Still Missing CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *arrest* #90

[MassGuy]

Well let’s hope prosecution followed through then and didn’t drop the ball at notification. It has become a rather circuitous discussion while we wait for the facts.

I think most of us know full well the defense is lying, and this does not lead back to one person.

 

[sk716]

There's so many things in those text messages, said by Suzanne herself, that many posters have given their opinions about regarding BM from the get-go, such as he was a narcissist, he was abusive, Suzanne did suspect someone else in his life, and so much more that we now know were true, but some posters had a difficult time believing and felt that these things were only our speculation. But now, since it is directly from Suzanne, as shown in her text messages, we now know these things are true after all.

JMO

Yeah. This is the point in time where Suzanne ends up on trial.


I need to go ahead and drop the bomb, but JL lied. A lot. Some of them made it into the AA. According to the defenses call logs, they (SM & JL) never cut communication. The defense is going to hammer this and make JL an unreliable witness. (PH Plunder Transcripts)

As far as I know, SO is an impeccable witness, because all the defense has on her is the But-Suzanne-kept-SECRETS defense. But in the same stroke, they are calling Suzanne a liar. It's subtle, but they're saying: Suzanne lied about JL, so how do you know she wasn't lying about Barry? When you see it it's so -- offensive, I want to scream.

I would love to share (quote) what I mean, but I would have to post enough that CCSO might be really ticked and they are already super mad at the internet. I really should have kept the time stamps ... Shortest bits I can manage.

DAY ONE

Q Eytan: Right. but you know that Sheila Oliver doesn’t have — well first of all, the phone records for Sheila Oliver were collected in this case pursuant to search warrant, right?

A Harris: I believe I know that Sheila’s phone was downloaded. I don’t actually know whether her phone records were collected separately from that.

Q Eytan: Okay, so you didn’t go back and verify that there’s no connected phone call between Sheila Oliver and Suzanne Murphy after May 2019?

A Harris: No.

Q Eytan: You don’t know? Okay. Then — and the substance of your testimony about what Sheila Oliver has told you about Mr. Morphew and Suzanne’s marriage was in this interview you just had with her a month ago, right?

A Harris: No, some of that content is in other reports as well in terms of some of the things she’s saying about their marriage, yes
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It goes on like this very repetitively for awhile.

DAY TWO

Q Eytan: So yesterday you provided interpretation about text messages between Sheila Oliver and Suzanne Morphew in 2019 and 2020.

A Harris: Yes.

Q Eytan: And the messages were being sent and received between Suzanne and Sheila without Sheila’s knowledge about Suzanne’s secret life and love, correct?

MR. LINDSEY: Judge, objection. Asked and answered again probably about 50 times now.

THE COURT: Okay, so I think we’ve established that Sheila Oliver didn’t know about the relationship but I think this is just setting up another question. -- (Arrested Development style voice over: It wasn't.) -- I’ll allow it now but we’ve got it.​

Repetitive. The implication that she lied by omission.

 

[rainbowshummingbird]

There's so many things in those text messages, said by Suzanne herself, that many posters have given their opinions about regarding BM from the get-go, such as he was a narcissist, he was abusive, Suzanne did suspect someone else in his life, and so much more that we now know were true, but some posters had a difficult time believing and felt that these things were only our speculation. But now, since it is directly from Suzanne, as shown in her text messages, we now know these things are true after all.

JMO

To most any person, it’s obvious that Suzanne was abused and murdered by her husband. Aside from magical thinking, there is no other scenario that fits with the evidence provided.

Whether or not he’s found guilty in court remains to be seen. In the US, there are many killers who are never brought to justice. Unfortunately, it diminishes the quality of all our lives, most especially for Suzanne.

 

[mom2chloe]

I'm hoping we get to see the 210 locations night of/early hour may 9th - 10th, presented like @sk716 did for the chipmunk shooting (insert air quotes).
Slightly OT can't believe someone would just stand in their garden shooting at tiny animals, yes I understand they may be considered a pest but isn't there a humane way to pest control?

Yeah, I researched Barry, his father was from Kirby, Arkansas. I know people from Kirby. Gave me a whole new view as to who Barry is and his warped view of Christianity. But people from Kirby don't talk like that, he got it somewhere else. Kirby's schools, while very small, are surprisingly good.

just chiming in but I was born in Michigan and raised in Kentucky from less than 2 years old. Barry speak is somewhat fluid in my parts too because this is indeed what some people talk and wording sound like. Good old boys speak if you will. It’s not Barry putting on a pretend speak it is likely what he is accustomed too although may be a manipulative tactic. Especially among certain people LE included.

