Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #71 *ARREST*

[Curiousobserver]

Things may get a whole lot worse for JL. The FBI may have cleared him but the Defense may try to pin something on his “angry “ family.

https://twitter.com/russellhaythorn/status/1424850415296802832?s=21

Defense argues FBI hasn't interviewed anyone connected to man Suzanne was having an affair with, Jeff Libler. Defense: Mr. Libler's daughter and brother knew about affair, but have never been interviewed by FBI. Defense appears to be introducing possibility of alternate suspects.

Well, there is someone else with a motive they should have cleared…. I bet they did

 

[Trebor5591]

From day one of hearing "DNA found in Suzanne's car's glove box partially matched to three people in a criminal database for sexual assault."

Does anyone know the significance of this? I am drawing a blank. Might Barry us it to claim that Suzanne was hanging around with bad people?

 

[Fireflize]

The reboot is supposed to have happened after BM returned home -- most likely wiping out where he traveled after allegedly shooting her behind the house with the tranquilizer. I believe the truck does not leave again until after 3 AM.

I know disconnecting the battery to be true in my own vehicle as this will require me to reprogram my seats, radio, etc.. I haven't checked but the F-350 is pretty powerful and may even have two battery power sources (and probably two gas tanks). MOO

The reboot was at 5:33 pm on Saturday. That would indicate that he went somewhere in broad daylight, that he wanted to hide.
Do you think this is when he dumped her body? And the rest of the events were getting rid of evidence?
We know he was at Dresslin around 2:00. Could he have been trying to hide a trip to the spa store for chlorine?
Sorry for so many questions, my mind is so needing answers.

 

[Rusty123]

I am just guessing that they may have had these around the emergency services offices (fire, police, rescue) that Barry volunteered with and he helped himself one day. There might be a need to have them on hand for mountain lions and bears in the area.

Quite possibly the reason the Sheriff would not let fellow firefighters help search for her initially. He may have had inside knowledge of darts missing from the local fire station.. also another point about the blade replacement on the Bobcat. How can they rule out that he hadn’t damaged the blade digging a large hole or moving large boulders or concrete slabs in preparation for concealing her body?!. I’ve never read the explanation as to why they definitively ruled out the Bobcat in the investigation.

 

[AmandaReckonwith]

Updated.

Justice section of Suzanne Morphew Case Archive.
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I always appreciate messages about what I may be missing, and thank you to everyone here for all the posted news links.

 

[Angleterre]

Tranquilizer darts themselves are pretty easy to purchase, it's the medication used with them that is controlled so it would be interesting to find out who purchased the remaining three found in the Morphew home, assuming the dart cap found in the dryer was the remaining fourth. If they were bought under the purview of the firehouse why would BM have them in his possession? Would he be able to legally buy the sedative that is used in the dart?

The uses of the darts seem to be fairly benign for wildlife and farm creatures from what I've read. However, they can be much more lethal used on a human if said human has a combination of other things in their system like alcohol and/or antidepressants.

