Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #26

[LietKynes]

According to public records, the victim of this thread, SM, has a 20+ year history of acquiring and selling real estate, some with mortgages, and all satisfied or paid off (most transactions were joint, with her husband).

I think BM's priorities are: Barry, Money, Wealth, Family, SM.

SM disappeared only weeks before they were going to cash out on a time-sensitive real estate transaction. If premeditated, I think SM would have disappeared after the early transaction closed or early June.

MOO

ETA: We've seen BM's reaction to any media attention, and I think he's absolutely livid that he had to expose himself to more attention in Probate Court for Guardianship petition.

bbm
Good points !

I wonder... did something happen that forced BM's hand early ?

 

[Barry]

bbm
Good points !

I wonder... did something happen that forced BM's hand early ?

The opportunity of a weekend alone with her? MOO.

 

[BeckyF]

Someone has to help me with that info. It was I believe a property listing and then recent photos.

It’s from this post

CO - CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #19

 

[susiQ]

According to public records, the victim of this thread, SM, has a 20+ year history of acquiring and selling real estate, some with mortgages, and all satisfied or paid off (most transactions were joint, with her husband).

I think BM's priorities are: Barry, Money, Wealth, Family, SM.

SM disappeared only weeks before they were going to cash out on a time-sensitive real estate transaction. If premeditated, I think SM would have disappeared after the early transaction closed or early June.

MOO

ETA: We've seen BM's reaction to any media attention, and I think he's absolutely livid that he had to expose himself to more attention in Probate Court for Guardianship petition.

Still thinking it was planned and sooner was better for BM. That way he had immediate control of ALL the money, whereas if SM was still alive her money could have been squirrelled away for her girls, just in case her cancer wasn’t truly gone. Especially if she suspected BM was squandering funds and his business was not that successful. Obtaining the guardianship seemed relatively easy for him as it was done in short order. I’ve seen many cases in my life where a patient was given the all clear, but they really weren’t. Cancer reappeared within a year, metastasized and considered stage four. Did Suzanne express any concern about possible recurrence and mention putting money aside for the girls, just in case? Did she confide in her good friend? All IMHO.

 

[LietKynes]

The opportunity of a weekend alone with her? MOO.

Yes, it could be that.

I've also considered that Suzanne may have said to BM that 'it was over'.
As in a possible argument after the abrupt stop in texting with her friend ?
How long was it before the texting 'changed' in tone or content ?
A few minutes ?
Clues are in the last communication by Suzanne with others.
Imo.

 

[BeckyF]

DBM- duplicate

 

[Boxer]

bbm
Ita.
Imo -- I'm guessing BM made many mistakes and LE are looking for enough evidence to clinch this case ?

Speculation :
At this time, even if LE have found dna evidence on the wood chippers/barrel grinders, they may want to still find some remains.
And I believe LE have mountains of evidence they're not revealing !
There's always hope.
I sensed from the presser with sheriff Spezze a dogged determination to seek justice for Suzanne !
LE aren't going to just give up and go away... as the husband may be wishing.

Hopefully the search is being fruitful. Until an arrest affidavit we will never know what they uncovered if anything.
LS led a merry chase, BM smarter, wish the sheriff luck.

 

[Error505]

Finding Suzanne Morphew: Investigators Search Home Again, Say No One Has Been Ruled Out As Suspect
How unusual is it for investigators to search a home twice? I know there is a lot of things have to be proven to just get a search warrant in the first place but is it odd they would get a second chance to search the property? I don't think I have ever seen this done before.

This is discussed by @ProfilingEvil Mike and Chris referenced in my post #630 on the previous thread (link to video included). The difficulty lies in obtaining a second search warrant for the same property according to @ProfilingEvil.

MOO I’m sure the 11 days LE spent at the property during first search warrant was enough time to recreate a “crime scene”.
Hope this helps answer your question.
here’s the link to my previously referenced post
CO - CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #22

 

[Hatfield]

I agree. The tracking function is independent from the presentation function.

For those who aren’t familiar, in a general sense gps is not too terribly different from cell tower pings. Both are based on the exchange of time-stamped signals between two devices with synchronized clocks. Add the speed of light and you can calculate how far apart the two devices are from each other.

