Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #13

[HongKongPhooey]

So all this investigation of "the husband" and nothing has come up. Sheriff must be disappointed. A month has gone by with 3 different agencies on the case. I know I will get alot of flack and I am not going to read it, but this is really really concerning.

To be fair, we have no idea where their investigation is at. We only found out about the blood in Gannon's room when the AA came out. I think they tend to share more and be more vocal when they have little. When they have a lot, they dont need to go public.

JM observations

 

[oviedo]

4 weeks today reported missing - I’ve often wondered what the last day someone saw or spoke with her - not released yet ...
JMO

 

[Poedelini]

If you look at her Facebook account, you can see she stopped posting BM’s pics in April 2017. From then on there were only a few posts of her, her daughters or her IN house that was put up for sale.

We don't know if all posts are set to public. Jmo

 

[Yemelyan]

If you look at her Facebook account, you can see she stopped posting BM’s pics in April 2017. From then on there were only a few posts of her, her daughters or her IN house that was put up for sale.

Well, she stopped posting a lot of things publicly. We have no idea what her friends could see. I think most people agree it's best to limit what people see who aren't your actual friends. Some people come to this realization sooner rather than later on Facebook but it could be that the end of the pictures was just her realization that she needed to be more private about what she posted.

 

[happyday]

The thing is 49 year old women just don’t get abducted from a bike very often. Do 49 year old women have bike accidents? Sure, but they would be somewhere in the vicinity.

I’m so tired of women going missing and made to look like it was something they did wrong. Biking alone, hiking alone, running alone. Vulnerable woman, shouldn’t have been out biking where there are mountain lions, big cliffs, bad people waiting to abduct her.

Sorry but there’s a reason husbands are the first looked at. Very good reason. Sometimes they get lucky, but I hope Suzanne gets justice.

 

[Barry]

I think the biggest clue we have, is what LE is not doing, and not saying. Ancillary things such as the guardianship, etc. may or may not have any bearing on the case. As pointed out in earlier posts, there could be explainable reasons why family posts stopped, and why the guardianship proceedings. Coincidental sideshows seem to show up in these types of cases, and it's uncanny at times. I think the real evidence in this case is well known to LE. They are not sharing this, which leaves us to twist in the wind, lol.

 

[Curious-A]

If SM had a bike accident and/or was attacked by a mountain lion and dragged across a road and up a mountain on a beautiful Mother’s Day morning imo I’m thinking there could been at least a few cyclists, hikers, motorists who would have seen something and reported it and/or tried to help her. Jmo

 

[Lilypad13]

4 weeks today reported missing - I’ve often wondered what the last day someone saw or spoke with her - not released yet ...
JMO

I can’t believe it’s been 4 weeks already!

 

[osu]

If SM had a bike accident and/or was attacked by a mountain lion and dragged across a road and up a mountain on a beautiful Mother’s Day morning imo I’m thinking there could been at least a few cyclists, hikers, motorists who would have seen something and reported it and/or tried to help her. Jmo

Agree. There would be some kind of evidence left behind from an animal attack.

Just to jump off your post and bring up the strange car reportedly parked alongside the road nearby. I think I mentioned in a previous thread that I watched of video made by two local women (who seem to know the area well) and they drove around showing all of the different areas around the Morphew home.

In their video it was a sunny day much like it would’ve been on Mother’s Day and there were a lot of people out. There were cars and trucks pulled off all along the small roads back in there. You could see families fishing at Fooses’s Lake and at the creek and I assumed it was their cars that were parked up on the road. When the women drove past Foose’s Dam there was a pickup with no one inside parked right in the middle of the road blocking their way through.

IMHO, it’s a very popular area for fishing, hiking and biking and not unusual at all to see cars parked along those roads.

JMO

 

[debrat007]

The thing is 49 year old women just don’t get abducted from a bike very often. Do 49 year old women have bike accidents? Sure, but they would be somewhere in the vicinity.

I’m so tired of women going missing and made to look like it was something they did wrong. Biking alone, hiking alone, running alone. Vulnerable woman, shouldn’t have been out biking where there are mountain lions, big cliffs, bad people waiting to abduct her.

Sorry but there’s a reason husbands are the first looked at. Very good reason. Sometimes they get lucky, but I hope Suzanne gets justice.

