Sensitive documents in the Barry Morphew murder case showed that his wife was finished with their 25-year marriage and very much in love with another man.
Some of Suzanne Morphew’s communication with a high school flame has never been made public. They were revealed in a timeline which was filed March 25, 2022 and unsealed Tuesday evening.
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On Nov. 27, 2018, in a timeline created by Grusing, Suzanne Morphew wrote that her husband sensed she was gaining strength and was uncomfortable with it. “Just not need his approval all the time is so freeing really I’ve really had to do my own soul searching Many things Ive [sic] done wrong overt [sic] the years and allowed to creep in Breaking the codependency for me is big.”
As the months went by, Grusing documented the 49-year-old mother of two’s growing need to get a divorce. On Aug. 25, 2019, she wrote “I feel no peace when he’s here. I don’t know what to do. I don’t feel safe around him. He’s lost my trust. He will do anything to come out looking good.”
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In a text interview, Barry Morphew’s attorney, Iris Eytan, said that the judge’s ruling to release case documents came “out of the blue” and that Morphew “does not have the emotional or financial resources to continue this battle against the prosecutors’ misconduct.” She challenged the release on grounds that Morphew has already suffered for three years and is trying to get his life together.
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Chaffee County Sheriff John Spezze, who is in charge of the Morphew case, told The Denver Gazette that “the case is ongoing” but legal observers say the longer a case goes, the more others pile up.
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After three years of going unsolved, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation defines a case is "cold." The Morphew case clanked into its fourth year on May 11, but it is not listed on the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's cold case list.
Spokesperson Lisa Kohlbrenner explained that “CBI is working with Chaffee County on the narrative as we want to be sure it is appropriate to be shared with the public."
