BBM - my guess 300-500K
It is my understanding that they will need new evidence to refile charges and obtain a new arrest warrant. But in a quick search I didn't find applicable law.
I bet, it will be a suicide, although homicide.
Thanks I forgot where I saw the estoppel information...it is important...if they find new evidence that directly ties to Barry Mophew and can get around potential estoppel that prevents them from using anything that contradicts from the original trial I have no doubt they will refile. But I think most legal pundits have told "us" that it isn't a near term thing right now. Simply finding her body won't be enough unless they can tie it to Barry in my opinion. It still doesn't preclude an abduction on surface despite circumstantial information already brought forth legally by prosecution in my opinion. It was a skinny case to begin with.I think the case is broken forever without substantial new evidence.
From the motion to dismiss: "The ongoing investigation into the location of the body must be resolved to further the interests of the public. The public seeks a swift resolution of this case, but more than anything, seeks an indisputable answer as to whether or not Ms. Morphew is dead before her killer can be held accountable. This motion also protects the Defendant, as it spares him from a juries’ fast approaching, and potentially unfavorable, verdict. The Defendant’s bond would be discharged, and the case would be a nullity. In the event the case is refiled, the Defendant retains all of his rights to further litigation, and perhaps collateral estoppel on issues already decided. As such, the Defendant’s position would be no worse, and perhaps even stronger, should the case ever be refiled."
Judge Agrees to Dismiss Murder Case Against Barry Morphew as Prosecutors Claim Authorities Are 'Close' to Finding His Wife's Body
Colorado prosecutors on Tuesday moved to dismiss a murder case against Barry Morphew, the husband whose wife Suzanne Morphew disappeared during a bicycle ride and has never been seen or heard from since.lawandcrime.com
Ugh!
Yeah.
I'm sure plenty. No guarantees this "latest" Suzanne is under 5 feet of snow is not a wild goose chase too. Barry was the king of bull sh*t. Chimpmunks and all sorts of things that may have had a kernal of truth but were also probably tall tales. Those that know him say he is an introvert so perhaps telling tales was his coping mechanism to "fit in" or relate to whomever he was interacting with socially. His messy truck and messy garage is intriguing also and difficult to compare that habbit with someone who meticulously covered up a crime scene. Just doesn't compute for me. I really, really wanted to hear those complete interviews because I couldn't get a sense of his personality just from one sided snippets.
ITA, hearing those 30 hours of conversations would be gold.
Happens all the time. Murder victims turn up where they turn up. LE doesn't know where they actually died, but if the body turns up in your jurisdiction, you take the case.
I actually think this type of domestic violence is far more damaging than physically being pushed, slapped, hit, held down, chocked, etc. I believe most all of us understand that any of those things is wrong and violence. Sometimes we internalize it and think we (as in general we) deserve it or provoked it, or whatever else we say to make it "okay". Later we can think through things and pick out that physical attacks on us is violence and wrong.
Totally agree, he didn't fail, not at all. A man like Barry was not going to admit to anything and certainly not murdering his wife. He was playing a game and in doing that, he kept giving little bits that I think Gruising used masterfully to get as many lies as he did, but while still making Barry feel like Grusing believed him, As ridiculous as all his lies were Barry continued to talk thinking Grusing believed every one of them. You can't push a man to admit to a murder when you don't even know a murder has taken place. If they had her body, then sure Grusing could say, we know you killed her, but if he started saying stuff like that to push Barry into a corner, there is zero leverage there. They had no body to point to and say to him, you did this. They had to keep Barry talking and using the line that they were auditing the file and going over it all again and then feeding him some small inconsistencies got him to "remember" he did this or that and it clearly showed his lies all while keeping Barry confident that they were just tying up loose ends.
Maybe Bury wanted LE to think the abductors set up the bike scene.
Well, then it was exceedingly helpful of him to take it out of Suzanne's car for them and also some kind of special courtesy on his part to swing by the ravine at 4am.
