Still Missing CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *arrest* #89

[Hazelnutty]

I regret that my initial post after following this sordid history from the beginning, must itself be sordid.
My thought is that BM carried his anesthetized angel, draped with only that brown towel, down to the stream, laid her in the gentle current, and bled her out.
He left her there that evening as he had much to attend to back at their home.
Later, in darkness, there would be still more - much more - to do.

Welcome to posting in Suzanne's thread!

Whatever he did to her was certainly heinous.

 

[Cindizzi]

I hope the new judge is more energetic.
That old judge allowed the defense to introduce their own analysis of the cell phone movements, a report the defense said refuted the prosecutions report.
(It did not, it had a different vocabulary to make the detective look dumb.)

He should have shut that down that day, and let the defense go through the process of introducing the report properly.

Casting doubt on digital evidence. Is one prong of the attack style defense and will be a huge theme in their "narrative", followed by "incompetent police."

The main defense for BM is "someone else did it."

1. Work to discredit the digital evidence.
2. Work to discredit the police.
3. Work to discredit the victim, so the jury cares more about the living crying daughters before them than justice their mother who was having an affair.
3. Work in the best image of BM, by touching him all the time, having family gaze adoringly and supportively behind him.

They are bias miners.

They want jurors who hate tech, hate complicated things, easily scoff at evidence, hate police, hate women who cheat and are very visual oriented so that the pantomime stuff they see at the defense table overrides truths they hear in argument.

Hope the DA get some expert modern help countering these themes.

From the November 9th hearing below.
I’m thrilled to hear that the 4th Judicial District is helping.

https://twitter.com/laurenscharftv/status/1458182279952543753?s=21
11th Judicial District Attorney's Office is completely redoing the discovery, reorganizing it so it is easier to find information. The prosecution said they are hiring more people to help with the load of information in the discovery and will resend it as soon as it is complete.

https://twitter.com/laurenscharftv/status/1458185134453182467?s=21
My apologies it was the 4th judicial District Attorney's Office who is helping the 11th Judicial District (Chaffee County) redo the discovery. The 4th Judicial DA office covers Teller and El Paso Counties in Colorado.

EBM fix typo

 

[Cindizzi]

I believe that wad during the searches AM organized.

TD’s encounter with BM was Memorial Day Weekend.
IMO

 

[sk716]

Yes, I do not see evidence that he knew this man was JL. Barry couldn't have controlled himself had he known that, and we'd see an obvious sign.

We don't know if they fought before these trips, but it's clear that Suzanne was fighting back against his influence. Barry Tells us as much: "But she turned into a different person. She was working out. She was, she was never this fit. And this ballsy in her life."

Who uses that particular phrase, "...this ballsy?'

Someone who has had their authority subverted, that's who.
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On the night of the 8th from the AA. BBM:

(Facebook Friend Requests)

Subsequent to the issuance of a search warrant, your affiant received the Face book business record for the account of Suzanne Morphew. FBI SA Grusing and FBI Staff Operations Specialist (SOS) Robert Bos reviewed the results. Twenty males (three of them with the first name “Jeff”, though Jeff Libler was not on the list) and three females were “new friends added” to Suzanne’s Facebook account between Friday, May 8, 2020 at 9:04PM (MST), through Saturday, May 9, 2020, at 6:01 PM.
...
SA Grusing showed Barry a page showing friend requests on Suzanne’s Facebook on Friday, May 8th and asked him if he was responsible.


Barry said, “No.” He added, “I never did anything on her Facebook.”


SA Grusing said by this date in May, Suzanne had the text fight with him, and they were accusing each other of having lovers. Barry was asked if he was sending the requests to see if she had boyfriend.


He said, “Absolutely one hundred percent no. No, I absolutely did not. I never went into her phone, into her Facebook. Ever. The only time I touched her phone was in Mexico when I thought she was secretly doing something- I think I told you that story, and she said, ‘Here,’ and gave me, and, ‘You can look.’ And she gave it to me and let me look cause there’s no way I could find out what you guys found.”
...
SA Harris asked Barry if he had any thoughts now of why she did those friend requests. Barry said, “I just, ’cause she would probably know that, that I would get upset if she would friend men. And she’s probably, from what everything we’ve talked about, in a state of mind where she just don’t care anymore about what I think.”


