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

[katydid23]

Hotel cameras

He didnt have any duffle bags or wheelie cases with him?

 

[Seattle1]

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

Life insurance redemption to the beneficiary would require the death certificate and assuming BM was the primary beneficiary, the case against him had been dismissed when SM's body was found. Most policies have a two-year contestability clause so I think that would have been up in April 2024 (Charges dismissed April 2022).

However, if BM knew that his daughters were the next named beneficiaries, I could definitely see a situation where BM would voluntarily disclaim the benefits to aid in a prompt distribution (i.e., where funds would be directed to the next named beneficiary).

I think we know how it works in that family. Just a paper transaction... MOO

 

[Hazelnutty]

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.

Thank you !

 

[Knox]

Life insurance redemption to the beneficiary would require the death certificate and assuming BM was the primary beneficiary, the case against him had been dismissed when SM's body was found. Most policies have a two-year contestability clause so I think that would have been up in April 2024 (Charges dismissed April 2022).

However, if BM knew that his daughters were the next named beneficiaries, I could definitely see a situation where BM would voluntarily disclaim the benefits to aid in a prompt distribution (i.e., where funds would be directed to the next named beneficiary).

I think we know how it works in that family. Just a paper transaction... MOO

Great post, didn’t think of that scenario. Bet you’re right.

 

[TIGER0822]

I can't imagine a scenario where he chose that. It had to be incidental. Somehow the manner and/or location of storing, decomposing, recovering or moving resulted in a.... loss of mass. Hair, feet and quite a few other bones.

In water and some washed away?

Strange for sure.

But so are sho many if his

Am I wrong in remembering that not only had BM brought the wrong tools to the job 150 miles away, but he also took these tools to his hotel room. Were the tools cleaned and bleached there?

Help me remember from where BM stole MG's truck , for how long & did he park his truck where he stole MG truck from?

I'm trying to jump start my memories for Suzanne's case.

TiA

BM truck was heard outside MG house at 5am. No contact was made at that time by BM to MG . in my opinion there is a possibility that BM - who had no business being outside MG house, may have ‘swapped trucks’ to bury SM - 1. So his was not ID. 2. Not to place his truck at the scene. And then driven back and retrieved his. He later called MG about doing some ‘urgent’ job . Just a theory.

 

[Hilt]

It’s never made sense to me that he would carry the suspected teal blue items of Suzanne’s into the hotel in Broomfield. I think it’s much more likely that he shoved them into a bag that night at the house and discarded them in one of those dumpsters.

Am I mistaken that all those stops happened before he went to the hotel? Or did he dump additional bags after this footage was captured?

I agree. It didn’t seem to me that he would carry the bike clothes openly into the hotel, since he had already set up the bike abduction scenario. Perhaps it was simply a mistake born of exhaustion. He’d had been awfully busy (and pumping adrenaline) for the preceding 18 hours and the hotel was his first stop since dumping her bike and helmet near the family home.

At 8:46 AM on Mother’s Day, Barry walked into the hotel carrying two white trash bags a khaki backpack, a pair of boots, a dark-colored item and a the blue-teal colored clothing (Arrest Affidavit page 35). Mr. Morphew’s worker Morgan Gentile told law enforcement, that at 11:15AM he called her and “was out of breath, panting but fatigue, kind a like hungover but he doesn't drink, honestly when I hung up I thought to myself he sounded like he had the worst night of his life." (Page 50 of the Arrest Affidavit). This supports the idea that he was zoned out and may have carelessly carried Suzanne’s biking clothes into the hotel without considering that he was being filmed or observed.

His disposal runs began after he entered the hotel with the teal blue colored material. Between about 10AM and 12:40PM he dumps items at a MacDonald’s, a Men’s Wherehouse and at the hotel. At 12:42 PM, Mr. Morphew entered his hotel room and did not leave his room until 6:03 PM.

 

[FromGermany1]

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.

At least rocks would have marked the location of the first grave or a planted bush/little tree, something, which would have helped BM to find the place again.

 

[Knox]

I agree. It didn’t seem to me that he would carry the bike clothes openly into the hotel, since he had already set up the bike abduction scenario. Perhaps it was simply a mistake born of exhaustion. He’d had been awfully busy (and pumping adrenaline) for the preceding 18 hours and the hotel was his first stop since dumping her bike and helmet near the family home.

At 8:46 AM on Mother’s Day, Barry walked into the hotel carrying two white trash bags a khaki backpack, a pair of boots, a dark-colored item and a the blue-teal colored clothing (Arrest Affidavit page 35). Mr. Morphew’s worker Morgan Gentile told law enforcement, that at 11:15AM he called her and “was out of breath, panting but fatigue, kind a like hungover but he doesn't drink, honestly when I hung up I thought to myself he sounded like he had the worst night of his life." (Page 50 of the Arrest Affidavit). This supports the idea that he was zoned out and may have carelessly carried Suzanne’s biking clothes into the hotel without considering that he was being filmed or observed.

