Still Missing CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *arrest* #96

[MassGuy]

I think if there was any possibility that the needle sheath could have been from a source other than the tranq darts, IE would have argued vociferously during the PH. It seemed to be more about how it got there.

Don't you hate it when big, conspicuous pieces of plastic just stay in your dryer for weeks without you even noticing?

Even Barry couldn't offer an explanation for that, merely conceding that it looked bad.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Great post.
You say it so much better than I.

I think a lot of people who are controlled
and/or unvalued seek comfort.
Whether it be kind words or a loving touch.
You can be intimate with your long time person and still feel very alone.
JMO but I think he was amping up for this last bout of cancer to take her. I do wish he had taken himself out instead of her.
But that’s not how his type rolls.
Their ego is running the show. I truly think those perps justify their actions. IOW the victim caused their own death ..therefore the perp is entitled to lie and survive to the fullest.
No cheating EX wife history to mull over or property to divide$. No seeing his beautiful EX at his daughters events & milestones.
Boom!He’s running the entire show again.

MOO

The problem for me is he didn’t have confirmation she had an affair until 7 months after she disappeared. We don’t know if her spy pen caught him in an affair but LE could not find evidence. She complained the commodities account was in his name only but investigators found she had accounts in her name only. None of which points toward Barry planning a murder it is more telling of the disintegration of their marriage. The data is telling us she stopped communicating 15 minutes or so before Barry returned home so investigators don’t know what she was doing. These are weaknesses in the case for me. So now I am left with what was going on during the late afternoon through night and I have to wait for the telematics testimony and cross. Were they fighting? Did he murder her? How does that get proven? I know too much about bad internet and bad cell service and towers far far away so need to wait for experts to explain the cell phone data that day and night. Broomfield is interesting because he did have a habit of running from fights per Suzanne and we know from Grusing in the arrest warrant that both of them had gone after each other in a physical manner before. So was it a spur of the moment alibi or was he running from the fight? And how do they prove it was an alibi? The bike and helmet are critical and jurors will have to believe that Barry dumped both which is strong evidence if they can convince the jury she was gone before morning since Barry said he was home until morning. Just things I ponder about a jury that knows very little about the case.

 

[Cindizzi]

I think if there was any possibility that the needle sheath could have been from a source other than the tranq darts, IE would have argued vociferously during the PH. It seemed to be more about how it got there.

I agree.
If SM had a port, they would have found her supplies for maintenance. Home maintenance of a port includes flushing it with saline solution and also flushing with a blood thinner such as Heparin to prevent blood clots.

BM would have absolutely pointed to a needle sheath being hers in his defense.
Instead he said it made him look bad.

After insisting that he never tranquilized deer in Colorado, he changed his story to say he did it in his yard in April 2020. AFTER they told him they found the sheath.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...-with-focus-on-darts-needle-sheath-trash-runs


Lindsey then moved to discussing the needle sheath — or "cap" — found in the Morphew's dryer. Grusing said Barry said that he shoots deer with the tranquilizer gun from his garage, but hadn't used it since April 2020.

According to Grusing, Barry said, "It could have been in the wash but it's got nothing to do with me... But see, I hate that because you know that makes me look bad. But if it's leaking from Chaffee County, it's no wonder people in this town hate me."

 

[mrjitty]

The defence won't be able to argue "other" reasons BM went to the sunday job

It cuts across his own pre trial statements, and they have no way to introduce a different version if he doesn't testify. They are stuck with the dumb story he made up.

 

[Megnut]

Don't you hate it when big, conspicuous pieces of plastic just stay in your dryer for weeks without you even noticing?

Even Barry couldn't offer an explanation for that, merely conceding that it looked bad.

A sheath that would and did fall out when the filter tray was removed! So unless there were layers of lint from prior loads, that sheath harpooned the lint tray exclusive to that load!

I suspect that Barry manufactured the tale of tranquing-for-antlers when LE shared the discovery of a sheath, relative to the mudroom. If only they'd asked him how it might've wandered into the dryer specifically. Maybe he'd have said he'd tracked a very small herd of very small elk into the laundry room and set up his tranquilizer kit to play fish in a barrel/drum.

No need to be facetious. Likely he would've said, like the bullet from his shorts, it fell freshly out of his pocket from where it had taken up residence for a month.

It is something to watch the evolution of his responses as LE tightens the questions.

JMO

 

[MassGuy]

The defence won't be able to argue "other" reasons BM went to the sunday job

It cuts across his own pre trial statements, and they have no way to introduce a different version if he doesn't testify. They are stuck with the dumb story he made up.

His alibi is remarkable. Of course by "remarkable," I mean "remarkably damning." It's actually pretty hilarious.

He leaves early for a job he can't perform.

