Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o Prejudice* #102

[Love Never Fails]

LOL

BM had to arrange a scenario, where Suzanne was gone and someone other than himself would have had the task to call the police about a missing woman/neighbour. Otherwise he couldn't have been in Broomfield and simultaneously have miss his wife. Only to have her not answering his or the girls' phonecall wouldn't have been enough, he probably thought. I believe, he hoped, that half of the excitement because of missing Suzanne would be over, when he would return. IMO

That is why I asked what time the Oliver wedding was. If the wedding was to take place during the time that Suzanne usually went for a ride, then she may have switched her ride to the morning (or a different time).

I guess, until there is a trial, we may never find out.

Suzanne never went for a bike ride. LE ruled that out.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

This wasn't residential landscaping work.

LS reported after she visited there and checked with appropriate authorities, Broomfield does not permit land-related work on road projects on Sundays and neither BM nor the subcontractor who contracted with BM sought any kind of waiver or special permit.

And he didn't do any work either on Sunday as we know. If I recall one of the snippets of his conversations with LE he said he went on Sunday to check it out before the workers arrived on Monday. We know from GPS and court transcripts that he was at the wall job 15-20 minutes.

 

[Diddian]

And he didn't do any work either on Sunday as we know. If I recall one of the snippets of his conversations with LE he said he went on Sunday to check it out before the workers arrived on Monday. We know from GPS and court transcripts that he was at the wall job 15-20 minutes.

It seems BM did SOME work, but not much. MG said that when she arrived at the worksite, it looked to her like he did 30 minutes of work at most, removing capstones from the wall. So, that would correspond with him being there 15-20 minutes.

The rest of his time from approximately 8:30AM until 6:00 PM (9-1/2 hours) was spent:
* checking into the hotel,
* carrying bagged and loose items into and then out of his hotel room,
* doing whatever activity left multiple towels soaking wet in the room,
* doing multiple trash stops and shirt-changes,
* doing whatever took his time while parked for an extended period at Men's Wearhouse,
* rearranging a sheaf of papers in a black binder, and
* carrying shovels and other hand tools into the hotel lobby to leave for his workers.

Seems he would have saved himself a lot of time (roughly 15 to 15-1/2 hours, if driving time is included) and left his workers no worse off if he had just handed over his shovels and other hand tools to MG when they separated mid-day Saturday and then cleaned himself and his truck up at home on Sunday, delivering all his trash to the HOA dumpster. But, he must have a had a reason to choose to do all that in Broomfield instead.

 

[GatorFL]

This wasn't residential landscaping work.

LS reported after she visited there and checked with appropriate authorities, Broomfield does not permit land-related work on road projects on Sundays and neither BM nor the subcontractor who contracted with BM sought any kind of waiver or special permit.

Like I said he did what he wanted.

 

[Scootie98]

It seems BM did SOME work, but not much. MG said that when she arrived at the worksite, it looked to her like he did 30 minutes of work at most, removing capstones from the wall. So, that would correspond with him being there 15-20 minutes.

The rest of his time from approximately 8:30AM until 6:00 PM (9-1/2 hours) was spent:
* checking into the hotel,
* carrying bagged and loose items into and then out of his hotel room,
* doing whatever activity left multiple towels soaking wet in the room,
* doing multiple trash stops and shirt-changes,
* doing whatever took his time while parked for an extended period at Men's Wearhouse,
* rearranging a sheaf of papers in a black binder, and
* carrying shovels and other hand tools into the hotel lobby to leave for his workers.

Seems he would have saved himself a lot of time (roughly 15 to 15-1/2 hours, if driving time is included) and left his workers no worse off if he had just handed over his shovels and other hand tools to MG when they separated mid-day Saturday and then cleaned himself and his truck up at home on Sunday, delivering all his trash to the HOA dumpster. But, he must have a had a reason to choose to do all that in Broomfield instead.

Makes one wonder...since he left the hotel room for Puckett to use...why wouldn't he have just left the tools in the room instead of taking them to the lobby? I know....theatrical value....but still.......