His disposal runs began after he entered the hotel with the teal blue colored material. Between about 10AM and 12:40PM he dumps items at a MacDonald’s, a Men’s Wherehouse and at the hotel. At 12:42 PM, Mr. Morphew entered his hotel room and did not leave his room until 6:03 PM.

Thanks for pulling that information forward. That makes sense then. Does LE have a way of enhancing that photo I wonder? It’s another nail in his coffin, particularly because we now know she wasn’t wearing the teal blue jacket he described to LE and the store clerk, when she died.

 

[snooptroop88]

Yep, he did that.

Mr. Cheapbutt who hangs dumping trash outside hotels to score free breakfast.... like Ratso Rizzo, is he picking up cigarette butts off the street, too? No, he (probably) doesn't smoke... This same guy wants us to believe financials motivate him to bury furniture. He could sell it. That house in Arcadia sold for like three quarters of a million in 2019, it's hardly a shabby shack, and I'm sure the furniture wasn't too shabby, either. And he put alfalfa on top of this... buried furniture?? Alfalfa was specifically mentioned as part of the breakdown mixture when I was reseraching composting. And yes, you can make compost piles like this, but no treated furniture/items of any kind because they'll release chemicals into the soil. Um, was that the idea? Composting? Because in light of what I read about the human composting, I'm finding this pretty alarming. I doubt it was the idea, I'm alarmed by any similarities in terms of what the idea "might be," but whatever the idea of it actually was, I find it hard to believe it's because of financials.

There's something up with that, jmo, and it's nothing good. Does anyone know which party-- Barry v Suzanne-- wanted the move to Colorado? They may both have, but one perhaps wanted it more than the other. (There may be no way to know this. Also, it might have been completely mutual.) When I look at images of the Indiana home, it feels much more feminine to me. The Colorado house has a very masculine feel to it. My guess would be that Barry would prefer the overall layout and vibe of that Colorado home, but it's guess only. And I'm wondering how the divorce suggestion played with that idea, him having to leave that house, where he'd become so comfortable... shooting chipmunks from the breezeway? You know, no amount of flannel shirts makes that read "tough," "hunter," or "outdoorsman" to me, but again, jmo. It reads as something far less innocuous and much more sinister because I'm sure the chipmunks were safe as BM's phone was pinging all over the place. They were probably the only ones that were.

 

[osu]

As this is not available in Europe,could someone please give a brief summary of the key points mentioned in the article?

Dear Editor: Proposes scenarios in Morphew case

16 hrs ago

Dear Editor:
Suzanne Morphew's remains as of February 2022 were near or in a pond in Salida, the address of which was undisclosed to protect current residents from curious sleuths.

<modsnip: Copyright violation>

 

[justtrish]

Ultimately, regardless of when/how, we know he did indeed get rid of Suzanne’s “matchy” biking clothing. Because just like her helmet - Barry specifically mentioned them. He wouldn’t have done that unless he knew they wouldn’t be found, just like Suzanne.

Sitting here typing and going over all the old stuff, I’m overwhelmed by the mountain of evidence. Any juror that doesn’t vote guilty is either a narcissist or closet abuser who self-identifies with Barry. MOO

Yes, because now that we know BAM was in her system, it really eliminates other possibilities like Barry is just a jerk husband to leave her on Mother's Day and he's shady, but that doesn't mean he killed her. He was so unlucky to be doing suspicious things that day, and she went missing. BUT now that we know she had BAM in her system, and she was moved at least once. No stranger is going to kill her with BAM and no stranger is going to move her body.

 

[PawneeDew]

Tha

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.

That's evil. Personified. My opinion...

 

[Cindizzi]

As far as who decided to move to Colorado, SM’s sister had this to say:

[…]
The older Moorman sister says she thought Morphew's 2018 move to Colorado from Indiana was premature at the time.

"I felt she was maybe making a move that she needed to be a little more thoughtful about," said Moorman. "I was concerned she was giving up a lot of security, stability, and familiarity with people she knew. I think at that time the relationship had some fractures. I felt that Suzanne was trying to fix some brokenness with their relationship with some geographical change."

Moorman says when she received the phone call from her father, telling her Suzanne has gone missing, she immediately knew her younger sister was no longer alive. On top of that, she was confident her brother-in-law was responsible.
[…]

Sister of Suzanne Morphew talks suspicion, forgiveness, justice after Barry Morphew's arrest

SALIDA, Colo. (KRDO) -- On Thursday, hours after her brother-in-law Barry Morphew's first court appearance, Melinda Moorman sat down with Good Morning

krdo.com

 

[Megnut]

That's exactly what I thought. Unless she had stomach contents available to be tested, a coffee cup is no "proof of life". It could easily have been staged. It does nothing for the timeline.

