Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* #109

[Love Never Fails]

I cannot recall ... who is Jeff?

Is. Jeff Puckett dead? What happened to him?

 

[k-mac]

Is. Jeff Puckett dead? What happened to him?

He od-ed on meth :-(

 

[Love Never Fails]

He od-ed on meth :-(

Oh my. That’s so sad. I’m always a skeptical person. Does anyone think he helped BM with a truck and BM killed him? Isn’t Jeff the one who worked as a tractor mechanic?

I hope BM’s female working partner is far away and safe.

 

[10ofRods]

Good find!

Okay, so the bikini was located inside the house. So, she came in from sunbathing and went to her bedroom. We know the bedroom door was kicked in. What about the white shorts and string top?

This supports SM being undressed: For BM to dress or undress her, she would be tranquilized or deceased. IIRC, there was a strong smell of bleach detected in that house, so there was something involving fluids. Blood? And bowels release when a body dies and urine releases during or after a traumatic death. I imagine BM frustrated cleaning it up, then rigor mortis begins. At that point, he wouldn't have the patience to dress her. JMO.

So everything he used to clean up was what he was seen throwing away. JMO.

Personally, I believe that any such actions by BM would have been forensically detectable (unless local LE was incompetent, which I do NOT believe them to be).

He likely put her in the string top and shorts because it was *easy* after removing (and disposing of) whatever she was really wearing when she died.

If she had died in the house, I do not think LE and Forensics would have missed tell-tale evidence of various "body fluids" but also biochemicals associated with death.

He could try all he wanted to clean it up, to no avail. I think he planned from the beginning to avoid such evidence inside the house and made no attempts to clean anything up.

He did throw away a lot of stuff, though, but to add to that mound of trash by trying to clean up even more when he could simply have removed her still-breathing body, makes more sense. He had had volunteer fireman training, he had watched many, many animals die. He knew the drill.

She likely had already by tranq-shot by the time she tried to lock herself in the bedroom. The tranquilizer would not necessarily cause release of bowels or urine.

Rigor mortis takes about 12 hours to set in. To my mind, that means around 3 am as an outer limit for that. I think he already had removed her from PP by then. If he really didn't know the parameters for rigor, then he's as dumb as @MassGuy keeps saying he is.

IMO

 

[10ofRods]

Is. Jeff Puckett dead? What happened to him?

Died.

Barry Morphew key witness who said his hotel room ‘smelled like chlorine’ dies

A KEY witness in the prosecution’s since-withdrawn murder case against Barry Morphew died suddenly two months ago, The U.S. Sun has exclusively learned. Jeffrey Puckett – an employee of…

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I think the Sun is still allowed - but it's in other media as well.

Exactly what IE and BM were hoping, I guess.

IMO.

 

[SleuthBee]

I am still thinking the shallow grave was discovered by drones as the other search for Edna was going on. I’m hopeful there was clothing or some type of fabric that maybe caught the attention of searchers. Hoping if that’s the case, it will hold clues and ties to Suzannes’s murderer. It would not surprise me if she were dressed in biking clothing when found. Would also make more sense how her port was still there. Weigh in with your thoughts, it’ll be months before we hear anything. MOO

Now I am vacillating between SM buried with no fabric to being dressed in bike clothing. Why? Because the spy pen caught him listening to the Forensic Files episode about a Vicki Lynne Hoskins disappearing after leaving for a bike ride. She was buried in a shallow grave in a desert area and her bones were found scattered. BM was following that script ... JMO.

 

[10ofRods]

Now I am vacillating between SM buried with no fabric to being dressed in bike clothing. Why? Because the spy pen caught him listening to the Forensic Files episode about a Vicki Lynne Hoskins disappearing after leaving for a bike ride. She was buried in a shallow grave in a desert area and her bones were found scattered. BM was following that script ... JMO.

There are a number of options. I don't think he transported her nude. I don't think he redressed her. And I don't think she was wearing bike clothing at the time of her death (she had been in a bikini, talking to JL). I think she ran to her room (possibly already tranquilized) and tried to change out of the incriminating bikini because she was still in the mode of "moving on, not tangling with ex-husband."