I was a good few hours behind in the threads and desperately wanted to make a comment on threads 69/70 about this tranquilliser cap but couldn’t because the threads were locked.
But firstly I need to ascertain what happens at your pre trial hearing that is currently taking place and if it is comparable to the U.K.
The pre trial hearing in the U.K. is effectively testing the evidence to ascertain if there is sufficient for a full trial to go ahead at a later date.
Therefore, the Prosecution and Defence will select certain witness statements and/or exhibits and expert witnesses and forensic scientists etc and have a sort of’ ‘Voire Dire’ ( hope that is spelled correctly) which means a trial within a trial . Now this is not exactly a trial within a trial but it is a mini trial to enable both the State and Defence to choose a selection of the evidence which they believe will help the trial judge decide if the evidence is strong enough for the full trial to go ahead at a later date. So I presume that the selection of evidence chosen will be some of your best and certainly in the U.K., the Prosecution have to give the Defence a list of what evidence that they will rely on. The Defence are supposed to give an overview of what they want to rely upon during this hearing in order to refute the charges against their client, but often don’t bother or it is so vaguely worded that it adds no value and generally they get away with this too.
Consequently, you will only hear a portion of the available evidence during this 4 day hearing .
Is my assumption correct if anyone of the verified attorneys can confirm? Is it a virtual similar process in the USA?
The reason that I ask is because if the Prosecution don’t use all their golden nuggets of evidence now, they will use it during the full trial . So we won’t necessarily get to know all of the evidence that they have especially because currently the AA is sealed.
So back to the tranquilliser dart cap. If it was found in the clothes dryer, one would presume that clothes have been washed and then BM has , once the wash cycle has finished, transferred said clothes directly to the dryer. Therefore it will be interesting to find out if the FBI or LE took the washing machine as an exhibit because when clothes are washed , there is always a residue of water left in the outlet pipe and before now , I have had a forensic scientist take swabs of the water and if there is a sufficient amount, take a sample of the water. This can then be tested to see if there are traces of either ketamine or fentanyl etc and this will then open up another trail of evidence in proving what exactly was in the tranquilliser gun and what’s Barry’s first hand account explanation on interview and does it correlate ( I suspect that it won’t now he’s had a chance to think about it ). So then it opens up the line of enquiry as to where he may have obtained it and when abs ultimately what for if it’s a substance that he doesn’t ordinarily use when hunting or as a firefighter etc . They may not have done this if the wash machine has since been used after he washed his clothes but taking a bet on that , with his girls not initially staying in the house, I bet it wasn’t used again before the warrant was executed and who knows , there could be golden nuggets if evidence such as this that we are yet to hear about and which will tie BM in knots . I watch with baited breath !

 

[Warwick7]

Someone mentioned this already but I tend to think that SM was incapacitated by the tranq dart and then loaded into the car (explains the passenger side door opening in the wee hours) and then brought to another location where she was murdered outside the vehicle. Can a tranq dart kill a 100 pound human? How long do effects last? I also keep thinking about the dart cap being found in the dryer vent. Do we know if the AA is referring to the mesh vent that is inside the dryer or is it referring to the vent that leads to the exterior of the house? Does anyone know where the bedroom is located where the sheets were stripped off the bed? Is that bedroom downstairs, upstairs or in basement?

I was thinking along those lines of him putting her in the truck or at least another vehicle, however the timing is off.

What I understand is the effects of the tranquilizer typically last about an hour, with residual effects for two or three hours.

I think there were things that he needed in the truck on both sides and I think there's things he needed to take out of the truck on both sides, that's why we see doors opening and closing.

 

[10ofRods]

The creek by their home is the most direct (and private) route to where her bike was found. Did he maybe walk that way to decide where to drop the bike?





I'm confused about the truck reboot. If not the door and gear data, what data did the reboot block?

All the times I mentioned above took place on 5/9, but there was "data" about the door openings less than an hour prior to the reboot. So where is the gap of missing data?

TIA for explanations.

GPS. The car's location is recorded in the module, so that the independent sensors on the doors (etc) are coordinated with locations.

So that you can get OnStar help or similar or reconstruct an accident, etc.

 

[DizzyB]

I am curious to know what Barry says he and Suzanne had for dinner on Saturday night. Was there trash from dinner, leftovers in the fridge, plates in a dish drainer? Was the bed made? Where exactly were those stripped sheets-folded neatly, still in the washer or dryer? Was Barry that good to think of every single thing to make it appear as if Suzanne was alive and asleep in bed on Mother’s Day at 5 am?

 

[branmuffin]

https://twitter.com/laurenscharftv/status/1424756367592730628?s=21

Mallory's bedsheets were stripped in the Morphew house. Neilsen said Barry Morphew would mention that Suzanne would clean the house before guests would arrive.

Do we know who the guests were and when they were arriving?

 

[MassGuy]

From day one of hearing "DNA found in Suzanne's car's glove box partially matched to three people in a criminal database for sexual assault."

Does anyone know the significance of this? I am drawing a blank. Might Barry us it to claim that Suzanne was hanging around with bad people?

I think the idea is to let everyone use their imaginations. The fact remains, the FBI would have figured out how this DNA could have gotten there, and where these guys were on the day in question.

One theory would be that 3 sexual predators abducted Suzanne and perhaps entered her car at some point.

My guess is that these guys may have serviced her car in some way (detailed it maybe).

 

[Warwick7]

I don't know, but it did occur to me that, if my understanding is correct, CO allows lesser included charges. So if the jury hangs up on First Degree - which it could, due to the photos being sent right before her demise - the Judge could issue instructions for Second Degree.