If the gps antenna in your phone or vehicle has line of sight to one satellite, it places the device somewhere along a circle. If two satellites are visible the device is at one of two potential locations — where the circles for each satellite intersect. With three satellites, a specific point on the circle is identified — the circles for each of the three satellites will intersect in just one point. With four satellites elevation can also be calculated. (You need three satellites to map a point in two-dimensional space and four to map a point in three-dimensional space.) Additional satellites beyond four basically just improve the accuracy of the calculated location.

Because gps satellites are constantly moving in orbit around the earth, position accuracy can vary as they move in and out of range/visibility of the gps device. In mountainous areas, the landscape can obstruct some satellite signals if the device is in a valley or canyon, etc. At least until that satellite moves into view again (or a new one becomes visible). Accuracy is usually best under wide-open sky where the max number of satellites are visible at any given time.

What I don’t know is how much positional data a device or vehicle buffers before it either needs to be uploaded to the cloud or is overwritten by new data. But storage is cheap these days and the data is alphanumeric. So I expect it could be quite a lot. Anyone?

All of the above is MOO and my understanding only.

Great explanation.

I have a hand held portable GPS navigation device so I got to learn a little bit about how it works.

I agree that you need your unit (or vehicle) to be able to find and locate at least 3 different satellites in order for the GPS unit to know your exact location.

When I first turn on my GPS unit, it immediately starts to scan for satellites and it does take a bit for it to lock onto 3 of them.

The important point which you also mentioned is there are some locations (usually heavy tree cover) where it just spins and spins and never finds 3 satellites until I move a little bit to a better clearing. Its important to note that this seldom happens as I usually get a lock-on even if tree cover seems dense. Its only happened on a couple occasions where I had to move to a more clearer view of the sky.

To help answer your last part, and if we are mainly talking about the hardware GPS modules that a vehicle would have without any real interface to a full navigation system, but the vehicle has the GPS module hardware in the vehicle, my understanding is
the storage of last location points and the frequency is limited based on the capacity of the GPS module hardware that the vehicle has. So it can be different for different types of vehicles.

I found this article below and they refer to that type of GPS module as a "data logger" only type module. This is the type of GPS module we are mainly talking about when the vehicle has nothing installed other than the factory GPS module that is usually installed nowadays on vehicles which allows it to be further tapped into with a full navigation system later.

The companies put in the basic module so its easy to have add-on navigation options later if a customer wants it. Some things are cheaper on the assembly line to get the initial basics installed, so they do certain things for all vehicles. There are other reasons they put in the basic module too like having accident information that manufacturers wanted so they have some information to protect them from liability.

The basic GPS module hardware will find and store positions based on its storage capacity within the module itself because it has nowhere else to put it.

Once a vehicle or GPS Navigation system has a full Data Logger, Data Pusher, and/or Data Puller as part of its features (like a phone), then the GPS data points can be stored externally which would have much more storage capacity.

Below is an article that can help understand it.

"Types of GPS tracking devices
We can broadly divide GPS tracking devices into three categories based on their primary functions -

1. Data loggers
2. Data pushers
3. Data pullers

"Data loggers record location in routine intervals and save the information in the device’s internal memory. Some cameras use data logging to display the location like where the photo was taken at, and data loggers can be used to track vehicles as well.

Data pushers are the most common GPS tracking units & are commonly known as “GPS beacons.” Rather than saving the location data on internal memory as data loggers do, data pushers send and store the information on the server. This means the storage space of the information is not as limited as for the data loggers.

Data pullers are the last type of GPS trackers, and they are also called GPS transponders. The data puller GPS does not send location updates at routine intervals, but instead, you have to request the data from it. This type of GPS is sometimes found in computers or for items where the location does not need to be known constantly."

GPS Tracker - The Ultimate Guide (In - depth analysis)

 

[10ofRods]

GPS satellites can be obscured in mountainous/densely forested terrain - but it's rare, and the last known position is still recorded. Whether or not there is cellular. GPS operates independently.

Thank you, Hatfield for weighing in - I was hoping you would come along.

Would your tracker later show that you'd made an attempt to reach 3 satellites? Would it should which of them you had managed to ping (and from where)? This may be an unknown. We're looking into a couple of geo-positioning devices, but it's DH's bailiwick, not mine.

