Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #55 *ARREST*

[Puzzles8]

Not that I'm aware of - he bought a lot in Salida and somehow we learned the intention was to build a home for his mom.

But I believe he sold it. He sold every property he had in CO, and I believe a couple of people here went over the records in the last thread. I believe he sold most of what they had in Indiana too.

They had $500,000 from Suzanne's inheritance in the Puma house, plus another $1M from somewhere (there have been rumors about mortgage/no mortgage - I don't think we know). But he would have gotten maybe $450,000 out of it (realtor's fees) unless they paid cash for the whole thing in which case he's got $1.5M there. The deal in Indiana netted him something like $800,000.

So he has at least $1.2 million plus the money from the vacant lot. Plus who knows what else.

I wonder where he was planning on going - back to Indiana, I suppose.

BBM - Many threads ago, an insider (from IN) shared he sold his Indiana business for over a million before they moved to Colorado.

 

[Error505]

I am far behind, but a new Case Archive has a beginning.
I will catch up as fast as I can.

JUSTICE for Suzanne:
JUSTICE for Suzanne

The Case Archive up to May 5 is here:
Suzanne Morphew -CO-

Thank you for all the work you do preserving all the information on these cases @AmandaReckonwith

 

[gliving]

Barry did not love Suzanne at all. He could not have pretended worse. My bet is- he didn’t like her, her group, community, or religion. He was pretending, to be viewed as the respectful pillar of the community, and to get clients. It is called mimicry.

Here's where we differ. I think Barry was crazy in love with Suzanne. It was Suzanne's distancing herself from him that drove him over the edge. A fragile ego, he craved her approval. When she didn't feed his need, he couldn't handle it.

 

[Charlot123]

They all have the same vibe.

Sort of different, to me. One is still young, one seems to rapidly go through midlife crisis, and it probably shapes his decisions. One is so tired of an active wife, debts and two young kids that he finds another woman who, he hopes, will be better marriage material. And he annihilates his whole family so that he could start anew with this woman, because she wants to have own kids, not raise someone else's. Not realizing that once again he will have to go through exactly the same thing that made him so overwhelmed, family, house, babies and kids... Had CW, by any strike of luck, got away with murders, my guess is, he'd snap even faster in his second marriage, because as soon as the woman had gotten what she wanted, home and kids, she'd stop paying exclusive attention to CW and he'd view her as another Shanann.

Barry seems to be more social and gregarious, more sure of himself as a man and more wordy. He reminds me of a collector who would kill for a rare coin he is eager to obtain, to make collection full, but not for something he's already seen many times. JMO.

 

[TKG]

I'm sorry if i've missed this being addressed. Would someone elucidate why he would be awarded a public defender? I am no expert on the criteria utilized to determine qualification but I thought is was well below what we see as BM's assets. The PP home just sold for 1.62 with no mortgage. Am I missing something?

 

[Charlot123]

Here's where we differ. I think Barry was crazy in love with Suzanne. It was Suzanne's distancing herself from him that drove him over the edge. A fragile ego, he craved her approval. When she didn't feed his need, he couldn't handle it.

Suzanne just went through chemotherapy. His behavior during her illness tells me there was no love on his part. I have seen what love is, observing a close family member dying from leukemia, and how her husband took care of her. Barry's attitude during Suzanne's illness tells it all. The only feeling he had towards her was that of proud ownership. She looked youthful, and was beautiful and looked very high class. As soon as she got ill and her looks changed, if even temporarily, it was a deal breaker for him. There is no way he loved her. Not even close. JMO.

 

[kittythehare]

Sort of different, to me. One is still young, one seems to rapidly go through midlife crisis, and it probably shapes his decisions. One is so tired of an active wife, debts and two young kids that he finds another woman who, he hopes, will be better marriage material. And he annihilates his whole family so that he could start anew with this woman, because she wants to have own kids, not raise someone else's. Not realizing that once again he will have to go through exactly the same thing that made him so overwhelmed, family, house, babies and kids... Had CW, by any strike of luck, got away with murders, my guess is, he'd snap even faster in his second marriage, because as soon as the woman had gotten what she wanted, home and kids, she'd stop paying exclusive attention to CW and he'd view her as another Shanann.

