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

[DizzyB]

LE should know where Barry was when he was making all of the phone calls, right? And when did he get back to Maysville? I’m assuming what he told Andy was a lie about that timing. Or maybe he was mistaken because he wasn’t in his right mind.

I know that it’s sad the girls have to come to a realization about their father, but I do hope they have the necessary information. They might not want to divulge things and bring their father under suspicion because they trust him. If they knew the information that LE already had, maybe they would be more compelled to share with LE.

 

[EggSalad]

From PE
This is the first I’ve seen or heard what time SMs communication with friend ended. 9:00 p.m.
Wonder if that’s Colorado time or Indiana time? Assuming friend is back in Indiana. Also, they aren’t calling it texting here.
Speculating and JMO : they were on FB messenger.


May 9, 2020 • Maysville, Colorado
At approximately 2100 hours, Suzanne Moorman Morphew is communicating with her best friend on social media about an upcoming wedding. According to reports, the communication suddenly stops. Sometime later, a number of social media communications occur from Suzanne's "profile" but seem out of character to immediate family members and friends.

Suzanne Moorman Morphew

I agree that the 9:00pm time is very interesting. (Mountain time btw). That leaves a very small window of 9pm - 11:30pm (noise at job site) for an alleged murder to occur.

This is speculation, but here is what has me curious:

-Let’s day a murder happens at 9:00pm and SM’s online messaging with her friend comes to an abrupt halt.
-I wonder what time lapse there is from that chat stopping to the odd profile communications happening is. It seems likely that it is 2 hours or les of time lapse.
-I wonder if social media platforms can tell if a user is logged on via laptop or smart phone. I’m pretty positive they can tell that.
-It would be interesting to know what devices were being used for the friends chat as well as the out of place profile communications.
-What if a laptop was being used for the friend chat but the later communication was from a mobile phone?
-If so, there will be interesting data such as location associated with that mobile phone.
-I wonder if BM needed to get his equipment from that job site at 11;30pm but in doing so realized he could bury her phone and cement would be poured a day or so later.
-Maybe BM is posting as SM via her phone while not at their residence. Does Salida have better cell reception than Maysville?
-I can see how LE could be so exact in their cut and dig search as ground penetrating radar would definitely pick up a phone or pieces of a phone with that type of accuracy.

 

[EggSalad]

Salida to Crested Butte is 1hr 48 mins. So a round trip would be 3hr 40 mins. If you factor in perhaps 1 more hour to hike & dispose of a body, that is right at 5 hours.

So if someone was at a job site in Salida running machinery from 11:30pm - Midnight, that little excursion would have them back home at, you guessed it, 5am.

Then it’s 2 hours from home to Colorado Springs.

Kind of interesting to be 2 hours away, find out your wife is missing and then take over 3 hours to get home.

 

[MadTing]

Here’s something I hadn’t even thought of, until someone brought it to my attention.

If law enforcement has Suzanne’s phone, it will be damning. In the Gannon Stauch case, law enforcement was able to determine when exactly Letecia’s phone was unlocked (she left it at home, and accessed it 25 minutes after she returned).

That same sort of thing would prove huge here. Barry leaves Suzanne at 5am (according to him).

I think it’s a safe bet that Suzanne would have checked her phone at some point after waking up, and certainly before going for a bike ride.

Especially on Mother’s Day.

I’ll be willing to bet there was no such activity.

ETA: Although the rumor is that the security cameras were not working, that doesn’t mean that the whole system was not. If they have motion detectors, that can be invaluable as well (no motion in the house after Barry left).

This is one of the best points i have seen in this entire case, If there was no phone unlocking activity the morning of the bike ride that is a HUGE red flag.

I would also be interested to know whether they can tell if a phone was unlocked via face recognition or via pin number, depending on which phone she had that could be very telling especially if the "out of character" social media activity occurred after her phone was unlocked via a pin number when its usually unlocked via face recognition.

 

[EggSalad]

There is also something intriguing about BM saying he had his tools with him at a hotel. That is a detail that he feels compelled to give to explain, for some reason, why tools weren’t at a place he typically keeps them.

 

[EggSalad]

The more info we find it, it assures me that we aren’t dealing with some criminal mastermind and it’s just a matter of time before BM gets perp walked. We’re just dealing with a murder that happened in a remote part of the country with little or no witnesses and a man who was skilled in navigating the outdoors.

But he’s not highly intelligent, has told multiple lies, and it’s time consuming to conduct this LE investigation in the middle of a pandemic. Nothing more.

