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

[fcavanaugh]

With recent discussion about SD, I have to say I always found it more than a little sus the fact that she and her former paramour fiancé? FB, both called in to LE claiming to have seen a suspicious vehicle on Mother’s Day May 10th in the area where Suzanne was biking aka NOT BIKING. The only 2 people to call it in, one of whom-FB quickly dropped off the radar after giving a short local media interview about seeing the suspicious vehicle, and the other-SD, subsequently ends up meeting (dumpster) and dating the man of the missing woman 5 months later (Oct 2020).

I’m sorry but I have a realllyyyyy hard time believing it was just coincidence BM ends up with the lady who called in seeing a suspicious vehicle in the area that fateful Mother’s Day. It really has always given me pause that BM and SD knew each other way before he claimed to have met her for the first time at the Dumpster in October 2020 as in, knew each other before Suzanne was murdered, and have sometime wondered if FB and SD came into a little windfall aka $$$$ oh I don’t know, say sometime around Mother’s Day 2020, iykwim.

Yeah, really don’t think a suspicious vehicle ever existed.


IMHOO

#JUSTICEFORSUZANNE

 

[Seattle1]

IE, managing to find that one piece of straw among stacks of needles.

It was the classic IE manipulation we witnessed repeatedly! I recall LS doing a recap YT of the hearing where she was asking her video partner if she was losing her mind -- because what IE alleged in Court was not what she heard from the dog handler during their testimony! SMH...

 

[Megnut]

You wouldn't think I could type something this preposterous but...

...here we are...

... and here I am...

is Barry himself the wildlife that disturbed the Moffat grave in order to expedite LE finding it? Right before he called in the tip to find Edna.

One ringy dingy, two...

JMO

 

[Megnut]

$64,000 question -- where was Suzanne's favorite sweatshirt while her body decomposed?

JMO

 

[Lyanna]

I read that somewhere but not seeing it in MSM. So please disregard my comment until I can source and link. I’m fighting with a terrible cold, so off kilter a bit.

Hope you feel better soon!

 

[fcavanaugh]

You wouldn't think I could type something this preposterous but...

...here we are...

... and here I am...

is Barry himself the wildlife that disturbed the Moffat grave in order to expedite LE finding it? Right before he called in the tip to find Edna.

One ringy dingy, two...

JMO

LOL Megnut, I wouldn’t be surprised at anything in this crazy case! Desperate people/killers do desperate things j/s, and you might not be too far off as I wouldn’t put anything past BM at this point. I’m convinced SD knows a whole lot more even if it’s after the fact, she knows more than a few things imo. Strange bedfellows.

I’m also convinced BM likely has more than a few skeletons (pardon the pun) in his closet that haven’t been known/released publicly. Yet. Besides that 2nd mysterious device that hooked up with his main one, hope they locate/d any burner numbers/phones he had as I highly suspect he likely had one, if not more, burners at any given time. IMO he’s a fraud, con, untrustworthy, squirrelly guy. (no disrespect to squirrels!)
Chipmunks and squirrels of Colorado, Indiana and Arizona unite!!

IMHOO

#JUSTICEFORSUZANNE

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[charminglane]

Suzanne's feet may have been bound to a cement anchor--
Ala Scott Peterson.

 

[Diddian]

$64,000 question -- where was Suzanne's favorite sweatshirt while her body decomposed?

JMO

I hope somewhere his daughters saw it and that its subsequent discovery in the shallow grave with the bones of their mother may serve to open their eyes.

 

[crhedBngr]

Suzanne's feet may have been bound to a cement anchor--
Ala Scott Peterson.

I shudder to think of this.

We may never know.

JMVHO.

 

[Megnut]

I hope somewhere his daughters saw it and that its subsequent discovery in the shallow grave with the bones of their mother may serve to open their eyes.

It's curious, isn't it? We don't even know Suzanne and we know she didn't wear it biking. It was a cozy, sipping-her-half-cup-of-late-cool-morning-coffee sweatshirt. And her biking clothes, a signature of her own, well matched.

House was locked down from Day 1 and I don't know that they ever went back so I'm going to guess there was never a family walk-thru to see what of Suzanne's clothing was missing and not missing.

Whatever happened to her closetful of clothing? Did he save a Rubbermaid toteful for reasons I can't fathom? Dug into it recently to find something to call biking clothes, even though they're not? No shoes? Because he had none of her shoes? Or because he knew she had no feet?

I am nearly positive it was @10ofRods who said, once upon a time, that skeletal feet detach easily from the whole skeleton and therefore can be easily carted away by wildlife. But it doesn't sound like there's any evidence of predation, outside of the two-legged kind, so I'm left with questions.

How? When? Why? Where?

JMO

 

[Magic8Ball]

Aside from all the LEO and experts, who does everyone think will be the most important/compelling witnesses at Barry's trial? I have down on my list:

• MG, Barry's ex-employee
• JR, the neighbor lady who called LE to report Suzanne missing
• SO, Suzanne's best friend

Who will some of the other key non-LE witnesses be?

 

[fcavanaugh]

• Aside from all the LEO and experts, who does everyone think will be the most important/compelling witnesses at Barry's trial? I have down on my list:
• MG, Barry's ex-employee
• JR, the neighbor lady who called LE to report Suzanne missing
• SO, Suzanne's best friend

Who will some of the other key non-LE witnesses be?

