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

[Skigh]

I think the defense is hoping that the context willl help camoflauge his lies. He uses the 'word salad' technique to try and confuse the situation and turn on the charm, hoping to hide the lying.

I rather think the defence are planning to use legal word salad to try and bamboozle the jury!

 

[Love Never Fails]

For me it is the choice of wording. He didn’t ask if they found her phone. (SM’s). He didn’t ask if they found a phone. (Any phone). He specifically asked, “Did you find the phone. This says to me “the phone that I planted”.
I think the fact that he didn’t use the pronoun her was very telling.
He was asked what she normally had with her when biking. He mentioned her helmet, blue biking clothes, and her phone. The exact items he planted or discarded.
He did not mention her sunglasses, camel, gloves, all of which she would normally have with her, but were found at the house and/or in her RR because he wasn’t thinking when he grabbed items to stage.

Great thinking. The way he said the phone. It’s good LE like you who pick up on those things. Thanks!

 

[BeckyF]

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.

Across the miles, wishing you much strength in your fight against cancer. Many hugs.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Just an observation while scrolling through pics that I noticed in the HIE surveillance photo attached (and I don’t think has been mentioned before):

Is that a hammer, specifically a ball peen hammer, poking out of the bag BM is carrying? It may appear white because of glare. The shape looks like a hammer head to me.

I don’t think it’s out of the norm for a landscaper/volunteer FF to have such tools, but IF it is a hammer, I wonder if it is in one of the bags he threw away that day?

I included a pic of a ball peen hammer plus some examples of different types of hammers for reference.

MOO IMO

A hammer would be a very normal tool for a landscaper who builds retaining walls...for leveling blocks, adjusting pavers, knocking off mortar etc.

 

[justtrish]

A hammer would be a very normal tool for a landscaper who builds retaining walls...for leveling blocks, adjusting pavers, knocking off mortar etc.

I'm curious why it's going into the hotel room with him though, if that is a hammer.

 

[MassGuy]

I think the defense is hoping that the context willl help camoflauge his lies. He uses the 'word salad' technique to try and confuse the situation and turn on the charm, hoping to hide the lying.

He's a remarkable orator and a deep thinker. I almost wonder if maybe he accidentally attended Perdue Chicken, and not Purdue University.

Let's just say he's not going to be appearing on any recruitment materials.

"I seen it..."

What a dope.

 

[jakat]

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.

Barry's mouth and body language told LE who to look at the first night. In the end, that will sink him and he'll go to prison for the rest of his life. Did he lock the house when he left at 5 a.m. on the 10th? Have always wondered about that.

JMO

 

[Love Never Fails]

Reminds me of that great song, 'The Pretender'.
Now, who sang it?
A powerful, male voice......( Fats Domino ??)

Ah yes, The Platters
I’m old enough to remember they were once my favorite group! Great songs.

 

[MemPat]

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

.....or human.

 

[BeckyF]

I’m sure this has been discussed but I keep thinking about the needle sheath found in the dryer lint trap. Don’t we all know the defense is going to say it could have been there for days before Suzanne’s disappearance? Maybe it was. How does the state rebut this? TIA

 

[tmar]

Initially I assumed there must be a business location or at least a storage area for all his landscaping equipment -- excavators, graders, survey transit levels etc. But then all we ever heard of was the one Bobcat and a few hand tools. Did he even have other equipment, trailers full of tools like you say? What about leftover materials like extra brick, sand, pea gravel, etc. If more than was needed for a job was ordered, you'd think he would want a place to keep all that, especially if small jobs might come along that could be done entirely from his "stash" of leftover hardscaping.

An organized person, would have his store of 'left overs'...with BM 'anything goes'.

 

[MassGuy]

I’m sure this has been discussed but I keep thinking about the needle sheath found in the dryer lint trap. Don’t we all know the defense is going to say it could have been there for days before Suzanne’s disappearance? Maybe it was. How does the state rebut this? TIA

I can't imagine it could have gone one cycle unnoticed, let alone several.

Barry claimed to have last shot deer with a tranquilizer about a month before. This, after originally telling investigators that he had never done that in Colorado.

So one would have to believe Barry did in fact shoot deer, did so with a gun that didn't work, somehow the cap went undiscovered for weeks, he somehow misplaced those antlers, did so when deer don't even have antlers, innocently threw tranquilizer materials away on Mother's Day, and did in fact chase chipmunks around (he remembered it 9 months later).

The prosecution just has to hope the jury isn't made of a bunch of gullible idiots.

If anyone believes Barry, please contact me and I'll tell you about a wonderful business opportunity..."Don't worry, that's a triangle, not a pyramid."

 

[FromGermany1]

I think the defense is hoping that the context willl help camoflauge his lies. He uses the 'word salad' technique to try and confuse the situation and turn on the charm, hoping to hide the lying.

I believe, he had this tactics already with poor Suzanne. Can you imagine, you have a disput with your husband, who always is using excuses, lies, getting from one stick to another, word salad, accusations, religious beliefs and rules - and the same from start again?! Suzanne must have been totally exhausted at a certain point. No wonder, she became ill. IMO

 

[sk716]

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.

Ah, but it's a three punch corresponding data combo. His phone data, surveillance, and his truck data all correspond. It's going to be really hard for a juror to dismiss any one of them because they all three show him making the same movements.

 

[susiQ]

He's a remarkable orator and a deep thinker. I almost wonder if maybe he accidentally attended Perdue Chicken, and not Purdue University.

Let's just say he's not going to be appearing on any recruitment materials.

"I seen it..."

What a dope.

That man did NOT graduate from any university. I suspect he would not have graduated High School were it not for his ability in sports. Even that didn’t turn out well. BM is only a legend in his own screwed up mind.

 

[tmar]

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.

So sorry to hear about your medical history.
Good luck and best wishes for ongoing great results.
Wonderful that you are here, continually being so helpful.

 

[LandManatee]

I'm curious why it's going into the hotel room with him though, if that is a hammer.

That was my thinking too. We know after he got “the call,” he went to the truck to grab tools that he then left in the lobby.

This pic is from earlier in his day at the HIE. If this is a hammer he had used overnight, I wonder if he took it into the room to bleach clean it and then tossed it out in one of his trash runs.

I wish we knew whether anything was retrieved from any of his trash dumps by LE.

MOO IMO

 

[FromGermany1]

Ah yes, The Platters
I’m old enough to remember they were once my favorite group! Great songs.

I thought of my crush ELVIS only.

 

[Observer33]

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.

You should never be on a jury then. When you take the oath, you accept the defendant is innocent until proven guilty. There is no burden on the defense to prove anything. They don't need to present a viable explanation as to how she went missing. It is 100% the responsibility of the State of Colorado to prove their case. I believe he is guilty but don't think the state will be able to prove it unless they find the body or he cracks. Problem with the body is that it would be bones and probably scattered at this point.

 

[Observer33]

That would be absolutely devastating. If that vehicle shows any activity at all during that 3 o'clock hour, it's a massive piece of evidence.

Allegedly the data was "helpful," and there are two ways I can think of that make it so:

The first one I mentioned.

No events when Barry left the house, as that would destroy the already weak DNA argument. I mean, you have to open the door in order to touch the dashboard, as random sex offenders apparently love to do for no reason.

The random sex offender references drive me crazy. There may have been a partial match but they cannot say who that DNA belonged to or how long it had been present. What we do know is that it is not the DNA of the sex offender.