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

[susiQ]

That is a good possibility. It looks like that property in Indiana was going to sell shortly. Maybe Suzanne wanted a say about how the proceeds were spent. Maybe she wanted half. BM wanted all. Moo

I speculated a number of days back that BM may owe money that SM knew nothing of. Unsecured lines of credit, credit cards she knew nothing of. It wouldn’t take a high roller like BM long to rack up a pile of debt. That’s why I think this was premeditated. He needed her gone because he needed all of it to square away the debts she knew nothing of. His financial house was about to implode. The house sale in IN may have brought some of it to light or he killed her so it wouldn’t. Some speculate that SM was the financial brains but BM’s uncle told the world that BM has always been in control of things. I’m inclined to believe him. MOO

 

[OldCop]

I agree. TN would be a great interview but I believe he would rather speak privately to LE for fear of hurting the girls. Just my guess.

On the PE tape with Andy Mormon he is talking about the neighbor and her checking the house and then going back to check for the bike. She tells BM that the bike is not there and BM says she must have gone on a bike ride. Andy then says at 8:44 that “around then Trevor or one of the kids showed up and they called the police and said, “Hey, we’ve got someone missing” .
Trevor lives about 2 hours and 15 minutes away from Salida. What was he doing there at this time?

AM said that the police showed up and began searching. Right after this AM says that BM said he had arrived home around 6:00 p.m. and by then they had already found the bike. According to CCSO, the call came in at 5:46. So, BM was initially telling AM that he had returned home within about 15 minutes of the call and the bike had already been found. Later BM told TD that he arrived home at 9:00 p.m.

I think perhaps BM called TN early on to go to Salida to check on his wife while he was wherever doing whatever. I think he did that to protect the girls somewhat.
I think that TN realized within a couple of days that he had been duped by Barry and that’s why he stepped away from everything. I don’t know if he is ready to publicly admit this yet, though. MOO

 

[susiQ]

On the PE tape with Andy Mormon he is talking about the neighbor and her checking the house and then going back to check for the bike. She tells BM that the bike is not there and BM says she must have gone on a bike ride. Andy then says at 8:44 that “around then Trevor or one of the kids showed up and they called the police and said, “Hey, we’ve got someone missing” .
Trevor lives about 2 hours and 15 minutes away from Salida. What was he doing there at this time?

AM said that the police showed up and began searching. Right after this AM says that BM said he had arrived home around 6:00 p.m. and by then they had already found the bike. According to CCSO, the call came in at 5:46. So, BM was initially telling AM that he had returned home within about 15 minutes of the call and the bike had already been found. Later BM told TD that he arrived home at 9:00 p.m.

I think perhaps BM called TN early on to go to Salida to check on his wife while he was wherever doing whatever. I think he did that to protect the girls somewhat.
I think that TN realized within a couple of days that he had been duped by Barry and that’s why he stepped away from everything. I don’t know if he is ready to publicly admit this yet, though. MOO

Do you think it’s possible AM misspoke or misremembered the time? Would be good it PE guys could clear that up for us. It does make a huge difference if BM arrived at 6 p.m. vs. 9 p.m.

 

[Megnut]

If I were worried about my mom, I'd call my dad, a close family friend (nearby and close), and my closest family.

Maybe that's just what the girls did.

And eventually they all showed up.

JMO

 

[MsBetsy]

On the PE tape with Andy Mormon he is talking about the neighbor and her checking the house and then going back to check for the bike. She tells BM that the bike is not there and BM says she must have gone on a bike ride. Andy then says at 8:44 that “around then Trevor or one of the kids showed up and they called the police and said, “Hey, we’ve got someone missing” .
Trevor lives about 2 hours and 15 minutes away from Salida. What was he doing there at this time?

AM said that the police showed up and began searching. Right after this AM says that BM said he had arrived home around 6:00 p.m. and by then they had already found the bike. According to CCSO, the call came in at 5:46. So, BM was initially telling AM that he had returned home within about 15 minutes of the call and the bike had already been found. Later BM told TD that he arrived home at 9:00 p.m.

I think perhaps BM called TN early on to go to Salida to check on his wife while he was wherever doing whatever. I think he did that to protect the girls somewhat.
I think that TN realized within a couple of days that he had been duped by Barry and that’s why he stepped away from everything. I don’t know if he is ready to publicly admit this yet, though. MOO

Yes, I always thought it was odd the way TN distanced himself from BM when he referred to him as "the husband" when he did that interview in the beginning. When he was asked about the bike he said something like, "I would encourage you to ask LE any questions about the condition of the bike," or something like that. It was as if he knew there was something strange or not quite right about how or where the bike was found, but he could not reveal it himself. Imo

 

[Ontario Mom]

Do you think it’s possible AM misspoke or misremembered the time? Would be good it PE guys could clear that up for us. It does make a huge difference if BM arrived at 6 p.m. vs. 9 p.m.

