CO - BARRY ARRESTED AGAIN - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* *found in 2023* #119

[Karin1974]

Nobody will ever convince me that LE just happened to stumble upon SM remains in a chance encounter.

IMO - I’d buy a membership in that club. MOO

 

[girlhasnoname]

In 2021, BM's pretrial bail release was set at $500K cash only. "Cash-Only" bail does not require a bailsman or a surety-- the defendant instead posts cash or cash equivalent with the Court as a promise to appear, and this cash deposit is returned when the bail is canceled at acquittal or verdict.

More recently, BM's bail was initially set at $3M cash only but after BM's defense motioned to decrease the bail, the Court did not decrease the value but agreed to amend the terms for the $3M bail to include a surety bond and/or property bond, in addition to cash. Here, BM opted to use the services of a bailsman to secure a $3M bond, and the $300K premium to secure the bond is not refundable.

Thanks @Seattle1 I was hoping you'd see this and knew you'd have the answer.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Nobody will ever convince me that LE just happened to stumble upon SM remains in a chance encounter.

I think LE said they came upon Suzanne's remains while searching for another missing person. You could very well be right, maybe somebody tipped ole' Barr in. Wouldn't that be awesome?

 

[Knox]

I don't think he planned to unbarry her (at the time of the original crime).

I don't think he thought he would ever be charged, ever need an attorney.

He thought his alibi was satisfactory and his interviews, proof of his innocence because a guilty person wouldn't agree to them, says him.

Fast forward. He needed money. Not just every day money, he wanted that 15 million. So what did he do? Looks like he used Suzanne. Again. His (il)logic seems to flow something like this: if Suzanne's remains are found, consistent with the bike ride abduction which no one believes, everyone will believe it.

But...

He didn't expect BAM to linger in bone marrow. Nor for it to metabolize. Upending any claims it was planted at autopsy.

Didn't expect experts who could testify that the clothing (which wasn't even consistent with Suzanne's matchy matchy bike wear) would have no scent of decomp and the soil in which he remains were found, same. Indicating that her body did not decompose at that location, further highlighted by missing bones.

So this mystery abductor, why in heaven's name, why would he move her remains? He had remained a mystery.... all eyes were on the husband. Yeah, no one does that. Moves a concealed body at a time when LE hasn't even sniffed in his direction, to a location where she is more likely to be found.

Only Barry would have reason to move her, dumb as his reasons are. So where was she in the interim? Just how many times did he move her? From PP to the beach site? Interrupted at the beach site, moved to another location? Ever notice how some people never have the time to do a job right, but they have time to do it over? (Hello, Wall.) Maybe the fact that her remains were relocated (as evidenced by the missing decomp/bug activity) is actually consistent with Barry, having moved her plenty. Paranoid. Second guessing. Doing it over.

I still think she must have been in water and not just water, but flowing water. Not sure if water alone could have a bleaching effect on bones, maybe something unique in the ice-melt of the Rockies? Or did he "treat" her body with concentrated bleach?... I'm envisioning a unique burial... bottom of a mine, for instance, with some water (it was May, the beginning of the melting season), maybe he poured in some bleaching chemicals to erase his own DNA, and after a few freeze cycles, and plenty of run off, he was only able to recover what he could.

Wondering now about the Crested Butte ensemble. We have come to learn that was Suzanne's comfy clothes. Really the perfect thing to throw on after a chilly sunbathing session. Perhaps those were the clothes she was actually wearing at the time of her murder, quickly separated from her and disposed of in a separate grave, unearthed to be re-graved at Moffat.

Not even someone trying to frame Barry, could frame him as well as he framed himself.

Never mind that the sheath was in the laundry with his own shorts.

JMO

Agree with all you state and feel that’s likely what actually happened over the course of time before he was arrested the first time. Barry thinks he’s smarter than everyone else on the planet.

There was suspicion Suzanne’s remains were in an area which wasn’t accessible until after the snow melted. Remember when Stanley stated that in the hearing? I don’t remember exactly how the timeline worked, but wonder if that was one of the moves? What about the bare property search on Longhorn Drive? Or the thought that he put her in one of the big tree planter boxes.

I don’t think we’ll ever actually know where Suzanne’s remains were moved from and too. But am convinced she was moved at least three times.

 

[Megnut]

Agree with all you state and feel that’s likely what actually happened over the course of time before he was arrested the first time. Barry thinks he’s smarter than everyone else on the planet.

There was suspicion Suzanne’s remains were in an area which wasn’t accessible until after the snow melted. Remember when Stanley stated that in the hearing? I don’t remember exactly how the timeline worked, but wonder if that was one of the moves? What about the bare property search on Longhorn Drive? Or the thought that he put her in one of the big tree planter boxes.

I don’t think we’ll ever actually know where Suzanne’s remains were moved from and too. But am convinced she was moved at least three times.

Barry likely had access to other vehicles overnight that night. ATV, unattended neighborhood vehicles, unattended fire camp vehicles. And remember that little tidbit he shared one upon a time iirc -- that workers will leave keys in construction equipment overnight, maybe a convenient secret of the trade. Maybe not in plain sight.

IMO LE did not spend all that time and manpower at the beach site on a whim. And the Longhorn site. I'll bet much of sleepy Maysville and its sister city Salida sleeps at night. Barry's playground. He may have been everywhere that night. Invisible.

By the time LE investigated, oh, the places he had been, he may already have moved her. Transported from PP in a hunting cooler.

He had approximately four hours to work with and that doesn't even include the span from 5 to 10 pm -- I don't recall what time he backed up the truck, but it would have been dark early enough, giving him all sorts of time.

Many of us used to guess that he may have traveled as fast as he could get, say tso hours out and two back, but now that we know the Moffat burial came later, I'm confident he stayed close to home that night. His own backyard. Not just PP's yard but the surrounding acreage. I bet he m new every inch of it.

If he moved her body multiple times, a lot of odd puzzle pieces come together.

The noise at the beach site. (And discrediting the witness. If it had nothing to do with him, why the harsh opinion?) What was the noise? His diesel truck? A borrowed diesel truck? Actual construction equipment? Did he back up his truck so he could hitch his trailer to another truck? Did he monkey with SIM cards, using his Bobcat after all?

If Busy Barry was busy all night, he may well have returned home at 3:30 with the early scent of decomp on his person. Notably not in his truck if he buried someone else's. (Did his truck's setting hiccup because he borrowed the battery to fire up a dead truck stored next door?)

Did Barry set an empty cooler on his trailer? Did he strip down to his Barry-bare and leave his bare footprints on the scoop?

Did he douse himself with spa chemicals? Give himself an accidental chemical burn (I can only hope)? Did he discover too late the unrelenting pungency of a chlorine bath?

We now know his tools never made it into his hotel room. Just a big ol' bag of camouflage and baby blue. So was he bleaching items or was he diluting the smell of bleach embedded in his skin? No small task.

The murder of Suzanne was macabre enough but that her remains were moved, that is next-level mega-macabre. It smacks of sweaty desperation, neurotic paranoia. Frenzied and dumb.

The one actual skill he had -- the time, tools, skill and motive to get rid of a body.

Scratch that.

He didn't have that skill either.

JMO

 

[TIGER0822]

While I will never say a name, I would bet my last dollar on who is the most useful source of information to the investigators. MOO. My ramblings only.