Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #58 *ARREST*

[Ssschu]

Did anyone ever find more information on the TN comment regarding who was living at home or Suzanne's living arrangement when she went missing?

I found that comment to be quite perplexing.

"Noel declined to comment if Suzanne had children or who she lived with. No further details were provided."
Family offers $200k reward for missing woman’s ‘safe return, no questions asked’ | FOX21 News Colorado

Very perplexing indeed. TN was weirdly evasive in a lot of ways including not wanting his face shown. A lot of red flags went up when I listened to that carefully crafted and contrived interview he did on the news. Why be so cagey when the goal is to find a missing loved one??

 

[swedeheart]

Barry Morphew Arrest and Colorado Crimes That Go National

Interesting article about Colorado crimes that go national.

 

[Woodberry]

I just searched PPP loans for BM’s business. Voila!
https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/sunset-farms-llc-salida-co

ETA: approved 5/2/2020, eight days before she was reported missing...

Interesting. IIRC it was established at some point around the time of Lauren Scharf's interview of MG that BM "employees" were treated as individual contractors and not actual employees for which payroll taxes were withheld.

‘I’m not the other woman’: Second contractor speaks out about Suzanne Morphew investigation | FOX21 News Colorado

The PPP loan at the link above covered 9 payroll employees. The PPP loans per the link below did not cover paying independent contractors as they could apply for their own PPP loan. Independent contractors are not included in payroll costs and are considered a business expense.

Paycheck Protection Program FAQs | Prudent Lenders.

So if the PPP loan that was applied for referenced 9 payroll employees...um, I wonder where they are?

MOO

 

[SouthAussie]

Interesting. IIRC it was established at some point around the time of Lauren Scharf's interview of MG that BM "employees" were treated as individual contractors and not actual employees for which payroll taxes were withheld.

‘I’m not the other woman’: Second contractor speaks out about Suzanne Morphew investigation | FOX21 News Colorado

The PPP loan at the link above covered 9 payroll employees. The PPP loans per the link below did not cover paying independent contractors as they could apply for their own PPP loan. Independent contractors are not included in payroll costs and are considered a business expense.

Paycheck Protection Program FAQs | Prudent Lenders.

So if the PPP loan that was applied for referenced 9 payroll employees...um, I wonder where they are?

MOO

Sounds like more fraud. Probably counting on not being audited.


The Treasury Department said it plans to automatically audit all PPP loans larger than $2 million. Smaller loans most likely won’t be targeted for audit, but some “spot checks” will occur. Additionally, banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (the single largest lender of PPP loans) said they would investigate instances of borrowers misusing PPP funds.
How to Get Your PPP Loan Forgiven

 

[Whiteorchids]

Interesting. IIRC it was established at some point around the time of Lauren Scharf's interview of MG that BM "employees" were treated as individual contractors and not actual employees for which payroll taxes were withheld.

‘I’m not the other woman’: Second contractor speaks out about Suzanne Morphew investigation | FOX21 News Colorado

The PPP loan at the link above covered 9 payroll employees. The PPP loans per the link below did not cover paying independent contractors as they could apply for their own PPP loan. Independent contractors are not included in payroll costs and are considered a business expense.

Paycheck Protection Program FAQs | Prudent Lenders.

So if the PPP loan that was applied for referenced 9 payroll employees...um, I wonder where they are?

MOO

That interview with MG speaks volumes, for one that she’s afraid of BM and his behavior was off, he was acting strange and the strong chlorine smell in that hotel burned her eyes. I always thought she knew a lot more and perhaps that’s why BM got arrested. BM fired her after she turned over her cell to LE. Very telling IMO along with everything else she had to say.

 

[SouthAussie]

That interview with MG speaks volumes, for one that she’s afraid of BM and his behavior was off, he was acting strange and the strong chlorine smell in that hotel burned her eyes. I always thought she knew a lot more and perhaps that’s why BM got arrested. BM fired her after she turned over her cell to LE. Very telling IMO along with everything else she had to say.

She also sounds suspicious about why he cleared out his truck. Right when Suzanne went missing.
Evidently, not something she considered normal behaviour, having worked with him for so long.

“It looked like Barry had emptied out his truck… all kinds of stuff that we didn’t need to do a retaining wall.”

