Found Deceased CO - BARRY ARRESTED AGAIN - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* *found in 2023* #117

[Love Never Fails]

Not disagreeing with you. But the ruling was homicide undetermined means under BAM intoxication - or something to that effect. So not exactly true as you worded it.

A vet toxicologist I saw on the news said, BAM has opiates in it which could depress/stop the breathing if enough was administered. But there’s just no way to tell if that happened with Suzanne.

Okay.

 

[Nikynoo]

This 6/23 AZ Central article says Barry was arrested at a residence in Gilbert, AZ.


‘DPS detectives arrested Barry at a residence in Gilbert June 20 at the request of Colorado authorities, DPS spokesperson Bart Graves said in an email to the Arizona Republic.’

https://twitter.com/x/status/1937129810179801131

I thought he was pulled over driving his truck?

 

[303gmf]

I am trying to understand how or why Barry would go to where he had hidden his wife's body and where she HAD decomposed and removed those remains to hide them again. He got away with hiding those remains the first time, why risk that someone was watching him and hide them a second time?

Could be the house was selling and fear of her remains discovered

 

[Diddian]

The GJ indictment basically says she decomposed somewhere else, due to the lack of evidence of insect activity (at that site) and lack of decomp evidence on the clothes. Wherever she was while decomposing, there would have been insect activity there (and that's also most likely where some of the bones were sun bleached) but there definitely wasn't any present at the location she was found.

Likewise a lack of decomp evidence on the clothes means, they were just dumped there with her.

There would not necessarily have been insect activity while she was decomposing IF she was placed in a sealed container that was clean of insects before it was sealed.

I have no way of knowing but could visualize BM placing SM in a sealed barrel full of water treated with hot tub chemicals (or some similar chemicals). I could even see him placing her in that barrel alive - and then attributing her subsequent drowning death to God.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

No, he was very soft spoken and simply answered yes/no questions.

I am sure he got schooled by his first defense team how to act and react along the way. He knows now his biggest mistake was not shelling out the money for an attorney shortly after Suzanne disappeared and LE started stopping for "chats".

 

[Diddian]

I am sure he got schooled by his first defense team how to act and react along the way. He knows now his biggest mistake was not shelling out the money for an attorney shortly after Suzanne disappeared and LE started stopping for "chats".

His biggest mistake was not recognizing that SM was not obligated by law or by conscience to stay married to him.

 

[Quiet Time]

I wonder where the foot bones are, and why they were not moved with the rest of her remains.

Boy, that's an awful thought , isn't it?...

 

[Momofthreeboys]

How did this mysterious thief then leave the cap in the tumble dryer along with Barry's shorts?
Some one stole it is dead in the water before it even starts!!

It was never proven in the first preliminary how the needle sheath came into play. It was not a needle sheath from the darts and it had Suzanne and a daughter's dna on it. If the needle sheath comes into this trial there will need to be more from the prosecution and there will be vigorous defense I think. LE did not find it when the dryer was emptied and found in on a return trip and that was something the original defense attacked in the first preliminary so there is a potential issue for prosecution along with the DNA. I remember thinking there was never any information in the preliminary regarding any prescriptions or injections that would have been in the house from Suzanne's chemo treatments other than information that she had finished a course of treatment and was currently in remission shortly before she disappeared. The gun that fired the darts which did not use the sheath type found in the dryer was also deemed inoperable by the original LE team. There was no other gun seized at the home that "could" fire the type of darts that Barry had. I obviously have zero idea what prosecution or defense might use in this trial. Just responding the mention of the "cap in the dryer with Barry's shorts"....and that they had removed the sheets and shorts and whatever else was in the dryer and on a return trip discovered the needle sheath.

 

[GOBliaison]

He supposedly has a high profile attorney who is taking the case pro bono - David Beller.

Greetings!
Would you be so good as to refer me to the 'pro bono' disclosure of counsel Beller's representation?
TIA

 

[Momofthreeboys]

His biggest mistake was not recognizing that SM was not obligated by law or by conscience to stay married to him.

True, but I would guess his is not the only marriage where one partner wants a divorce and the other does not.

 

[Nikynoo]

Hopefully the telematics will help them locate where he hid her body. I am confused how her bones could be sun bleached but lack animal or insect damage. It only takes a few weeks for bones to start being bleached out by the sun but you'd think they would have found animal activity.