I don't think he'll reduce the charge or give Barry bail, but if it comes down to 1-2 jurors holding out for 2nd degree, I do think it's a possibility that in the end, that could be the conviction. But there would still be the additional charges...including the felony gun possession and the others. And I do not think the judge will give Barry the light side of that sentence - so he's going to the Big House for a good long 12-16 years in addition to time served, IMO. Maybe not LWOP, but still a good long time.

I do hope there's a first hand witness to some of the physical abuse. We shall see. I am not optimistic. I think Barry rarely slapped her and did not beat her. I think he terrorized her and as we have seen, he was in fact capable of murder. I wonder if the affair gave her motivation and courage (but boy do I wish she really had just moved out and run off with the guy - right now I'm thinking the guy really didn't want that, though).

Hi @10ofRods
:0)

I thought there was a tweet about BM slapping SM.
I could have remembered this wrong.

Also on May 8th she sent a message to her friend in the morning telling her Barry was being physically and emotionally abusive. I just don't know if it was that morning or the previous night.

 

[MassGuy]

As far as what happened after Barry tranquilized her (I’m convinced this is the state’s theory), I think there are two likely possibilities:

He immediately suffocated or strangled her.

He drowned her in the hot tub.

I think the next session should make it clear if chlorine factors in at all, which would increase the odds of the second option being the case.

 

[Truecolors]

From day one of hearing "DNA found in Suzanne's car's glove box partially matched to three people in a criminal database for sexual assault."

Does anyone know the significance of this? I am drawing a blank. Might Barry us it to claim that Suzanne was hanging around with bad people?

Maybe to suggest a Bad Guy rifled through her glove box in an attempted robbery before kidnapping her on her bike?

Is the defense sticking with the bike ride story?

I am curious to know what Barry says he and Suzanne had for dinner on Saturday night. Was there trash from dinner, leftovers in the fridge, plates in a dish drainer? Was the bed made? Where exactly were those stripped sheets-folded neatly, still in the washer or dryer? Was Barry that good to think of every single thing to make it appear as of Suzanne was alive and asleep in bed on Mother’s Day at 5 am?

These were big questions in my mind early on. Although, I have to say that no one in this house folds sheets neatly

There should be evidence that she ate breakfast, maybe made coffee before her “bike ride”, as well as signs of dinner the night before.

 

[Warwick7]

Checking a trail cam aimed at his wife?

I wonder if he had anything on her phone that tracked keystrokes.

Oh crumbs I didn't think of that. Crap!
He could have even seen the cam video from his phone.

 

[Knox]

Can someone repost the tweet about one if the darts missing from a package of four. What did Barry say about tranquilzer supplies again? Sorry catching up after a brain frying day at work.

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/laurenscharftv/status/1424783832306290695?s=21

Walker is being cross-examined now by DA Stanley. She is asking about Morphew's guns. He had a safe in the garage and not all of the guns were inside like Barry said. A gun was found in the closet near the garage door, a shotgun up against the wall in the garage.

 

[Gardenista]

I did some reading about the Ford Telematics system and found that replacing a fuse can fix it. I can't link because what I found is on Ford forums and the like, but I wonder if BM pulled the fuse to disable it.

 

[AnnaGrace]

It makes a lot of sense, caliber wise - also, it's supposed to be used for "up close" shooting. Easy to conceal under a jacket. Would be lovely if there were traces of tranquilizer chemicals in it.

Indeed, there has to be a reason that the gun was mentioned in a separate chart. Barry probably thought they couldn't trace it because, um, he had changed states. While he's cagey, he's smart only in the opportunistic way of an antisocial person (which often overlaps with narcissism). He doesn't read and study and know things.

I agree with this. The timing does make sense and I was wondering if it would be likely that he used the short rifle. I just don't know that much about rifles and especially what kind you would use with darts.

 

[BeachSky]

I am thinking JL wishes he could put toothpaste back in the tube, bad enough to get caught in a affair by the FBI, having to fess up to the spouse and kids, and then worst scenario wife boots him out and his love interest is not waiting in the wings because she is dead. Nothing stated about wife booting him out! JMO

Seriously , JL must of felt so scared the day he heard she was missing.
Somehow . Somewhere... we need to give him that.
I mean. Wow as time went by...just heart wrenching reality sadness for him .

MOO