 

[justtrish]

But, that scenario still works whether the bike is factored in or not. Suzanne not answering her phone was what led to the call to the neighbour to check on Suzanne. From my understanding, the neighbour went INTO the house to check for Suzanne. The only way it works (in my head), is if the neighbour was told to specifically look for the bike and even then, the neighbour would just come back and say, yep, bike missing, she must be out on a ride. I am struggling to see why the bike being missing led specifically to LE being called and Suzanne being reported missing.

I think when we are talking about a an adult missing person, just having a person not answering their phone isn't really urgent. There would be no urgent rush to go looking for Suzanne if people just couldn't get ahold of her for less than 24 hours with no other factors like needing medication, they were on their way to X place and didn't show up, etc. So because she was "home alone" that day, her not returning from a bike ride in the mountains of Colorado seems a little more urgent like SAR would get right out there by evening on a day she was going to watch her friends daughters wedding and didn't show and hasn't been talked too. I think the bike ride created the need to search immediately, which Barry wanted so he could be out of town with nothing to do with it and rush back to search.

 

[justtrish]

Makes one wonder...since he left the hotel room for Puckett to use...why wouldn't he have just left the tools in the room instead of taking them to the lobby? I know....theatrical value....but still.......

Because he was "at the job site" when he got the phone call. He needed to be seen rushing in from this (completely fabricated lie about being at the job site) and dropping the tools in the lobby, where he knew they would have video of this. If he left them in the room, he couldn't been seen (in his mind) rushing back from this work he was doing to drop the tools and get back home to look for his wife.

 

[Auntie Cipation]

In BM's ostensible/alibi scenario, if he wanted to assess the job ahead of workers coming on Monday, why did he need to leave at 5am, especially on Mother's Day?

Also if this was a real work plan and not just an alibi, you'd think he would have ordered the brick needed for the job. MOO

 

[Megnut]

If Barry intended for the wall to be done, he didn't need to be there. He could've lined up the crew, lined up the materials (to be delivered onsite), met with MG to equip her for the job, and stayed in Maysville all day. Shooting chipmunks, washing dishes, finishing the laundry, sharing the remaining steak with himself.

If he only intended to survey the site for project and completion, he didn't need all day to do it.

What he apparently did need all day to do was establish (a weak) alibi (for the wrong period of time), put distance between himself and the "discovery" and sort through and dispose of a very suspicious medley of items, many of which appear to be evidentiary of a crime.

And none of that is a big job up in Denver, with workers present.

No surprise, crooked wallibi.

JMO

 

[Tumbleweed]

But, that scenario still works whether the bike is factored in or not. Suzanne not answering her phone was what led to the call to the neighbour to check on Suzanne. From my understanding, the neighbour went INTO the house to check for Suzanne. The only way it works (in my head), is if the neighbour was told to specifically look for the bike and even then, the neighbour would just come back and say, yep, bike missing, she must be out on a ride. I am struggling to see why the bike being missing led specifically to LE being called and Suzanne being reported missing.

From page 7 of the arrest affidavit:
"Sergeant Hysjulien spoke with Jeanne Ritter, who confirmed that <daughter> contacted her and Martin Ritter via telephone on May 10, 2020, at approximately 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM, because she could not reach Suzanne. <daughter> asked them to go to the house and check on Suzanne and Jeanne went to the house. She did not locate Suzanne at the house, so she called Barry and told him what happened. Barry asked Jeanne to look for Suzanne's bicycle and call 911 if she didn't locate Suzanne. Jeanne returned to the house a second time, but once again she did not locate the bicycle or Suzanne.
After Jeanne returned home the second time, Martin called 911 to report that Suzanne was missing."

From page 21:

In regards to the call(s) to Jeanne Ritter, he stated, "She calls me and says, "Hey, her car is here." And I said, "Well, is her bike there?" She goes, "Where does she keep the bike?" And I said, "Well, I pulled out (sic) her car. It should be right near the car." She goes, "There's no bike here. (Unintelligible) look here in the back." And I said, "Well, she's ridin' her bike but I'm a little concerned, because I think she said she was gonna take a morning ride".