Barry seems to be more social and gregarious, more sure of himself as a man and more wordy. He reminds me of a collector who would kill for a rare coin he is eager to obtain, to make collection full, but not for something he's already seen many times. JMO

I experience him as rough and uncouth.
'A desperado waitin' on a train'-old Eagles song.

I believe he was experiencing a mid life crisis, feeling his youth slipping away, finding himself attracted to younger women, doing his damndest to get his (ugly, IMO) body in shape to charm the young ones..
Experienced his wife as frumpy and used.
Liked to control all and sundry in a desperate effort to revive his fading testosterone, had a secret internet life, possibly used *advertiser censored*, engaged in behaviour in which he could dominate others.. saw women as chattels, to be used ad discarded.. was greedy and violent.
I see no love there, not even a memory of love.
Cruelty was his game.
He took it to the ultimate level.
I imagine her death was savagely cruel and prolonged.
These are just my uninformed imaginings and I'd really like to be dead wrong about all of it.
I despise him physically, mentally and psychically.
IMO JMO etc.

 

[303gmf]

I'm sorry if i've missed this being addressed. Would someone elucidate why he would be awarded a public defender? I am no expert on the criteria utilized to determine qualification but I thought is was well below what we see as BM's assets. The PP home just sold for 1.62 with no mortgage. Am I missing something?

Same question!
Expected he’d have researched a criminal attorney and had on speed dial

 

[tmar]

I really am toying between two separate motives/theories here. One is very similar to Chris Watts’ and the excitement of a new life. The other relates to Suzanne having “had enough” and making steps to leave. Regardless, both motives have a strong financial underpinning, motivated by greed, along with a huge amount of narcissism on B’s part. All of this and the below is JMO.

Theory 1 - The new life!

Middle aged man, perhaps going through a mid life crisis, but also plagued by narcissism and the need to be adored. Hangs around with a younger crowd, gym go-er, wants to stay relevant. Appearances are important - the house, the cars, the beautiful wife and children, but it all became boring for him eventually. He wanted more. He wanted excitement that a new life could bring. He sought out that new life, perhaps found a new woman who adored him, perhaps one who idolised him, who put him on a pedestal and it made him feel good. Suzanne loved him, but it was too comfortable. She also saw the worst sides of him, and he didn’t like people knowing about those aspects of his character. Narcissists hate it when they are exposed. Suzanne’s recent C diagnosis set the wheels in motion. He left the relationship emotionally, not that he needed that as an excuse because he was morally lacking anyway. Suzanne recovered, and this messed up his plan(s) for his new life. He couldn’t leave her, there was too much at stake and he would lose everything. So, in order to have what he wanted, Suzanne needed to disappear. He set the wheels in motion. He could have everything they owned, plus his new life, if she were no longer around.

Theory 2 - Suzanne was ready to leave

After years of control, potentially abuse (perhaps psychologically, not necessary physically), Suzanne saw the light, took back control, and made plans to leave him. I only suggest the control and abuse based on reports from those who knew Barry suggesting that he was aggressive and controlling. He moved her away from everything and everyone she knew. Control. Isolation. I also reach my own conclusions about abuse from the photographs I’ve seen of B&S together. Yes she looks happy, but he looks like a “my way or the highway” type of character. I’m not for one second suggesting that Suzanne was meek and mild, but a loving wife and mother who wanted to keep everyone happy, until she realised she wasn’t happy.

Discussions had taken place ref a separation, it wouldn’t have ended well for Barry financially, so he wouldn’t let it happen. Suzanne would to move back to IN in this scenario, the IN house sale hadn’t been finalised so that worked in her favour, and she would block the sale. Regardless, a separation wouldn’t end well for Barry, they discussed lots of possible scenarios, and he wasn’t happy with any of them. He would lose everything. The beautiful family, the beautiful doting wife, the house, the cars. Essentially everything that allowed him to give off the impression of the perfect life. Everything that made him feel powerful. The only way to not lose these things, would be if Suzanne were to disappear.