I just know that my phone knows where I am, at all times as I almost never go anywhere without it.

 

[Hatfield]

GPS satellites can be obscured in mountainous/densely forested terrain - but it's rare, and the last known position is still recorded. Whether or not there is cellular. GPS operates independently.

Thank you, Hatfield for weighing in - I was hoping you would come along.

Would your tracker later show that you'd made an attempt to reach 3 satellites? Would it should which of them you had managed to ping (and from where)? This may be an unknown. We're looking into a couple of geo-positioning devices, but it's DH's bailiwick, not mine.

I just know that my phone knows where I am, at all times as I almost never go anywhere without it.

Im not exactly sure if it stores "attempts" at finding location coordinates. I suppose since the hardware can be different on different vehicles, it all depends what the vehicle's device is programmed to store.

I havent used my hand held GPS unit in awhile but from what I remember, it actually tells me the name of the particular satellites it finds and it lists the code symbols for the ones it locates.

Yeah, smart cell phones became the great equalizer in that everyone nowadays uses GPS even if they dont realize they are using it.

 

[Barry]

I have a Garmin InReach Explorer that I've used when off-roading. Part of the subscription I have is a cloud based interface where people I invite can see where I'm at, send and receive satellite texts to me, etc. That tells me that there's at least the possibility that some vendors might store quite a bit of information about GPS units. If that's the case with cellular/GPS hybrids, I have no idea. IMO, information could be stored externally to the device itself. MOO.

 

[susiQ]

Hopefully the search is being fruitful. Until an arrest affidavit we will never know what they uncovered if anything.
LS led a merry chase, BM smarter, wish the sheriff luck.

Without a doubt, they’ve already uncovered plenty, the only question is, is it enough yet? Enough to charge and secure a guilty verdict. Suzanne deserves that. Her family deserves that. Her killer deserves to go to prison.....for a very long time. MOO

 

[Seattle1]

bbm
Good points !

I wonder... did something happen that forced BM's hand early ?

I think this is why I'm still in the "crime of passion" camp --no premed.

Now if we learn that BM was researching or making inquiries about the workings of Probate Court in the State of Indiana (i.e., Guardianship petition) then I'll be all over premeditation!

(Just to be clear -- not all states would allow what BM was able to achieve in terms of getting the Court to grant BM Guardianship over SM just because SM is a missing person). BM and (his daughter confirmation) did nothing wrong here -- BM simply capitalized on the laws of Indiana that worked perfectly in his favor.

MOO

 

[happyday]

PE’s Chris McDonough is tweeting charts about domestic violence and saying, “”Just saying!”

 

[Seattle1]

Still thinking it was planned and sooner was better for BM. That way he had immediate control of ALL the money, whereas if SM was still alive her money could have been squirrelled away for her girls, just in case her cancer wasn’t truly gone. Especially if she suspected BM was squandering funds and his business was not that successful. Obtaining the guardianship seemed relatively easy for him as it was done in short order. I’ve seen many cases in my life where a patient was given the all clear, but they really weren’t. Cancer reappeared within a year, metastasized and considered stage four. Did Suzanne express any concern about possible recurrence and mention putting money aside for the girls, just in case? Did she confide in her good friend? All IMHO.

Well, we do have another coincidence right up there with an empty house that weekend (daughters 8-10 hours away): SM had an appt with her cancer specialist on Monday, May 11.

 

[Seattle1]

Somebody recently commented about wrongly accused (by the convicted murderer) Christopher Jeffries successful defamation lawsuit against the media/news agencies. If you have access to ITV, it's on now: Two-part ITV drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies which airs tonight.

 

[Seattle1]

Chris McDonough[URL='https://twitter.com/187Cjm']@187Cjm[/URL]

My experience with DV is that the offenders always try to control the narrative.
Just saying!

1:44 PM · Aug 18, 2020

 

[Seattle1]

PE’s Chris McDonough is tweeting charts about domestic violence and saying, “”Just saying!”

Jinx!

 

[TxGidget]

I may be remembering incorrectly, but I think I saw that walkway on the helicopter (or drone?) footage. I have no idea how to find that footage, though.

Maybe i’m not following, but are you saying that in the 21-23 hours between that texts to her friend and the police arriving for their welfare check, a cement walkway was framed, poured and had time to dry?