted by the pizza run? If indeed that happened on Friday....

If Scot put new tires on her bike on Thursday, did Suzanne ever ride on those tires?!!!!!

Delicious if there wasn't so much as a pebble in the treads.

JMO
 
It is complex and troubling to us and to most people. But I don't think BM is like most people.

IMO, he is a true and primitive predator who does whatever he wants to do regardless of what he represents to others. He KNOWS what is socially acceptable (so pretends to behave in that way, and not very convincingly for anyone paying attention with the slightest degree of skepticism), but in truth believes that those boundaries are for the "always on the losing end" suckers that make up most of society.

IMO.

You just described a sociopath.
 
Not without her phone. Would you?

Nope I sure wouldn't and I mountain bike, trail run, or hike nearly daily. Even when I go on trails I've went on before, even when I am going close to home, even when I know there is no signal or it's patchy signal. I don't go without water and my phone. First thing I learned is to be prepared. I think Suzanne was cautious and prepared when she went biking.

Even if she didn't take her phone and was just going to test out the bike close to home that Mother's Day morning. It doesn't explain why her phone was gone from the house, turned off in the early morning hours and never charged or powered back on when she woke up. She drank coffee (if we believe the defense) and didn't turn her phone on to check on her girls, check on SO who had a daughter getting married that day, check back in with JL who she abruptly quit responding to the day before.

She woke up, no need to turn on her phone to check on her girls, but brought the dead/turned off phone with her on a bike ride (otherwise the phone would be at home) to test it out close to home, without water and she then was abducted?

I think the mountain lion story is more believable than that.. but then it still doesn't explain the missing phone that never pinged again after 430ish am that day.
 
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