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

[Megnut]

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[Nikynoo]

What seems more likely to me is that he cut off her feet to fit her into a cooler of sorts.

I would imagine that if the feet had been ‘cut off’ there would have been some indication during the autopsy?

 

[Megnut]

As someone who works in the Solid Waste Industry - I know many folks operate their own mini "dumps" on their property. It's more common than you would think. If the property sells, it's subject to a clean-up. Some were even dumping waste oil and pesticides for years! We are also on acreage and bury our animals, but certainly not trash.

Barry Morphew is at his essense is a simple-minded cheat. Always scheming to get ahead, no morals or guilt on who or what he might impact. It's all about Barry. I've heard people say he's a good Dad. Really?! He is def not, the girls are pawns, he manipulates them. Disfunction ran deep in the Morphew family, Melinda (Suzanne's sister) clearly stated why in an interview she gave several years ago.

So true, so sad. A sorry legacy.

He'll probably be buried like a king, but everyone and everything, he'll just 'doze.

And now he's playing a shell game, hiding his assets in dummy accounts over which he retains full, tightly gripped control.

Dishonest to the core.

JMO

 

[Knox]

So true, so sad. A sorry legacy.

He'll probably be buried like a king, but everyone and everything, he'll just 'doze.

And now he's playing a shell game, hiding his assets in dummy accounts over which he retains full, tightly gripped control.

Dishonest to the core.

JMO

How old is now? I'm hoping he'll be in prison for the rest of his life - so his shell games are a futile effort.

 

[waldojabba]

Me too. I suppose the furniture was not the mountain man style he wanted and he didn't want to pay someone to haul it away.

He really likes digging holes, big and small.

Great comment that he was all about digging holes literally and figuratively. I suspect SM's orig spot was one of his hidey holes.

I think that Lauren Scharf referred to Barry's Skid Steer as his "purse". He did not go anywhee wthout it. To me, I likened it to more to an appendage - he dragged it around behind him on his trailer everywhere as if it was an important part of his body and he was not complete without it.

Burying furniture is not a usual nor a recommended method of furniture disposal - I think most people get that and understand the many reasons why it's just not a good idea.
But when you are Barry your thought is only for what's expedient for you. Rid yourself of your problem and make it someone else's. And at no cost to you.
He was never one for rules.
JMO

 

[Megnut]

I would imagine that if the feet had been ‘cut off’ there would have been some indication during the autopsy?

For me, it's a nonstarter for that very reason, no fractures, no mechanical separation noted in the autopsy.

But I wonder if it gives us any clue on where and how he concealed her and, since not predation, what might account for not just her missing feet but all of the missing bones.

There is one thing that will move fossils. Glaciers.

Could it be that, over time, ice melt at altitude moved some of Suzanne's bones down the mountain and beyond retrieval?

Preserved from predation but exposed to elements and moved quietly away by hidden streams...

JMO

 

[Megnut]

How old is now? I'm hoping he'll be in prison for the rest of his life - so his shell games are a futile effort.

50some but that was before he aged 20 years...

His attorneys aren't going to like working for free if he has money hiding in his shells' purses.

I hope the judge double checks BK financial records, should he declare indigency. And pays close attention to how much money got shelled and how recently.

He just can't help cheating the system.

JMO

 

[waldojabba]

50some but that was before he aged 20 years...

His attorneys aren't going to like working for free if he has money hiding in his shells' purses.

I hope the judge double checks BK financial records, should he declare indigency. And pays close attention to how much money got shelled and how recently.

He just can't help cheating the system.

JMO

Barry Lee
Born Oct 17 1967
So almost 58 yrs old -

JMO

Quick Facts About Barry Morphew: Murder Allegations Against Him

Prosecutors allege that Barry used his unique access to the animal tranquilliser BAM—found in Suzanne's remains—to kill her on the morning of May 9, 2020.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

 

[Skigh]

50some but that was before he aged 20 years...

His attorneys aren't going to like working for free if he has money hiding in his shells' purses.

I hope the judge double checks BK financial records, should he declare indigency. And pays close attention to how much money got shelled and how recently.

He just can't help cheating the system.

JMO

I am not sure how much spare cash he had to hide after paying for Iris and transferring his property to Mallory.

 

[Megnut]

I am not sure how much spare cash he had to hide after paying for Iris and transferring his property to Mallory.

Real estate, life insurance if any has been paid out --

He's bankrupt as a human being and I don't mind at all if the man is broke (except for thst he's stole Suzanne's money and then stole her estate from her daughters, and handed it instead to IE). But hiding money so he doesn't have to pay attorneys? That'll chafe my chaps. If I thought for one second he was doing it in a fatherly way, to provide for them, I would chafe less, but I don't trust his actions or motives one bit.

