Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #42

[DizzyB]

Barry’s preparation for the Broomfield job happened before Suzanne’s disappearance from the supposed bike ride. There wouldn’t have been a reason for Barry to forget tools and equipment, at least not a reason due to mental anguish over Suzanne’s disappearance.

Yup. Makes no sense. He was already up in Broomfield, prepping the site. Barry himself said he left his tools in a hurry and headed back home. MG said that the tools were left in a motel cart, and both MG and JP said that there were no tools necessary to complete the job that they had been sent up there to do.

 

[Boxer]

Has LE confirmed the chlorine at the hotel story? Something’s been bugging me about the hotel story. When it came out from the contractors, BM’s behavior was positioned as suspect. But it seems to be what you’d expect from someone who’s wife disappeared. He told them to be there but he bailed and left random tools and said he had a family emergency. He did have one. Pretty good reason to empty out the truck and run out of there, perhaps hoping to find her and get back later and sort out the job. He didn’t come back or call, which would also make sense. That’s not suspect. The contractors sat around and waited? For days? They didn’t worry about the emergency? Check with others to see if he could be reached? They didn’t see it on the news and head back and offer to help find her? Did they contact the client for the job? Did they request a welfare check on BM when they couldn’t reach him? The hotel said they don’t use anything like bleach or chlorine. People have commented how quickly that smell goes away. Doesn’t seem like it was bad enough they requested another room. Did the bleach/chlorine scenario happen? It’s just odd they positioned his behavior as fishy when it seems like how you’d act if a loved one disappeared. Why would they complain about not having what’s needed for the job or about waiting to hear back for days when a man’s wife disappeared?

If you take out any one of the clues we have that haven’t been confirmed by LE, so much falls apart. Maddening.

Agree. Only behavior before the call is really relevant.
Lack of effort isn't evidence nor laying down.
Some behaviors arouse the suspicion with police because its something they see repeatedly in certain cases, but usually that's their confidential professional opinion among their peers.

 

[Uninformant]

Barry’s preparation for the Broomfield job happened before Suzanne’s disappearance from the supposed bike ride. There wouldn’t have been a reason for Barry to forget tools and equipment, at least not a reason due to mental anguish over Suzanne’s disappearance.

I didn’t mean forget. I meant not finishing the prep. But I don’t know what all was expected.

 

[redabby]

What follows is MOO... and with quite a bit of Occam's Razor applied, so, here it is:

Why is the bike ride not considered a likely scenario? Which CCSO statements and/or known discovered evidence indicates the bike ride theory as bogus?

The bike recovered down a steep hill along SM's assumed-typical bike route is fully simpatico with a roadbed abduction.

SPECULATION:

SM was riding along the road, wearing typical biking clothing (including helmet) and a vehicle approached to her immediate position, from either behind her or toward her and... in an instant the vehicle stopped. One or more perps exited the vehicle, they grabbed SM off the bike and one perp placed and held SM inside the vehicle.

Of course SM was still wearing the helmet, it was strapped on. Even a struggle likely wouldn't have dislodged the helmet since they're designed to remain on a head during a crash.

The perps had no desire to take the bike (it wasn't their target) so the second perp performed a quick bike toss into the ravine: it was then out of immediate site. That perp returned to the vehicle and off they went. They've driven away from the scene.

SM did not cooperate nicely, perhaps. The helmet had become quite the nuisance in the struggle so perp #1 managed to remove the helmet and toss it from the vehicle.

Perp's intent: sexual assault. It may have been an unplanned crime of opportunity or maybe the perps knew SM bike ride schedule. Either is possible.

What some perceive or have described as 'odd' or 'weird' regarding BM's behavior... it's reasonably explainable in light of the fact that the "love of his life" has gone missing and he doesn't know what happened.


I haven't yet discounted this theory.

When this initially happened I thought accident, then I wondered if something like your suggestion had happened.
But the circumstantial evidence makes it almost impossible for me to believe that any more . The abrupt end to texting and then not getting back in touch just says that something happened on that Saturday. Along with the rushed unplanned job, the bleach , the GPS gaps according to AM, But especially the stop in communication.
As for domestic violence in the marriage, alot of very strong characters of both sexes have had some instance of dv and are still married it's nothing to do with 'inner strength' or being weak it is much more complicated than that.

