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.

 

[KBlackRabbit]

Isn’t it seven years when a missing person can be declared dead? All he had to do was wait, tough it out in the trailer park being an punchline for bikers, and live off of whatever his daughters gave him. Greedy is as greedy does.

 

[Tragg]

I don't remember seeing posted here the final decision of the Colorado Supreme Court affirming the disciplinary panel's decision to disbar Linda Stanley, but we should at least take note of it:

In re Stanley 2025 CO 51

Two justices dissented, emphasizing the importance of an "appearance of impropriety" because the presiding judge had prosecuted Stanley in a separate and distinct case when she was a private attorney. The dissenters stressed that they did not believe the presiding judge was in fact biased against Stanley, but they would have required a new hearing.

 

[legalmomma]

So do we have a report where Barry is living and with whom?

 

[Love Never Fails]

DBM

 

[MassGuy]

So do we have a report where Barry is living and with whom?

Nope, and I haven't come across any rumors yet either.

 

[waldojabba]

I don't remember seeing posted here the final decision of the Colorado Supreme Court affirming the disciplinary panel's decision to disbar Linda Stanley, but we should at least take note of it:

In re Stanley 2025 CO 51

Two justices dissented, emphasizing the importance of an "appearance of impropriety" because the presiding judge had prosecuted Stanley in a separate and distinct case when she was a private attorney. The dissenters stressed that they did not believe the presiding judge was in fact biased against Stanley, but they would have required a new hearing.

I think it was posted here on this thread by @Seattle1 but a quick google shows that yes they disbarred her

Colorado Supreme Court upholds disbarment of former Morphew murder case prosecutor Linda Stanley

Colorado's highest court upheld a disciplinary judge's disbarment of Linda Stanley, the former district attorney and lead prosecutor in the high-profile murder case of Barry Morphew, who's accused of killing his wife.

www.cbsnews.com

"The Colorado Supreme Court voted 4-2 to uphold the disciplinary board's ruling, meaning Stanley can no longer practice law in Colorado. ...."
"We're disappointed in the final result. I was trying to have the court just suspend Ms. Stanley, not disbar her," Stanley's attorney, Steven Jensen, told CBS News Colorado. He said after several years, Stanley will be eligible to reapply to the bar, but for the time being, the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling is final.

THe article includes the entire 60 plus page ruling.

JMO

 

[arielilane]

Yes, while searching for missing Edna Quintana, agents from CBI found human remains, which turned out to be identified as Suzanne Morphew. On 6/2/2025, human remains were confirmed to be those of Edna Quintana. EQ's link below.


Agents from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation found human remains on 22 September while searching for missing Edna Quintana, 55, who disappeared in May.

Sister of woman whose remains were found in Colorado issues plea for missing hiker

Suzanne Morphew’s sister wants people to turn their attention to Edna Quintana, the missing woman police were searching for when they found her sibling

www.the-independent.com

10/4/2023

J

CO Thread 'CO - Edna Quintana, 55, Saguache County, last seen on foot, 3 May 2023'

May 21, 2023

Endangered missing person alert

Woman goes missing in southern Colorado

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[arielilane]

Suzanne Morphew is on the list.

New report shows 63 Coloradans died in 2020 from domestic ...

January 6, 2022

(KRDO) -- A report released by the Attorney General's Office shows at least 63 people died in Colorado in 2020 as a result of domestic violence incidents. That number includes suspects, the number of victims who died in Colorado due to domestic violence is 39.

 

[arielilane]

Not a fan of LS, but at least she filed the motion to "dismiss without prejudice." Yep! jmo

 

[rainbowshummingbird]

Suzanne Morphew is on the list.

New report shows 63 Coloradans died in 2020 from domestic ...

January 6, 2022

(KRDO) -- A report released by the Attorney General's Office shows at least 63 people died in Colorado in 2020 as a result of domestic violence incidents. That number includes suspects, the number of victims who died in Colorado due to domestic violence is 39.

