Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* #107

[Warwick7]

Exactly!

An innocent man would be thanking them for finding her. HE would be demanding they find the person that did this to his wife. We shall see if he is happy she was found or if he's interested in justice for her. Should be interesting.

This needs to be said over and over and over again!

 

[DeDee]

Remains positively identified as Suzanne Morphew

This article has been updated since it's original posting. Human remains discovered by agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation in Saguache County Sept. 27 have been identified as Suzanne

www.themountainmail.com

Mountain Mail weighs in

Thank you.

Lauren Scharf, former Fox21 reporter who had covered the case, said, “Definitely this was an answered prayer for the family. I was just overwhelmed by emotion when I found out.”

Suzanne’s family informed Scharf of the news, she said, but said they don’t wish to comment on the record until there is more information.

TL of Salida, an instrumental organizer of searches for Suzanne, said, “It is great news and sad news, I guess. Great in that the family can find peace, but sad obviously because we all know now that she’s gone. I hope now we can finally find full justice for her and find answers to what happened to her.”

 

[MassGuy]

And he did make mention of an elk in the investigation!
“Since January 2021, Barry has admitted to: chasing a chipmunk with a gun around the house while Susan was outside sunbathing, shooting a deer with a tranquilizer dart to explain a dart and needle cap in the dryer, disposing of the tranquilizer solution during this trip to Broomfield, following a bull elk down Highway 50 in the 4:00 AM hour on the May 10th to explain why his truck would be headed west (where [a] helmet was discarded), and finally stating to the FBI on April 22, 2021 that he looks guilty from the evidence and God allowed these things to happen.”

Barry Morphew, Accused Killer of Suzanne Morphew in Colorado, Out on Bail

A newly-unsealed affidavit includes talk of chipmunks and tranquilizer darts as part of a truly deranged alleged attempt to throw off cops in the grisly case.

www.thedailybeast.com

This will never not be hilarious.

 

[Chimera]

Moffat IS EXACTLY the opposite direction from broomsfield.
north to south with chaffee county in the middle.

Pretty predictable. Not very good at this Barry.

EXCITING NEWS.
Heading backwards to read all your comments

I'd read about the 'work trip', and iirc, didn't he bring tools into his hotel room and possibly cleaned something with bleach ?

Exclusive: Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding the disappearance of wife, Suzanne

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. — Nearly four months have passed since anyone has seen missing Chaffee County woman, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew. In an update published Thursday, Sheriff John Spezze ac…

www.fox21news.com

Barry said he left in a hurry, when he learned his wife was missing.

“I rushed home, left all my tools at the hotel called my workers and said, ‘I have a family emergency, you’re going to have to figure this out on your own,'” he said.
Lavender bolding mine.

 

[katydid23]

I’m pretty sure that mountain lion, that some said got her, did not drag her 44.2 miles down to Moffat.

Right, and neither did her secret boyfriend.

 

[Seattle1]

It's unbelievable how easy the route would be for BM. He only needed one eye to transport SM from Maysville to the Moffat area in Saguache County!

Google Maps

 

[GoJacks]

@carolamckinley

 

[katydid23]

Familiar with this case but am way behind.
I thought her husband was cleared ?
So he can't be retried due to double jeopardy ?

Nope, not cleared. He was never tried.
He can be charged again if they find more evidence. Which hopefully they now have.

 

[Gardenista]

This might or might not help with understanding the general area they weee searching for Edna when they found Suzanne.

On 05/03/2023 Edna disappeared, while she was reportedly walking or hiking on a hill near County Road 46-AA, just outside of Saguache, Colorado; Edna was reportedly wearing a blue Hoodie with a "COLORADO" logo, blue jeans and white sneakers.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Great thinking. This area looks like a more reasonable place to dump a body than that open road.

 

[10ofRods]

It's a huge area with very sparse population. But yes, it has its share of murders, missing persons, cults, UFO sightings, and creepy local lore. Google "San Luis Valley" for more.

Statistically, people who murder or commit other crimes and try to dispose of evidence go to exactly such areas. Since bodies are found and locals are mystified, myth and lore have a strong foothold.

SO WONDERFUL to see all of us stalwart Suzanne supporters here on this day. I still am in a state of belief and feel that the Cosmos has now paid attention to my prayers.

I think I know how they found her - and wow, what a story it will be at trial. BM most likely used his own truck (and he sold it afterwards, thinking that would...do what? fix the situation?) and of course LE knows what its GPS shows. The problem is that it's a very large area and he likely stopped several times for various reasons. It's a bit like the Bryan Kohberger case.

I don't see how they ever found her if they didn't search (with extensive resources) every place that his truck stopped. I remembering hearing early on that some such sites were being searched (IMO) but closer to their home.

WHen the case was dismissed without prejudice, I thought that this could be the case. Can you imagine? Someone traverses miles and miles while disposing of a body? The effort to search such wild regions is immense.

I want to send all the investigators something - but what? People don't want candy or flowers these days!

 

[DeDee]

@carrolamckinley

@CarolAMcKinley

NEW information: #SuzanneMorphew's bones were found in a shallow grave in a dry field of sagebrush on east side of Saguache County. It's been over three years since she went missing ...Mother's Day 2020. El Paso Co Coroner identified her remains and an autopsy is being peformed

 

[Diddian]

Right, and neither did her secret boyfriend.

Nor would a mountain lion bother to dump SM’s helmet in an attempt to mislead regarding which direction her body went. That’s a human action. And not that of a random abductor.

