Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #3

[swanniee11]

Who said the brakes were broke on the bike? I saw that on a youtube video this afternoon and it was in a comment form with no MSM to support that. I have not found anything to support this. Not saying it's not true but we need to be careful with what we are posting. IMO

As for Mr Morphews "plea" and why he didn't do this with a reporter is because the reporter could/WOULD ask questions. He does look extremely tired and out of sorts but I have an issue with him doing this on his own a week later. IMO

 

[Dre]

Well it does make you wonder why the family is not cooperating with LE and doing these strange Fb pleas? I can’t understand why the family seems to be doing their own thing ?

I think the family is doing this in order to take it into their own hands to show that they are, in fact, working on finding their loved one and are not involved. LE is not being particularly helpful in clearing BS' name so the family has to show up in a way that projects the media to look at outsiders. Moo

 

[whitelilac]

I don't know what a micro expression is. I watched the plea a few times just now, including without sound. I don't detect anything fleeting at the very end. I guess I will leave that to the experts.

 

[AmandaReckonwith]

Can someone point me to where in MSM her brakes were jammed, super jammed or any sort of brake failure?

 

[k-mac]

TEXT message is all that is needed. No phone call. Why is this so hard for people to grasp? The text could be sent from her phone even if she's not alive. It's a GREAT way to set things in motion if you have a nefarious plan. All that is needed is a friend/neighbor that she commonly texts. She says, "Hey, friend! Everyone's out of town, so I'm letting you know, yada yada yada."

thank you truth is stranger for highlighting the text message.
I added text to my original quote. I meant to.
no its not had to grasp at all.
its really glaringly obvious actually.

imo not by her tho.

moo

 

[Whiteorchids]

On Find Suzanne Morphew, their friends and family in Indiana are rooting for the husband. He is a good guy. I hope LE is looking for the "real" suspect.

Isn’t that what everyone said about Chris Watts. Not one bad thing said about him from everyone LE interviewed.

 

[Seattle1]

I don't think she would go for a ride in the first place if she anticipated an emergency or something that would require police to be called.

I think the family either called the neighbor after trying to reach Suzanne, or the neighbor saw her leave hours earlier and realized she wasn't back yet. Or maybe it was both. A family member called the neighbor and the neighbor told them they saw her leave hours ago.

Imo

My vote is family member alerted neighbor. 5:56 pm (plenty of daylight) or dinner time is not an hour of worry to contact LE, IMO. Unless SM was expected at dinner and didn't show-- but that's not how it was reported.

 

[bancam]

Well, they aren't Indiana residents any more and apparently haven't been since late 2018.

Let me say that a trust is a specific instrument that would need to take the deeds to all their community property, move then into a trust, and name specific trustees to benefit but not BM, the husband.

Personally, I think if there were any evidence of a wife going to those lengths to disinherit her husband, it's a pretty specific action. It involves taking community property and converting it to another kind. Now, it's possible their holdings (now sold, I believe) in Indiana could have been part of such an unusual, disinherit-the-husband trust, but surely the husband had to sign the transfer deed? Do you really think Suzanne hold all property in her own right, such that her husband never minded not being on the deed for his own home? Sounds really really strange (and specific) to me.

But I believe their assets are mostly tied up in that $1.7M house (possibly 1.5M) that they purchased before selling their $750,000 house in Indiana, along with some acreage.

Trusts are for death, IMO. However, a trust that acts as a retroactive pre-nup would indeed be interesting and fall under my rubric of "unusual financial arrangement," and to me, that's a pretty narrow and specific category.

I am quite aware that death and divorce are not the same. I think most of us are. But any arrangements made by Suzanne were made before either one of those occurred.

The Indiana property was never sold, they still own it outright, there is no mortgage securities registered against it. Current valuation estimates are around $796,000.

Hamilton County, IN - Property Records

Likewise, as established in earlier threads, the current Puma Path home in Colorado had - and still has - no mortgage or securities registered against it and therefore, in all likelihood, was purchased with cash. The purchase price paid was $1,575,000.

