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

[mrjitty]

Not speculative. We can make an inference based on the facts available.

So, when Barry's phone was moving toward where Suzanne's bike was found at 03:58 in the am on the day she is reported missing, I can infer that he is moving her bike to that location.

Yes

It is actually the defence that is going to speculate explanations, based on no evidence.

 

[Love Never Fails]

Thanks for the good wishes, friends. I'm a 28-year breast cancer survivor dealing with extensive metastasis at this point. Happy to say I just finished a treatment that destroyed three and a half of four liver tumors!

Yes, my port is flushed before and after any systemic treatment is done with great measures taken by a nurse to clean the area and avoid infection. I directed a cancer support center for twenty years and knew no one who personally flushed a port at home.

Certain chemotherapy drugs can destroy arm veins so ports are installed in the chest. Many drugs can be put through arm veins without any long-lasting damage.....by a nurse, I might add.

Thank you for sharing your story. My heart goes out to you for the suffering but I’m glad you are a survivor and happy three of those tumors in your liver were destroyed. I’m hoping you will be cancer free soon!

 

[Megnut]

This just hit me again.

Barry's entry into his home.

He entered it calmly.

It wasn't just that he didn't look around for Suzanne but that he didn't look for (or even pretend to look for) any clues to her intention for the day! He should, at a minimum, have been pretending that he didn't know what had become of her. He, as the spouse, he as the last one home with Suzanne, he as the one who ostensibly would know her habits best (more than, say, a teenage daughter's teenage boyfriend), you'd think he'd be able to assess quite a bit. Few lights on, was this how the house was found? Night lights on, she must've left early. No lights on, must've been well into morning when she left. And notes, anything at her desk? Her daily planner, any clue there? What's missing? Officer, can I look or can you? See if she took her jacket, her purse, some cash, her medication....

It's certainly peculiar that, after 3 hours on the road, helpless as you'd imagine an innocent spouse would feel, it doesn’t look like he'd utilized all that idle time to firm up his questions, to lay out whom to call, where to look, any and all of the places she might be.

Can I check the sink, the trash? See if she had breakfast? Lunch? See if I can find her phone. Surely she took it with her but ....

To our knowledge, in any of his conversations with Ritters, he didn't suggest a roster of names, people who could've picked Suzanne up. Maybe she'd gone with someone else... thrown her bike in their car. Off on a long explore...

Know what else? I don't think he asked Ritters to look in Suzanne's RR for her bike. Which seems to be where she kept it and where one might expect it to be.

Yes, Barry said he took her bike out, but if Suzanne was going on a bike ride on Sunday -- you know, if she wasn't dead -- how'd Barry know she didn't put it back in her RR? Maybe her bike was safe in her RR and Suzanne was safe, off with a friend?

Whoop, there it is.

Everyone else was trying to arrive at an explanation which would render Suzanne findable -- and alive. No one wants to think the worst, not until it's all that's left. Where could she be? she has to be somewhere....

Nope. Barry, and Barry alone, was ready to accept that she was gone. Gone, gone. Was it.... lion? Mmmmouuuuuuntaaaaaain liiiiiiion...

What's that rule? Hear hooves, think horses. More common than zebras. Most people most of the time are safe. Think horses. Reason it out. Call around. Search systematically. Then frantically. Keep thinking, keep looking, keep hope alive.

Nope, not Barry. In fact not only did Barry skip over the horse hooves, he skipped right over the zebra hooves and went straight to mountain lion feet.

Please tell me anyone who jumps right to a worst case scenario. When there's still a possibility their loved one may be somewhere reasonable, just someplace no one's yet thought to look.

It's almost as if Barry wanted them to find her bike, find her baby blue bike helmet, find her biking clothes and then clear him.

A gargantuan non sequitur if ever I've seen one.

Said this before, IMO Barry looked like someone entering his home, knowing it would look just like he left it.

JMO

 

[FromGermany1]

Barry was throwing out so many possible horrid things that/who/what could be responsible for Suzanne's disappearance but only one of them doesn't include violence, mauling or sex er I mean rape was - she ran off with another guy.

Now that would mean she intended to change her identity being that she left all of her ID in her car but for some reason wanted to keep her phone (which would PIIINNNNGGG) if she opened it and she needed her charger to boot. (I know, sounds ridiculous but we're talking Barry here. Probably hadn't slept in 48 hours at THAT point.) There's a reason he took the charger and disposed of it.
I think he was throwing out anything and everything. In his mind it was all 'reasonable doubt'.
IMO

bbm
What did he think, LE would think, if the charger wasn't on its/any place?
Did LE ever ask for it? I can't remember it.

