Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #34

[steeltowngirl]

Very damning interview from Morgan gentile

She was surprisingly believable.

 

[crhedBngr]

She was surprisingly believable.

I agree.

 

[kkdj]

its weird that he feel so comfortable hiring so manny meth heads to work large construction equipment for his company. that seems ill advised

Well, idk. They all have some things to hide.
I suspect BM liked having people with something to hide work for him so that he could fudge on how he paid them, which in turn would lower payroll taxes and workers comp.
jmo

 

[BeckyF]

okay so i wasnt going to be this guy, but i am this guy so why fight it? First I want to say everyone entitled to their own opinion and I respect everyone's thoughts. Im merely the provider of adult missing person cases data. So to graduate we have to write a 10,000 word research paper on a topic. I chose adult missing persons cases (and imo its on the same level of one of picassos paintings) ive looked at the law, and policy, and just as general rule LE doesnt not care about adult missing persons, and legally they have no obligation to. (now this varies state to state and jurisdiction to jurisdiction.) but at the federal level theres not a single law that requires LE to investigate adult missing persons over the age of 21.

Adults can and are allowed to leave if they want so their not considered high priority. LE has to take the report when its filed (its illegal for them to make you wait to file, no law prevents it) HOWEVER theres no procedures or legal standards that require them to take action. It usually gets pushed off a few days to see if the person shows up. This is the worst possible things that can happen because the first 48 hours after someone goes missing are the most important. statically if they arent found within that time frame they are likely dead and whats worse is wait to start the investigation causes important evidence to be lost or ruined (ie the preservation of a crime scene) . The National Crime Information Center (NCIC) reports over 600,000 people are reported missing each year and thankfully a majority of these are solved but Adult individuals over the age of 21, accounted for roughly 48,642, or 56 percent, of current open missing person cases. I mean how many missing persons do we hear about a year? a few dozen maybe? but the reality is at any given time in thiss country their are 48,642 missing adults and a majority of them arent being looked for.

The media coverage in SM's case is probably falling with the top 2% of all adult missing person cases. (and im in no way saying it shouldnt be, no person deserves to be forgotten, every person deserve this much coverage but its just an impossibility) Most missing perons get to mention a few times on the news and get a few article but that it. And sadly the data shows these spots are typically reserved for upper-middle class/middle class white men and women from good families. It your poor, if your a person of color, if youve ever done a drug or made a mistake your cases is statically proven to get much less coverage AND when these cases are covered the media speaks about the victims in a way that suggest their choices lead to the situation (aka they are less worthy of finding) which leads LE and the community, in general, to feel less of a sense or urgency to find them. White women, however, are categorically described as victims in need of rescue

LE is not required to federally report adult missing persons to NCIC, or ViCAP, or to submit DNA to codic. this is left up to the states to handle and unfortunately, that can mean theres inconsistency in procedures and theirs no real consequence to the LE agency if they forget. Adults dont get Amber alerts,the programs establish by non-profits are less funded and well put together then the resources provided to le and family members of adult missing persons. , and their case as a whole are not prioritized as much as other crimes. LE is usually so busy they just dont have the time or resources to continue making these cases a priority long term and they have no model or roadmap for how to best utilize what they do have. so sadly alot of people just get forgotten. IMO its not right, these families deserve answers and no one, and i mean no one deserves to just be forgotten. However, given the limitations of the current system, these are unfortunate realities. Im really not okay with, im horrified acually and its like a lesser known secret that this happens pretty often. The cases that keep LE attention over time are usually only done so as a result of a loved one that resfuses to give up.

All that being said I have no idea what LE has done in SMs case or how through they were, but I can tell you they took the case seriously and they acted right away. Thats invaluable to finding SM and ensuring evidence is collected and sadly there are a decent amount of agencies that dont feel that same sense of urgency when they get a report. I know theyve gotten multiple warrants and they've conduct multiple searches and their working with the support of the FBI. Their taking this case seriously, following up on leads. There behavior reflects that their acting with SMs best interest in mind. We probably wont know how much hey did do or if more could have been done for a while, but there not giving up on SM. Thee not letting her become an afterthought and to me thats significant because unfortunately that doesnt happen or most missing people. SM absolutely deserve the attention. and these should be standard operating procedures but for a variety of reasons their not. and every one is 100% justified in being frustrated, logically is seems impossible that theres nothing they can share or that theres no way the public can help, but their working every day on this cases and for that fact alone I believe, at least for now their actions have earned the benefit of the doubt and IMO There are over 40,000 other missing person case sitting in some officer gathering dust and being ignored that back that up.

Its still frustrating AF but i think if we look at SMs case in terms of how adult missing person cases are handled across the country, LE in this cases is doing pretty good (and i by no means am criticizing LE there are a variety of factors at play here often well out of the investigator's hands Now I know what your thinking, isnt still doing their job the bare minimum they should be doing? heck yeah, its sad and we absolutely need reforms here but the current acceptable standard nationwide is much much lower. I personally find this to be appalling and cleary its an issue im passionate about. I hope i didnt come of preachy, not at all my intent just wanted to highlight the extremely depressing realities. sorry for bringing mood ruining vibe I just thought it might be helpful to have context as to wildly inadequate laws and procedures thank you for coming to my ted talk

BBM I so appreciate this post. Thank you. Regarding the part I bolded, very sad but true. But I appreciate all of it.