 

[mom2chloe]

Just like he has his daughters serving his needs now.

There’s nothing more frustrating that dealing with someone who walks out when ever the argument turns to something they don’t want to discuss. Although Suzanne may have been frustrated, she was probably glad he was gone for however long he stayed away.

Agreed and I would only add that the times she was unable to locate him were all the times she was afraid. Is there a way for us to match those times with Barry’s BC activities?

 

[al66pine]

Sketchy $ Transaction? Maybe.

Your affiant served Bank of the West a search warrant for accounts associated to Barry and Suzanne Morphew. For an account of REDACTED and Barry Morphew (#ACCTNOREDACTED, there is a deposit dated February 24, 2020 for $40,000 from Monex.53 On June 19, 2020 there is a check written to Barry Morphew, the signer appears to be REDACTED in the amount of $30,000.
53 Suzanne’s list of grievances cites a transaction such as this one involving Monex and she mentions one involving REDACTED to Libler shortly before she disappears. (AA Page 46 of 129)​

@sk716 Thank you very much. Wow.
There's so much info shoe-horned into the AA.

 

[mom2chloe]

What Is Triangulation in Psychology?

Narcissists and their triangulation theories.
If a younger MM doesn’t agree with an older sis and daddy, she loses both by default and she/they have already lost their mom.IMO
Toxicity at it’s finest. IMO

 

[MassGuy]

Yeah. This is the point in time where Suzanne ends up on trial.


I need to go ahead and drop the bomb, but JL lied. A lot. Some of them made it into the AA. According to the defenses call logs, they (SM & JL) never cut communication. The defense is going to hammer this and make JL an unreliable witness. (PH Plunder Transcripts)

As far as I know, SO is an impeccable witness, because all the defense has on her is the But-Suzanne-kept-SECRETS defense. But in the same stroke, they are calling Suzanne a liar. It's subtle, but they're saying: Suzanne lied about JL, so how do you know she wasn't lying about Barry? When you see it it's so -- offensive, I want to scream.

I would love to share (quote) what I mean, but I would have to post enough that CCSO might be really ticked and they are already super mad at the internet. I really should have kept the time stamps ... Shortest bits I can manage.

DAY ONE

Q Eytan: Right. but you know that Sheila Oliver doesn’t have — well first of all, the phone records for Sheila Oliver were collected in this case pursuant to search warrant, right?

A Harris: I believe I know that Sheila’s phone was downloaded. I don’t actually know whether her phone records were collected separately from that.

Q Eytan: Okay, so you didn’t go back and verify that there’s no connected phone call between Sheila Oliver and Suzanne Murphy after May 2019?

A Harris: No.

Q Eytan: You don’t know? Okay. Then — and the substance of your testimony about what Sheila Oliver has told you about Mr. Morphew and Suzanne’s marriage was in this interview you just had with her a month ago, right?

A Harris: No, some of that content is in other reports as well in terms of some of the things she’s saying about their marriage, yes
​

It goes on like this very repetitively for awhile.

DAY TWO

Q Eytan: So yesterday you provided interpretation about text messages between Sheila Oliver and Suzanne Morphew in 2019 and 2020.

A Harris: Yes.

Q Eytan: And the messages were being sent and received between Suzanne and Sheila without Sheila’s knowledge about Suzanne’s secret life and love, correct?

MR. LINDSEY: Judge, objection. Asked and answered again probably about 50 times now.

THE COURT: Okay, so I think we’ve established that Sheila Oliver didn’t know about the relationship but I think this is just setting up another question. -- (Arrested Development style voice over: It wasn't.) -- I’ll allow it now but we’ve got it.​

Repetitive. The implication that she lied by omission.

The good thing is that if the defense tries to portray Suzanne as an unreliable narrator, there is corroboration.

You have the spy pen, witness statements regarding their marriage, deleted texts, and most importantly, Barry's own admissions to investigators.

JL's value is simply that he exists, and the relationship is the motive. His own motivations aren't important, and even if he is viewed as a crappy guy, he's been cleared.

Investigators have some of those communications, and they will speak for themselves.

Marriage falling apart? Check.

Motive? Check.

Unstable, controlling husband? Check.

