Listen,” Barry said during a Thursday morning phonecall, “Jeff Puckett was in prison for nine years.”
Still, Barry confirmed he had hired Puckett for a project in Broomfield on Mother’s Day Weekend this year. They needed to fix a wall, Puckett said.
“I said listen, I need to do this job, I will pay you good money to come and help me,” Barry said of Puckett. “I gave him a job and an opportunity.”
It was not a last minute project, Barry explained,
the job had been in the works for a month.
“That has nothing to do with Suzanne missing,” he said.
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But Puckett said the crew couldn’t finish their work.
“We had nothing to work with,” he said. And he described what would have been necessary in order to complete that particular job.
“Once you build [the wall] up, you run a layer block, some dirt, get [it] inspected, then you keep continuing until the next level – and
there was nothing like that to work with,” Puckett said. “That kind of pissed me off, so I come on back.”
As far as the paperwork left in the room, Puckett said he turned it over to authorities.
“I mean it’s either foul play or an alien has got her ,and we know that aliens are far-fetched you know what I’m saying but someone just doesn’t walk off the face of the earth like that and disappear it’s just not normal, it’s just not normal at all,” he said.
Barry confirmed to FOX21 News he had been in that room, and had also noticed a strong smell.
“I did not go to the pool and I did not get chlorine,” he said.
“I’m sure that they washed the rooms with that for the covid. I don’t know, but I [smelled] it too when I was in there.”
A hotel manager said the pool isn’t even open, due to coronavirus restrictions. That manager also said the hotel uses peroxide multi-purpose cleaner in its rooms.
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“I did nothing wrong
in the hotel,” Barry said. “There’s cameras all over the hotel, I did nothing wrong.”
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I bolded a few word sequences that stood out to me, including:
- vacillations between "I'm sure" and "I don't know"
- claiming he didn't do anything wrong "in the hotel" as opposed to in general
- not leaving Puckett with anything to work with, i.e. no actual material for a job in place as if he just needed someone to show up for an alibi
- calling in Puckett and assuming that his prior prison record would be something he could hold up against him if Puckett decided to ask questions (i.e. "see I did you a favor and gave you an opportunity and look at how you respond, etc...)
