Still Missing CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *arrest* #94

[crhedBngr]

Biking is also great cardio without wrecking your knees - it's common amongst people of a "certain age" shall we say, who aren't jogging.

LOL!

Yes, that "certain age".

Of which, I am a member.

My chuckle for the day.

 

[MassGuy]

May I add another line to your favorite?
Barry to Grusing:
"I don't understand, I mean, she's (Suzanne) a good woman. You guys probably think she's a piece of crap."
Pg.82

We call that "projection."

He thinks she's a piece of crap, and he hopes investigators will come to the same conclusion. At the same time, he's pretending to be magnanimous so he looks better to them.

 

[NothingSurprisesAnymore]

Some people are emotionally vested in cases they follow. Sometimes people make their mind up what happened before a trial. I am not emotionally invested. And if I've made up my mind about what happened I tend not to share and stay objective. I observe, read, listen, and think about trial strategy alot which is an interest I have and yes I think the preoccupation with some seemingly normal behaviors can be funny and can go on for pages and pages despite posters, and not only me, saying that something may not be unusual. I am not the only poster with a husband who has consumed the garage with junk and drives around with his life in his vehicle...and saves shoe laces. Sometimes I think I'm the only one brave enough to share those things. Sometimes it's like just waiting for the offensive line to come after you when you snap the ball. Trials are serious yes, and murders moreso, and it can be infinitely sad.... but ultimately it is not up to me...it is up to the jurors and what they hear that is accurate and unclouded and the case that prosecution brings and the defense put up to bring criminals to justice or to get them absolved if that is the case. The discussion that happens around the case is interesting, illuminating, often sad and yes, sometimes even humorous. People like me who believe in our system and believe in innocent until proven guilty absolutely can have different POVs...every case has two sides of the courthouse. And yes...words are important and impart different visuals and are used to illicit emotions or for intent. Reach down and grab and dig down and retrieve are very different actions and different words that may or may not accurate describe what actually happened. A garbage can and a dumpster impart different visuals per my comment about the NG "show" accounting of the very same situation.

I admire and respect you for saying what you think though it may be different than the majority!
If I may make a comparison I would say your opinions reflect a defense counsel's approach whereas other sleuther's might resemble a private investigator's approach.
Hope this isn't offensive in any way or misrepresents anyone's point of view!

JMO IMO JMO IMO JMO IMO

Edit to add: Thankful we all have the right to a vigorous defense and that the state has to prove its case!

 

[Diddian]

I wonder if Barry and SD are spending Valentines Day together again this year.

I think it's lovely that she's been helping him get over the loss of his wife, and I think he was being completely truthful when he claimed that there was nothing sexual going on.

I mean, who doesn't spend a couple days holed up with another woman in a hotel room?

And shut their phone off.

And buy them a big bouquet of flowers.
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Nothing to see here...

This is one of my favorite Barry lines: "Well, I just, I'll tell you right now, that she is a special person in my life and it's, I've told you before she is a, a dear friend. There is nothing sexual going on with her and I..."
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Sure Barry. Page 93.

He probably just brought her along to clean the room. We know how messy he can be.

 

[nyvictoria]

If Barry had moved a boulder away from a mine opening earlier in the week, could he have merely positioned his truck in such a way that he could electronically open the tail and dispose of a cooler in a mine site? I don’t know but it seems his truck would have had all the bells and whistles. Find an off camera spot drive uphill open the tail and bye. Creepy also to think that he might have known the cameras everywhere on public roads and the timeframe to work within. More premeditation?

A cooler would be good for transporting. A truck with a cooler in the bed wouldn’t be given a second glance.

When it comes to the actual disposal, IMO it would be better to remove the body from the cooler and let nature and animals take over. It could be explained away as a slip and fall while hiking, biking accident, etc. A body in a cooler definitely looks like foul play.

 

[Scootie98]

So odd!! removing laces takes like 1 minutes max.. why not do that in the truck? It doesn't require any equipment or special skill.. just take them out. It is so odd.

That would work unless there is DNA on the boots or matching treads themselves could be found around a mine, for example. Give the guy some credit for paying attention to details...albeit, the explanations require mental contortion to interpret.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Oh, Barry was definitely feeding Grusing junk.

Chipmunk junk.

Long on answers, short on truth.

JMO

What is the old saying? Separate the wheat from the chaff. This has to be a benchmark case for that.

 

[Scootie98]

I agree that it makes the most sense that he'd turn left and plant the helmet. I'm not sure Barry does what makes sense to most of us. If we find out that his window rolled up/down somewhere on that Garfield left turn excursion, then I will be more convinced he dumped the helmet then. I have no idea what else he might have been doing there, although it seems he spent more time/miles needed than to dump just a helmet.

The helmet was found May 15, 2020, right? When was it publicly announced that the HELMET was found (and not just a personal item)?

I do remember AM saying he was surprised the rather bright teal helmet had not been noticed when a group had searched the area in the day or two after Suzanne's disappearance. He noted one of the search party had peeled off in the "helmet zone" before they were done. I can't find this interview. Can anyone point me to the source?

The HIE photo suggests BM had a helmet with him. Was it Suzanne's? I can't say, but the outline looks more like a bicycle helmet than a hard hat or firefighter helmet to me.

It's an interesting tanget to ponder--BM plants helmet AFTER May 10--but I don't think it changes the overarching argument that he planted the helmet, that his alibi stinks, and that his wife went radio silent on his watch.