 

[Megnut]

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the sheath had anything to do with the lint filter screen. I know that was said early on but I think it was just under the sheets and went unnoticed the first time the dryer was looked into.
It was no doubt in with that wash, likely from Barry's shorts pocket. It looked nearly 3 inches long in the AA photo when being held between two fingers.

True that I don't know their model of dryer nor the location of the lint trap. I'm just going off this photo. The dart seems to have wedged itself into something.

Unless that is the entire sheath here, photographed after it was dislodged.

JMO




Court releases evidence from Barry Morphew’s preliminary hearing | FOX21 News Colorado

 

[FromGermany1]

This just hit me again.

Barry's entry into his home.

He entered it calmly.

It wasn't just that he didn't look around for Suzanne but that he didn't look for (or even pretend to look for) any clues to her intention for the day! He should, at a minimum, have been pretending that he didn't know what had become of her. He, as the spouse, he as the last one home with Suzanne, he as the one who ostensibly would know her habits best (more than, say, a teenage daughter's teenage boyfriend), you'd think he'd be able to assess quite a bit. Few lights on, was this how the house was found? Night lights on, she must've left early. No lights on, must've been well into morning when she left. And notes, anything at her desk? Her daily planner, any clue there? What's missing? Officer, can I look or can you? See if she took her jacket, her purse, some cash, her medication....

It's certainly peculiar that, after 3 hours on the road, helpless as you'd imagine an innocent spouse would feel, it doesn’t look like he'd utilized all that idle time to firm up his questions, to lay out whom to call, where to look, any and all of the places she might be.

Can I check the sink, the trash? See if she had breakfast? Lunch? See if I can find her phone. Surely she took it with her but ....

To our knowledge, in any of his conversations with Ritters, he didn't suggest a roster of names, people who could've picked Suzanne up. Maybe she'd gone with someone else... thrown her bike in their car. Off on a long explore...

Know what else? I don't think he asked Ritters to look in Suzanne's RR for her bike. Which seems to be where she kept it and where one might expect it to be.

Yes, Barry said he took her bike out, but if Suzanne was going on a bike ride on Sunday -- you know, if she wasn't dead -- how'd Barry know she didn't put it back in her RR? Maybe her bike was safe in her RR and Suzanne was safe, off with a friend?

Whoop, there it is.

Everyone else was trying to arrive at an explanation which would render Suzanne findable -- and alive. No one wants to think the worst, not until it's all that's left. Where could she be? she has to be somewhere....

Nope. Barry, and Barry alone, was ready to accept that she was gone. Gone, gone. Was it.... lion? Mmmmouuuuuuntaaaaaain liiiiiiion...

What's that rule? Hear hooves, think horses. More common than zebras. Most people most of the time are safe. Think horses. Reason it out. Call around. Search systematically. Then frantically. Keep thinking, keep looking, keep hope alive.

Nope, not Barry. In fact not only did Barry skip over the horse hooves, he skipped right over the zebra hooves and went straight to mountain lion feet.

Please tell me anyone who jumps right to a worst case scenario. When there's still a possibility their loved one may be somewhere reasonable, just someplace no one's yet thought to look.

It's almost as if Barry wanted them to find her bike, find her baby blue bike helmet, find her biking clothes and then clear him.

A gargantuan non sequitur if ever I've seen one.

Said this before, IMO Barry looked like someone entering his home, knowing it would look just like he left it.

JMO

bbm

This!

I always like every sentence of your posts! Always! Thank you!

 

[Momofthreeboys]

"The problem for me is he didn’t have confirmation she had an affair until 7 months after she disappeared."
That's what he says. Barry has lied more times than I can count.

"We don’t know if her spy pen caught him in an affair but LE could not find evidence."
Barry downloaded the 'MONKEY' app. In case you've never heard of it, it was almost exclusively for underage teens
who used it to meet, chat with and hook up with other underage teens. They shut it down because MUCH older men
were using it to meet underage girls amongst other things like nudity.

1/07/20 - 'how to make a woman orgasm'.
1/07/20 - 'Older man younger woman relationships'.
1/08/20 - 'I can't reset my facebook password because I can't access the email or mobile phone number on
my account.
1/24/20 - accesses '3rd Basel My first hand job: Dear Diary, 9th grade, entry 14' -
*** the above were searched on Youtube, all deleted from his phone yet recovered.

1/25/20 - accesses 'localsnapsext.com
1/25/20 - googles 'find a cute girl near Salida'.
*not sure of the date but withing the same time frame - accesses a site named "come get dirty" along with other such sites that were recovered from deleted web searches.