There were a couple of things AM said that made me wonder if he was mis-remembering (it happens, especially in a highly stressful time like discovering your sister is missing) or if BM actually just lied to him.

The landscape job in CS, instead of Denver, and the 6pm v. the 9pm arrival, and then TN showing up. There's no question BM is actually a liar, since we have him telling TD he's been cleared (lie) and telling family he passed a polygraph (lie), so it's hard to decipher if these are more lies, or if AM got things mixed up.

 

[MsBetsy]

Do you think it’s possible AM misspoke or misremembered the time? Would be good it PE guys could clear that up for us. It does make a huge difference if BM arrived at 6 p.m. vs. 9 p.m.

Do we know what time Barry called the neighbor? I'm thinking it would have been around five but I'm wondering how long he waited to call her after his daughter told him she couldn't reach Suzanne. I would think she tried contacting her mom long before five pm. Imo

 

[Diddian]

JMO
I agree. The property dealings right after her disappearance "was too soon".

Way too soon to be doing as much property dealings as he has been doing. I can almost understand about the one property transfer in Indiana if that was all setup beforehand but that should have been the end of it and then we hear about even more property related dealings in Colorado right after her disappearance.

2+2=4 and I agree these property dealings may have been the reason there could have been a big fight that escalated into her being missing.

It was too soon to give the willing media an interview that may help locate SM but it was not too soon to go through with a bunch of property dealings, which btw, were done without SM having a vote.

AM did not address the property dealings at all in his conversation with Mike and Chris at Profiling Evil. I wonder if SM was even aware that their Indiana house was under contract for sale before she disappeared. Closing occurred 19 days after Mother's Day (according to Zillow).

Also on Zillow, I see that the same realtor served as agent to both purchaser and seller in that transaction. I assume that LE has probably spoken with that agent to ascertain whether he had ever spoken directly to SM in association with that sale.

Purchase and Sale Agreements can be signed using online document signing programs sent to an email address provided to the real estate agent (so it is possible that one spouse-owner's signature might be faked by the other), but actual closing occurs in person, usually at a title company office.

Interesting that SM's disappearance occurred between contract for sale and actual closing.

 

[susiQ]

There were a couple of things AM said that made me wonder if he was mis-remembering (it happens, especially in a highly stressful time like discovering your sister is missing) or if BM actually just lied to him.

The landscape job in CS, instead of Denver, and the 6pm v. the 9pm arrival, and then TN showing up. There's no question BM is actually a liar, since we have him telling TD he's been cleared (lie) and telling family he passed a polygraph (lie), so it's hard to decipher if these are more lies, or if AM got things mixed up.

What I don’t think AM misremembered was the detail about the “crooked wall.” I definitely think BM told him about that, whether true or not, but I’m not sure about CS vs. Denver. I wish PE would revisit that with AM as well. As we know, “the devil is in the details.”

 

[MsBetsy]

Do you think it’s possible AM misspoke or misremembered the time? Would be good it PE guys could clear that up for us. It does make a huge difference if BM arrived at 6 p.m. vs. 9 p.m.

I don't think he misspoke, since he was pointing out that it was strange that BM told him he arrived back at 6:00 pm and later said in the interview that he came back at 9:00 pm. From the way BM talks about LE trampling all over the crime scene and all the people handling the bike, it sounds like he was there around the time the bike was found, or shortly afterwards. Imo

 

[Hair of the Dog]

On the PE tape with Andy Mormon he is talking about the neighbor and her checking the house and then going back to check for the bike. She tells BM that the bike is not there and BM says she must have gone on a bike ride. Andy then says at 8:44 that “around then Trevor or one of the kids showed up and they called the police and said, “Hey, we’ve got someone missing” .
Trevor lives about 2 hours and 15 minutes away from Salida. What was he doing there at this time?

AM said that the police showed up and began searching. Right after this AM says that BM said he had arrived home around 6:00 p.m. and by then they had already found the bike. According to CCSO, the call came in at 5:46. So, BM was initially telling AM that he had returned home within about 15 minutes of the call and the bike had already been found. Later BM told TD that he arrived home at 9:00 p.m.

I think perhaps BM called TN early on to go to Salida to check on his wife while he was wherever doing whatever. I think he did that to protect the girls somewhat.
I think that TN realized within a couple of days that he had been duped by Barry and that’s why he stepped away from everything. I don’t know if he is ready to publicly admit this yet, though. MOO

BM does have some big brass ones if he called his nephew and asked him to step away from his family on MD to drive 2+ hours one way to check on Suzanne when he has at least one close personal friend who is a first responder. If I was TN when the lightbulb came on, I would be pretty hacked off. TN clearly loved Suzanne and I think his initial efforts were driven by that. Maybe he had previously seen a side of his Uncle, that combined with whatever investigative information he became privy to, gave him pause and caused him to step away quickly. MOO

Edited to correct typo

 

[Hair of the Dog]

Yes, I always thought it was odd the way TN distanced himself from BM when he referred to him as "the husband" in the when he did that interview in the beginning. When he was asked about the bike he said something like, "I would encourage you to ask LE any questions about the condition of the bike," or something like that. It was as if he knew there was something strange or not quite right about how or where the bike was found, but he could not reveal it himself. Imo

This just hit me! Maybe we misunderstood what TN was getting at telling people to ask LE about the bike. Maybe he already knew it was hinky and he was trying to direct attention to "the husband" without saying it directly. MOO

 

[kkdj]

What I meant was he ran out of room on the right margin when listing the helmet.