* MR- JR’s spouse
* AM- SM’s brother
* MH- MM2’s boyfriend at the time
* TD- YT’r that talked with and recorded BM in the early days- BM to TD: “let me show you what happened”…

IMHOO

#JUSTiCEFORSUZANNE

ETA-MH

 

[brissygirl2019]

Re the missing feet/no shoes found at the final gravesite ...... these could have been taken by wildlife when SM was in the first grave/disposal site prior to her being moved to the Moffat site where she was found. IMO

IMO, I don't think she had shoes on, an angry BM came home to SM sunbathing in her bikini, no shoes on and the rest of that horrible afternoon unfolded from there.

IMO, when SM was moved to the final gravesite, she had no feet bones therefore shoes could not possibly be thrown in the grave along with the biking clothes, shoes being found there but no feet bones being found would not look right at all.

ugh, I hate typing words like that and I hate even more having thoughts like that :-(

 

[JosieMae]

This is a bit of a reach for me, as I don't generally posit theories that aren't rock solid. I'm posting this for posterity though:

Barry Morphew had gotten away with murder. Charges were dropped, any future case was unlikely without a body, and he had a 15 million dollar lawsuit pending against law enforcement, and those who prosecuted him.

Here's where things get interesting. The grand jury indictment contains evidence that Suzanne's body was moved, as evidence at her gravesite was not consistent with what the various experts expected to see.So why would Barry move a body that had remained undiscovered for (likely) over two years, and put it in a place that greatly increased the likelihood of discovery?

Money. It's always been about money. From the cons he ran to obtain wealth (selling worthless businesses), to not wanting to part with assets as a result of divorce, to liquidating assets shortly after her disappearance. It was a motive for murder, and I believe the reason he wanted Suzanne found.

With a body, Barry would be able to collect on life insurance (no 7 year wait). We don't have any proof that Suzanne did have a policy, but I do believe one exists.

It could have given him access to her share of the estate.

It could have bolstered his lawsuit, which is why he apparently redressed her body in biking clothes.

It could have all but guaranteed his freedom forever, because he could "prove" that Suzanne was in fact kidnapped on a bike ride.

This was one hell of a risk, but I believe the evidence shows that's exactly what happened. The discovery of Suzanne's body during a search that was ostensibly unrelated, has always bothered me. Edna Quintana disappeared in May of 2023, and the search that uncovered Suzanne's remains was over 4 months later. Why was CBI there? Why was CBI there then?

I think a few different scenarios are plausible:

Someone helped Barry move Suzanne and they cooperated.

Someone helped Barry move Suzanne and they told someone else.

Some sort of investigation into Barry's movements led them there.

Barry himself called in a tip (I've seen this happen in a couple cases).

What this absolute moron didn't count on, was Suzanne's body containing a smoking gun. The very chemical the previous investigation was based on, one that Barry admitted to owning, recently using, and disposing of, was found in her bones.

BAM.

Exactly the conclusions I have reached. Maybe one day we will learn what precipitated LE's search that finally revealed the body's location. .

 

[Megnut]

Aside from all the LEO and experts, who does everyone think will be the most important/compelling witnesses at Barry's trial? I have down on my list:

• MG, Barry's ex-employee
• JR, the neighbor lady who called LE to report Suzanne missing
• SO, Suzanne's best friend

Who will some of the other key non-LE witnesses be?

Jonny G.

Oh, Barry.

 

[MassGuy]

One thing that drove me crazy during the first go-round, is that we had no idea what was going on in the courtroom much of the time. We will not have that issue here, as the decorum order says that proceedings will be live streamed.

 

[mom2chloe]

I can't account for her missing feet.

I wonder if he can.

JMO

This brings to mind the footprint in the bottom of the bobcat.

 

[Love Never Fails]

One thing that drove me crazy during the first go-round, is that we had no idea what was going on in the courtroom much of the time. We will not have that issue here, as the decorum order says that proceedings will be live streamed.

We have waited for justice a long time. We need to see this live stream so we can let it rest. It will be good for everyone concerned.

 

[Megnut]

Re the missing feet/no shoes found at the final gravesite ...... these could have been taken by wildlife when SM was in the first grave/disposal site prior to her being moved to the Moffat site where she was found. IMO

IMO, I don't think she had shoes on, an angry BM came home to SM sunbathing in her bikini, no shoes on and the rest of that horrible afternoon unfolded from there.

IMO, when SM was moved to the final gravesite, she had no feet bones therefore shoes could not possibly be thrown in the grave along with the biking clothes, shoes being found there but no feet bones being found would not look right at all.

ugh, I hate typing words like that and I hate even more having thoughts like that :-(

One point of clarification--

While we know that Suzanne had been sunbathing, IMO she changed out of her bikini.

LE found it hanging up in her closet.

I've said it a couple of times here -- I don't think Barry knows how to operate a hanger. Therefore it was Suzanne who hung it up.

When JL wasn't available, I think she changed into daywear or into her bikewear, readying to ride, Saturday afternoon.

I'm with you @brissygirl2019 I hate thinking about the details of how Suzanne went from being very alive to very dead, all because Barry came home.

JMO

 

[MassGuy]

I asked AI to explain a scenario where Suzanne’s bones could be bleached, not have animal activity, and make them easy to collect and transport to the second dump site:

If the body was contained at the original location, such as in a sealed container or wrapping, this would limit animal activity and insect access, explaining the lack of predation and minimal decomposition of clothing.

The bleaching of the bones could still occur if the container was partially exposed to sunlight—perhaps a translucent or degradable material—or if the remains were briefly left uncovered before being fully contained.

In a dry, sunny environment like Colorado, UV radiation could bleach the bones over time during this initial exposure. After containment, the process would halt, preserving the bleached state, and the remains could then be moved to the shallow grave, aligning with the forensic findings.