 

[Coldpizza]

Basically we wait until there is a crumb of information on MSM or a clue from LE.
And hope Suzanne is found soon.

Based on cases that I've followed through the years, LE agencies all have a different approach to missing persons cases. Some release information quickly and some don't based on the demographics. This one seems to be fairly tight lipped. Makes one wonder why? In my opinion a lot is happening behind the scenes and LE is putting the pieces together. In due time, and soon, I believe an arrest will be made. My thought's and prayers are with Suzanne and the ones that love her.

 

[al66pine]

Did a Text Request an Alert of SM's Possible Disappearance?

I also wonder if a text message was sent to the neighbor by SM's phone (not necessarily SM herself), saying, "Hey, I'm going on a bike ride. If you don't hear back from me in an hour, please call 911." This would explain why the neighbor called 911, not the family.

@TruthIsStranger. Hmmm. I'm trying to imagine my response/ a typical response, if a neighbor asked/told me this, whether by text or phone convo.
Call LE-911 if I'm not back from my bike ride in one hour or by X:00 time?
Kinda drastic sounding request?

That ^ scenario allows for SM herself or someone other than SM, to have texted from her phone. Tho in some cases we've seen that a friend/fam recognizes that the text is not written/spelled like the missing person, and that alone may raise concern. jmo

 

[MsBetsy]

Well it does make you wonder why the family is not cooperating with LE and doing these strange Fb pleas? I can’t understand why the family seems to be doing their own thing ?

Maybe there is a 'disconnect' between the family and LE.

 

[Stripehaven]

I don't think she would go for a ride in the first place if she anticipated an emergency or something that would require police to be called.

I think the family either called the neighbor after trying to reach Suzanne, or the neighbor saw her leave hours earlier and realized she wasn't back yet. Or maybe it was both. A family member called the neighbor and the neighbor told them they saw her leave hours ago.

Imo

Maybe the neighbor was expecting her to drop by after the bike ride and she never showed up. And depending on the relationship between the two, I might have some other thoughts.

 

[MntnHiker]

I posted this right before the other thread closed so I am reposting it here:

I do wonder if her husband has a theory about someone who took her. Maybe it's someone who has harassed or threatened him and/or Suzanne in the past. Or maybe they have an acquaintance or person in their life who HE believes was interested in his wife. Whatever the case - perhaps BM has had a theory since day one on someone who has been jealous or felt slighted by them and has maybe give them trouble or even threatened them in the past, and he immediately thinks it HAS to be that person.


Perhaps LE is not convinced and/or looked into said person and they have an alibi or there is no evidence they're responsible. But BM still believes it is this person so he goes out on his own to make this video and is being very pointed to speak to this person who, in his mind, must have her and could be motivated by money. MOO

 

[Dre]

I find it annoying and frustrating when people compare cases.
Maybe there is no comparison at all.

@AmandaReckonwith I believe your post was for me..
its incredibly hard NOT to, as humans were so good at making associations and patterns, so drawing parallels feels helpful for developing understanding. I am going to go ahead and edit my comment because I'd rather not be annoying, or frustrating

 

[Pak31]

bbm
Prob. for good reason.
I feel for that neighbor.

I'm wavering on a wobbly fence about abduction.
Yes a perp could have placed her bike and other items as a red herring.
But it stretches credulity.

Trying to think like a kidnapper here and prob. failing :
Why not grab her and take off in your vehicle ?
Who cares about planting evidence ?
Suzanne was slim and not a large victim to seize.
Any planting of evidence would risk you being noticed.

Even if it was a revenge hit which I doubt-- same thing.
Take the person you're abducting and get the heck out of Dodge ?

Also trying to think of any other cases where a woman of her age was kidnapped.
It doesn't happen often.
Sadly it's usually younger 20-somethings or teens.

Imo.