 

[enelram]

There is also something intriguing about BM saying he had his tools with him at a hotel. That is a detail that he feels compelled to give to explain, for some reason, why tools weren’t at a place he typically keeps them.

could the hotel story be part of his alibi that he was planning to spend Sunday night there?
His alibi was interrupted by being called home to
look for his missing wife.

 

[enelram]

Kind of interesting to be 2 hours away, find out your wife is missing and then take over 3 hours to get home. quoted EggSalad
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that's easy- he stopped and had a leisurely supper on the way home.
Just like Frazee, killed Kelsey, then went to turkey dinner at mama's.
A good appetite after a murder won't deter these sociopaths.

 

[DizzyB]

I would like to know what the neighbor said when she called for the welfare check. Maybe she thought the whole thing sounded pretty odd to her as well.

 

[susiQ]

Salida to Crested Butte is 1hr 48 mins. So a round trip would be 3hr 40 mins. If you factor in perhaps 1 more hour to hike & dispose of a body, that is right at 5 hours.

So if someone was at a job site in Salida running machinery from 11:30pm - Midnight, that little excursion would have them back home at, you guessed it, 5am.

Then it’s 2 hours from home to Colorado Springs.

Kind of interesting to be 2 hours away, find out your wife is missing and then take over 3 hours to get home.

Can we even be certain BM was in CS?? This is what he told AM. Honestly, can we believe anything that comes out of his mouth? The Moorman’s have been lied to from the get-go. It appears only after CBI descended on IN were they able to see that BM was not being truthful. That is when they began seeing there were inconsistencies in BM’s narrative, although AM did say he had some concerns while visiting in CO immediately after SM “disappeared.”

Can’t wait for this nonsense to end and have BM where he belongs. It is nauseating to watch how he has used family and good friends to disseminate his lies in an attempt to implicate others to take the heat off himself. I do truly feel for those friends and family who cannot see through his lies and obfuscations. And, I feel even more for the family and employee that he threw under the bus in such a public way and the people he used to do it. Absolutely NOTHING is beneath BM to save his own skin. JMHO

 

[Brubon]

There is also something intriguing about BM saying he had his tools with him at a hotel. That is a detail that he feels compelled to give to explain, for some reason, why tools weren’t at a place he typically keeps them.

What tools, specifically, would BM haul into a motel room? Has LE gone over the motel room with luminal, removed sink traps etc. to see if biological material belonging to SM was present?
Does he really think LE is buying what he is selling?
I D 10 T
MOO

 

[DizzyB]

Also hoping some of BM’s “buddies” start thinking about getting on the right side of this.

 

[steeltowngirl]

The interview with Andy was not only enlightening, but also heartbreaking.

I especially noted when Andy remarked about Barry's hunting and outdoor skills and how rugged the terrain is. Also, Barry lying down at the edge of the cliff? WTH was that about? (I too was thinking, was he gonna jump??)

And now we have the disgruntled fired employee. Who may or may not really exsist. Along with the glass wall.

I'm at the point, if it comes out of Barry's mouth, there's a 98% chance it's a lie of some sort. Did poor Suzanne have to put up with that day in/day out? Sort through the nonsense to figure out what was really going on?

Also impressive was Andy’s own knowledge of hunting. I cringed when he compared it to a hunt, but it made sense.

If a stranger on the bike trail had intended to rob or harm Suzanne, they would take her jewelry and/or harm her, but they would have likely left her body behind. Get what they need and get out.

>edit for spelling

 

[Diddian]

There is also something intriguing about BM saying he had his tools with him at a hotel. That is a detail that he feels compelled to give to explain, for some reason, why tools weren’t at a place he typically keeps them.

IMO, there are only a few reasons that stand up to scrutiny to explain a married man who shows up at a hotel without his wife on Mother’s Day:

1. A member of his extended family is ill or has died and he’s traveled there to help with care or to make arrangements;
2. He’s done something really bad and his wife has told him he’s no longer welcome at home that day;
3. He and his wife mutually agreed to separate on that day; or
   
4. His work requires him to be out of town on that day.

Just a hunch and I may be wrong, but I’m guessing he told whoever he met at that hotel that it was explanation #3, but told everyone else that it was explanation #4. Thus, his report that he had his tools with him.

 

[Fireflize]

The more we hear, the weirder it gets. How does he keep all his stories straight. From his own mouth we heard him say he was in Denver on Mother's Day, got home at 9 pm. Then we hear that he had told AM that he was in Colorado Springs, got home at 6 pm. It's so incredible that he will lie about details that are so contradictory, both can't be true. And so cool about it, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. I can imagine that anyone with any sense would get tired of this man so quick. Poor Suzanne. Moo

 

[EggSalad]

could the hotel story be part of his alibi that he was planning to spend Sunday night there?
His alibi was interrupted by being called home to
look for his missing wife.

