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

[FromGermany1]

My idea was: SD and her ex FB saw "suspicious" vehicle/s at the PP home (together or apart from each other, I don't know) and strange vehicles could have been a FF vehicle perhaps. We didn't hear of a description of a car or cars.
In addition, the FF colleagues of BM weren't allowed to help with the official search, and I think, there had to be a good reason.
That combined made me think of the possibility of the use of any FF vehicle. For BM a nice way to avoid the forensic examination of the car (blood, DNA, prints, soil, etc.).

 

[justtrish]

It really was a shocking move on the part of law enforcement. It's not something I would expect to occur, and I obviously follow a lot of true crime. No way Barry would have anticipated that.

I always thought it was because they didn't believe the bike crash story and from the beginning the way the bike was thrown over, her purse still in her car, nobody else home, they didn't know if that house was a crime scene (weather it was Barry or someone else that harmed her, she was alone and when it happened and it didn't appear that she crashed her bike).

 

[justtrish]

Responding here as it it's day one: Considering the proximity of the bike to the house, I would automatically consider the house a part of the same crime scene. If a stranger took her, more than likely they would have watched her at the house before snatching her off of a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. They don't live somewhere that a random serial abductor is just going to happen by.

Yep! I think since they had no idea who took her at that point, but seemed very unlikely she crashed and didn't leave blood, evidence of a person being thrown into that grass, track marks on the road, footprints on the road, nobody saw her walking, nothing looked like a wrecked bike.

 

[MassGuy]

Responding here as it it's day one: Considering the proximity of the bike to the house, I would automatically consider the house a part of the same crime scene. If a stranger took her, more than likely they would have watched her at the house before snatching her off of a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. They don't live somewhere that a random serial abductor is just going to happen by.

So would I, but that hasn't been the pattern in the Colorado cases I've followed.

 

[genuineusa77]

I guess my question was missed. Do they have two Range Rovers and what color is the one that is not Suzanne's ? Anyone know?

 

[sk716]

Hi I never posted on this thread but trying to distract myself from what is going on in Europe.
I just read the thread( from the beginning)
and I think some things are definitely unexplainable:
* last ever contact of Suzanne with outside world is after Barry comes home, I know there is some missing time ( between message to JL and Barry coming home) but he is claiming to have had a perfect evening with his wife and that she was alive and asleep on Sunday morning
* No permit for work that he had to leave on Sunday 5am ( mother’s day on top of that)
* Being such a rush on Sunday (5am) and actually staying at the hotel a lot is weird.
So like you go to do the job and wake up early and leave at 5am and stay at the hotel most of the time?
* And what’s up with trash stops how much regular person has to throw. Do we really need to stop at various locations to throw our trash?

The thing is that I can’t imagine anything else happening. The famous mountain lion would leave tracks, last message was to join whatsapp wouldn’t Suzanne say hey I’m going for bike ride to JL? I can’t imagine texting about joining whatsapp video call and talking all day to disappear and take a very random bike ride without saying it to JL they exchanged so many messages that day.
PS not english native speaker so forgive my mistakes!

Welcome to our Menagerie of Menace (We use a lot of humor over here, gotta break the tension.).

If you want to deep dive in:

http://www.[link removed]/long-timeline/
Barry Morphew Redacted Arrest Affidavit – Find Suzanne Morphew
Google Earth

 

[Cindizzi]

I guess my question was missed. Do they have two Range Rovers and what color is the one that is not Suzanne's ? Anyone know?

I’m not sure if anyone knows. The arrest affidavit just says that one is a 2007 and the other is a 2015.

ETA I spoke too soon.
Page 4 of the AA says both RR are white.

https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/11th_Judicial_District/Chaffee/cases of interest/21CR78/21cr78 Morphew Redacted Affidavit.pdf

 

[Iwondertoo]

The wildest thing I've seen is people believing he could actually be innocent.

There aren't many posts thinking he's innocent IMO. There are some however who think he may not be found guilty.