Don't believe Suzanne? Fine. Then believe Barry. He tells us Suzanne was telling the truth.

 

[DeDee]

just chiming in but I was born in Michigan and raised in Kentucky from less than 2 years old. Barry speak is somewhat fluid in my parts too because this is indeed what some people talk and wording sound like. Good old boys speak if you will. It’s not Barry putting on a pretend speak it is likely what he is accustomed too although may be a manipulative tactic. Especially among certain people LE included.

Oh! I almost purchased a farm in Horse Cave, KY simply because I adored the address. Have you been to the Derby?

I'm thinking of Suzanne being a school teacher and having to listen to Barry say, for instance: "I seen them yesterday."

See. Saw. Seen.

It could also be a matter of some students missing out on conjugating verbs while in school.

 

[BDAJAG]

According to LS recap last night -- the defense alleged one of the Ritters was sending BM texts with hug emoji in support of their claim that the DA's office was promoting fear of BM. MOO

ETA: In all fairness to the defense, I think it very much possible one of the Ritter's is fearful of BM and the other is not.

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RBIR by me, NASBDA.

I totally agree with @ Seattle1's #460, supra., "one fearful and not the other' hypothesis.
And see as well @ Tumbleweed's post #448, supra., last para., referring to Barry's 'chitchat back & forth with Jeanne Ritter on his hasty(?) return from Bromfield.


Hmmm...I must ask:
What would have been so difficult/awkward were Barry to ask Mr. Ritter to (twice!) check the Morphew residence and to report back to him regarding Suzanne and her bike?

* Darn! It's just that Barry seems to have this habit of asking women to do things to help him out or do him favors.*

Hypothesis: It could be, I suppose, that to his mind the gentler sex is less likely to tell him to pound sand.
Lastlly, to @Seattle1's point, may I guess as well that Mr. Ritter may have sought to reduce the likelihood of future interactions between Mr. Morphew and Mrs. Ritter?

Hmm+ alia oomo.

 

[Kemug]

If, as seems likely, Barry was having affairs back in Indiana, I suppose there is zilch chance of anyone coming forward to say so. Not an unfaithful wife (especially if her hubby never knew about it), a cuckolded husband (especially if the marriage is back on track), or even friends who knew or suspected (don't want to rock the boat, tell tales, get involved, etc.) I suppose a "professional lady" might, if she feels that it's the right thing to do, or just wants her 15 minutes of fame.
However, I suppose that line of thinking is highly unlikely to arise, unless they have something meaningful to add, eg something BM said, or if his honesty and integrity is being questioned. Just a thought.

 

[MassGuy]

If, as seems likely, Barry was having affairs back in Indiana, I suppose there is zilch chance of anyone coming forward to say so. Not an unfaithful wife (especially if her hubby never knew about it), a cuckolded husband (especially if the marriage is back on track), or even friends who knew or suspected (don't want to rock the boat, tell tales, get involved, etc.) I suppose a "professional lady" might, if she feels that it's the right thing to do, or just wants her 15 minutes of fame.
However, I suppose that line of thinking is highly unlikely to arise, unless they have something meaningful to add, eg something BM said, or if his honesty and integrity is being questioned. Just a thought.

Yeah, I just don't see anything like that coming into trial, even if it's found to be true.

Now, if the prosecution can prove that there was in fact an affair with SD prior to the murder, then that would be a different story.

I mean, she's calling in tips after Suzanne disappeared, and then magically finds herself in a relationship with him. It would possibly add another element to the motive.


We know they couldn't prove the affair predated the murder (in the AA), but that doesn't mean there hasn't been a development since then.

What I'm getting at is maybe Barry had some help after the fact...

 

[Seattle1]

I need to go ahead and drop the bomb, but JL lied. A lot. Some of them made it into the AA. According to the defenses call logs, they (SM & JL) never cut communication. The defense is going to hammer this and make JL an unreliable witness. (PH Plunder Transcripts)

^^rsbm

@sk716 -- can you please clarify what you mean by SM & JL never cut communication? What are you saying didn't make it into the AA?

I recall from the AA that SM reached out to JL on FB shortly after the 2018 move to Colorado, and they communicated on Facetime for several months until JL's daughter found SM's messages and JL says he deleted his social media accounts and they took a break that lasted until Christmas 2018 when SM reached out to JL on his LinkedIn account -- sending him a message that she was worried sick about him. From the point of SM’s LinkedIn message, JL says they started communicating again and never stopped.