She was a beautiful woman. Dr. Suzanne (?)was killed in Greece jogging. She was beautiful and mid fifties and yesterday read suspect being looked at for Maddie McCann Disappearance had brutally raped a 70 year old. It happens. There are sick people out there. I’d like to know more about the suspicious vehicle reported by the trail that day.

 

[K9Enzo]

The thing is 49 year old women just don’t get abducted from a bike very often. Do 49 year old women have bike accidents? Sure, but they would be somewhere in the vicinity.

I’m so tired of women going missing and made to look like it was something they did wrong. Biking alone, hiking alone, running alone. Vulnerable woman, shouldn’t have been out biking where there are mountain lions, big cliffs, bad people waiting to abduct her.

Sorry but there’s a reason husbands are the first looked at. Very good reason. Sometimes they get lucky, but I hope Suzanne gets justice.

I love the bolded. So true! Let’s put it on a t-shirt.

Several day backpacking trips I always go with my husband. We really enjoy backpacking together. Even with my fancy gps w/maps, I’m not a confident land navigator in the back country, plus he makes great meals on the trail & he’s hot (lol).

But I do local day hikes alone often. I take safety precautions (that I’m serious about). I enjoy that time alone. Granted, I always have one pointy eared dog with me, that loves his mom & would dare someone to make his day.

All joking aside, great post. I also don’t like when people say - why did she go alone to bike ride, hike, run? *clutch my pearls* because she wanted to.

Some outdoor activities are not shared by everyone you know, then people’s schedules conflict if you do want to go with someone. Then before you know it, you end up staying home because you couldn’t meet up with someone. That stinks.

Undesirables are out there. I’m not dismissing that at all. Accidents happen & if you’re alone you are at a higher risk if no one knows your plans or whereabouts.

 

[Jackielee09]

If you look at her Facebook account, you can see she stopped posting BM’s pics in April 2017. From then on there were only a few posts of her, her daughters or her IN house that was put up for sale.

Only her fb friends can see her posts. Unless public. she could have lots more photos.

 

[Hoosierfan72]

I think the plan was to stage a kidnapping. The bike would be planted in order to sell this narrative, and the personal item could have potentially been her cell phone (I think whatever it was, it was readily identifiable as being Suzanne’s).

During legitimate abductions, it’s not uncommon for personal items to be thrown out the window (purses, phones, clothing, etc).

So I think that item (or items) may have dumped to leave a trail (she was attacked here, and the perpetrator fled that way).

This makes sense, except for the early narrative (apparently at the insistence of BM) that it was an animal attack. So I think to make that fit (BM staging both), the original plan was to stage an abduction, but when the bike was found and (assuming this is legit) the sighting of the mountain lion in the area - BM "ran with" the mountain lion attack theory (which explains the email to the church) - at least until it was dismissed by LE, which he then pivoted to the abduction theory (which was plan A all along). I think that's a possibility......

 

[Hoosierfan72]

We don't know for sure, but noting that police tape was noticed by drivers in a very conspicuous place just off the Highway 5o turnoff to Route 225, I have to assume it was deliberately placed there and unless the personal item was tiny ( like jewelry) it would be very easy to spot, so easy it would be as if it was planted there.

If it was found there , and I don't know for sure, it would be very odd, indeed. As the personal item would have been on an escape route AFTER the bicycle was disposed of in or near a bridge. It would really have made more sense if the personal item was found very near the bicycle, in underbrush or something, rather than lying on a bank on the side of the road.

Additionally, that item (or I guess items?) were found several days into the search that close to the main highway also makes me wonder if they were truly there the entire time? It just seems that given the number of people involved in the search, items (unless they were extremely small) that close to the road would have been found much more quickly.

 

[oviedo]

The thing is 49 year old women just don’t get abducted from a bike very often. Do 49 year old women have bike accidents? Sure, but they would be somewhere in the vicinity.

I’m so tired of women going missing and made to look like it was something they did wrong. Biking alone, hiking alone, running alone. Vulnerable woman, shouldn’t have been out biking where there are mountain lions, big cliffs, bad people waiting to abduct her.

Sorry but there’s a reason husbands are the first looked at. Very good reason. Sometimes they get lucky, but I hope Suzanne gets justice.