 

[DizzyB]

So what was the mechanical bobcat thing and when/where did Barry do it?

 

[303gmf]

We need a word for "drunk text".

Just saying.

JMO

Lots of odd postings on his page last few months
Still list BM as employer

 

[NuttMegg]

I tend to believe the gist of what she says, "but" she relates the hush hush money story, if I were Perry Mason I might glare at her and snarl.......are you sure, Ms MG, that YOU didn't ask THEM for hush money?

 

[crhedBngr]

Did I hear MG say BM was crying during one of his phone calls?

 

[Hoosierfan72]

She was surprisingly believable.

Agreed. And if she is really a meth head as BM alleges, she needs to give her dentist a raise. Pretty good looking teeth from what i could see. MOO.

 

[happyday]

So Barry basically emptied the junk out of his truck into the hotel room and those were the tools?

 

[RickshawFan]

The whole hush money thing seems very odd to me. There's no reason to say paying someone for their work, as contracted, could give the wrong impression of being hush money.

So, they stiffed her her paycheck? How would they not imagine she'd report it? The least of their worries would be that someone might just think they were paying hush money.

At any rate, I think there are some missing sentences in the hush money story that didn't get said and might explain it a bit better. For me, the storyline doesn't seem logical.

 

[Cindizzi]

Did I hear MG say BM was crying during one of his phone calls?

Yep. At 8:00 am Monday he couldn’t come back to work because a mountain lion got his wife and he was going to have to go up the mountain to get her.

 

[happyday]

I agree. Also think she has a couple of things on her side: a local with longtime roots in Chaffee County versus an outsider that locals may perceive as somebody landing in town, throwing his weight and his money around. MOO

Do we know she is from Chaffee county?

 

[MassGuy]

"All this stuff for a 30 minute job LOL"

That was something that was in the video, but not the article. Barry spent a day in Broomfield, supposedly setting up a job.

He does what Morgan characterizes as “30 minutes of work,” and leaves a bunch of useless tools, and a hotel room reeking of chlorine.

Nothing to see here...

 

[happyday]

The whole hush money thing seems very odd to me. There's no reason to say paying someone for their work, as contracted, could give the wrong impression of being hush money.

So, they stiffed her her paycheck? How would they not imagine she'd report it? The least of their worries would be that someone might just thing they were paying hush money.

At any rate, I think there are some missing sentences in the hush money story that didn't get said and might explain it a bit better. For me, the storyline doesn't seem logical.

Yeah and he didn’t think twice about paying JP. Why should he worry about them thinking it was hush money if he paid her? Also what was it about her phone that he didn’t want them to see?

 

[Topppps]

"She's missing a mountain lion got her"

Lol

Did you hear that @MassGuy

 

[Knox]

I don’t think these two men are a mystery at all. We know his nephew was on scene early, and was initially supportive of Barry. His Army buddy with millions of tours has also been close by (he was mentioned in a Daily Mail article early on).

So Barry wants his workers to be paid, and he also wants them to be kept silent. He’d use these two to pass on the money, and the message.

I’m not saying that these two were trying to help Barry get away with this, I’m just saying they may have been motivated by optics, and protecting a man they believed to be innocent.

I think this also explains why TN went silent. I think law enforcement heard about this, and may have called him on it.

“You’re interfering with an investigation. I suggest you keep your mouth shut...” or something.

Agreed no mystery now. The print story did not say one of them was a family member, only "two men affiliated with Barry". It's a given who they are once you listen to the full video.

My question is why those two men would do that for Barry in the first place? Wouldn't this throw red flags all over the place? What could he possibly have told them that legitimized relaying that type of message?

Your wife is missing, but you send two people out to talk to your employees to advise them not to cooperate with LE? Mind you this was not even 48 hours after Suzanne went missing.

I don't mind saying it makes me suspicious of them both.

 

[susiQ]

I don’t think these two men are a mystery at all. We know his nephew was on scene early, and was initially supportive of Barry. His Army buddy with millions of tours has also been close by (he was mentioned in a Daily Mail article early on).

So Barry wants his workers to be paid, and he also wants them to be kept silent. He’d use these two to pass on the money, and the message.

I’m not saying that these two were trying to help Barry get away with this, I’m just saying they may have been motivated by optics, and protecting a man they believed to be innocent.

I think this also explains why TN went silent. I think law enforcement heard about this, and may have called him on it.

“You’re interfering with an investigation. I suggest you keep your mouth shut...” or something.

BBM
Ha! Now look whose exaggerating the numbers. It was only 400, don’t ya know!

 

[MassGuy]

"She's missing a mountain lion got her"

Lol

Did you hear that @MassGuy

And that’s the biggest tell in all of this.

Joe Schmoe knows that mountain lions don’t drag women from their bikes, throw that bike in a ravine, leave no trace of an attack, and disappear a body.

If the average person knows that, Barry, an experienced hunter and outdoorsman, sure as hell does.

So from minute one he’s not only telling everyone his wife is dead (obvious implication), but something he knows to be impossible happened.

Say “mountain lion” again Barry. I dare you!

 

[Knox]

This is an awfully interesting statement. The beach was located at the job site that was searched?
Full article here:

CO - CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #34

“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.

And, she said, 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.

“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.”

Add to this the equipment noise the neighbor heard, these things may have contributed to LE's search at BM's jobsite.