In both scenarios, Barry was to gain from Suzanne’s disappearance. Plans were made, people were conveniently not around that weekend, flaky alibis were set up, and he made sure that Suzanne would no longer be a barrier to the life he wanted.

Referring back to his use of control, I think he strangled her. I think he (I’m sorry to say this) needed her body to be easy to dispose of so he dismembered her in the home (Andy M suggested that bleach had been smelt at the PP home and we know about the H Inn). I think she lay dead when he was at the work site Saturday morning, or parts of her anyway, when MG suggested that his behaviour was “off” and he sent her home early, because he knew what he had to get home to take care of business.

How he disposed of her I don’t know, but I feel that he did so across various locations, using his machinery, hence why the dogs picked up multiple scents in multiple locations.

What next? Well, my new life starts now! Gotta sell the IN home! Gotta sell the PP home after I manipulate my daughters in to no longer wanting to live there! Gotta sell the land. Let’s free up some assets and build a new life! A new girlfriend who may or may not have been in the picture romantically before Suzanne disappeared Video shows moment husband is arrested for murdering missing mom Suzanne Morphew | Daily Mail Online and essentially, the life which motivated him to do what he did in the first place.

Now? In custody. Will lose everything. The life he used to want. The life he no longer wanted. The life he came to want. Gone!

I hope it was all worth it Barry! And this is why I prefer cats to humans

Great summary.
I'll add to this about dogs being mates to some of us.

 

[osu]

Lauren Scharf

Looks like Barry’s nephew Trevor Noel disabled new donations to the fundraiser to find #Suzanne that #BarryMorphew had asked him to create to find his wife. Law enforcement said her body has not been recovered. @FOX21News #FindSuzanneMorphew

https://twitter.com/laurenscharftv/status/1390475274525970435?s=21

 

[Cindizzi]

Jinx @Cindizzi -- I just added the same that the protection order issued today is mandatory for ALL criminal proceedings (Colorado Revised Statutes Section 18-1-1001).

You added a great explainer too! I remember looking this up last year when the documents came out on Letecia and folks all over social media were saying that her daughter HH was “in protective custody “ because they saw “protective order”. I try to share the knowledge I get here!
See attached for the wording on LS protective order from her first court appearance.

 

[tmar]

I like how he doesn't hold the door for her (1st photo), walks several feet in front of her (2nd photo), and doesn't appear to be going to her side of the truck to open the door for her (3rd photo). What a gentleman.

Yep, 'in charge', big, important man.
YUK.

 

[Seattle1]

But there was a livestream. The "if not for COVID" makes no difference. They ought not to have made it a public livestream (period, full stop) if they did not want the world watching it - which the world did. By now, tens of thousands have viewed it.

I don't think you are getting what I'm arguing. "Except for the official court record" (I am arguing that the livestream was in fact officially produced by the court, even though the court apparently didn't intend to - they ought not to have done it). Then, apparently thinking they were only streaming the audible component, they streamed the whole thing. How can a judge hold someone who is trying to stream the audio accountable for the fact that the Court also included the visuals?

What the law intends to disallow is someone coming into court and livestreaming, recording etc on their own. This livestream was actually streamed by the Court - and a bunch of people tuned in to listen (several youtubers) and got the full thing.

Perhaps OP will take the word of a Colorado Attorney during his guest appearance on Profiling Evil when the subject WebEx video of today's Advisement hearing was first seen on the host's screen prior to any sound.

At about the 6:25 mark - Attorney Scott Reisch recognizes the WebEx screen and suggests that Mike King stop the Webex replay ( PE recorded) prior to the hearing evening beginning to play.

Scott did not want to see the illegal replay of the hearing and also did not want Profiling Evil to get in trouble, period.

It's OK to observe the hearing but any interpretation that a technical mistake by the court makes it OK to record and/or replay WebEx hearing holds no water.

5/6/21 - Barry Morphew Hearing - Discussion.

 

[Seattle1]

I'm sorry if i've missed this being addressed. Would someone elucidate why he would be awarded a public defender? I am no expert on the criteria utilized to determine qualification but I thought is was well below what we see as BM's assets. The PP home just sold for 1.62 with no mortgage. Am I missing something?