 

[Chimera]

We know not a bike helmet. That was found west (the direction BM traveled before heading north to “repair the wall“).

A person taking SM south would not travel in that westward direction. They’d go east from where the Morphew’s lived when SM disappeared and then south.

BM either took SM south, returned to Puma Path (maybe to burn some property of SM’s in the fireplace while enjoying something off a single plate) and then traveled west to watch elk/dump helmet before heading north…OR he had help.

Emphasis mine.
That's a possibility ?

 

[al66pine]

Barry. Familiar w the Moffat Area?

Now how would BM know anything about the Moffat area? Hmm.

snipped for focus @Herat Hmmm is right.
@Nikynoo said: Land for development maybe?

IDK. Did Barry search inline for "Cute Girls in Moffat"?

Srsly, didn't LE & prosecutor have custody of BM's phone, PC, various devices for some time?
Ditto, his truck-metrics-tracking-recording (terminology???) data?

Now w recovery of SM's remains, LE's review & analysis of that digital evd. could prove even more damaging to BM.

Extreeeeemely damaging?
Well, a Sleuther can hope.

 

[10ofRods]

This might or might not help with understanding the general area they weee searching for Edna when they found Suzanne.

On 05/03/2023 Edna disappeared, while she was reportedly walking or hiking on a hill near County Road 46-AA, just outside of Saguache, Colorado; Edna was reportedly wearing a blue Hoodie with a "COLORADO" logo, blue jeans and white sneakers.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

WOW. I didn't realize this (so it wasn't his GPS). I need to read more. It's possible that the two situations intersected.

Poor Edna. Sympathies to her family as well. But if THAT is the only reason they found Suzanne, ooo boy. Trial will be (once again) difficult and awash in conspiracy theories.

However, does Barry still have millions of dollars to pay to IE? (Whose law firm disintegrated and reformed in the midst of this)? He spent his wad, not sure he can afford her.

 

[justtrish]

Here’s the window: May 9th 10:17 to May 10th 4:30 am #BarryMorphew phone was in airplane mode. Prosecution asks Agent Grusing if that's enough time to dispose of a body-- Grusing says "it is." @KKTV11News #SuzanneMorphew

The only question to answer then is how? One of the other vehicles? I even considered a 4 wheeler. He's used to using those for hunting and I googled.. some have a range of 200 miles and can go 50mph. I tried looking up the trails in the area to see if there was a way he could use back roads and trails to get from his house to the Moffat area, but got interrupted. I'll look more later. I think I recall something about a cooler or several coolers missing from his house. If he's used to hauling large animals out of hunting areas on a 4 wheeler then I'd say he could haul a small human that way too.

 

[DeDee]

PSBM

I want to send all the investigators something - but what? People don't want candy or flowers these days!

You are too kind! Fill the Charcuterie board and break out the Champagne! Suzanne has been found thanks to the CBI and all of those hard working public service officials.

Remains positively identified as Suzanne Morphew | Colorado Bureau of Investigation

 

[NuttMegg]

Wow I just heard. 3 years in a field. OMG if he goofed up and left something.

 

[osu]

Found in a shallow grave.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707169192905228305

 

[SortaSleuthy]

It was a partial match to a couple of different sex offenders in CODIS. Let me say something about what that means. YOU could be a partial match as well. CODIS has only felons in it - but had they sent the same sample to, say, Othram, there could have been 1000 or 10000 partial matches.

Humans are 99.999% identical. So, each DNA study system uses specific regions of our DNA to compare. They found some of the same genes in the glove compartment (IIRC, it was on an owner's manual - so had been touched by car detailers, the dealer, the factory where it was made) as they found in some sex offenders. However, it was NOT a match.

And again - YOU could be the next match, if this technique was used in general. If we were all in a DNA database (I'm in two of them), we'd find ourselves matching all kinds of miscreants and others - as we are all related.

We all have very similar DNA. Since the glove compartment is not part of the crime scene AND because of the kind of misrepresentation by the defense (although it's understandable), here we are, 3.5 years later and this red herring is still swimming (and I get that).

I could go on (I'm related to a whole bunch of interesting people - pretty closely, too - not unlike this "partial match" from the glove compartment). "Partial match" could and is used to describe degrees of relationship that are like fourth cousin 2X removed. Direct lineage is a bit stronger (a parent/grandparent/great grandparent). Trust me - if you were to follow your own genealogy back to around 1800, you'd find some miscreants in there somewhere. Just statistically, we're all related. And if we go back far enough, we are ALL related to a sex offender of one kind or another. I am including cultural practices in which consent was not required or expected. Such as those of England or Germany in the 10th-16th centuries.

IOW, it's unlikely that the person who touched the owner's manual WAS the actual sex offender - but perhaps a cousin or something. They may get dragged into this, though.

As far as we know, this is not a stranger sex assault case. No sexual assault has been alleged. All the facts point directly to intimate partner violence.

I hope everyone here starts thinking about what kind of DNA might be in THEIR car (that would be exploited by the defense if you were harmed). Because the DNA from the manufacturers is there. It's possible to parse the DNA well enough to give hints (sometimes facts) about where the DNA came from (in the JonBenet case, the stranger DNA on the underwear was from a specific region in China - where the newly purchased underwear was manufactured). I do not think that some hapless Chinese worker got a visa and flew to Boulder to kill JonBenet.

As someone new to the case, your question was a good one - but I'm curious. Why was that your first question? Do you know the other facts of the case? Sorry if that sounds rude in text - I don't mean it that way. I'm truly curious

IMO.

Exactly! So great you are here.