What’s missing from this account and/or my recollection?

AA pg 16/131

 

[mrjitty]

I also find it very odd how there seems to be some recognition of what you're saying here by the court whereupon arrest, without the request of any party, an order of protection was drafted and the incarcerated was ordered to toe the line (civil contact), yet the same order seems to be tossed out the window the moment bail release is signed off. I guess I'm missing what changes from the need to impose a protection order (while in custody) to the now --other than a king's ransom of hefty coin. JMO

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...y-after-murder-charge-in-suzanne-morphew-case

I posted the other day that I am extremely disappointed in the justice system specifically here, and broader society in general - at the lack of recognition of the dangers posed by these men.

It's not a question of innocent until proven guilty - the burden of truth within a criminal trial context. It is a question of clear eyed risk analysis. It is absurd, that when credibly charged with murder, he has access to those girls and that they are acting as his cheerleaders

He is continuing his abusive and destructive behaviours every single day.

 

[mrjitty]

The texts confirm my worst fears about this case.

I really hope the jury will read them carefully and listen to SM's last words as they appear in black and white, unvarnished, without bias, credibility questions, or any direct knowledge of what was to come.

This is how she spoke in her safe space, to a friend, where no one else could hear ...

 

[mrjitty]

There's so many things in those text messages, said by Suzanne herself, that many posters have given their opinions about regarding BM from the get-go, such as he was a narcissist, he was abusive, Suzanne did suspect someone else in his life, and so much more that we now know were true, but some posters had a difficult time believing and felt that these things were only our speculation. But now, since it is directly from Suzanne, as shown in her text messages, we now know these things are true after all.

JMO

BIB

Exactly.

They are her final words, and the state has know this from very early on.

It's so critical that BM sought to conceal all this from investigators, even though it could have provided the reason why she had gone away in those early hours of the mystery.

 

[Seattle1]

I posted the other day that I am extremely disappointed in the justice system specifically here, and broader society in general - at the lack of recognition of the dangers posed by these men.

It's not a question of innocent until proven guilty - the burden of truth within a criminal trial context. It is a question of clear eyed risk analysis. It is absurd, that when credibly charged with murder, he has access to those girls and that they are acting as his cheerleaders

He is continuing his abusive and destructive behaviours every single day.

I completely agree and it's also the reason why I don't think you should expect to fit capital offense (i.e., murder) defendants in cookie-cutter bail reform programs that are written with nonviolent crimes in mind. The risk to victims, witnesses, and the general public is too great. MOO

 

[marylamby]

Thank you for the tip, still says access restricted - I shall just have to be patient

Do you have enhanced tracking protection on? If so, turn it off. I have no idea if this is of any help!

 

[marylamby]

I seem to always be late to the party but my MIND IS BLOWN!
BARRY IS BURNT TOAST!

 

[mrjitty]

Gut feeling that is all. I personally think Barry loves his daughters deeply. I think his lawyers are well aware of that.I personally think they are old enough to understand relationships and marriages can hit the rocks. If they want to support their father through this it does not bother me one bit. Now that I have read some of Suzanne’s texts I don’t think he is the complete master manipulator some people have grabbed onto. I think he has entitlement issues but he did not marry a woman who could take him down a few notches and Suzanne realized late in the marriage they were going in different directions.

I am struggling with this analysis.

She isn't saying they were growing apart, or developing in different directions as happens to normal people. She is saying he is an abusive, controlling, scary guy who wouldn't change, and wouldn't let her go. That is the point of her final message to him that he deleted. She was finished. She finally demanded he confront that - without the abusive behaviour.

Barry wasn't moving in a different direction - he was trying to keep her trapped.

She probably enjoyed the benefits of their marriage for a long time.

This is typical of the power imbalances. He has the income. She has to look our for her kids. That came to an end. She discovered she had agency and power. That probably got her killed.

He knew and told LE when he put the girls in the middle of one of his and Suzanne’s arguments and Suzanne was furious he realized he should not have done that. But he would not be the first parent to make the mistake of using their children in a marital argument. I am not worried about their safety and time will tell how they handle the trial but they are probably stronger than some want to give credit. And that is all the not relevant psycho analysis I can do for the night lol.

BIB

There is a probability he murdered their mother. If so, he already did huge damage to them, and continues to do more every day.

How are they safe?

I don't see it.

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