Today was BM's first appearance in court (Arraignment Hearing) which usually takes place the next business day following an arrest. A Public Defender is typically available to the defendant at the Advisement Hearing due to the close timing and is not likely BM's permanent counsel. Before BM is appointed a Public Defender, he has to meet certain income level requirements -- BM's not dealt with that yet.

 

[Seattle1]

BBM - Many threads ago, an insider (from IN) shared he sold his Indiana business for over a million before they moved to Colorado.

It was never clear to me if the alleged sale of BM's business, at a sales price exceeding a million dollars, was the VI's opinion that such a sale occurred (i.e., a source Morphew funds), prompting their semi-retirement move to Colorado, or if it was based on fact. Anybody recall?

 

[TKG]

Today was BM's first appearance in court (Arraignment Hearing) which usually takes place the next business day following an arrest. A Public Defender is typically available to the defendant at the Advisement Hearing due to the close timing and is not likely BM's permanent counsel. Before BM is appointed a Public Defender, he has to meet certain income level requirements -- BM's not dealt with that yet.

Interesting... Thank you for explaining the temporary nature of the assignment, for now!

 

[dizzychick]

The public defender vs paid criminal defense attorney situation will be a big tell imo. If BM ends up with a public defender after all the cash he has accumulated in the past year, it paints a very intriguing financial motive scenario.

they may not take that cash if there is a possibility it could be drug money or some other ill-gotten gain. I worked for a lawyer in Dallas back in the '80s who refused a big duffle bag full of money for a drug case. I was so young back then and he didn't explain to me exactly why he refused it. The guy was ticked off when he left lol

 

[dizzychick]

LS reported that she tried to speak to a "friend of BM's" but was told by deputies that she was unavailable and that multiple LE cars were parked at her house. I'm assuming that she is referring to BM's girlfriend. If true, is it common for LE to have the girlfriend of a suspect bottled up and keeping the crowds away from her or is this unusual? Maybe the girlfriend stumbled upon some evidence implicating BM and turned it over to LE to help tip the case and is now an important witness? Total speculation on my part but it seems odd that she would be getting this kind of attention if there wasn't more to her than just being his girlfriend. Thoughts?

maybe he talked in his sleep lol LE can't babysit her forever, the Daily Mail will be at her house tomorrow I betcha

 

[Charlot123]

I experience him as rough and uncouth.
'A desperado waitin' on a train'-old Eagles song.

I believe he was experiencing a mid life crisis, feeling his youth slipping away, finding himself attracted to younger women, doing his damndest to get his (ugly, IMO) body in shape to charm the young ones..
Experienced his wife as frumpy and used.
Liked to control all and sundry in a desperate effort to revive his fading testosterone, had a secret internet life, possibly used *advertiser censored*, engaged in behaviour in which he could dominate others.. saw women as chattels, to be used ad discarded.. was greedy and violent.
I see no love there, not even a memory of love.
Cruelty was his game.
He took it to the ultimate level.
I imagine her death was savagely cruel and prolonged.
These are just my uninformed imaginings and I'd really like to be dead wrong about all of it.
I despise him physically, mentally and psychically.
IMO JMO etc.

You are right about a lot of aspects.

Yes, when men get older and can’t perform, they inevitably blame it on women. And we all know the side effects of many “body shapers” so to say.

And to add to it, Suzanne got ill. I think his behavior was an eye opener for her though, and since that time, things escalated fast.

 

[Seattle1]

Interesting... Thank you for explaining the temporary nature of the assignment, for now!

I'll be anxious to see if a new attorney files a notice of appearance for BM before May 27 when BM appears before the Court to hear the charges against him.

So many rumors that BM has liquidated all his assets and is now a renter. It will be interesting if he claims he cannot afford a lawyer and requests one appointed for him.

If BM claims that SM might be alive and that he's innocent, I wonder if he'll claim that half of the proceeds from the liquidation are in trust for his ward, SM.

So many things to come -- can't wait to see the arrest affidavit!

ETA: If a defendant is in custody - they are entitled to a Public Defender --regardless of their wealth.