 

[Trackergd]

If BM disposed of SM piecemeal in various locations (and resulting need for cleanup) when he had 400+ acres of empty land available outside his back door to dig a post hole and dispose of the remains where they would have had a very, very low probability of being located, it has to be one of the biggest bone headed moves in homicide history. I was really thinking that the hotel and the beach feature were much like the bike scene, to draw attention away from the real area of activity and disposal. " I have a good friend who was the Chief of Police in a small town in NJ. My favorite quote from him is "Thank God the majority of criminals are extremely stupid, it makes my job much easier".

 

[MsBetsy]

She also sounds suspicious about why he cleared out his truck. Right when Suzanne went missing.
Evidently, not something she considered normal behaviour, having worked with him for so long.

“It looked like Barry had emptied out his truck… all kinds of stuff that we didn’t need to do a retaining wall.”

At one point we speculated that he removed his tools to make room in his toolbox. A body would fit in one of those large toolboxes meant for the back of a truck. Imo

 

[MsBetsy]

Interesting. IIRC it was established at some point around the time of Lauren Scharf's interview of MG that BM "employees" were treated as individual contractors and not actual employees for which payroll taxes were withheld.

‘I’m not the other woman’: Second contractor speaks out about Suzanne Morphew investigation | FOX21 News Colorado

The PPP loan at the link above covered 9 payroll employees. The PPP loans per the link below did not cover paying independent contractors as they could apply for their own PPP loan. Independent contractors are not included in payroll costs and are considered a business expense.

Paycheck Protection Program FAQs | Prudent Lenders.

So if the PPP loan that was applied for referenced 9 payroll employees...um, I wonder where they are?

MOO

The other employees were probably MG, JP, and whoever it was that Barry claimed messed up the wall job. I don't know who the fourth could be. Imo

 

[SteelCity91]

Another big check incoming
"Sunset Farms LLC is a limited liability company (LLC) located at 19057 Puma Path in Salida, Colorado that received a Coronavirus-related PPP loan from the SBA of $53,745.00 in May, 2020.
https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/sunset-farms-llc-salida-co

Did Suzanne know about this activity? With him in prison, who pays the loan back?
.

My father-in-law has a construction business and last year his company applied for that PPP loan. My husband is a worker for his business. He does NOT have to pay the loan back BUT he has to show proof that the money is going to all his employees as a pay check. If my father-in-law, was to keep that money to himself then he would have to pay that loan back to the bank but since he showed proof every week, he didn’t have to pay it back. My husband did have to pay taxes on that this year. Hopefully that made sense

I would think for BM's situation, he has to show proof that the money is going toward his employees. In that article, if I'm reading it correctly, he filed for 9 employees. So he would have to give a weekly/bi weekly paycheck to his employees. But I doubt BM did it correctly and he kept it all to himself..IMO IMO!

 

[SouthAussie]

The other employees were probably MG, JP, and whoever it was that Barry claimed messed up the wall job. I don't know who the fourth could be. Imo

There is also a CC mentioned in this article ....

Barry, Puckett, and Gentile have said a third employee, Cassidy Cordova, was also hired to work on that Broomfield job.
‘I’m not the other woman’: Second contractor speaks out about Suzanne Morphew investigation | FOX21 News Colorado

 

[MsBetsy]

There is also a CC mentioned in this article ....

Barry, Puckett, and Gentile have said a third employee, Cassidy Cordova, was also hired to work on that Broomfield job.
‘I’m not the other woman’: Second contractor speaks out about Suzanne Morphew investigation | FOX21 News Colorado

Yeah, I'm not sure if CC was ever fired, though. He's the only one who refused to speak to the media. We also don't know who his regular employees were and who he only used for certain jobs. He may not have needed nine workers if he wasn't getting much work. Imo

 

[SouthAussie]

Yeah, I'm not sure if CC was ever fired, though. He's the only one who refused to speak to the media. We also don't know who his regular employees were and who he only used for certain jobs. He may not have needed nine workers if he wasn't getting much work. Imo

For all we know he might have included Suzanne and his daughters as employees, who did book work and ordered supplies and did other ficticious things for him.

If he was never audited, he never would have had to prove anything.
And if he did have to prove anything, he could have spent some hours on his home accounting package producing ficticious payslips. If the govt never did a cross check with the IRS, they would never know.

From what I posted a little further back, they were/are only doing spot checks of people who got loans under $2,000,000. Chances are he was never spot checked.