SA Grusing asked if Suzanne would know Barry would see it and he said, “Probably not.”


SA Grusing questioned why she would do it to upset Barry if she did not think he would see it.


Barry said, “I don’t, I think she knew I just didn’t touch her phone. I mean, maybe she thought I did, but.”


SA Grusing said it seemed like she set a trap for Barry and he said, “I mean, it sounds like that to me. I don’t think she did it for- I don’t know why she did it but I don’t think that she would think that I am gonna look at her Facebook account because I just don’t do it.”
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Barry was asked about his phone pinging down by the river during the Facebook posts on Friday night and asked if he was outside. Barry said, “I could have been. I don’t remember. I chase critters around the house all the time. There’s a bear that got in the garage. He completely destroyed my garage. And I’ve been looking for him ever since he came in the garage. I wasn’t going to shoot him, but I was just going to scare him off and uh, coyotes, are always outside.”​

And we need to go back a bit:

On November 13, 2020, SA Grusing and SA Harris interviewed Libler in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Libler said after Suzanne’s first message of “Howdy stranger” to him in 20 18, they began talking on the phone. Libler said he was nervous to talk to Agents and what he did was disgraceful. In the summer after Libler’s first year of college in Indiana, he attended a party with some friends at Suzanne’s house. Barry and Suzanne were a couple, but Barry was not at the party. Libler said he and Suzanne “kinda hooked up, not really,” at the party. Libler played golf almost daily at the time and Barry worked on the golf course.

Barry found out about Libler and Suzanne hooking up at the party. Upon seeing Libler on the golf course, Barry “jumped off the tractor and he was ready to beat me down.” Libler told Barry, “You’re gonna lose your job. You’re gonna lose everything.” Libler talked him out of it and that was the last interaction Libler had with Barry.​

JL was the only other dude she had ever been with and Barry knew him. By May 8th, he was looking for JL. He may not have remembered the last name, but I think he knew who he was looking for and it made him very angry. See above.

 

[FromGermany1]

Yes, I do not see evidence that he knew this man was JL. Barry couldn't have controlled himself had he known that, and we'd see an obvious sign.

We don't know if they fought before these trips, but it's clear that Suzanne was fighting back against his influence. Barry Tells us as much: "But she turned into a different person. She was working out. She was, she was never this fit. And this ballsy in her life."

Who uses that particular phrase, "...this ballsy?'

Someone who has had their authority subverted, that's who.
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bbm

Would have been a trauma to him, omG, poor husband BM. 20 years of 100% perfect marriage and then suddenly a wife, who has objections to his macho attitude. He was really to be pitied. No wonder, he murdered her. What else should he do with this rebellious woman, who even dared to be fit? BM stumbles over his own words (as often during interviews), so appalled he is about that.

 

[sk716]

Those dogs hit all over the place, and I think it's probable those were false hits.

Likewise, I'm not concerned about his behavior during the search, as I had predicted it would anger him when it was first announced. That's the kind of person he is.

Barry did talk about the river a lot though, which is why I definitely think there's an argument for it playing some role.

I think he planted something there. Something that probably got carried downstream and never found. The water looks pretty rough in the listing photos. I don't think it was her phone, though. He still had it after he moved to plant the bike. Someone, @Megnut maybe, was kind of pounding on him driving all the way out to the Garfield turn before turning around.

Google Earth Screencaps


I count three places he could have turned around if U-turns are no issue in CO. He could have turned around right where he tossed the helmet, but he drove another, what mile and a half (?). He's the one who pointed to the Garfield turn off on a map.

Could he have pitched her phone over the edge at the turn?

I would like to see Mike King's example cna you tell me where that is? It's not on the title of any of the videos that I can see.

The defense has an equal responsibility to show their discovery i.e. what they will be presenting at the trial.

MOO E&N used a different form of the Cellubrite report.
MOO that different report needed to submitted as discovery in advance.

Yeah, and I gotta wonder, what did E&N's report show on some other page that they didn't want submitted to the State? She got kinda twitchy about it.

 

[FromGermany1]

That's what I'm doing today, and I found something mildly interesting. Who knows exactly how many trips their wife has made in the past year?

A controlling man who knows his wife was engaged in affair, that's who.