Also unsure of the date, Barry accesses Ashley Madison site for married hookups. Unless you enter your information and open a profile, there's nothing to see here folks. I'm sure he did.

Accesses 'celebrity jihad' - photos of celebs and video .

This is just a list of what forensics could discover from his deleted searches.

One has to wonder if that's how he met Shoshona - on these or other dating sites. After all, Barry says they first met "face to face" on 10/25/20.

Doesn't sound like a faithful man to me. I also believe her sister and bff when they say he'd had an affair in IN.
Maybe Barry was going through Suzanne's chemo again, as if he'd need a reason.

Suzanne had "accounts" now, as in plural? Did not see that.

Would you please direct me to the page where Grusing states they both had gone after each other in a physical manner before? I surely missed it….snipped

Here is Grusing’s note from the AA. If I recall and we don’t have complete notes from the motions hearings—victimology will not be allowed at trial. I am guessing for either side. You asked for it so here it is: I'm assuming for context which is tough to follow in the AA that this snippet might have been preceded by the admittance by Barry of clipping her nose...or it could have been Grusing asking about SO saying that Suzanne said he'd been physical. Missing the context so not sure.

 

[Scootie98]

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.

Didn't Barry's mom say something (maybe to Tyson but not sure) about Suzanne having an affair or a boyfriend shortly after she disappeared, IIRC? That would not have been lost on Barry...and if she did make that comment....who told her? I think Barry knew much more about Suzanne's other life than is advertised...because he made it his business to know. JMO.

 

[Scootie98]

Not speculative. We can make an inference based on the facts available.

So, when Barry's phone was moving toward where Suzanne's bike was found at 03:58 in the am on the day she is reported missing, I can infer that he is moving her bike to that location.

Barry's presence was detected at both locations where evidence was found/planted.....the bike and the helmet. If one or the other...maybe he can explain it away....but both? That's lightening striking twice in the same place....not gonna happen that way.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Barry's presence was detected at both locations where evidence was found/planted.....the bike and the helmet. If one or the other...maybe he can explain it away....but both? That's lightening striking twice in the same place....not gonna happen that way.

Is the thinking that the bike got tossed when he backed up 95 feet in the driveway? Of just that he stopped on his way out that morning? I do believe the helmet and the elk watching are suspicious...but if they are going to rely on telematics shouldn't it show him opening his window on the way back from turning around to toss it? They didn't have any GPS on the turn left, but perhaps they have the telematics?

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Didn't Barry's mom say something (maybe to Tyson but not sure) about Suzanne having an affair or a boyfriend shortly after she disappeared, IIRC? That would not have been lost on Barry...and if she did make that comment....who told her? I think Barry knew much more about Suzanne's other life than is advertised...because he made it his business to know. JMO.

I don't know....he asked way to many questions of LE about an affair for me to believe he knew...I think he suspected what she was doing, but I don't know that he knew she was having an affair and I do not think he suspected JL. I do recall LE put out a request I think for the You Tuber's video in it's original state mid-investigation so if Barry's mom spoke on his camera and it was turned over LE should have it.

 

[Megnut]

We know from Suzanne's list that Barry had secret accounts (Monex). Is there any evidence that Suzanne opened secret accounts? Accounts in her name is very different than accounts she opened.

It seems like something slippery may have been going on. Of which she may have begun to become aware.

JMO

 

[303gmf]

This just hit me again.

Barry's entry into his home.

He entered it calmly.

It wasn't just that he didn't look around for Suzanne but that he didn't look for (or even pretend to look for) any clues to her intention for the day! He should, at a minimum, have been pretending that he didn't know what had become of her. He, as the spouse, he as the last one home with Suzanne, he as the one who ostensibly would know her habits best (more than, say, a teenage daughter's teenage boyfriend), you'd think he'd be able to assess quite a bit. Few lights on, was this how the house was found? Night lights on, she must've left early. No lights on, must've been well into morning when she left. And notes, anything at her desk? Her daily planner, any clue there? What's missing? Officer, can I look or can you? See if she took her jacket, her purse, some cash, her medication....

It's certainly peculiar that, after 3 hours on the road, helpless as you'd imagine an innocent spouse would feel, it doesn’t look like he'd utilized all that idle time to firm up his questions, to lay out whom to call, where to look, any and all of the places she might be.

Can I check the sink, the trash? See if she had breakfast? Lunch? See if I can find her phone. Surely she took it with her but ....

