Found Deceased CO - BARRY ARRESTED AGAIN - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* *found in 2023* #116

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justtrish said:
We will have to go back over this case again with what we now know and try to figure out where he put her and when.

I just thought of the one blogger or youtube guy who ran into Barry on the road near the house and Barry was wet like he had been in the water. Do you think he was checking on her? Maybe he hid her and weighed her down in the water there? Then moved her later.

She must not have been clothed when he originally put her somewhere. maybe she was in that bathing suit and he removed it, then took some bike clothing to put near her. Then when he went back to move her he thought he would be smart and put her and the clothing in that spot to show she was really biking when she was abducted, but he didn't count on LE being able to tell she wasn't wearing that clothing when she was decomposing.
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How do you redress bones I would think they would be skeletized and fragile. What a sick monster
 
Ontario Mom said:
Someone refresh my memory:

Barry claimed Suzanne had planned a bike ride that morning?, but didn't someone (that knew Suzanne - daughter's boyfriend? Barry's co-worker at the volunteer fire department?) contradict that by saying she never rode in the morning, only in the afternoon?
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Wasn't she supposed to be virtually attending a wedding that day?

If I'm remembering that correctly it seems Barry might not have known about it.
 
Ontario Mom said:
Someone refresh my memory:

Barry claimed Suzanne had planned a bike ride that morning?, but didn't someone (that knew Suzanne - daughter's boyfriend? Barry's co-worker at the volunteer fire department?) contradict that by saying she never rode in the morning, only in the afternoon?
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Cindizzi said:
I don’t remember if bf mentioned the time of day, but he knew a lot about her biking habits. He said she would never hop on the bike at the house and set off for a ride. She would put her bike in the Range Rover and drive to a trailhead and park it.
Jmo
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Yes, she rode in the late afternoons.

JMO
 
Another note to pile on the 2021 AA. The indictment has this very damning info about their phone activity.

bm phone 2025.webp


The indictment says his phone powered down at 4:32 am. But the AA says it was powered ON at that time.

bm phone 2021.webp


It didn't make sense either to say it was turned on after saying it was taken out of airplane mode. A very bad typo there. Ugh. Their work was even worse than I'd thought.
 
Skigh said:
I just cannot fathom why he took the risk of burying her somewhere so near a road where someone could have seen him.
I cannot make up my mind whether he expected her to be discovered .
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I think he wanted her to be found, and I think he believed it would "prove" his bike riding set up story. Then he could live his life, and it would show everyone he didn't do it. He wasn't counting on that BAM to show up in her bone marrow.
 
otto said:
I'm not convinced that she planned to go biking. Seems like a cold windy day for a bike ride ... 64 F, 20 mph winds gusting to 27 mph. I remember thinking at the time that a bike ride was surprising.

Hiding some biking clothing seems like part of the ruse that she was biking, and very useful when he wanted her body to be found and identified. Barry is the only source for a planned bike ride, and he immediately pointed investigators in the direction of a missing bike, missing bike helmet, and disappearance away from the house.

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62° might have felt like summer. She was sunbathing earlier, after all.

JMO
 
Love Never Fails said:
Oh my. He cheated on her in Indiana. He cheated with SD before he killed Suzanne. LE knows he was on dating websites while marries. They just haven’t had anyone speak up..yet.

You give him a lot of credit for a guy who killed his wife. He didn’t kill her over some affair. He couldn’t control her thoughts and emotions anymore. Oh and don’t forget he was physically abusive!
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BM cheating is not confirmed by the investigation and I believe investigators even stated there was no evidence of it. LE had full access to BM’s phones, devices, financial records, locations, and personal contacts. If there was verified evidence that he cheated in Indiana, with SD, or with anyone else, it would have been documented. The first AA was messy and basically threw everything at the wall. What is fully documented is SM’s long-term affair, and that she was actively taking steps to leave the marriage. There’s a tendency to assume both sides were doing the same thing, but that simply isn’t supported by the evidence. Whether or not someone might still come forward claiming an affair with BM doesn’t change what drove this case. He didn’t need to be cheating to have motive. The loss of control, rejection, and humiliation over SM’s affair and her plans to leave were enough to drive his actions. Nothing justifies what BM did. And no, pointing out what the evidence actually shows isn’t “giving him too much credit.” The facts are bad enough on their own without needing to invent more. imo
 
justtrish said:
I think he wanted her to be found, and I think he believed it would "prove" his bike riding set up story. Then he could live his life, and it would show everyone he didn't do it. He wasn't counting on that BAM to show up in her bone marrow.
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Yeah, his mountain lion thing didn’t work when they found the bike
 
justtrish said:
I think he wanted her to be found, and I think he believed it would "prove" his bike riding set up story. Then he could live his life, and it would show everyone he didn't do it. He wasn't counting on that BAM to show up in her bone marrow.
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It's so weird though, isn't it... that among the clothing items was a "Crested Butte" sweatshirt?

