Still Missing CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *arrest* #82

[Skigh]

Thank you so much for all the photos,NoSI.

 

[sk716]

I think the very act of turning those cameras OFF, just hours before Suzanne's last contact with anyone, ever, is pretty damning and points directly to premeditation. I know we discussed it at the time he was reported to have been looking for some mythical turkey that MM shot (sure he was, and I'm Mary Poppins, y'all) that he might of been doing exactly that and BAM! that is indeed what he was doing.

I wonder, do we have a clear triangle for the cameras or any idea how many he had? They were along the river and over toward the RV park, did he have any over toward Fooses to the west or just to the area along the property line?

 

[sk716]

Walking towards Fooses...

I knew I should have asked you to visit the trail that runs between Fooses and the RV park and take a look at that ATV trail.

 

[Megnut]

Maybe the Prosecution can call all the partial matches .... to show it's thousands of people!

Or test the glove box of everybody in the courtroom to show how there are mystery partial matches everywhere!

Whoever assembled the car.
Whoever worked on the car.
Whoever assembled the bike. Whoever packaged it for retail.
Wboever handled it at the store.

Etc, etc, etc.

The extraneous DNA is a non starter.

JMO

 

[Momofthreeboys]

BAM! Bam! bam!

Yes, this should have been made way more prominent at the PH. It sure will be at the trial, I would assume. It is huge!!!

I wonder how they prove they were in one spot and that he removed them?

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Maybe the Prosecution can call all the partial matches .... to show it's thousands of people!

Or test the glove box of everybody in the courtroom to show how there are mystery partial matches everywhere!

Whoever assembled the car.
Whoever worked on the car.
Whoever assembled the bike. Whoever packaged it for retail.
Wboever handled it at the store.

Etc, etc, etc.

The extraneous DNA is a non starter.

JMO

What about the bike? Was the car DNA identified as the same as on the bike? I really can't recall. I think it will be more important maybe than is being given credit as if it is the same, who would be in her car and handling her bike regardless of how close a match it is or isn't? If it's different from the car to the bike then I think it's not going to be as important to a jury. If this got discussed my apologies...there has been so much info this past month.

 

[Megnut]

Barry isolated himself as the one and only person responsible.

By making it personal and burning her things.

By attempting to stage the bike and the coffee cup.

By manipulating his phone and vehicle around the time of her last known activity.

By citing an invalid alibi. Presumably the mechanical thing he did and the spa run, probably as proof evident that he couldn't have been murdering her in the afternoon if he was running errands in town. Only he himself eventually placed himself at home, in the yard, and not just with a .22 but firing a .22.

If we speculate further whether Barry kept his weapons chambered and question whether a .22 can fire tranquilizer darts, and whether his .22 was used for that purpose that day, we can't help but notice that an unspent, unfired, unchambered bullet was found. Right by Suzanne's side of the bed. Right where Barry and Barry's shorts and Barry's pocket and Barry's .22 could very well have been.

Additionally his alibi for Sunday is worse. Sitting idle in a hotel room for 5 hours.... hauling unnecessary tools into the hotel after the emergency call ...

Never mind that he called MG before anyone else knew Suzanne would be missing to tell her to find her own way to Broomfield and assemble a crew. Why did Barry think he'd be unable?...

At a minimum, Barry could've attempted to get someone else up there to help him or spent 5 hours at the wall removing bricks...

So his alibi becomes: I was working on a project, only I wasn't.

Barry wasn't even smart enough to sully two plates.

But let's listen very closely to him.

He may have given LE the biggest clue yet.

He's only good at working and hunting.

And that is why IMO Suzanne has not been found.

Look where and how he does those.

JMO

 

[windrower]

Every case I've ever followed, has at least someone, or several someones, that simply cannot accept the person they know/love, is capable of the thing they're charged with. I can completely understand that. I've had the unfortunate experience of knowing someone who did the unthinkable (not murder, thankfully) contrary to literally everyone's opinion that such person "could never, would never!" do such a thing. And yet, they did. Stuff happens. People do vile things sometimes and it's dang hard to accept that the person they thought they knew was indeed capable of doing the worst thing.

In such a case like this, I can only assume those still supporting Barry genuinely believe someone else, in some way, disappeared Suzanne. It really does take some serious logic juggling to explain away the burned journal in the fireplace, the Broomfield alibi, the staged bike, the trail cams being turned off the same afternoon Suzanne was last heard from, and the loads of other evidence.

jmo

Magical thinking. Mental gymnastics. Deluded thinking. Illogical thinking.

Family and friends check their comprehension and critical thinking skills at the door, try to explain away every fact and coincidental piece of information.

Not unusual. Because manipulators count on their ability to schmooze, deny, reset the rational thought processes of people who love them.

 

[Boxer]

Maybe the Prosecution can call all the partial matches .... to show it's thousands of people!

Or test the glove box of everybody in the courtroom to show how there are mystery partial matches everywhere!

Whoever assembled the car.
Whoever worked on the car.
Whoever assembled the bike. Whoever packaged it for retail.
Whoever handled it at the store.

Etc, etc, etc.

The extraneous DNA is a non starter.

JMO

Prosecution needs to correctly frame the DNA.
Single signature samples not repeated anywhere else in house, bike or helmet.

I would be interested if there was any DNA besides Suzanne's on the camera cables. If not, that isn't right, BM and the installing tech should be there, right now it sounds like the cables were wiped clean and put in her hand.

 

[Megnut]

Oh yes! He was calculated and deliberate in what he was doing.