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To me it looks, as if Suzanne might have had something in hand against her husband no later than since their move to CO, and he was quasi forced to allow the SEVEN! journeys (he counted so accurately). Otherwise BM would have known well, how to put an end to her travelling, I'm sure.
In May 2020 his "patience" with this stressful situation had come to an end, and he implemented his plan to get rid of the DANGER in form of wife Suzanne. MOO

 

[FromGermany1]

Should we start a list of truths told?

I'll go first.

1. He said he loved her to death.

I'm struggling to find 2.

JMO

 

[mrjitty]

It's a mystery. We don't have the GPS numbers, so it's impossible to say. The most direct route would have been to walk it to the staged site but he would have to pass close to the Ritter's and cross the river on foot. I think this way he would be quickest, but riskier due to the nearness of the Ritter house. I believe the Cushman house was unoccupied at the time so riding it up the road would be less likely to get him spotted than cutting across. But how long would it take him to walk it back? It could be managed on an ATV. If he used the road the Ritter's likely wouldn't hear an ATV through the trees.

So yes, he stages the bike, with his phone on him and signaling. Then goes back to the house, messes with Suzanne's phone, then puts his into airplane mode before turning left on US-50

You have to download the Google Earth Pro (free) software to do the distances.

Interesting. I suspect you are correct that he staged the bike without the truck whereas the helmet was thrown out on the drive west.

Obviously there will be far more Telematics data in the exhibits than was not covered in the AA, so I am really interested to hear when the ignition start on the Truck is for that drive.

From what you are saying, it will come shortly after 4.32am? But certainly after SM's phone goes dead.

 

[Seattle1]

I would like to see Mike King's example cna you tell me where that is? It's not on the title of any of the videos that I can see.

The defense has an equal responsibility to show their discovery i.e. what they will be presenting at the trial.

MOO E&N used a different form of the Cellubrite report.
MOO that different report needed to submitted as discovery in advance.

^^bbm
Mike begins at about the 7 min mark. This was the first time MK brought it up and expands on the topic in later episodes of PE on YT. Also, Mike often engages with other professionals in the comment section which can't be posted on WS.

Aug 23, 2021 -- Was Barry Really Chasing Suzanne? | Profiling Evil

 

[mrjitty]

I disagree. The PM was not a trial and the defense had equal time as the prosecution to present evidence or testimony to challenge the state's case. FBI Agent Grusing who was the witness for the state is not a phone forensic expert and he did not testify in the manner of an expert.

RSBM / BIB - exactly

The PM is a short form format - not a venue to conduct detailed witness presentations analysing the data. That will come at trial. Grusing is simply a convenient witness to introduce the data and discuss the thrust of the state evidence at a high level. Reaching conclusions about it is in many respects what we have a trial for.

This is the part of the trial I am most interested in - how the state will seek to create a more complete timeline with movements.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

RSBM / BIB - exactly

The PM is a short form format - not a venue to conduct detailed witness presentations analysing the data. That will come at trial. Grusing is simply a convenient witness to introduce the data and discuss the thrust of the state evidence at a high level. Reaching conclusions about it is in many respects what we have a trial for.

This is the part of the trial I am most interested in - how the state will seek to create a more complete timeline with movements.

I don’t know if they need a more complete timeline but they do need to refine their theory and strategy around what they want a jury to believe without doubt.

 

[mrjitty]

I don’t know if they need a more complete timeline but they do need to refine their theory and strategy around what they want a jury to believe without doubt.

I'm sure that will happen.

In other cases I have followed the Prelim was really only the broad thrust of the evidence - showing that there was a case to answer.

The detail - especially in expert areas ended up being significantly different.

First more evidence is presented, and also it's contested via rival witnesses.

It is also significant whether the defence advances a positive version, or relies on passive rebuttal.

 

[Boxer]

^^bbm
Mike begins at about the 7 min mark. This was the first time MK brought it up and expands on the topic in later episodes of PE on YT. Also, Mike often engages with other professionals in the comment section which can't be posted on WS.

Aug 23, 2021 -- Was Barry Really Chasing Suzanne? | Profiling Evil

Thank you, i will look at this.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

I'm sure that will happen.

In other cases I have followed the Prelim was really only the broad thrust of the evidence - showing that there was a case to answer.

The detail - especially in expert areas ended up being significantly different.

First more evidence is presented, and also it's contested via rival witnesses.

It is also significant whether the defence advances a positive version, or relies on passive rebuttal.

