Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #28

[TKG]

Still doesn’t account for the lion, lol.

The lion IS the disgruntled and misguided employee. Jeez @Barry, stay with us!!

 

[TKG]

Maybe that’s why he was on the ground in the middle of the search - couldn’t miss a chance to get his daily push-ups in.

74, 75... Record holder, mission accomplished. MOO

 

[ar3593]

"Please, Barry, if you could see this, I would really love it if you would take the time to revisit the authorities and go over everything once again ... Take a voice analysis and a lie detector test and clear yourself," pleads Moorman. "Put my mind at ease and everybody out there's mind at ease if you want to shut the rumors down. That's the way you do it. You need to find your wife. That should be your only goal is to find your wife and whatever you're asked to do by the authorities is what you should. If you're not guilty, step up to the plate."

Brother of Suzanne Morphew pleads for brother-in-law to 'step up to the plate' and work with authorities

I agree with everything the brother is saying except for "take a lie detector test and clear yourself." A polygraph isn't admissible in court and isn't very accurate. BM gains nothing by taking the test. If he fails, the police may conclude he's guilty. If he passes, some will contend he "beat the machine." It's truly a lose-lose proposition.

JMO..

 

[susiQ]

If LS is lucky enough to get another interview with BM, I wonder if she could ask him which of the two stories he’s spun about his whereabouts on Sunday is true? Was he in Denver getting ready for a new job or fixing a crooked wall in Colorado Springs? It’s not a hard question. Oh, and while she’s at it, she could ask him for clarification on what mechanical thing he did to his cat Bob, where exactly he performed that work and at what time. And, I’d also like to know what he and Suzanne were up to on Saturday. Did they go for a walk, a drive, a bike ride (I had to throw that in), have dinner together, WHAT exactly!?! What did SM do on the last day of her life?!? What were YOU doing BM on the last day of her life!?!

Repeat, must have patience, must have patience, must have patience.

 

[TIGER0822]

@Puzzles8 This is a link to an article regarding the item found on Thursday, which resulted in a dive team being called in and closing off the highway.
Item found belonging to missing Chaffee County woman | 9news.com

 

[KLM6]

I’m so glad that someone is finally standing for Suzanne. I wonder if Andy was waiting for his brother in law to do it, or if he was waiting for LE to make an arrest. When it dragged on for so long, with no new information and their father’s health failing, he decided he had to come out to cast a spotlight for Suzanne.

My opinion is that its because they were enlightened to the fact that they were being misled. According to AM, he (they) believed Barry, until CBI gave him conflicting information. Its hard telling what kind of misinformation they were being fed. I recall long ago a family member said they were told not to speak. I find it hard to believe, for many reasons, that LE would advise that, but I could see Barry telling them that LE said that.

 

[ar3593]

"Please, Barry, if you could see this, I would really love it if you would take the time to revisit the authorities and go over everything once again ... Take a voice analysis and a lie detector test and clear yourself," pleads Moorman. "Put my mind at ease and everybody out there's mind at ease if you want to shut the rumors down. That's the way you do it. You need to find your wife. That should be your only goal is to find your wife and whatever you're asked to do by the authorities is what you should. If you're not guilty, step up to the plate."

Brother of Suzanne Morphew pleads for brother-in-law to 'step up to the plate' and work with authorities

DBM

 

[allyoucantleavebehind]

Maybe I'm the odd one out..... if my husband had to set up a job on Mothers Day, it wouldn't bother me in the least bit. I know that him being gone pays our bills. I dont need breakfast in bed with flowers and the whole nine yards.... I know my husband loves me and appreciates what I do for our kids. How do you know that SM didn't feel the same way about Mothers day? Ot could have been, oh hubby will be out of town and girls will be gone. We will just pick another day to do Mothers Day celebration. Not everyone's world stops bc its Mothers Day.

<modsnip> Normally there is not a whole crew going to set up the jobsite. It is mostly the head guy that gets everything set out and how he wants it ........BEFORE his crew arrives to actually do the job.

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Jmho

For my friends who are cancer survivors, especially those still in treatment, every holiday is precious, every Mother's Day is touched by the knowledge that life is short and fragile and that spending it with loved ones is of value we can't know until later. One thing I've learned from friends in treatment is how to LIVE and to love every minute and to hold family close.