From the moment he told MG he was leaving to go make his wife happy her demise was cemented.

Interesting word choice.

Cemented.

I wonder if any of THAT was missing.

JMO

 

[Murphy1950]

@Ontario Mom..."I think the very act of turning those cameras OFF, just hours before Suzanne's last contact with anyone, ever, is pretty damning and points directly to premeditation"

BAM! Bam! bam!

Yes, this should have been made way more prominent at the PH. It sure will be at the trial, I would assume. It is huge!!!

This only came out, as far as I recall, on Friday, not at the original PH. I personally believe Barry to be the guilty party but have been waiting all along especially during the first PH for the smoking gun. THIS IS IT.

 

[Ontario Mom]

They do not have to share the same level of grief in many cases as others. Take Barry's mother for example....she is not grieving as AM is grieving.....in fact, she made a point to let it be known that Suzanne was "cheating".....and accused LS of ruining their family.

RSBM

1. I've seen numerous references here to Barry's mom accusing Suzanne of cheating but I have no idea where that came from. Can someone please link to the source of that?

2. From what I recall, it was Barry's sister, not his mother, that confronted LS at the courthouse and made that remark.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Fraud during an election?

State charge not federal. Case law shows it is generally a fairly minor sentence and it is separate from this case.

 

[Ontario Mom]

I wonder, do we have a clear triangle for the cameras or any idea how many he had? They were along the river and over toward the RV park, did he have any over toward Fooses to the west or just to the area along the property line?

Unless I missed something (and it's certainly possible) I don't think it's ever been explained how many he had, or exactly where they were. The fact that he turned them off though, leads me to believe they were mounted in such a way that they would have captured him, or him and Suzanne in some way, coming into view of the cams. I have a motion detection activated cam in my back yard (mostly just to watch the raccoons and possums, because they're cute) but if I knew I had to cross the field of view of the cam, and I definitely didn't want to be seen, I'd turn it off ahead of time.

I cannot recall where the link is but it's been said that his co-workers (I'm not sure they were ever identified further) said something to the affect that he was constantly watching the cams, from his phone. So, my hope is, LE were able to pull up whatever account he had to track his cam feeds, or recovered the videos that he no doubt had already deleted.

jmo

 

[Cindizzi]

Sadly....I think MM1 would challenge any move by AM to remove guardianship. If you recall, she signed off on the guardianship maneuver in Indiana. I am afraid that the only thing to come out of that would be a dispute; and furthr alienation between the two families. Very unfortunate scenario all the way around.

Speaking of the guardianship , I’m sure we’ve all seen this but just a refresher.

 

[Ontario Mom]

I wonder how they prove they were in one spot and that he removed them?

I don't have the more common trail cams (my daughter does, though, and hers are the common super cool ones that folks use for hunting or tracking) but it's super easy to pinpoint the cam location based on the recorded video. Also super easy to know if they went off due to low battery, or were turned off manually. Even more damning is, if there were more than one and they were both/all turned off manually within moments of each other. Which I suspect is exactly what happened.

jmo

 

[10ofRods]

RSBM

1. I've seen numerous references here to Barry's mom accusing Suzanne of cheating but I have no idea where that came from. Can someone please link to the source of that?

2. From what I recall, it was Barry's sister, not his mother, that confronted LS at the courthouse and made that remark.

The rumor has been around for a long time, because Barry's mom made the claim (later deleted) on the official Find Suzanne Search page - in the first week Suzanne was missing. I should have screen shotted it, had no idea it would disappear. At any rate, several of us saw it and back in the early days when it was still up, it was approved SM here (because it was at that time a public, family-sponsored Find Suzanne page on FB, with participation by Barry's mom and aunt). The reward information was posted there, all of that.

There are now so many groups with same or similar names, and nearly all are private - but I'm pretty sure she deleted her post and dropped out of the group within a couple of months anyway. Not sure what we do with rumor/not rumor when this happens here - but it was discussed many threads ago.

 

[10ofRods]

Prosecution needs to correctly frame the DNA.
Single signature samples not repeated anywhere else in house, bike or helmet.

I would be interested if there was any DNA besides Suzanne's on the camera cables. If not, that isn't right, BM and the installing tech should be there, right now it sounds like the cables were wiped clean and put in her hand.

It wasn't even said that it was "single signature samples." It was said that it was "partial DNA." Fragments of chromosomes, in other words. Degraded touch DNA most likely.

That means that the lab has to run fragments and some of those fragments matched people in CODIS (and thousands of other people as well).

There was male DNA on the DVR/satellite cables, presumably from the previous owner or a technician - but not Barry's. Suzanne's DNA was also on those cables.

I don't think Barry was stupid enough to touch the cables and then try to wipe them off - I think he was wearing gloves. If we're speaking of the game cameras, it should be his DNA on them but that tells us nothing except that they were Barry's game cameras - I think it's pretty obvious who turned them off.

 

[Hoss569]

The cement comment made me think of the dig that was done early on tearing up concrete. I don't recall any info in the PH on it. I thought there was mention something was found? Will be interesting to see what is in the AA regarding the findings(if any) and reasoning for digging the concrete up.

Is the list of things that have been sluethed or revealed throughout the investigation that was not brought up in the PH. Their are some witness statements that I can't wait to read (MG, Neighbor, etc) but just thinking ...

 

[magnetic]

Next charges may be tax evasion! Uncle Sam may be interested in knowing where it comes from as well

He will do more time in prison for that than he will for any degree of murder