Re the bones. IMO they were bleached by the sun when exposed in Moffat. IIRC that have had been disturbed and some bones scattered. I know the grave was approx three feet deep, but now I’m wondering about the other dimensions. Was it a small three foot hole with the remains and clothing just hurriedly thrown in, or was the grave bigger allowing for the body to the laid out completely?

 

[Diddian]

True, but I would guess his is not the only marriage where one partner wants a divorce and the other does not.

Yes, but one of the few where the one who did is killed and allegedly by the one who did not.

 

[10ofRods]

There would not necessarily have been insect activity while she was decomposing IF she was placed in a sealed container that was clean of insects before it was sealed.

I have no way of knowing but could visualize BM placing SM in a sealed barrel full of water treated with hot tub chemicals (or some similar chemicals). I could even see him placing her in that barrel alive - and then attributing her subsequent drowning death to God.

I too get thoughts like this. I also think he did something with the backhoe, just before he executed his plan for her murder.

Remember how we were discussing that he could have dug holes (and didn't he buy some trees that he said he was going to plant but didn't? Something like that). Anyway I'm hoping someone else remembers. But there had to be a reason for him to swap out the Bobcat scoop.

Could he have dug a hole somewhere on the back side of their property, smoothed the dirt over but left it to cover the cooler? The cooler would behave a lot like a barrel and chemicals could be put into it.

We're not allowed to cuss here (which is a good thing) or I would.

JMO

 

[Ontario Mom]

New doc at the site - "Media Plan and Guidance" - People v. Barry Morphew

https://www.coloradojudicial.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/12JD%20Media%20Plan%20State%20vs%20Morphew%20June%2023%202025_0.pdf

 

[Cindizzi]

Well this a full circle moment for Sean Rice! He was an investigative reporter for KRDO channel 13 here in Colorado Springs until May 2024 when he apparently took a job in Arizona.

He covered Suzanne’s case here in Colorado and went especially hard on former DA Linda Stanley.

 

[Diddian]

I too get thoughts like this. I also think he did something with the backhoe, just before he executed his plan for her murder.

Remember how we were discussing that he could have dug holes (and didn't he buy some trees that he said he was going to plant but didn't? Something like that). Anyway I'm hoping someone else remembers. But there had to be a reason for him to swap out the Bobcat scoop.

Could he have dug a hole somewhere on the back side of their property, smoothed the dirt over but left it to cover the cooler? The cooler would behave a lot like a barrel and chemicals could be put into it.

We're not allowed to cuss here (which is a good thing) or I would.

JMO

It sure seemed like he at least planned to do something with his backhoe. He may possibly have originally planned to do something with someone else's backhoe or an attachment from it, but then had to abandon that original plan because the neighbor woke up and turned on her porch light to check (after hearing heavy equipment running at the riverside site under construction - where BM was a subcontractor doing land work).

 

[10ofRods]

It sure seemed like he at least planned to do something with his backhoe. He may possibly have originally planned to do something with someone else's backhoe or an attachment from it, but then had to abandon that original plan because the neighbor woke up and turned on her porch light to check (after hearing heavy equipment running at the riverside site under construction - where BM was a subcontractor doing land work).

Where ever he put her, it's sure to be a wild story. There was that noise along the riverside tip (which is still weird), there were all kinds of rumors about how to account for his time the night of Mother's Day.

And then he goes to Broomfield, showers and sleeps, right?

 

[Tragg]

Where ever he put her, it's sure to be a wild story. There was that noise along the riverside tip (which is still weird), there were all kinds of rumors about how to account for his time the night of Mother's Day.

And then he goes to Broomfield, showers and sleeps, right?

...and visits several trash bins and dumpsters.

 

[Seattle1]

Good question! The GJ's indictment is based on a finding of probable cause: the standard of "proof evident or presumption great" is higher and the judge must make the finding.

Seems to me no opportunity for PEPG was addressed from the start -- BM was NOT denied bail by the Court.

If anything, the defense today might only argue for a reduction in bail set by Judge Hopkins. Good luck with that -- last year Aurora's James Craig, DDS, bail was set at $10M cash only.

Upon BM's return to Colorado, we should expect him to go right to the arraignment stage to enter a plea of either guilty or not guilty.

Ref Indictment pg 9/10

James Craig

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

I'm trying to refresh myself on all the details by reading everything again and I'm not seeing anywhere that her bones were dressed in her clothes. Just that the clothes found with her had no signs of decomp so she wasn't wearing them when that happened.

Right, don't know if he dressed her, just that the clothes were found with the bones.