“I’m not the other woman”: Second contractor speaks out about Suzanne Morphew investigation | FOX21 News Colorado
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Morgan Gentile came forward after her friend and coworker, Jeffrey Puckett, spoke to FOX21 News.
Gentile says the case has broken up her family, forced her to relocate, and is keeping her from finding employment.
“I got treated through all . this just like I’m the other woman, even though I’m not the other woman,” Gentile said. “I just happen to be a woman.”
Gentile said several people have accused her of having an affair with Suzanne Morphew’s husband.
Barry has also denied accusations that he may have had affairs.
“Everybody’s out there saying, ‘oh, you got a girlfriend, you must have an affairs.’ Where is it? There’s nobody. There’s never been another love in my life,” Barry told FOX21 News.
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Gentile corroborated Puckett’s claims concerning a hotel room in Broomfield, where Barry had also spent time.
“We opened the door and I mean, like, the chlorine hit you and you’re, like, my eyes started watering and burning. And, like, the towels were like super wet on the floor, and it looked like he had, like, made the bed before he left,” Gentile said.
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Barry’s behavior that weekend had seemed strange.
“Barry had worked on the beach site Friday evening,” Gentile said. “Saturday, he had asked me to clean it up and rake it out, because we were going to bring it out to level – so it would be a beach sand and not muck.”
The “beach site” located off County Road 105, east of Salida
That area, a construction site off County Road 105, east of Salida, is the same area where investigators spent three days searching for Suzanne, just a week later, on May 21-23.
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He was acting really weird about [the beach area], I was like Barry what’s up,” Gentile said. “He seemed stressed. He definitely seemed weird on Saturday.”
And, although Gentile had agreed to work in that area for the day, she said Barry dismissed her from the job early – at 11 a.m.
“He said that he had to go make the wife happy – do some hiking or biking,” she said. “And I found out, like, later that day that he was in town all day.”
Gentile said she heard Barry was out shopping by himself.
The original plan for the Broomfield job – a retaining wall – included only Gentile and Barry, she said.
“We were originally supposed to go out there at the end of April,” Gentile explained.
She said, the plans changed, pushing the project to the first of May, then changed again to the weekend of May 10. Gentile said she was surprised when Barry called her asking her to assemble a crew for the job.
“Last minute he changed everything. In fact, he called me that Sunday – Mother’s Day – and was really frantic, really didn’t sound like himself,” Gentile said. “I hung up the phone and I thought he just had the worst night of his life.”