I agree with you that he was following that script. I think it's fairly obvious, but almost certainly won't come up in any official record (I hope I'm wrong).

The white fringe top and white sports shorts sound like the easiest thing to redress her in. Biking pants are hard to get on, even for a living woman.

IMO.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Good find!

Okay, so the bikini was located inside the house. So, she came in from sunbathing and went to her bedroom. We know the bedroom door was kicked in. What about the white shorts and string top?

This supports SM being undressed: For BM to dress or undress her, she would be tranquilized or deceased. IIRC, there was a strong smell of bleach detected in that house, so there was something involving fluids. Blood? And bowels release when a body dies and urine releases during or after a traumatic death. I imagine BM frustrated cleaning it up, then rigor mortis begins. At that point, he wouldn't have the patience to dress her. JMO.

So everything he used to clean up was what he was seen throwing away. JMO.

I don't believe the affadavit said anything about odors of bleach in their house reported by LE upon searching it that night. The hotel he stayed in, yes.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

There are a number of options. I don't think he transported her nude. I don't think he redressed her. And I don't think she was wearing bike clothing at the time of her death (she had been in a bikini, talking to JL). I think she ran to her room (possibly already tranquilized) and tried to change out of the incriminating bikini because she was still in the mode of "moving on, not tangling with ex-husband."

I agree with you that he was following that script. I think it's fairly obvious, but almost certainly won't come up in any official record (I hope I'm wrong).

The white fringe top and white sports shorts sound like the easiest thing to redress her in. Biking pants are hard to get on, even for a living woman.

IMO.

She also may have had multiple bathing suits - possible the one in that last photo which isn't really clear wasn't the one found hanging up?

 

[10ofRods]

I don't believe the affadavit said anything about odors of bleach in their house. The hotel he stayed in, yes.

The info about the bleach smell in the house comes from Andy Moorman, Suzanne's brother, after his arrival at the house. He gave interviews. It's in the media thread.

IMO.

 

[MassGuy]

I don't believe the affadavit said anything about odors of bleach in their house. The hotel he stayed in, yes.

Yeah, that came from Andy, but was never mentioned in the AA nor at the prelim. I think it’s safe to say that was false. This appears to have been a bloodless crime anyway (minimal blood if a dart was used).

As for the smell at the hotel, I’m totally open to the defense argument that it came from the pool. I don’t think the prosecution even mentioned it at the prelim, or had a coherent theory if they did.

 

[10ofRods]

She also may have had multiple bathing suits - possible the one in that last photo which isn't really clear wasn't the one found hanging up?

No way of knowing, but has been stating she was in a bathing suit, sending pictures to JL, when BM arrived home and things went down pretty rapidly after that.

I do not know of any women who, upon taking their tanning/bathing suit would put on another bathing suit. It's possible she used a different tanning/hot tub suit every day.

But I seriously doubt she had any time to change, after Barry came home. It was full on running amok after that (chipmunks according to Barry).

IMO

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

The info about the bleach smell in the house comes from Andy Moorman, Suzanne's brother, after his arrival at the house. He gave interviews. It's in the media thread.

IMO.

Thanks, I'll try to find it. But as you wrote above, I also don't think LE would have missed signs of a cleanup, so it's just bizarre. Didn't someone report at some point that the house always smelled like bleach, like she used it to clean or from the pool chemicals or something?

 

[SleuthBee]

If she had died in the house, I do not think LE and Forensics would have missed tell-tale evidence of various "body fluids" but also biochemicals associated with death.

He could try all he wanted to clean it up, to no avail. I think he planned from the beginning to avoid such evidence inside the house and made no attempts to clean anything up.

He did throw away a lot of stuff, though, but to add to that mound of trash by trying to clean up even more when he could simply have removed her still-breathing body, makes more sense. He had had volunteer fireman training, he had watched many, many animals die. He knew the drill.

She likely had already by tranq-shot by the time she tried to lock herself in the bedroom. The tranquilizer would not necessarily cause release of bowels or urine.

Hey, I know better than to disagree with you about this stuff ... NO WAY, LOL!

Will you at least offer a reason for the strong smell of bleach inside the house that night? i can't imagine what needed to be cleaned up.