That's a big difference.

 

[MassGuy]

There aren't many posts thinking he's innocent IMO. There are some however who think he may not be found guilty.

That's a big difference.

Huge difference, and the latter is certainly my concern here. There's no telling how this plays out.

 

[Skigh]

DBM

 

[mrjitty]

Yes, but think about other cases where a parallel investigation occurred:

Gannon Stauch was believed to have maybe run away, but things were suspicious right off the bat. The home was not secured for days, and the family lived in a bloody crime scene.

The same thing happened in the Kelsey Berreth case.

Chris Watts too, although for a shorter time period. He even had the opportunity to clean.

Ditto Becky Watts

Blood was in the upstairs bedroom which was the scene of the murder though the family occupied the home for many more days.

Contrary to popular opinion about sealing off "the crime scene" and "closing borders" this stuff happens routinely because law enforcement often don't know where the crime scene is, thanks to staging.

 

[sk716]

I'm also curious why LE didn't ask him if anything looks out of place. The Ritters and MH would not know how the house was left when Barry left that morning, but he would. The girls were not there at that point so LE couldn't have asked them and they also would not have been in the house that week to know what was out of place. Barry at this point said he left about 5am to go to Broomfield. LE finds a bike wrecked, her car in the garage, no sign of a break in, etc. Why would they not ask him to see if anything was out of place? Does anything look missing? It's straight to the room for clothes and Barry didn't ask questions and neither did LE. I find that odd. I think they already knew who suspect #1 was and not because they always look at the spouse first, but because of the scenario where he is out of town, he doesn't call 911 but someone else does, he shows up mumbling about a mountain lion, likely because of what he isn't saying while waiting at the bike scene, then what MH had said already when LE spoke with him.

Remember, Barry was planning for MM1 & MM2 to come home and discover Suzanne missing. If his plan had worked, the girls would have been leading the questions and he could have played the distraught husband being consoled by his kids.

 

[charminglane]

This one does:
The Roost Smart Garage Door Sensor is an easy to set up Wi-Fi-connected sensor that sends customizable notifications to a smartphone, communicating the state of a garage door; open or closed. At any hour, owners can check Roost’s free mobile app to check on the status of their garage door home entry point.

Thank you very much, @FromGermany1!

 

[justtrish]

I went way back to the first thread about Suzanne to see what we were saying/posting and what news articles were saying and just to get a feel for how quickly things seemed off.

Right away on the first page the bike ride was being questioned.

The 100,000 reward seemed odd for day 2 of her being missing.

Department of corrections tracking dogs were called in night 1. They found nothing.

The following day 100 searchers (seems no civilian help was requested) from LE, department of corrections, search and rescue type volunteers along with tracking dogs.. nothing.

I think it's fair to say that if she went riding down that road and crashed her bike, her scent would be there. If she walked away disoriented, her scent would be there. This is the same day in an area that would not have been contaminated because it's the middle of nowhere and just a few hours after this bike ride supposedly happened. If those dogs didn't pick up a scent at all, it's fair to assume LE was suspicious and knew she definitely didn't crash, get up disoriented and walk off, heck she didn't even get up and make it to the road and get abducted because the dogs would have picked up the scent at least and lead them to the road.

Search for missing Chaffee County biker continues, public's help sought - by Ark Valley Voice Staff - Ark Valley Voice

 

[Skigh]

Rbbm

I find that thought most saddening and terrifying - in those last moments she was helpless, powerless and alone with a monster. (Imo).
I like this site, I like the compassionate, caring and super intelligent people that post here.
I find it frustrating when people throw comments in without sharing their thoughts too why they see it differently, I'm not saying they should either but its just frustrating imo, I don't understand their thinking. I don't understand how it can appear they forget Suzanne, she was a flawed yet perfect human like most of us in the world (murderers, criminals and war criminals aside) she had a vision of a better life and seeing the light at the end of what must have been a long, lonely and frightening tunnel - there is no more light for Suzanne, Barry turned it off.