Aw. I see. So it was meant to be read light blue bike helmet on one line rather than 2 separate articles?

 

[osu]

An animal did not attack her’: Missing Suzanne Morphew’s brother says he thinks someone tossed her bike down a hill; pleads with Barry Morphew to take a polygraph test

August 26, 2020
Ellen Killoran

“If you’re not guilty, step up to the plate.”

~snip

” … she has two daughters without answers right now. My father at 87 has cancer and needs answers. And I’m not going to give up. I’m coming back out there to look,” Moorman said in the interview.

~snip

“I said to Barry ‘Hey, I don’t think she fell off the hill on that bicycle or rode over the edge.’ I said, ‘I believe a human being threw this down here,'” Moorman told Fox News.

“An animal did not attack her because there absolutely was no blood evidence and no tracks on the ground, no scent from an animal,” he said. “I stood there and looked and I realized that nobody rode over the side of that hill. There would have been signs of a struggle or you would have been skinned up.”

~snip

“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,” Moorman said.

“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.”

Moorman reportedly said that while he is not optimistic that Suzanne is still alive, he is determined to find out what happened to her.

“My sister was just the sweetest person ever and anyone would have been happy to be friends or neighbors with her,” Moorman said.

More at link:
‘An animal did not attack her’: Missing Suzanne Morphew’s brother says he thinks someone tossed her bike down a hill; pleads with Barry Morphew to take a polygraph test

 

[susiQ]

I don't think he misspoke, since he was pointing out that it was strange that BM told him he arrived back at 6:00 pm and later said in the interview that he came back at 9:00 pm. From the way BM talks about LE trampling all over the crime scene and all the people handling the bike, it sounds like he was there around the time the bike was found, or shortly afterwards. Imo

My take on it was that BM’s ranger friend GD was on the scene feeding BM the details of LE mishandling evidence. But then again, those words came from BM’s mouth, not GD. I’d love to hear GD’s version of events and if they sync with BM. I’d like to know when BM called GD and when GD arrived at the bike scene. It sure would be nice to know how EXACTLY that afternoon and evening unfolded. MOO

 

[Fireflize]

I speculated a number of days back that BM may owe money that SM knew nothing of. Unsecured lines of credit, credit cards she knew nothing of. It wouldn’t take a high roller like BM long to rack up a pile of debt. That’s why I think this was premeditated. He needed her gone because he needed all of it to square away the debts she knew nothing of. His financial house was about to implode. The house sale in IN may have brought some of it to light or he killed her so it wouldn’t. Some speculate that SM was the financial brains but BM’s uncle told the world that BM has always been in control of things. I’m inclined to believe him. MOO

Me too, Suzie, about BM having serious debts. I think that when her cancer came back, he thought that she was a goner. He starting spending without restraint, expecting to get his hands on all the money. As much as he wants control of others, he
has very little self control when it comes to his desires and pleasure. He really doesn't like the word, NO. It's the way he's made. Moo of course

 

[Fireflize]

not new to websleuths and mostly read,but i was wondering about the note he left with the baby blue helmet and bike clothing,if he says he kissed her at 5 am ,that Sunday morning,wouldn't she be in her night clothes or pj's. she a thought I had.imo

Hi, Yorkiemommy. You're so right. Moo

 

[osu]

‘FIND YOUR WIFE'

Brother of missing Suzanne Morphew begs her husband to help cops months after she vanished on Mother's Day bike ride

5:48, 26 Aug 2020

Bro of missing mom begs her husband for help after Mom's Day disappearance

 

[Hair of the Dog]

Suzanne's family is so kind and genuine. They choose their words carefully and don't stir the pot by casting aspersions. They remind me a lot of the Berreths. MOO

 

[susiQ]

Me too, Suzie, about BM having serious debts. I think that when her cancer came back, he thought that she was a goner. He starting spending without restraint, expecting to get his hands on all the money. As much as he wants control of others, he
has very little self control when it comes to his desires and pleasure. He really doesn't like the word, NO. It's the way he's made. Moo of course

If there isn’t an arrest before 9/1 and that poser gets permanent guardianship of SM’s assets, the next house on the selling block will be the Puma Path home. He can sell that idea to his children easily, since that is where their mother went missing from and it isn’t good for them to be constantly reminded. And/or, he’s selling them the abduction scenario and it’s just not safe for them to be there. MOO