To our knowledge, in any of his conversations with Ritters, he didn't suggest a roster of names, people who could've picked Suzanne up. Maybe she'd gone with someone else... thrown her bike in their car. Off on a long explore...

Know what else? I don't think he asked Ritters to look in Suzanne's RR for her bike. Which seems to be where she kept it and where one might expect it to be.

Yes, Barry said he took her bike out, but if Suzanne was going on a bike ride on Sunday -- you know, if she wasn't dead -- how'd Barry know she didn't put it back in her RR? Maybe her bike was safe in her RR and Suzanne was safe, off with a friend?

Whoop, there it is.

Everyone else was trying to arrive at an explanation which would render Suzanne findable -- and alive. No one wants to think the worst, not until it's all that's left. Where could she be? she has to be somewhere....

Nope. Barry, and Barry alone, was ready to accept that she was gone. Gone, gone. Was it.... lion? Mmmmouuuuuuntaaaaaain liiiiiiion...

What's that rule? Hear hooves, think horses. More common than zebras. Most people most of the time are safe. Think horses. Reason it out. Call around. Search systematically. Then frantically. Keep thinking, keep looking, keep hope alive.

Nope, not Barry. In fact not only did Barry skip over the horse hooves, he skipped right over the zebra hooves and went straight to mountain lion feet.

Please tell me anyone who jumps right to a worst case scenario. When there's still a possibility their loved one may be somewhere reasonable, just someplace no one's yet thought to look.

It's almost as if Barry wanted them to find her bike, find her baby blue bike helmet, find her biking clothes and then clear him.

A gargantuan non sequitur if ever I've seen one.

Said this before, IMO Barry looked like someone entering his home, knowing it would look just like he left it.

JMO

Spot effin on!!

 

[NothingSurprisesAnymore]

We know from Suzanne's list that Barry had secret accounts (Monex). Is there any evidence that Suzanne opened secret accounts? Accounts in her name is very different than accounts she opened.

It seems like something slippery may have been going on. Of which she may have begun to become aware.

JMO

I remember hearing or reading that she was able to set up a financial account with the help of JL. His phone number may have been used to do so,
acting as a contact number.

 

[DizzyB]

We know too much (or think we know too much). Just the facts, ma’am. Suzanne went dark when she never would have. Barry was at PP with a silent Suzanne for 14 hours after that. He left and went to a job he could not work on, unexpectedly. He lied about what he was doing, when and how he got up in the morning, his route, what he was doing while he was there, trash runs, tranq darts, his never ending story changes to fit what he was questioned about. I don’t know how he killed Suzanne, or if he will be convicted. Juries and trials are complex. But that will never change the facts of the case.

 

[Auntie Cipation]

This just hit me again.

Barry's entry into his home.

He entered it calmly.

It wasn't just that he didn't look around for Suzanne but that he didn't look for (or even pretend to look for) any clues to her intention for the day! He should, at a minimum, have been pretending that he didn't know what had become of her. He, as the spouse, he as the last one home with Suzanne, he as the one who ostensibly would know her habits best (more than, say, a teenage daughter's teenage boyfriend), you'd think he'd be able to assess quite a bit. Few lights on, was this how the house was found? Night lights on, she must've left early. No lights on, must've been well into morning when she left. And notes, anything at her desk? Her daily planner, any clue there? What's missing? Officer, can I look or can you? See if she took her jacket, her purse, some cash, her medication....

It's certainly peculiar that, after 3 hours on the road, helpless as you'd imagine an innocent spouse would feel, it doesn’t look like he'd utilized all that idle time to firm up his questions, to lay out whom to call, where to look, any and all of the places she might be.

Can I check the sink, the trash? See if she had breakfast? Lunch? See if I can find her phone. Surely she took it with her but ....

To our knowledge, in any of his conversations with Ritters, he didn't suggest a roster of names, people who could've picked Suzanne up. Maybe she'd gone with someone else... thrown her bike in their car. Off on a long explore...

Know what else? I don't think he asked Ritters to look in Suzanne's RR for her bike. Which seems to be where she kept it and where one might expect it to be.

Yes, Barry said he took her bike out, but if Suzanne was going on a bike ride on Sunday -- you know, if she wasn't dead -- how'd Barry know she didn't put it back in her RR? Maybe her bike was safe in her RR and Suzanne was safe, off with a friend?

Whoop, there it is.

Everyone else was trying to arrive at an explanation which would render Suzanne findable -- and alive. No one wants to think the worst, not until it's all that's left. Where could she be? she has to be somewhere....

Nope. Barry, and Barry alone, was ready to accept that she was gone. Gone, gone. Was it.... lion? Mmmmouuuuuuntaaaaaain liiiiiiion...