"Breakfast in bed" doesn't seem like a Suzanne thing, but having her daughters and husband nearby definitely does. Unlike me, she would probably save mother's day cards and treasure those text messages. According to all the interviews, she was so proud of being a mother because, when she was young, she thought cancer would make it impossible. Being a mother was the joy of her life, and she structured her life around that role and her love for her daughters. That comes out whenever family and friends talk about Suzanne.

And this is about Suzanne--who she is, what she valued, what she loved, and what happened. This is about what transpired that night when she quit talking to her friend about a wedding while she was home alone with BM and her daughters were camping with BM's sister. This is about whether she ever got into her bed. This is about the last conversation before her disappearance. And what BM did. This is MOO.

Bring Suzanne home. She did not want to die or disappear. She wanted to live. And she valued being a mother in ways some of us (including me) cannot pretend to understand.

 

[DizzyB]

Whether she ever got into her bed. What conversation led to her disappearance. And what BM did. MOO.

Bring Suzanne home. She did not want to die or disappear. She wanted to live. And she valued being a mother in ways some of us (including me) cannot pretend to understand.

Was the bed made? Did BM think of the little details? If the bed was unmade, were both sides slept in? If it was made, ostensibly by Suzanne, would she do that upon awakening, yet not unlock her phone?

 

[Diddian]

Re BBM
Yes I listened to PE last night and that is my understanding too. That they think it was the "front bucket scooper thing" that is attached to the front of it. Its shown (barely can see it) in the news video of it when we see it in their driveway. The front bucket portion is resting on the ground in that aerial video of their house so its hard to see it, but its there.

So lets suppose a person was using the bobcat for nefarious reasons and decided to put a body in the front bucket to use it to carry the person to another place. That person may have been worried about blood or DNA evidence that was on the scoop bucket and so they may have replaced the entire bucket scooper.

PE hinted that there may be records somewhere of someone either purchasing or renting a new or used front bucket attachment for it.
JMO

ETA-They have various attachments and the buckets, backhoe, and front end loader attachments can be seen in link below.

Find Bobcat Attachments and Implements - Bobcat Company

Consider: If a person was trying to lift too much heavy rock at once in the skid steer bucket because that person had a lot of rock to move in just a few hours (say, for a body burial), that person may have broken or seriously damaged the bucket OR the lifts supporting it.

I had some major stonework done by a mason at my summer lakeside home in 2018 (a couple 50-60’ long, ~3' high retaining walls and one 25’ lower retaining wall, large stone slab patio, multiple sets of stone slab steps between levels, wide stone slab pathways, and a small patio surrounding a stone fire pit). I watched it all and gained some real respect for people who know what they are doing working with heavy stone. Rock is REALLY heavy.

While the skid steer (Bobcat) makes moving those heavy stones from one place to another possible, the weight limits of the particular machine being used must be respected and the work paced accordingly. My hardscaping and landscaping project took one person with a half-time assistant and a skid steer that looks the size of the one that had been pictured in BM’s driveway nearly 4 months (mid-April through mid-August) and probably 3 months of that was just the stone work (although that did include removal of the preexisting poorly laid walls and laying the base for all the new work). ETA: We also had days here and there lost to severe wind and thunder storms.

To remove the pallets of stone slabs from the large flatbed trucks that delivered them a few at a time, the skid steer for everyday work was too small; that took another much larger machine with a big cab that swiveled above the large tracks. That machine arrived on a flatbed just like the stone pallets did and its work removing the pallets from the trucks took less than an hour and then its work was done.

One guy trying to remove and then replace a 10-12’ section of rock wall, or stone slab patio or pathway with a small skid steer in just several hours would likely be in a hurry, so might try to overload the bucket.

 

[allyoucantleavebehind]

Was the bed made? Did BM think of the little details? If the bed was unmade, were both sides slept in? If it was made, ostensibly by Suzanne, would she do that upon awakening, yet not unlock her phone?

Really good questions, and I bet LE got lots of details in those seven days when the house was locked down.

 

[waldojabba]

" i'd like to know what ideas y'all have about barry lying down on the ground in the middle of the search. what in the bizarro world kind of action is THAT?"[/B]

Excellent post.
I want to know where that bluff is! Unless, of course, it was another histrionic NPD display or a 'clever' diversionary tactic. Any which way, I'd like to know where it is. Wasn't it going up the other side of the mountain?
LE was very interested in the 'act' and where it happened.
Didn't AM say that it was HIS (AM's) friend that accompanied BM on that particular 'search'?
If I didn't mishear, BM knew it would get back to AM and possibly LE (which it did).