Sad, sad reality if he squandered every last nickel of Suzanne's estate in order to escape justice.

Oh, Iris.

I'd like to see that retainer agreement and final invoice.

JMO

 

[Skigh]

Real estate, life insurance if any has been paid out --

He's bankrupt as a human being and I don't mind at all if the man is broke (except for thst he's stole Suzanne's money and then stole her estate from her daughters, and handed it instead to IE). But hiding money so he doesn't have to pay attorneys? That'll chafe my chaps. If I thought for one second he was doing it in a fatherly way, to provide for them, I would chafe less, but I don't trust his actions or motives one bit.

Sad, sad reality if he squandered every last nickel of Suzanne's estate in order to escape justice.

Oh, Iris.

I'd like to see that retainer agreement and final invoice.

JMO

If life insurance was paid out would it have to be paid back if (when ) Barry is found guilty?

 

[Megnut]

IE isn't going to lose sleep, she fast into her second half of life career shift, but oh, Barry. You should have gone to trial while it was still a no body case and prayed for reasonable doubt.

Because all the reasons are gone now.

No one but Barry would have done Suzanne wrong like he did. His BAM, her bones, relocated, with fresh clothing, who else would do that? No one.

And not a single animal bite on those pristine bones.

There's something sort of fitting in that. Melancholic yes, but fitting. Barry blamed all the bad things on animals -- but not a single animal (besides him) touched her. IMO we can't even say at Moffat that animals dispersed her bones. Still no signs of predation...

That leaves Barry. The baddest animal in the animal family.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

If life insurance was paid out would it have to be paid back if (when ) Barry is found guilty?

Suzanne was declared deceased in 2023. If Barry was the beneficiary, I seriously doubt any insurance company would be quick to pay out on a homicide, where the beneficiary has or had been named as a suspect. Maybe the girls were the beneficiaries in which case it would have been satisfied quietly, doubt we would have heard about it all.

But that's as good (bad) as giving it directly to Barry.

Barry controls all the purse strings, always has.

JMO

 

[justtrish]

As far as I remember, there were several coolers missing at their home. Maybe he used a little cooler for her clothing (and forgot her shoes, because she was barefoot at the end*)?
What happened with the teal tank top with the odd red-brown stain on it, which was found somewhere during search? Did BM lose it while stashing Suzanne's body/clothing? Had her first "grave" (in a cooler) been in the surrounding of that location, where the tank top was found? Is the tank top still in the evidence room despite being allegedly NOT identified as Suzanne's top?

* barefoot like the foot print on his equipment bucket

I wonder if LE interviewed the daughters extensively in the first few days. We only have small snippets in the first AA about what they said about the marriage and where they were. They would know exactly what is missing. I think the younger daughter would know if that door frame was busted before she went on her trip. She would know what shoes her mom wore bike riding, and she would know if her dad had any coolers. It's one thing to be missing a single cooler or two, but if he had several and now after she's missing there are zero coolers, then they don't even need to know exactly what they looked like to know that it's odd that now there are no coolers in their house at all. The daughters would know 100% if anyone was planning to stay at the house that night. I've seen that Barry said Suzanne was washing the sheets so the girls could stay there Mother's Day night, but then I believe the AA also said one of the girls said there was no plan to stay there (the older daughter and her friend).

Barry being a landscaper with his own business and employees along with being a hunter to the level he was tells me there is about a 0% chance he didn't own even 1 cooler. I think we have about 5 or 6 that I can remember off the top of my head in my garage right now. It just doesn't make any sense that a hunter has none. Heck the daughters boyfriend could probably tell them if Barry had coolers. He seems to care more about helping than anyone else.

 

[justtrish]

When the M's were relocating from Indiana to Colorado, it was reported that BM disposed of unwanted furniture by burying it on his former property!

Too cheap to pay for disposing of this stuff at a dump so he buries it. Too cheap to eat at the McDonald's so just eat some granola bars in the parking lot. Just cheap cheap Barry trying to sneak into the hotel for a breakfast. BUT he went to the hotel early enough in the morning that I am sure he was charged for an extra day. Most hotels have check in time at 3 or 4pm, not 8-9am. So why would cheap Barry check in so early?

 

[katydid23]

In the attached video from 2023 at the 2:19 minute mark we see a snippet of an interview of BM and both daughters.

When the daughters were asked "was there any indication before she disappeared that something was amiss", both daughters indicated there wasn't: Mallory (older daughter) said "No", Macy (younger daughter) shook her head. But their responses contradict information found in texts from SM that indicated the youngest daughter had suggested that her mother get a "restraing order."

( Page 10 of the unredacted case file):




Unredacted case file

Macy's boyfriend said she told him her parents "argued frequently." He also pointed out to investigators that the bedding was stripped off Mallory's bed, which was unusual because Mallory doesn't live at the M residence.