In addition to cross examination, I think a big part of this trial will also be what is admissible and not challenged successfully. The scope we discuss I'm guessing if far more expansive than what will be used in trial by either side. Plus it is still a Murder 1 trial so mens rea I think comes into play....the intent piece of it all.

 

[DizzyB]

Remember the early Oh Suzanne days? As soon as people started tilting their heads sideways at Barry’s private plea, Barry retreated. He did not partner with Spezze in any pleas for Suzanne, even though he believed she was “taken”. He basically hid. It was all about him, not Suzanne. He was offended. He had “his people” talk to MG. Why was he upset with her? Why did he badmouth her? His actions were focused on protecting himself. It had nothing to do with his privacy.

 

[DellaC]

Interesting. I suspect you are correct that he staged the bike without the truck whereas the helmet was thrown out on the drive west.

Obviously there will be far more Telematics data in the exhibits than was not covered in the AA, so I am really interested to hear when the ignition start on the Truck is for that drive.

From what you are saying, it will come shortly after 4.32am? But certainly after SM's phone goes dead.

And the Telematics may reveal if a window rolled down and up during the "elk sighting" detour.

 

[justtrish]

As I've been reading through the AA, I've noted a few more curious things.

When looking at her FB friend request history, people had friend requested her, but she hadn't sent a single friend request from Jan 1st to the May 8th-9th time frame and she sent 20+ requests in those 2 days.

This is the type of data that helps. That is very abnormal for her. If she went one to two requests, maybe no big deal, but to send zero from Jan 1st to May 8th and then send 20+ over a 24 hour period is a red flag.


Second thing is May 8th, the Friday evening Barry's phone last records something at 7pm time frame.. it then registers nothing until 6:48am on Saturday when it powers on. What was he doing for those nearly 12 hours? Maybe he was prepping something that night and he turned his phone off and left it at home? Would love to know what his truck was doing that night if it left or if the doors were open/closed, etc.


Third, this unaccounted for device that was linked to Barry's account. I wish we had more about this device. What was it? A phone, ipad? Could he remotely access her phone with that device? Some of the texts she sent just don't sound like her.. why did she text him "wanna hike" That really bothers me and seems very out of the norm after all the texts we see from her prior to that.

 

[justtrish]

Okay couple more questions...

well first a few notes: When detectives called Barry to let him know her bike was found, he cried and said did you find the phone? Not did you find Suzanne, not where was it, nothing about her, her condition, was the bike wrecked, was it sitting there somewhere, etc.. nope just "did you find the phone"

He put that phone somewhere near the bike, I don't know why it wasn't found, but why would that be the first question he asked?

Second, the younger daughter's text on Mothers Day just before 4pm talks about not even wanting to be at home because they fight so bad. This makes me so sad for those girls. They might be supporting their dad because it's all they feel they can do. They know, they knew, and I think eventually they will see they can love their dad and NOT support him. Trauma does funny things to people. Remember it took Suzanne 25+ years to leave him. Maybe it always wasn't bad, but people don't just turn into controlling narcissists overnight. He was controlling for a long time. Likely cancer and his lack of care for her during that time opened her eyes even more to his selfishness (all my opinion of course, but it's what I see)

Okay questions:

On page 34 of the AA, (actual page 32 of the document), "Barry's Verizon records", it lists getting data for their devices. Things are redacted and you can tell it's Barry, Suzanne, M1, M2, and then the last thing redacted is who?? Even the daughters when redacted just mark out their first names and shows Morphew and another redacted part assuming that is the phone numbers. Then very last redacted one shows no last name and who else is on Barry's plane with a redacted name?

On page 40 of the AA, (actual page 38 of the document), Barry received a call from "redacted", but beside it (Chaffee County Sheriff's Office)... who are the protecting at the sheriffs office? I think they have redacted his daughters and the boyfriend of one daughters family, but why redact the name of someone at CCSO?

 

[Love Never Fails]

I regret that my initial post after following this sordid history from the beginning, must itself be sordid.
My thought is that BM carried his anesthetized angel, draped with only that brown towel, down to the stream, laid her in the gentle current, and bled her out.
He left her there that evening as he had much to attend to back at their home.
Later, in darkness, there would be still more - much more - to do.

Oh my. That’s hard to think of. Twisted yes. Could BM do that? Yes.
Did it bother him to do that to animals? No!