 

[MassGuy]

bbm

What if SM was abducted. What if the abductor was wearing and continues to wear a mask while around SM so she could not identify him. Even if the perp intends to end her life maybe he doesn't want SM to know who he is for whatever reason. Can't 'perform' if SM realizes identity? I know, ridiculous, but who knows. Freaks abound.

It isn't necessarily beyond the pale an abducted person remains alive for perp's purposes (see: Elizabeth Smart).

Then a reward is offered. If it isn't contingent on "safe return" what's to stop a perp from ending her life and "coming across her body during a hike"? A contingency defeats such an attempt. Yes, also ridiculous but it could explain reasoning.

Just throwing it out there.

MOO

An abduction was a real possibility in the Elizabeth Smart case.

Here it looks like law enforcement became privy to information that ruled it out in those early hours and days.

The reward in and of itself, while odd, isn’t incriminating. It’s the fact that someone willing to offer a reward that size, was unwilling to actually make a media appeal. That is incriminating.

I’ve followed countless abduction cases over the years; the only time I have ever seen this behavior is from a guilty person.

 

[Knox]

I think that came from the nephew drinking Barry’s Kool-Aid.

Barry’s friend allegedly told Barry that law enforcement mishandled the bike. I think the nephew, in support of Barry, was trying to throw shade at law enforcement.

He knew they were looking at BM, and he was trying to protect him. This is also probably why he tried to shut MG up, when he told her she didn’t have to cooperate.

I think CBI told him he could be charged with obstruction, which is why he went silent.

I find it so very interesting he chose to do both of those things "in support of Barry". I've pondered over the possible reasons for quite some time now.

The TN mystery deepens, when he seemingly vanishes after a week or two. No more media interviews or involvement with the Facebook page or Gimme Fund.

All so very mysterious, just like Suzanne's disappearance.

You may be right, the CBI warned him and he chose to be unseen going forward. I say unseen, because just like his uncle Barry, he never appeared on-camera in any interview. Those Morphews are a shy bunch aren't they?

 

[jakat]

If there was DV in the home, I bet life was a lot more pleasant when he wasn't home. That Saturday, he was supposed to be at work in Salida all day, at least MG said she expected to work all day. And that would gave freed Suzanne up, for messaging her friend all blessed day long! The trouble didn't start when he left the house (for work, for hunting, for firefightering); the trouble started when he came home. Because IMO he's the trouble.

JMO

Poor Suzanne probably walked on eggshells all the time. I can't wrap my head around the fact she had been suffering from cancer and had to deal with him, too. God bless her.

 

[susiQ]

Why would they complain about not having what’s needed for the job or about waiting to hear back for days when a man’s wife disappeared?

RSABBM
Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is you would think he would bring all the tools needed to do the job seeing when he allegedly left at 5 am on Mother’s Day his wife was not missing yet, was she?? Why, oh why did he not bring the right tools? Because he was preoccupied setting up his alibi and disposing of SM. MOO

 

[Minordetails]

There are similarities in this case to other ‘well known’ spousal murders. But what I’m interested in hearing is, what makes this case specifically unique?
I’ve heard all about the similarities but I would like to hear what makes BM different from the Chris Watts and Patrick Frazees of this world?

 

[Knox]

Barry’s preparation for the Broomfield job happened before Suzanne’s disappearance from the supposed bike ride. There wouldn’t have been a reason for Barry to forget tools and equipment, at least not a reason due to mental anguish over Suzanne’s bike ride disappearance.

Speaking of the Broomfield job. Lauren Sharf never told us what she learned about Barry's wall job did she?

 

[MassGuy]

I find it so very interesting he chose to do both of those things "in support of Barry". I've pondered over the possible reasons for quite some time now.

The TN mystery deepens, when he seemingly vanishes after a week or two. No more media interviews or involvement with the Facebook page or Gimme Fund.

All so very mysterious, just like Suzanne's disappearance.

You may be right, the CBI warned him and he chose to be unseen going forward. I say unseen, because just like his uncle Barry, he never appeared on-camera in any interview. Those Morphews are a shy bunch aren't they?

It’s remarkable really. It’s not uncommon for the family of a missing person to appoint a family spokesperson.

I’ve never seen the spokesman demand that his face not be shown though.

The faceless “face of the family.”

 

[susiQ]

A reward contingent on the safe return of someone only works if they have been abducted by a human. Mountain lions have no use for paper currency.