ITA

 

[oviedo]

Repost- Timeline
Just thought I would recap what we know - In processhttps://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/co-suzanne-morphew-49-chaffee-county-10-may-2020-media-maps-timeline-no-discussion.521590/
5/10 -911 called (neighbor) after getting a call that SM did not come back from the bike ride. LE arrives to search
5/11 - search resumed early morning hours - cell phone? Sheriff replied no comment
5/12- search continues - no volunteers requested
5/13 - 100K reward announced, FB set up by TN, fundraising set up for private searching by TN
5/13 - Sheriff - open criminal investigation, probability of animal attack not very high
no comment, FBI and CBI joined in search
5/14 - husband comments -Mr. Morphew said “at this point it’s simply too soon”.
5/14-Reward doubled to 200K (friend)
TN tells reporter bik0e has been found
Sheriff Spezze said they had found a few more items the previous day 5/14.

5/15 - personal item located per sheriff (not identified) highway closed for LE search, family says that the personal item is not the bike, TN gives interview
5/17 - BM puts out plea via FB missing page (video)
In process - so far this is on the first two pages of the media thread. working on a timeline.
5/18 - CCSO asks for video to be preserved from 5/8-5/12
5/19- family home searched (corrected to cordoned off)
5/20-Dailymail breaks story with pics of family home search and items removed - search warrant sealed
5/20 - Local fire dept excluded from search per Chief interview
5/21 - nobody actually saw her on a bike
5/22 - residential private property searched -owner cooperating reported as a job site for BM. CCSO confirm nothing found related to SM
5/23- CCSO no new updates
5/24 - fundraising page lists BM's mother as beneficiary
5/24 - CCSO search of private property completed. CCSO believes someone has a "key piece of information"
5/25 - Crimeonline reports on email message to IN church from "family"
5/26 - family private reward increased by $10K to $210,000
5/27 - Crimeonline reports "angst" at move
5/28 - SM family told not to comment per Lauren Scharf
5/29 - SM hometown shows support
6/1 - Video released of BM (alleged secret recording) SEE IT: Husband of missing Colorado woman Suzanne Morphew shares details of wife’s disappearance in secret recording, suggesting she may have been kidnapped [VIDEO]
@JerseyGirl can you put this in the beginning of her thread ?

If anyone has time today to add the MSM article for each event listed (or anything I’ve missed) we can keep this handy as our fact based timeline (tagging me will be super helpful) just put @ before Oviedo @oviedo
Thanks Sleuthers

 

[charminglane]

Do you ever get an intense feeling that today is the day?
May today be the day Suzanne is found.

 

[Ontario Mom]

A question in a whole different arena.
It sounds as though LE brought in CBI and FBI fairly on after SM was reported missing. Is it typical to call on state and federal agencies, or might the FBI involvement suggest an interstate investigation?

Still trying to catch up today but the FBI's involvement appears to be limited to the ERT team.
Any time the CCSO specifically listed every agency/department involved in the investigation, they'd list "FBI: ERT".
Which is very good, since they're specialists at collecting evidence from crime scenes.
More on them, here: Evidence Response Team — FBI

(I italicized appears, because I haven't seen any other specific mention of any kind of interstate investigation that the FBI is pursuing in this case).

 

[ogls]

So all this investigation of "the husband" and nothing has come up. Sheriff must be disappointed. A month has gone by with 3 different agencies on the case. I know I will get alot of flack and I am not going to read it, but this is really really concerning.

LE silence is screaming to me. Not a peep, nothing, slowly gathering every little bit. There's a lot in play, money, property, different states, thousands of things they have to go over. I'd be pacin the floor looking out windows too waiting for a knock knock whos there

 

[Ontario Mom]

If you look at her Facebook account, you can see she stopped posting BM’s pics in April 2017. From then on there were only a few posts of her, her daughters or her IN house that was put up for sale.

Keeping in mind, public v. friends only settings.
She could have been posting a pic of BM every day, but if her settings were "friends only" no one here would ever see those pics.
Which brings me to a question I guess I'll need to phrase as wildly hypothetical, so play along with me everyone:

Let's say, a woman goes missing, and her FB is locked up pretty tight, and there's only a handful of pics on it, set to public.
Then, curious youtuber types start posting on their respective channels and include lots of pics that are most definitely NOT on the missing woman's FB.
At least not publicly.
So my question is: where would these hypothetical youtuber types be getting these pics?