Six years after she disappeared, Suzanne Morphew’s adult daughters are fighting to get her remains from the investigators who have them.
Barry Morphew has been charged with first degree murder in his wife’s death.
Mallory and Macy Morphew have asked a judge to order law enforcement to return their mother’s remains after they were seized from a Colorado Springs funeral home.
In a move which Bert Nieslanik, the Morphew daughters’ attorney, called “outrageous, cruel and shocking to the conscience,” case investigators removed their mother’s remains from Swan-Law Funeral Directors before her daughters could gather them for a memorial service, according to court documents.
The remains were released by the Chaffee County Coroner’s Office in April 2024 to the funeral home, where they had been stored for nearly two years, according to a court document.
However, before the daughters could retrieve them, the investigation “intervened and prevented them from retrieving them or burying them” without warning, a court document states.
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Six years after she disappeared, Suzanne Morphew’s adult daughters are fighting to get her remains from the investigators who have them. Barry Morphew has been charged with first degree murder in his wife’s death. Mallory and Macy Morphew have asked a judge to order law enforcement to return...
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