I get the Nike tank and Yeti shorts for bike riding, but every photograph I've seen of SM out on a bike trail has her wearing a high-quality zip-up biking jacket. And didn't the younger daughter's boyfriend - when talking to LE outside the Morphew home after he went to check for SM there - say SM always wore something like that to bike?

So is the theory BM was trying to sell with dressing her remains as he did for the secondary site that she was abducted from home before changing into the jacket to go bike riding? But weren't the doors of the Puma Path home found locked?
 
Diddian said:
It's so weird though, isn't it... that among the clothing items was a "Crested Butte" sweatshirt?

I get the Nike tank and Yeti shorts for bike riding, but every photograph I've seen of SM out on a bike trail has her wearing a high-quality zip-up biking jacket. And didn't the younger daughter's boyfriend - when talking to LE outside the Morphew home after he went to check for SM there - say SM always wore something like that to bike?

So is the theory BM was trying to sell with dressing her remains as he did for the secondary site that she was abducted from home before changing into the jacket to go bike riding? But weren't the doors of the Puma Path home found locked?
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Was it so that the remains would be identified as Suzanne's, with her sweatshirt?
 
Tortoise said:
Wasn't she supposed to be virtually attending a wedding that day?

If I'm remembering that correctly it seems Barry might not have known about it.
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Yes, she was to attend her best friend S's daughter's wedding via video phone call. Interestingly, we also learned in the first investigation that BM was found outside Poncho Springs Market rummaging through trash. He then was knocking on the door to combine and left that cryptic note with them. I've always thought this was a significant stop. The police did not get there within the 30 day time window and the video security footage was overwritten. IMO he was looking for something he stashed during that unaccounted time window.
 
justtrish said:
Do you know if we have anyone here on WS that is an expert in any of these areas? I am curious exactly what this means. I understand basically it's saying she likely didn't decompose there, but I wonder what bug activity they would expect to see if she had decomposed there. If she was found 3 years after she went missing and all that was found were bones with a very small amount of desiccated soft tissue, then would bugs still be present?

I think I understand better the clothing not having decomposition on them. I get that. It is also bizarre that when he moved her, he would move the clothing also. As if he kept it or disposed of it where he put her the first time and then moved her and the clothing she wasn't wearing at the same time and put it at the new location.

I find it incredible they can even tell some of this stuff many years later. I'm sure Barry wasn't expecting experts to be able to tell he moved her body.
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Certainly not an expert, but I think, just like humans who set up camp in a locale, you can tell we’ve been there by what we leave behind. An outbreak of insects and other organisms may be gone, but they would leave organic matter behind, including dead bug bodies, etc, etc. and it would have been a large outbreak. I think those experts would know what to look for and find it if it is there.
 
Regarding the discovery of the body, if we work backwards we might find the answers to why he moved the body. All ... just an opinion

Suzanne's remains included the majority of her bones, with many bones "significantly bleached" (either through sun/environment, or chemical use). Her chemo port was with her bones, as were some of her biking clothing. It was determined that these remains were placed at that location some time after she was murdered and decomposed.

That means that whoever placed her bones at that second location wanted to ensure that when she was found, she would be easily identified. If that was not the objective, her chemo port and clothing would not have been placed with her bones.

That means that her murderer had a specific reason for wanting her to be found, unrelated to where she was originally hidden. That is, she was not moved because someone was close to discovering her body, but because her murderer had a personal reason for wanting her death to be confirmed.

The obvious reason for Barry wanting Suzanne to be found is because he wanted $15M for "wrongful arrest", and the best way to prove that case was to demonstrate that Suzanne was killed while biking near their house. The only flaw in the plan is that BAM can be found in bone marrow.
 
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