Investigators asked Mallory to describe her bedding at the Morphew house, she said that her bed is always made, her sheets and pillowcases are light blue in color and that her comforter is brown and reddish.



In multiple interviews with the FBI in 2021, BM denied that he and SM discussed divorce.

It appears at least one, or maybe both daughters misled or lied to LE at one time or another. May we safely assume both sisters were aware of and discussed their parents' situation? Why would the daughters appear to support their father knowing of the grief and strife he had caused? What could he have said to them to make them not consider his guilt, to make them outright deny to others that he would not have done such a thing?

I believe the younger daughter, having been living at home, likely would have witnessed more than one of her parent's blow-up confrontations, and likely will be a reluctant, but prominent, witness in the upcoming trial .. assuming BM doesn't plea and there is a trial.

As for the older daughter, while responding to questions during the 2023 interview, she glanced a few times and slightly nodded at her sibling, as if to ensure 'we're on the same page, r i g h t?!' .. sticking to the story, as it were.

If you lose one parent it might make you cling tightly to the other?

 

[Skigh]

Too cheap to pay for disposing of this stuff at a dump so he buries it. Too cheap to eat at the McDonald's so just eat some granola bars in the parking lot. Just cheap cheap Barry trying to sneak into the hotel for a breakfast. BUT he went to the hotel early enough in the morning that I am sure he was charged for an extra day. Most hotels have check in time at 3 or 4pm, not 8-9am. So why would cheap Barry check in so early?

The breakfast could have been an excuse. I imagine Barry was desperate to wash things including himself .

 

[justtrish]

Also, I wonder if his buddy George would be willing to help now. Surely he can't believe Barry is innocent now after this BAM revelation.

He could tell them everywhere Barry and him searched in the weeks and months after Mother Day Weekend 2020. I'm sure that could narrow down possible areas because I don't believe Barry would take George to search an area that he put Suzanne. So anywhere they looked can be marked off the list of locations for the first burial site.

I do wonder if LE could tell if they found the first burial site. Would there be outward signs now 5 years later that would indicate where he put her. Maybe some of her bones are still in that first location or other items of value.

 

[geetfinds]

Barry is the one who volunteered that they'd had sex (granted he was trying to portray a happy marriage, all good, nothing to see here) but now there is evidence that Suzanne was all the way done with him. If there was sex, she didn't agree to it. And Barry didn't volunteer that Suzanne wanted a divorce, that Suzanne was hooking up with someone. He pretended that was all news to him.

Given what we've learned, and the BAM and the metabolizing, it gives solid credence to Barry running around the house and blowing through walls. I think it was important to Barry to end his marriage on "God's term" (till death), only where Barry is playing god. He needed to dominate her and a SA fits with that. Chargeable? No. There's no way to prove that now, it just would fit with someone who is chasing his wife and filled her with tranquilizer. He may have breached that bedroom door just in time to stop her from calling 911, failed attempt to open her phone, and it could well have been with all the strength she had left that she clawed at his arm, in order to pull him away in order to (try to) breathe.

I do think that photo will be shown to the jury. And the jurors will decide what value to give it. Caused by branches or work? Or Suzanne's last communication before succumbing to sedation and death.

Barry had reason to lie about sex, we can't prove it now, if he assaulted her in that way, it's in keeping with philosophy of possession so it's not entire science fiction. It would be just one more act of dominance on his part. Either way, it is my strong opinion that before Suzanne could no longer fight him off, she tried. With her nails. It's all she had. And then he took, in the worst way possible, her breath away.

You (generic you) think even one time in the past five years Barry has regretted anything? Wished he could have been a better man, husband, father, nothing he could have done to be better? But I'll bet he wishes Suzanne would have laid off the chemo, laid off the IPAs, laid off the "drugs and alcohol". Been a good wife. On his terms. Regardless of what Suzanne wanted.

JMO

I wouldn't claim that Suzanne was exactly hooking up because she was actually just talking wiht him over LinkedIN and whatsapp. She wasn't exactly cheating but yes was indeed very unhappy from her marriage and had brought up the topic of divorce with her close ones .
Also I do agree what you say, Barry considered himself very superior...such kind of men only seek dominance over anything else. Such men want the submission of people or things that they want to posess and behold with them. It either theirs or no one else's.
Also its truly unbeilevable regarding how long it took for the police and the jury to figure out the case when even a common person who has once read her case file, would 100% agree that her husband was her killer because it was way too obvious by the time you reach page six

 

[katydid23]

Tools were left in the lobby not brought to a room. I do not believe there is anything that shows Barry stole MG’s truck at any point in time.

Yes, some tools were left in the lobby---but how do we know he didn't take any to his room?