He tells investigators he spent all day traveling from the hotel to the job site, despite spending minutes there during a lone trip.

He bizarrely changes shirts multiple times, carries boots to his hotel room to remove laces, and dumps trash 5 times, while not even remembering doing so.

He later claims that he looks at the wall, and has time to kill because he's going to have his workers perform this job, which is the reason he decided to clean out his truck.

Of course he really dumped trash 4 times prior to even going to the wall, so that doesn't remotely hold up.

He spends five plus hours in his hotel room, which blows apart his earlier claims that he was working all day.

The biggest, most damning lie however, is where Barry was when the Ritters call him. He tells them, and then tells investigators on multiple occasions, that he was at the wall (he told the Ritters with workers present), rushed back, and left his tools.

In reality, he leaves his room, goes to his truck, and then retrieves tools to sell that lie.

The following day he speaks to Morgan, and instead of saying "come back," he basically tells her to figure out how to perform that job.

His wife has been kidnapped and eaten by a mountain Lion, but he wants the work to continue.

I dunno about you, but it's almost as if he was trying to sell that alibi.

Can anyone who is remotely open to Barry being innocent explain all of this away?

 

[Momofthreeboys]

The defence won't be able to argue "other" reasons BM went to the sunday job

It cuts across his own pre trial statements, and they have no way to introduce a different version if he doesn't testify. They are stuck with the dumb story he made up.

Which is why it is absolutely critical to prosecution that the motion to suppress Barry’s statements to LE as a sanction is critical not to happen. But if they are heard they will be heard in entirety by the jury.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

I think if there was any possibility that the needle sheath could have been from a source other than the tranq darts, IE would have argued vociferously during the PH. It seemed to be more about how it got there.

Maybe. If they had not thought about Suzanne’s potential use of needles or time to look into the sheath sizes of alternatives. They were doing massive catch up at the point of the preliminary. They only knew it had been missed during the first search and had heard the sheath being dropped which the investigator admitted happened but hadn’t been documented.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Don't you hate it when big, conspicuous pieces of plastic just stay in your dryer for weeks without you even noticing?

Even Barry couldn't offer an explanation for that, merely conceding that it looked bad.

Yes that is a weakness since it wasn’t found until the second search.

 

[MassGuy]

Which is why it is absolutely critical to prosecution that the motion to suppress Barry’s statements to LE as a sanction is critical not to happen. But if they are heard they will be heard in entirety by the jury.

The judge is not going to lampoon the case by throwing out statements that prove Barry's guilt.

That's not proportional to what the defense is claiming, and that's if any of it is true.

Via his lies, Barry tells us over and over that he murdered Suzanne. Without that, the other evidence carries much less weight, and there would be no case.

 

[MassGuy]

Yes that is a weakness since it wasn’t found until the second search.

It was found by a second investigator during the same search.

If you've followed a case before, you know this happens all the time.

In both the Berreth and Stauch cases, bloody crime scenes weren't even spotted, and the respective families continued to live there for days.

 

[Cindizzi]

His alibi is remarkable. Of course by "remarkable," I mean "remarkably damning." It's actually pretty hilarious.

He leaves early for a job he can't perform.

He tells investigators he spent all day traveling from the hotel to the job site, despite spending minutes there during a lone trip.

He bizarrely changes shirts multiple times, carries boots to his hotel room to remove laces, and dumps trash 5 times, while not even remembering doing so.

He later claims that he looks at the wall, and has time to kill because he's going to have his workers perform this job, which is the reason he decided to clean out his truck.

Of course he really dumped trash 4 times prior to even going to the wall, so that doesn't remotely hold up.

He spends five plus hours in his hotel room, which blows apart his earlier claims that he was working all day.

The biggest, most damning lie however, is where Barry was when the Ritters call him. He tells them, and then tells investigators on multiple occasions, that he was at the wall (he told the Ritters with workers present), rushed back, and left his tools.

In reality, he leaves his room, goes to his truck, and then retrieves tools to sell that lie.

The following day he speaks to Morgan, and instead of saying "come back," he basically tells her to figure out how to perform that job.

His wife has been kidnapped and eaten by a mountain Lion, but he wants the work to continue.

I dunno about you, but it's almost as if he was trying to sell that alibi.

Can anyone who is remotely open to Barry being innocent explain all of this away?

Also:
Told MG it would just be him and her doing the job.
Told her he would pick her up around 5:30 pm Sunday.
Left early Sunday morning without telling her.
Called her at 11:00 am sounding out of breath and hungover ( although he didn’t drink) like he’s had the worst night of his life.
Says he’s been on the job site and decided it’s going to take more workers than just the 2 of them.
Can’t remember the name of the company that’s contracted him to do the job when LE asked.
When asked what were the papers he carried into the hotel room ( the messy binder) he told LE it was plans for the wall.
LE told him they found the plans at his house in his bathroom drawer.
He then says he had a copy of the plans with him in Broomfield and must have left them in the room for his workers.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

It was found by a second investigator during the same search.