So may bombshells in this interview.

BM declined Voice Analysis, Lie Detector Tests and cooperation with LE. Bike thrown down from the road (we all knew that).
BM's timeline, alibi and circumstances changing. Too much to list. I'll have to watch it again.
Bizarro is right. And very, very telling.

BBM - Maybe his lying down was a diversionary tactic. You know, look here at me, not over there, Trying to slow things down, change course, maybe they were getting too close for comfort? Moo

 

[NoSI]

This FRIDAY would be a GREAT FRIDAY for FELONY FRIDAY...

I do believe that things are unraveling and moving... and quite fast...

#JusticeForSuzanne is coming!

 

[samsmom]

Lighting a candle and turning my porch light on for Suzanne this weekend.

 

[KLM6]

Maybe I'm the odd one out..... if my husband had to set up a job on Mothers Day, it wouldn't bother me in the least bit. I know that him being gone pays our bills. I dont need breakfast in bed with flowers and the whole nine yards.... I know my husband loves me and appreciates what I do for our kids. How do you know that SM didn't feel the same way about Mothers day? Ot could have been, oh hubby will be out of town and girls will be gone. We will just pick another day to do Mothers Day celebration. Not everyone's world stops bc its Mothers Day.

<modsnip> Normally there is not a whole crew going to set up the jobsite. It is mostly the head guy that gets everything set out and how he wants it ........BEFORE his crew arrives to actually do the job.

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Jmho

I can relate to celebrating holidays on different days. I think the significance in this case though is all of the ironies and inconsistencies that go along with the way this particular Mother's Day unfolded. There is evidence that doesn't add up to stories that don't make sense. We could exclude the fact that it was Mothers Day, and the concerns would be the same. But since it was a day to celebrate her, it makes it a little more heartwrenching. Jmho.

 

[waldojabba]

I have wondered about that, steroids or tbi or early onset Alzheimer's. He seems to have some sort of cognitive deficit.
Moo

Totally agree re cognitive defect. I have a close friend in construction who is some type of ADHD - he uses 2 assistants in an office as support - plus after business conversations regarding jobs always has you text him with your info/recap. His wife is a stay at home Mom and manages and structures the household and kids.
Maybe BM relied on the same type or similar support system - but he now finds himself adrift.... just a thought and moo

 

[waldojabba]

I have wondered about that, steroids or tbi or early onset Alzheimer's. He seems to have some sort of cognitive deficit.
Moo

Totally agree re cognitive defect. I have a close friend in construction who is some type of ADHD - he uses 2 assistants in an office as support - plus after business conversations regarding jobs always has you text him with your info/recap. His wife is a stay at home Mom and manages and structures the household and kids.
Maybe BM relied on the same type or similar support system - but he now finds himself adrift.... just a thought and moo

 

[LietKynes]

Was the bed made? Did BM think of the little details? If the bed was unmade, were both sides slept in? If it was made, ostensibly by Suzanne, would she do that upon awakening, yet not unlock her phone?

Great questions !

Did BM sleep at all Sat. night ?
I'm thinking not.

Speculation :
The energy (I hate typing this, but having spent too much time here at WS) he'd have, if an irrevocable deed was committed would have him up and busy for a day or even two.
Did he spend time (assuming that he did) with his daughters or friends in the following days and did he seem exhausted ?
Where others would think he was distraught, but in fact he was struggling from lack of sleep with some paranoia thrown in ?
MOO

 

[Boxer]

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Every year untold number of men go to work on MD. Some are sweeter than others.
The wife disappearing on any day means everything is looked at, all vehicles on the highway, all previous threats and conflicts, possible stalkers, thieves, felons in the area, but until cleared, primarily the husband.

In this case a BM is a double whammy, a husband and the last person to see her (alive).

MOO on a day popularly expected to elicit extra fondness from a husband, if there is no evidence of that fondness, it is will be noticed and chalked up in the negative column.

 

[lonetraveler]

It bothers me that BM may have used Suzanne’s money to buy the piece of property in Salida, with him as the sole owner. Her share 0f the proceeds of the Indiana sale is hopefully protected, but we have no way of knowing that. We don’t know if she wanted the Indiana transaction to go through, because he was able to have her declared incapacitated and complete it without her.

I have thought for a long time now that this property that he bought immediately following her disappearance was most likely what may have started a fight that night. IMO, she did not want him to buy the property and he was not hearing it. He lost control and killed her.