The evidence does not point to anyone else but Barry.
Barry was the last person known to be with her.
She is not in Ecuador.
She did not run away.
There was no random creature, with the cleanest of kills ever known.
There was no other guy who conveniently arrived from Arizona during a pandemic, 1 who knew their routine and plans for that day, 1 who knew Barry was working that Sunday, 1 who knew how to organise any disturbed scene in the home back to what it should look like, who took her bike and placed it, who took her helmet and placed it at the same time Barry was driving past, who disappeared Suzanne.

There was Barry and Barry only.

Rant over.

RSBM

I find it frustrating when people throw comments in without sharing their thoughts too why they see it differently, I'm not saying they should either but its just frustrating imo, I don't understand their thinking. I don't understand how it can appear they forget Suzanne, she was a flawed yet perfect human like most of us in the world (murderers, criminals and war criminals aside) she had a vision of a better life and seeing the light at the end of what must have been a long, lonely and frightening tunnel - there is no more light for Suzanne, Barry turned it off.



I too find it frustrating when people pick holes in the prosecution case ,but do not give a plausible alternative scenario taking in the agreed facts about the case.

If I were a juror and I would be looking for the defence to provide a believable account of how Suzanne disappeared.

 

[Kingsley]

SM wouldn’t have ignored 3 Snapchat messages from her friend Saturday evening. She wouldn’t worry her friend by ignoring them.
She didn’t open them because she was probably incapacitated or deceased by them IMO.

jmo

I appreciate the included interview info. It is an excellent practice. I am finding it difficult to remember exactly when everything occurred given the mountains of information, interviews, etc.

 

[susiQ]

It really was a shocking move on the part of law enforcement. It's not something I would expect to occur, and I obviously follow a lot of true crime. No way Barry would have anticipated that.

So grateful for MH and his dad being there when LE arrived. I’m certain the information provided by MH regarding problems in the marriage and how SM would take her bike in her CAR to trails to ride raised red flags for LE right out of the starting gate and having suspicions chose to lock down the home. This and the fact that BM was conveniently out-of -town on MD when she goes “missing” and his rather odd inferences when he arrived at the scene were enough for them to make that decision. Where there’s smoke, there’s likely a fire!
Ed:sp
Eta: an afterthought! Had LE not locked down the house, BM may have emptied the dryer and found the needle sheath himself! SO many little things to be thankful for in this case that will help put him behind bars.

 

[Iwondertoo]

Huge difference, and the latter is certainly my concern here. There's no telling how this plays out.

I know, I find myself wavering as to his conviction (but not his innocence).

All it would take would be for the defense to put doubt about the truck telematics in play. If the jury doesn't believe that information, the prosecution looses a huge chunk of their case.

I can imagine the defense jumbling the telematics into a big mess just to confuse the jury. That seems their style and what a good defense lawyer should do. I just hope the judge keeps them in check.

The thing is, there are so many variables to proving him guilty that I am far from thinking it's a slam dunk.

 

[DizzyB]

I wonder who Barry contacted on his drive home and on Monday/Tuesday. I would want to know exactly when Suzanne last spoke to someone. Based on the house, one would think Suzanne got up and made the bed, right? Did she attend virtual church service? I would ask LE if they could tell. I would be looking at her social media sites to see when she had last posted. Did Barry ask his mother or his sisters if Suzanne had texted them Happy Mother’s Day? Does anyone think Barry’s 5/10 call logs were edited before being released? Cause there are some holes and gotchas just looking at them.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

I think he probably walked the bike there, but I'm totally open to him having borrowed a vehicle to transport Suzanne's body.

I think that would have been discovered had he used a firefighter vehicle though.

If Barry ditched the bike I agree he could have walked it there. What's puzzling and LE mentioned it that with the traffic to and from Foose's on what was alleged to have been a "nice" day no one saw it. But who knows. People drive by stuff off the road all the time and don't stop and then there are the ones who stop and grab!