I think so. He could say that he planned to stay at a hotel Sunday night and through the week for that job. It would also give him a reason as to why certain tools were not at home and instead a few hours away. Maybe even a tool or two had been disposed of. Getting hit with something like a heavy wrench of sledge hammer would be fatal if the person swinging is BM and the person getting hit is very petite.

 

[EggSalad]

Salida to Crested Butte is 1hr 48 mins. So a round trip would be 3hr 40 mins. If you factor in perhaps 1 more hour to hike & dispose of a body, that is right at 5 hours.

So if someone was at a job site in Salida running machinery from 11:30pm - Midnight, that little excursion would have them back home at, you guessed it, 5am.

Then it’s 2 hours from home to Colorado Springs.

Kind of interesting to be 2 hours away, find out your wife is missing and then take over 3 hours to get home.

For some reason I’m picturing a wilderness firefighter and all of the equipment they carry, namely a shovel.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Here’s something I hadn’t even thought of, until someone brought it to my attention.

If law enforcement has Suzanne’s phone, it will be damning. In the Gannon Stauch case, law enforcement was able to determine when exactly Letecia’s phone was unlocked (she left it at home, and accessed it 25 minutes after she returned).

That same sort of thing would prove huge here. Barry leaves Suzanne at 5am (according to him).

I think it’s a safe bet that Suzanne would have checked her phone at some point after waking up, and certainly before going for a bike ride.

Especially on Mother’s Day.

I’ll be willing to bet there was no such activity.

ETA: Although the rumor is that the security cameras were not working, that doesn’t mean that the whole system was not. If they have motion detectors, that can be invaluable as well (no motion in the house after Barry left).

Still trying to catch up from last night and the ton of new info from SM's brother Andy, but I just wanted to mention that depending on what kind of phone she had, they don't even need to have the physical phone to see the last activity. I have Samsung and literally everything on my phone, from pics, searches, social media, is synced and shows up on my google account.

If I click my "history" tab in google Chrome, 4 separate categories come up: desktop #1, desktop #2, lap top, and phone. Even more activity is synced & saved through google "activity", from all my devices. I have no idea how iphones work but I assume it's similar.

 

[Hatfield]

Kind of interesting to be 2 hours away, find out your wife is missing and then take over 3 hours to get home. quoted EggSalad
___________________________

that's easy- he stopped and had a leisurely supper on the way home.
Just like Frazee, killed Kelsey, then went to turkey dinner at mama's.
A good appetite after a murder won't deter these sociopaths.

There will be some mistakes and hopefully LE will be able to identify enough of them to prove what happened to SM.

One thing that LE may have found out is whatever phone BM used to talk to the girls and the neighbor when he was first notified that SM was missing. Well whatever phone he used for that should have been on all day Sunday and it should be able to be tracked.

So if BM is claiming to LE that that phone is not available anymore then that would be a telling sign. He should have had that phone with him and on all day Sunday because how else did he know about SM being missing.
That phone should be able to be used to track his movements unless he left it at a certain location and kept driving back to that location to check for messages. Or maybe he kept shutting it off most of the day and only turned it on to check for new messages. That would be suspicous too.

Something about that phone he used in talking to the neighbor may help LE.
JMO

 

[EggSalad]

Can we even be certain BM was in CS?? This is what he told AM. Honestly, can we believe anything that comes out of his mouth? The Moorman’s have been lied to from the get-go. It appears only after CBI descended on IN were they able to see that BM was not being truthful. That is when they began seeing there were inconsistencies in BM’s narrative, although AM did say he had some concerns while visiting in CO immediately after SM “disappeared.”

Can’t wait for this nonsense to end and have BM where he belongs. It is nauseating to watch how he has used family and good friends to disseminate his lies in an attempt to implicate others to take the heat off himself. I do truly feel for those friends and family who cannot see through his lies and obfuscations. And, I feel even more for the family and employee that he threw under the bus in such a public way and the people he used to do it. Absolutely NOTHING is beneath BM to save his own skin. JMHO

I completely agree.

One interesting note, remember BM telling TD that he and his buddies covered a 200 mile radius?

Maybe he meant 200 mile diameter?

If so, Crested Butte is 92 miles from Salida, so it would be the outer edge of that radius. (Aka 200 mile diameter).