I agree. If it was random why bother staging anything? They don’t know her or where she lives or if she has family. They would just grab her and go. Same goes with someone who knew her. Her family eventually know she’d been taken. Obviously her husband somehow seems to believe she has been. Why would they need to stage a bike? The ONLY reason IMO to stage the bike there would be to make people think she disappeared while biking. Only people she knew would have known she was a biker. MOO is that she was harmed by someone she knew and it happened either in the home or somewhere other than where the bike was found. Then again I could be totally wrong.

 

[BeckyF]

I find this very strange that his first plea is on fb. That’s absolutely strange to me . Maybe that’s the new way but I would think LE would’ve been the first avenue. Something is wrong imo. Why is the husband not going through LE?

Agree. FB comments are way too nasty much of the time.

 

[GordianKnot]

unfortunately, there have been a number of high profile cases of women being purposefully hit and disabled by a vehicle--so the occupant(s) could quickly load their broken bodies into their automobile and take off...Dana Ireland and Suzanne Eaton are two horrific examples of a "hit and run with the victim" scenario.

Those examples you cited were not hit-and-run accidents, though.

Those were intentional abductions.

I was talking about a hit-and-run accident scenario.

Having said that, I don't think SM was intentionally hit for the purpose of abducting her, either.

JMO.

 

[mom2chloe]

The only thing I know is that, AFAIK, she hadn't made it to an actual trail. She was headed toward one. Her bike was found near the intersection of two regular roads, and I'm unclear about the trail of evidence found away from the bike, but I think it too was near the 50.

Her brakes were found "super-jammed" according to a nephew (that's in MSM at this point). Any thoughts on how that could happen?

We don't know that she had any kind of electronic device. She may have been living by herself, as an immune-compromised person. It's not clear at all.

She could have had any number of tracking devices but I am absolutely sure that LE and the FBI evidence retrieval team have figured that part out - they may be waiting for responses from those companies (Apple, Strava, MapMyRide, whatever she uses).

I am struggling to keep up with this thread but I completely agree that she may have been living alone due to her immune compromised position so the fact that she was alone on Mother’s Day is not necessarily anything nefarious but rather common sense. I do struggle with why she would be alone on a bike because although I understand cabin fever and the need for fresh air particularly in these times, it is simply never a safe choice for a woman to go off by herself.
I too recall the Heidi Broussard case and cannot forgive myself for blaming the husband when he too was a victim. I hope this case resolves in a manner where the husband is innocent and wife is found alive and well soon.
I also initially thought the nephew speaking out was hinky but frankly if I were missing under any circumstance I would certainly appreciate someone, especially a family member for speaking out against my missing status. IMO

 

[Fleur-de-lis]

@AmandaReckonwith I believe your post was for me..
its incredibly hard NOT to, as humans were so good at making associations and patterns, so drawing parallels feels helpful for developing understanding. I am going to go ahead and edit my comment because I'd rather not be annoying, or frustrating

We refer to other cases and compare them just as LE, detectives, and cold-case specialists do, IMO. We see previous behaviors and clues and use them. Just like FBI profilers do. Of course, we're armchair sleuthers, but comparing cases is a good step. I hope you don't edit your initial, good thoughts!

 

[Seattle1]

I believe the only place I read this (about the jammed breaks) was earlier on the "Find Suzanne Morphew" Facebook page. It was located in an article in the Colorado Herald and was posted by someone onto that page. It has since been removed or at least I can no longer find it there. I googled "Colorado Herald" at that time and nothing came up on that search other than "Durango Herald." I don't believe the Colorado Herald is a legitimate news source. In addition to the jammed breaks, there were several other claims that I've seen nowhere else in legitimate MSM. At the end of the article was the question: (Where is Suzanne, Barry?) So... no, not legit imo.

AS a reminder -- posts by others on the Missing Page are not allowed posted or discussed on the main thread. Thanks.

ETA: Colorado Herald is not MSM -- may explain why it was removed.