@MassGuy has a point. BM may know things, but a smart man would have been a better husband to Suzanne

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

No way of knowing, but has been stating she was in a bathing suit, sending pictures to JL, when BM arrived home and things went down pretty rapidly after that.

I do not know of any women who, upon taking their tanning/bathing suit would put on another bathing suit. It's possible she used a different tanning/hot tub suit every day.

But I seriously doubt she had any time to change, after Barry came home. It was full on running amok after that (chipmunks according to Barry).

IMO

Oh agreed you wouldn't take off one bathing suit for another, but maybe she changed coincidentally before BM arrived home.

 

[SleuthBee]

Maybe ol' Barry was trying to be efficient and hung it, but Suzanne never would have.

I've never hung a bathing suit in a closet.

 

[10ofRods]

Hey, I know better than to disagree with you about this stuff ... NO WAY, LOL!

Will you at least offer a reason for the strong smell of bleach inside the house that night? i can't imagine what needed to be cleaned up.

@MassGuy has a point. BM may know things, but a smart man would have been a better husband to Suzanne

Barry's worries. After doing all that he did that afternoon/evening, he freaked out. They had chlorine on hand. He was worried that perhaps he had left evidence of what he had done. If he used a dart gun on her, surely he worried that some small amount of her blood might have oozed into the scene. It's even possible that he realized, belatedly, that LACK of Suzanne's DNA on certain items (forks, plates, cups) might tell a story.

All I know is that most H. sapiens living in America go to "bleach" when they want to clean anything from a crime scene. It's on hand, it is fairly effective, etc. A person who has just murdered is often most upset about being tied to the crime by things they can't see.

IMO

 

[K9Enzo]

Hey, I know better than to disagree with you about this stuff ... NO WAY, LOL!

Will you at least offer a reason for the strong smell of bleach inside the house that night? i can't imagine what needed to be cleaned up.

@MassGuy has a point. BM may know things, but a smart man would have been a better husband to Suzanne

I don’t think every thing that Andy M shared was reliable information. He was repeating second, even third hand information. At that time, he was featured heavily on Profiling Evil with one since departed host who imo took advantage of him and was way out in left field with his commentary. I always thought AM felt betrayed by that experience and completely went silent. There was probably not a bleach smell in the home. imo

 

[10ofRods]

Oh agreed you wouldn't take off one bathing suit for another, but maybe she changed coincidentally before BM arrived home.

She had about 2 minutes to do that and doesn't explain the Chipmunk Panic/Dashing about; nor do I think she had time to do so after he broke through the bedroom door.

Also, I believe Suzanne put the suit on in order to meet up with JL, and there is no coincidental double bikini after BM comes home. Her last picture shows her in the suit. Barry is home just a few minutes later.

She was already on the phone with JL, so unless she brought a second suit down to the deck area, she needed time to go back upstairs and change. There's no evidence of that.

What we have is a picture of her (in bathing suit) and then Barry's statement that, last seen, she was wearing a white fringe top and shorts. And, I believe, perhaps evidence that she tried to change out of the bathing suit (from the bedroom).

Barry trapped her. She thought she was going to have a little time with JL, and did not expect Barry home at all.

IMO

 

[Observer33]

I still don't think he killed her in the house.

I think he tranquilized her and may have further sedated her to keep her alive until he got to the burial location.

He may have transported her in the missing cooler.

By not killing her in the home, he then avoids all signs of death in the home, i.e. odors, vomit, body fluid releases etc.

I think he gets her to Moffat, suffocates her with a plastic trash bag. I don't think he manually strangulated her. Strangulation takes time and is hard. Suffocation of a sedated body is much easier. He could have even tied off the bag and buried her with it over her head.

He has her out of the vehicle lying on the desert floor, suffocation in process, while he is digging the hole. It could be a very quick process since she wasn't buried deep. I think he panicked and was shocked she was actually dead, so he dug a shallow grave, placed her and got back to the house.

I think his chipmunk hunt was getting everything together, removing cameras and any other devices he didn't want LE to find and checking to make sure there was nothing of SM's outside the house. Basically, tying up loose ends before transporting her to her final location.