And as @MassGuy pointed out Jane/Iris says the caffeine is trustworthy and proves she drank half a cup before going on her bike ride (sure) but the BAM, that's only alleged.

And besides, alllllll the ranchers have it. Probably leaches into bone marrow from the air. We should all get checked.

JMO

 

[nyvictoria]

I agree with all of the above.

Agent Grusing is perhaps the best FBI agent I have ever seen in action, in terms of his interrogation skills, and his stellar trial testimony. He was heavily involved in many successful cases such as Mark Redwine, Leticia Stauch, Scott Kimball, Patrick Frazee.

FBI: Suzanne Morphew told Barry she was 'done' with the marriage

Barry Morphew says he was shooting squirrels in his backyard the day before his wife disappeared, according to an FBI agent.

www.9news.com

Later in the day, a now-retired FBI Agent, John Grusing, testified that on May 9 of 2020, the day before Suzanne went missing, Suzanne was in her backyard “sunbathing” and sending pictures online to Jeff Libler, a Michigan man with whom she had been having a nearly two-year long affair.
Grusing said cell phone data indicated that when Barry Morphew came home at that time, he began “moving in a pattern around the outside of the house.” Grusing said Morphew would later explain that he was shooting chipmunks on his property. Soon after, Libel sent Suzanne several messages online that she didn’t return.
On the witness stand, Grusing testified that about 12 hours later, around 3 a.m. on May 10, the day Suzanne disappeared, data captured by the electronics in Barry’s truck showed the truck’s doors opening and closing.
Grusing said Barry went to Broomfield a few hours later, presumably on a business trip. But Grusing said while he was in Broomfield, Barry made five trips to a dumpster, where video showed him throwing away numerous bags. Grusing said Barry has never been able to explain what was in some of those bags.

Of all the stupid things he said and did, Barry really hurt himself by claiming he was chasing chipmunks around the house. That pretty much eliminates disputing the gps data on
his phone.

He never should have talked to investigators. He practically vomited consciousness of guilt all over himself.

 

[Knox]

As far as who decided to move to Colorado, SM’s sister had this to say:

[…]
The older Moorman sister says she thought Morphew's 2018 move to Colorado from Indiana was premature at the time.

"I felt she was maybe making a move that she needed to be a little more thoughtful about," said Moorman. "I was concerned she was giving up a lot of security, stability, and familiarity with people she knew. I think at that time the relationship had some fractures. I felt that Suzanne was trying to fix some brokenness with their relationship with some geographical change."

Moorman says when she received the phone call from her father, telling her Suzanne has gone missing, she immediately knew her younger sister was no longer alive. On top of that, she was confident her brother-in-law was responsible.
[…]

Sister of Suzanne Morphew talks suspicion, forgiveness, justice after Barry Morphew's arrest

SALIDA, Colo. (KRDO) -- On Thursday, hours after her brother-in-law Barry Morphew's first court appearance, Melinda Moorman sat down with Good Morning

krdo.com

My gosh MM1 looks just like her Mama!! How sad Suzanne won’t be there for either of the girls big (or everyday) moments when you need your Mom.

Even though Suzanne has been gone for five years now, I think the enormity of that absence has been obscured by all the crap which swirls around Barry. JMO.

 

[Love Never Fails]

As far as who decided to move to Colorado, SM’s sister had this to say:

[…]
The older Moorman sister says she thought Morphew's 2018 move to Colorado from Indiana was premature at the time.

"I felt she was maybe making a move that she needed to be a little more thoughtful about," said Moorman. "I was concerned she was giving up a lot of security, stability, and familiarity with people she knew. I think at that time the relationship had some fractures. I felt that Suzanne was trying to fix some brokenness with their relationship with some geographical change."

Moorman says when she received the phone call from her father, telling her Suzanne has gone missing, she immediately knew her younger sister was no longer alive. On top of that, she was confident her brother-in-law was responsible.
[…]

Sister of Suzanne Morphew talks suspicion, forgiveness, justice after Barry Morphew's arrest

SALIDA, Colo. (KRDO) -- On Thursday, hours after her brother-in-law Barry Morphew's first court appearance, Melinda Moorman sat down with Good Morning

krdo.com

I believe Melinda with all my heart.

 

[nyvictoria]

I’d like to know if there was any of Suzanne’s DNA found on the clothing that Barry decided to throw in with her. There was no indication of decomposition but did they try fo get touch DNA?

Wouldn’t it be great if they found Barry’s but not Suzanne’s?

 

[ar3593]

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

I think there were life insurance policies with daughters as beneficiaries. Daughters then gave Barry the monies . That is what I believe. Barry needs complete control. JMO.

 

[nyvictoria]

The reason we are discussing it is because of the theories his defence are still pursuing. So I am sure the prosecution will be debunking those theories.
I think the prosecution have a number of witnesses with significant evidence to give to the trial.

Just jumping off your post…

It’s a typical defense attempt to taint a jury pool with misinformation and false narratives.