With the voluminous amount of stuff BM discarded in Bloomfield via multiple dumpsters...I can't imagine that he would bring the helmet back home with him...He knew LE would be waiting for him...I personally think he ditched it while snipe hunting, er, I mean Elk watching. No other explanation for him going in that direction on his way to Broomfield.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

So odd!! removing laces takes like 1 minutes max.. why not do that in the truck? It doesn't require any equipment or special skill.. just take them out. It is so odd.

He was killing time. Remember he's the guy driving around with a truck full of "stuff". I personally think there was really no other explanation for Sunday in Broomfield other than killing time. I just don't know why...was it an alibi or was he running away from Suzanne and his argument as he had done before.

 

[Diddian]

With the voluminous amount of stuff BM discarded in Bloomfield via multiple dumpsters...I can't imagine that he would bring the helmet back home with him...He knew LE would be waiting for him...I personally think he ditched it while snipe hunting, er, I mean Elk watching. No other explanation for him going in that direction on his way to Broomfield.

He could have been pitching SM's phone.

 

[MassGuy]

He was killing time. Remember he's the guy driving around with a truck full of "stuff". I personally think there was really no other explanation for Sunday in Broomfield other than killing time. I just don't know why...was it an alibi or was he running away from Suzanne and his argument as he had done before.

If he was just "killing time," then why lie to the Ritters when they called him, and claim that he was at the wall site "with workers present?"

Even if you can come up with an innocent explanation for lying to investigators over and over about that particular aspect, he's lying right off the bat.

There is no innocent explanation for that.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

I admire and respect you for saying what you think though it may be different than the majority!
If I may make a comparison I would say your opinions reflect a defense counsel's approach whereas other sleuther's might resemble a private investigator's approach.
Hope this isn't offensive in any way or misrepresents anyone's point of view!

JMO IMO JMO IMO JMO IMO

Edit to add: Thankful we all have the right to a vigorous defense and that the state has to prove its case!

Nope I rarely take offense... the defense perspective is sadly not expressed much considering we are now past the preliminary where prosecution is given the benefit of the doubt and moving toward trial which typically favors defense so at this point of the trial where we have a good deal of the prosecution case, what the defense is doing or how they might handle the facts as we know is gaining importance as it will shape the trial. We knew right after the affidavit was released that everything contained would not make it to trial...so now it is "what will" make it to trial. They mystery of what happened to Suzanne is interesting and of continued speculation and history tells us in similar cases that catch the public's eye could extend long past trial. The reality of what will happen to Barry is coming at us quickly and will be determined in 3.5 months. Hopefully Scott Peterson won't heat up before we are done with Barry I can only handle one at a time.

 

[Megnut]

We call that "projection."

He thinks she's a piece of crap, and he hopes investigators will come to the same conclusion. At the same time, he's pretending to be magnanimous so he looks better to them.

And....he failed.

JMO

 

[mrjitty]

The problem about contesting the left turn, and the nature of Broomfield, is only one person can put that in evidence - the defendant.

Counsel is not allowed to speculate explanations that the defendant did not himself make in his numerous interviews.

 

[MassGuy]

So Barry lies to the Ritters about being at the wall when he received that phone call.

He said the same to investigators, claiming that he had to actually leave the site to drop his tools off at the hotel. Surveillance proved this was a lie, and he left his room, went to his truck, and then put the tools at the front desk.

He said he went back and forth from the hotel to the wall all day, but really only went there once.

He said he had time after visiting the wall, which is why he was throwing trash away. The problem is, 4 of these dumps took place before he visited that location.

How does a jury just ignore this stuff? How does anyone?

 

[nyvictoria]

I don't think she is on the property and the nearby area called the "triangle" by some has been extensively searched by LE investigators and public searchers.

If Suzanne disappeared while riding or hiking, searchers could easily miss her body in that environment, even if it was searched repeatedly. We more or less know she didn’t go missing while riding or hiking.

I’ve felt all along that she’s either on the property or very close by, in a place that’s reached by going through his property. Barry would be comforted by his ability to control access to the spot.

IMO he never thought he’d have to leave his house but then people made such a big deal of it. It’s just a missing wife, not a husband! Who knew?

 

[nyvictoria]

What was it he said? I did something to my machine…

He forgot to mention a mechanical thing…

So odd!! removing laces takes like 1 minutes max.. why not do that in the truck? It doesn't require any equipment or special skill.. just take them out. It is so odd.

Because it’s a big fat lie!

 

[NothingSurprisesAnymore]

Oh, Barry was definitely feeding Grusing junk.

Chipmunk junk.

Long on answers, short on truth.

JMO

Yep.
Also throwing out as a bit of feed along with chipmunks...employees, meth heads, dumpster mother and daughter, LE, some guy in a basement, even Suzanne herself along with her "wicked" sister and conniving brother and the rest of the Moormans to boot.
IIRC
JMO

 

[DizzyB]

If Barry was just “killing time” away from Suzanne and their arguments, why wouldn’t he have stayed local? When was the last time he had seen MM1? He could have hung around the beach job, or DSI, or texted GD if GD had no Mother’s Day plans. I’m sure he could have found a bunch of close by things to do. Then he could have texted MM1 to let him know when she was back, and arrived at PP to see her and her friend. I would imagine that Suzanne would have tried to keep it light and happy in front of a friend also. He could have done all of that and departed at 5:30 with MG for the wall re-do, as planned.

 

[MassGuy]

Yep.
Also throwing out as a bit of feed along with chipmunks...employees, meth heads, dumpster mother and daughter, LE, some guy in a basement, even Suzanne herself along with her "wicked" sister and conniving brother and the rest of the Moormans to boot.
IIRC
JMO

Don't forget notorious drug lord, "CBD Tim!"

He's the "El Chapo" of Salida.

The fact that he sold CBD products at a farmer's market, notwithstanding.