If you've followed a case before, you know this happens all the time.

In both the Berreth and Stauch cases, bloody crime scenes weren't even spotted, and the respective families continued to live there for days.

Yes I do know. Will the jury understand?

 

[Momofthreeboys]

The judge is not going to lampoon the case by throwing out statements that prove Barry's guilt.

That's not proportional to what the defense is claiming, and that's if any of it is true.

Via his lies, Barry tells us over and over that he murdered Suzanne. Without that, the other evidence carries much less weight, and there would be no case.

It would shock me if that is the sanction administered for sure. He had already ruled and added time to play the interviews unedited and in entirety. I think there will be sanctions so fingers crossed the DAs office is done with missing deadlines. I think the judge is waiting for the end and dealing with it all at once. If I recall the assistant AG was at one of the motions hearings so “all eyes” are on this case for the state.

 

[Murphy1950]

Big derogatory implication. None of us know Barry or Suzanne. We can't judge them or worse yet "assume" something.

We make judgments about others daily. If someone "appears" drunk, slurring their words etc. I'm not riding with them. I agree about "assuming." That isn't the intent of the discussion, I haven't really read any wild, off the wall accusations. Many people on this forum have reached the conclusion based on evidence, not assumptions, that Barry needs to be held accountable.

A couple months ago I might have given the tip to prosecution but the dart theory crumbled. No one has even thrown out the possible defense counter argument that the needle sheath in the dryer was Suzanne’s from cleaning and flushing her cancer port.

RSBM
After the prosecution team taking a year to build this case, if that isn't a tranq dart sheath, something so basic and intrinsic to their investigation and theory of her death, they should all lose their jobs, IMO. That would be like saying you had the murder weapon to find out at trial, it's a toy gun. I'd be stunned.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Also:
Told MG it would just be him and her doing the job.
Told her he would pick her up around 5:30 pm Sunday.
Left early Sunday morning without telling her.
Called her at 11:00 am sounding out of breath and hungover ( although he didn’t drink) like he’s had the worst night of his life.
Says he’s been on the job site and decided it’s going to take more workers than just the 2 of them.
Can’t remember the name of the company that’s contracted him to do the job when LE asked.
When asked what were the papers he carried into the hotel room ( the messy binder) he told LE it was plans for the wall.
LE told him they found the plans at his house in his bathroom drawer.
He then says he had a copy of the plans with him in Broomfield and must have left them in the room for his workers.

Lauren did a summary of the Broomfield job. Barry was not hired by the general contractor Garrett construction. Garrett had subbed to EA outdoor who had subbed to Barry so I would not be surprised if he didn’t know who the general was. Barry delegated it to CC and CC and she says they said Barry was not there for the job.

 

[susiQ]

The judge is not going to lampoon the case by throwing out statements that prove Barry's guilt.

That's not proportional to what the defense is claiming, and that's if any of it is true.

Via his lies, Barry tells us over and over that he murdered Suzanne. Without that, the other evidence carries much less weight, and there would be no case.

Thank goodness BM LOVES to talk and he’s such a prolific lion liar! I hate to think where this case would be if he retained counsel once he realized they weren’t buyin’ what he was trying to sell. Now that’s providential!!

 

[sk716]

IMO the problems related to the state's lawyering in this case have nothing to do with funding.....perhaps litigation fundamentals, but not funding....IMO.

If you're thoughts and opinions on this case are based solely on the MSM reporting you are under-informed. At the very least listen to the PH transcripts.

 

[MassGuy]

Thank goodness BM LOVES to talk and he’s such a prolific lion liar! I hate to think were this case would be if he retained counsel once he realized they weren’t buyin’ what he was trying to sell. Now that’s providential!!

There would be no case without his mouth.

Yeah, the marriage was collapsing.

Suzanne's footprint ceased the previous day.

Barry was strangely in the driveway during the 3'oclock hour.

Suzanne's phone powered down just as he was leaving.

She never went biking there, didn't bring everything she normally would, and didn't turn her phone on that morning.

Barry's alibi was suspicious, and he lied to the Ritters about where he was and what he was doing.

All that stuff tells you that Barry is responsible, and excludes anything else happening.

That's not a murder case though.

If there is justice here, it will because of your ignorance, arrogance, and stunning stupidity. Thank you Barry Morphew, you magnificent .

 

[sk716]

RSBBM
This isn’t rocket science. He needed an “alibi” for the day (Sunday) that Suzanne would be discovered “missing.”

He was even on camera lurking outside the HIE when she was supposed to be leaving for her "8 am bike ride."