It is interesting that the Colorado Attorney General released the report from the Colorado Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board on 2020 domestic violence fatalities, with Suzanne being listed as a DV fatality, and yet Judge Lama would not allow mention of domestic violence in the trial.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

It is interesting that the Colorado Attorney General released the report from the Colorado Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board on 2020 domestic violence fatalities, with Suzanne being listed as a DV fatality, and yet Judge Lama would not allow mention of domestic violence in the trial.

She got listed as a DV fatality before there was evidence she was murdered or deceased.

 

[waldojabba]

It is interesting that the Colorado Attorney General released the report from the Colorado Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board on 2020 domestic violence fatalities, with Suzanne being listed as a DV fatality, and yet Judge Lama would not allow mention of domestic violence in the trial.

I think given Judge Llama's bad back, his inability to sit for long periods of time due to excruciating pain etc that it's fair to surmise that his judgement in this case was clouded by his physical condition and at times his judgement was questionable.
He certainly scrambled off the bench and gave up being a judge very quickly after this case was dismissed.

Given his condition, I wonder how he thought he was ever going to be able to see the case through and why he did not recuse on the front end.

As @Seattle1 has posted many times, Judge Llama was awfully quick to cut and paste wording out of Iris' motions in his rulings Imo this is also signals less than clear thinking and at the very least it was just not a good look.

His ex wife lived in Salida, and worked on some of the same domestic violence causes Suzanne had been involved with iirc. I recall DA Linda and one of the other lawyers looked into whether there had been domestic violence in Judge Llama's marriage.
IMO their instincts were probably spot on.

Their mistake was going directly to the ex with their concerns.
She gets child support and alimony presumedly and he is still the child's father.
The last thing you want as an ex wife is is to have the source of your income be cut off.

Followed by having all the ugly details if any, plastered all over social media/msm. So the DA's strategy was less than smart. The ex wife immediately tipped off Judge Llama. And of course Judge Llama then did the curcuit of interviews denying anything inappropriate.

Some like to laud Judge Llama as a Hero as he dismissed the case without predjudice.

But first he cut the prosecution off at the knees over discovery violations ( that btw I have seen other judges not blink an eye at)
He was responsible for killing any chance of a fair trial. The P was left with no case to present because of his off the cuff and punitive rulings. So Hero? Not so much.



ALL MO

 

[TIGER0822]

I think given Judge Llama's bad back, his inability to sit for long periods of time due to excruciating pain etc that it's fair to surmise that his judgement in this case was clouded by his physical condition and at times his judgement was questionable.
He certainly scrambled off the bench and gave up being a judge very quickly after this case was dismissed.

Given his condition, I wonder how he thought he was ever going to be able to see the case through and why he did not recuse on the front end.

As @Seattle1 has posted many times, Judge Llama was awfully quick to cut and paste wording out of Iris' motions in his rulings Imo this is also signals less than clear thinking and at the very least it was just not a good look.

His ex wife lived in Salida, and worked on some of the same domestic violence causes Suzanne had been involved with iirc. I recall DA Linda and one of the other lawyers looked into whether there had been domestic violence in Judge Llama's marriage.
IMO their instincts were probably spot on.

Their mistake was going directly to the ex with their concerns.
She gets child support and alimony presumedly and he is still the child's father.
The last thing you want as an ex wife is is to have the source of your income be cut off.

Followed by having all the ugly details if any, plastered all over social media/msm. So the DA's strategy was less than smart. The ex wife immediately tipped off Judge Llama. And of course Judge Llama then did the curcuit of interviews denying anything inappropriate.

Some like to laud Judge Llama as a Hero as he dismissed the case without predjudice.

But first he cut the prosecution off at the knees over discovery violations ( that btw I have seen other judges not blink an eye at)
He was responsible for killing any chance of a fair trial. The P was left with no case to present because of his off the cuff and punitive rulings. So Hero? Not so much.



ALL MO

The Prosecution violated deadlines. They were lucky to get "without predjudice" and for the Prosecutor to be disbarred. They blew this case.