 

[kshultz06082]

Agreed.
Speculation : Maybe Barry's sister went with them ?
Theory : Not sure if it was the one with the ankle monitor , according to the relative.
It's possible that whomever was at the house that fateful weekend also went with the girls on the camping trip.
But we don't know yet.

It'll come out at the trial as LE have looked into the minutiae of the events starting from May 8th -- in LE's own words as they requested footage from the 8th.
There has to be a reason they want to know who was at the Morphew house starting from that date.
It's like they (LE) knew a countdown for Suzanne's death had started , and want to know who the occupants and visitors were , during the fateful weekend ?
Who was actually living there when Suzanne was murdered, and who were the people just visiting ??
Again this will be revealed during the trial.
Imo.

Who has an ankle bracelet?

Also, weren't we told that the girls left for their trip on Wednesday May 7th with Barry's sister? I remember this but can't recall if it came from Andy or Lauren.

 

[303gmf]

Barry Morphew Arrest and Colorado Crimes That Go National

Interesting article about Colorado crimes that go national.

Thanks for finding!
Have loved Westword for many years, brave writing

 

[155etta]

Another big check incoming
"Sunset Farms LLC is a limited liability company (LLC) located at 19057 Puma Path in Salida, Colorado that received a Coronavirus-related PPP loan from the SBA of $53,745.00 in May, 2020.
https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/sunset-farms-llc-salida-co

Did Suzanne know about this activity? With him in prison, who pays the loan back?
.

DBM

 

[MsBetsy]

Thanks for finding!
Have loved Westword for many years, brave writing

I'm not sure I would agree with their claim that Barry made himself the public face for the search for Suzanne or that he pleaded for her return on every platform he could find.

I think he avoided all media until he felt he had to defend himself. He only "pleaded" for her safe return once, from what I remember.

 

[Ontario Mom]

I just searched PPP loans for BM’s business. Voila!
https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/sunset-farms-llc-salida-co

ETA: approved 5/2/2020, eight days before she was reported missing...

I'm a little confused on the PPP loan. If BM didn't actually have 9 employees, isn't this fraud?

 

[fcavanaugh]

I'm not sure I would agree with their claim that Barry made himself the public face for the search for Suzanne or that he pleaded for her return on every platform he could find.

I think he avoided all media until he felt he had to defend himself. He only "pleaded" for her safe return once, from what I remember.

I noticed that. I think it’s likely a misprint. IMO, they’re referring to Andy, as they posted the clip of Andy’s appearance on Dr.Phil just below the info about being the public face of the search, which yeah, we know BM definitely was not the public face of the search for Suzanne.

Yes, he “pleaded” for Suzanne’s safe return exactly once. one week post her “disappearance”, which was posted to Facebook on 5/17/20.

IMHOO

#FindSuzanne
#BringSuzanneHome
#JusticeForSuzanne

ETA-words, punctuation

 

[RickshawFan]

Friend* who has known BM "a number of years" says: "He knows those woods and Colorado better than anybody out there...he hunted and fished every day of his life." bbm
Friend's stmt may pass smell test for MSM reporter or a youtuber, but not in court, imo.
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Trying to visualize friend testifying re ^ in court for def. team, then the cross exam.
CX Q's:
Did you hunt & fish w BM every day?
If not every day, how often? Oh, once a month/twice a year? etc
How many years?
If you personally did not go hunting or fishing w him, how did you know BM did this daily?
Oh, you lived close by?
Did you see BM load & unload gear, coolers in his pickup/vehicle daily?

Oh, so it was BM who told you he hunted & fished daily?
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Sorry, doubting friend's stmt re daily hunting & fishing is anything but hyperbole. And what about-
- Their friendship? Friends IRL or mostly on FB? Has he known BM only since the M's moved to PP? If so, only ~three yrs.
- Knows "those woods better than anybody"? No lifelong CO resident - maybe a hunting or fishing outfitter/guide - knows CO woods better than a IN man who hunted there - what, two or three times a year - and has lived there for approx 3 yrs??? Oh really?
my2ct.
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* 'Killer' Barry Morphew's pal claims he 'would know where to hide a body'

I get a kick over how he describes the landscape as having “woods”, when barely a tree can grow in many places nearish PP, and tree clusters are generally considered “forest” there. “Woods” is very East Coast IME, and often has deciduous growth.