BBM
So true! But you’ve forgotten there’s a special kind of mountain Lyon Liar that does! AKA “the duck!”

 

[GordianKnot]

A reward contingent on the safe return of someone only works if they have been abducted by a human. Mountain lions have no use for paper currency.

Hey, if you're a cat, 210k'll buy you a lot of Meow Mix.

Hard to believe Tony the Tiger hasn't bitten on that offer of a reward yet.

JMO.

 

[Knox]

It’s remarkable really. It’s not uncommon for the family of a missing person to appoint a family spokesperson.

I’ve never seen the spokesman demand that his face not be shown though.

The faceless “face of the family.”

No pictures of him searching either, not one.

But then again there aren't any of his good friend GD either.

They all may simply have an aversion to appearing on camera, nothing unusual about that at all.

 

[Megnut]

There are similarities in this case to other ‘well known’ spousal murders. But what I’m interested in hearing is, what makes this case specifically unique?
I’ve heard all about the similarities but I would like to hear what makes BM different from the Chris Watts and Patrick Frazees of this world?

I'd say that, amid the many ways they're the same, they differ in one. Occupation.

It'll factor. Watch.

People do what they know.

JMO

 

[EggSalad]

There are similarities in this case to other ‘well known’ spousal murders. But what I’m interested in hearing is, what makes this case specifically unique?
I’ve heard all about the similarities but I would like to hear what makes BM different from the Chris Watts and Patrick Frazees of this world?

He hasn’t been arrested yet.

 

[MassGuy]

There are similarities in this case to other ‘well known’ spousal murders. But what I’m interested in hearing is, what makes this case specifically unique?
I’ve heard all about the similarities but I would like to hear what makes BM different from the Chris Watts and Patrick Frazees of this world?

Chris Watts is a “family annihilator.” These are killers with a very specific pathology. They are quite unique when it comes to murderers on the whole.

John List, Bradford Bishop, Chris Coleman; they all wanted a fresh start. They were willing to kill their entire families to achieve that.

Patrick Frazee is a much more common type of killer. He decided to kill Kelsey because he saw some gain (full custody).

This case probably is much like the Frazee case. The difference though, and the reason that it has garnered so much attention, is that it appeared to be an abduction.

It’s rare for a low risk victim to be abducted in a low crime area, especially in broad daylight.

Add in the fact that this appeared to be the quintessential American family, and you have a major news story.

Someone screwed up, big time.

 

[Gigi3]

When this initially happened I thought accident, then I wondered if something like your suggestion had happened.
But the circumstantial evidence makes it almost impossible for me to believe that any more . The abrupt end to texting and then not getting back in touch just says that something happened on that Saturday. Along with the rushed unplanned job, the bleach , the GPS gaps according to AM, But especially the stop in communication.
As for domestic violence in the marriage, alot of very strong characters of both sexes have had some instance of dv and are still married it's nothing to do with 'inner strength' or being weak it is much more complicated than that.

Thank you so much for saying that last part about DV. I truly wasn’t aware that in this day and age some people think that only certain “types” can be involved in DV situations.

I realize now after some posts that perhaps our nation as a whole needs to do better in educating others of the realities of domestic violence. Unfortunately, DV happens in ALL walks of live, no matter race, economic status, gender, religion or education. I should know. Consider yourself lucky if you’ve never been or known anyone that’s been affected by DV.

I’m an educated person with a degree, and I consider myself a strong person for dealing with several obstacles thrown my way very early on in life, but I fell victim to domestic violence nonetheless. However, I made it out and became even stronger as a result. I have a feeling SM was finding her strength again and something went horribly wrong.
JMO.

 

[susiQ]

There are similarities in this case to other ‘well known’ spousal murders. But what I’m interested in hearing is, what makes this case specifically unique?
I’ve heard all about the similarities but I would like to hear what makes BM different from the Chris Watts and Patrick Frazees of this world?

I’ll start. For one, we haven’t uncovered a mistress.
Two.......anyone?

ETA: I see MG had a much better response!

 

[MassGuy]

No pictures of him searching either, not one.

But then again there aren't any of his good friend GD either.

They all may simply have an aversion to appearing on camera, nothing unusual about that at all.

Then you find someone to do it, like in just about every case like this ever.

I have never seen this before.