What's that rule? Hear hooves, think horses. More common than zebras. Most people most of the time are safe. Think horses. Reason it out. Call around. Search systematically. Then frantically. Keep thinking, keep looking, keep hope alive.

Nope, not Barry. In fact not only did Barry skip over the horse hooves, he skipped right over the zebra hooves and went straight to mountain lion feet.

Please tell me anyone who jumps right to a worst case scenario. When there's still a possibility their loved one may be somewhere reasonable, just someplace no one's yet thought to look.

It's almost as if Barry wanted them to find her bike, find her baby blue bike helmet, find her biking clothes and then clear him.

A gargantuan non sequitur if ever I've seen one.

Said this before, IMO Barry looked like someone entering his home, knowing it would look just like he left it.

JMO

Agreed. Actually, even more than her running off, I think the *most likely* scenario from the perspective of an innocent Barry whose wife is missing and whose bike was just found in a ravine near their home -- is that she might have crawled/staggered her way home and then either fell asleep, gone unconscious or died at home (thus not answering Mrs. Ritter's calls). So in addition to the signs of what she took, as you say, he should have been checking for her curled up in bed, on the bathroom floor, living room couch, etc.

Is the thinking that the bike got tossed when he backed up 95 feet in the driveway? Of just that he stopped on his way out that morning? I do believe the helmet and the elk watching are suspicious...but if they are going to rely on telematics shouldn't it show him opening his window on the way back from turning around to toss it? They didn't have any GPS on the turn left, but perhaps they have the telematics?

If I recall, his phone placed him at the bike ravine location, but not his truck. So he either walked/rode the bike to the spot and then walked home, or was in a non-telematics vehicle at that moment (wasn't it in the 3:30am range, so ~an hour before he drove out in the truck?) when he delivered the bike to the ravine location.

 

[charminglane]

Do electronic garage doors have telemetrics?

 

[justtrish]

In no way has the tranquilizer dart theory 'crumbled'. Who's to say he didn't have another dart gun, which he could've dumped in any number of places - not just his trash dumps. Or, he could have administered the tranquilizer himself.
There's a reason why he admitted he disposed of tranquilizer darts at one of his dumps. He offered that up all on his own.
Why would he even do that? Were they spent darts or tranquilizer needles, I don't know.
Being that he's such a fan of the dating dumpster, why not use that one?
IMO

I agree he likely had many things he threw away that police don't know about. He only had to admit later to things he knew they had found or figured out. Then he would have an excuse to explain it away.

I haven't used the tranquilizer since Indiana... later but I did tranquilize a deer in April to cut the horns off.. that is why I was throwing away that tranquillizer material at a trash dump.

He never used airplane mode... maybe Suzanne did it... but he would use airplane mode so Suzanne couldn't track him... okay so he didn't need airplane mode that day then because he texted her he was on his way home and then didn't use airplane mode until he was at home.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

We know too much (or think we know too much). Just the facts, ma’am. Suzanne went dark when she never would have. Barry was at PP with a silent Suzanne for 14 hours after that. He left and went to a job he could not work on, unexpectedly. He lied about what he was doing, when and how he got up in the morning, his route, what he was doing while he was there, trash runs, tranq darts, his never ending story changes to fit what he was questioned about. I don’t know how he killed Suzanne, or if he will be convicted. Juries and trials are complex. But that will never change the facts of the case.

Agree...whatever prosecution introduces through witness testimony will need to be established...most of it is and alot of it we see the the AA. What won't be in the trial is the hearsay, the profiling and the interviews that dealt with character and aren't tied to the murder charge in my opinion.

 

[DizzyB]

I agree he likely had many things he threw away that police don't know about. He only had to admit later to things he knew they had found or figured out. Then he would have an excuse to explain it away.

I haven't used the tranquilizer since Indiana... later but I did tranquilize a deer in April to cut the horns off.. that is why I was throwing away that tranquillizer material at a trash dump.

He never used airplane mode... maybe Suzanne did it... but he would use airplane mode so Suzanne couldn't track him... okay so he didn't need airplane mode that day then because he texted her he was on his way home and then didn't use airplane mode until he was at home.

Did Barry ever explain why he chose that particular day to throw away tranq material 100 miles away from home? What a coincidence that a needle sheath was in the dryer, and his wife went missing too. Was the tranq agent expired? Had the darts been sitting in his truck for months, or did he take them from the garage while cleaning his workbench? Barry is a self professed cheapskate-why throw away darts that he had used within a month?