Barry Morphew Arrest Affidavit #1

 

[Lyanna]

Keep in mind these daughters lived with and experienced their parents' relationship. The younger one even expressed "fear" that they had a big fight....implying that it had happened before. They knew that there were serious problems in the marriage, imo...based upon their comments. I have no doubt that the daughters understand what likely happened. They have been groomed to rationalize by a rationalizer....to almost quote Barry "their whole life". Blood is thicker than water. There isn't going to be some moment of revelation.....because it isn't necessary.

It's sad and difficult to reconcile that thought about no moment of revelation as it's unnecessary, ķinda think there may be a chance for these young women to face and accept the truth, and acknowledge this wasn't Barry's only choice and the choice he made was awful.
Maybe if they become parents themselves, they may reevaluate things and see things much more clearly. moo

 

[waldojabba]

Like I said he did what he wanted.

BBM

And there’s the crux of the matter
The underlying essence of it all
Barry DID WHAT HE WANTED
One hundred percent his whole life
And it seems Barry mostly got what he wanted
Until Suzanne said she was leaving for good
So Barry DID WHAT HE WANTED
And he killed her

 

[FromGermany1]

But, that scenario still works whether the bike is factored in or not. Suzanne not answering her phone was what led to the call to the neighbour to check on Suzanne. From my understanding, the neighbour went INTO the house to check for Suzanne. The only way it works (in my head), is if the neighbour was told to specifically look for the bike and even then, the neighbour would just come back and say, yep, bike missing, she must be out on a ride. I am struggling to see why the bike being missing led specifically to LE being called and Suzanne being reported missing.

Barry started it off by asking the girls, if they had reached their mother yet. With that he made them nervous and gave intentionally the go-ahead. The "missing bike" was the only indication in his eyes, that something might be not quite right to others. Barry had staged the bike himself and now controlled the "discovery" of the "missing bike" at PP home, as planned, with his questions from Broomfield, all the while far, far away and 100% innocent of course.
I don't know, if JR was inside the home (?), but maybe BM first didn't want to have any person looking inside his home for Suzanne, but outside only. Outside there wasn't more than a bike and a RR to check for, so he chose the bike and the alleged bike ride. Made sense to him, when his wife on a daily base any way went on a bike ride. Besides it would make sense to stingy Barry, if not the precious car had to be used by him for Suzanne's mysterious absence. In addition, he had listened to some podcast about a woman, missing from her bike ride (and murdered), afaik. I think, he worked on the "missing from bike ride"-story already for a certain time before MD and came to the conclusion, that LE were most likely to believe this story.
Without the bike-story, BM's neighbour had noticed: Suzanne isn't there at PP home. Then what? LE possibly hadn't been on the road immediately, because if only the PP home was empty, there would have been no indication of a possible accident. The story would have developed much more slowly, and that was not in BM's interest. He wished, everything would be settled, when he got back from his very hard work at Broomfield. Bike found - Suzanne vanished - all would be open for speculation from now on (mountaiiin liiiion??). IMO

 

[Scootie98]

From page 7 of the arrest affidavit:
"Sergeant Hysjulien spoke with Jeanne Ritter, who confirmed that <daughter> contacted her and Martin Ritter via telephone on May 10, 2020, at approximately 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM, because she could not reach Suzanne. <daughter> asked them to go to the house and check on Suzanne and Jeanne went to the house. She did not locate Suzanne at the house, so she called Barry and told him what happened. Barry asked Jeanne to look for Suzanne's bicycle and call 911 if she didn't locate Suzanne. Jeanne returned to the house a second time, but once again she did not locate the bicycle or Suzanne.
After Jeanne returned home the second time, Martin called 911 to report that Suzanne was missing."

From page 21:

In regards to the call(s) to Jeanne Ritter, he stated, "She calls me and says, "Hey, her car is here." And I said, "Well, is her bike there?" She goes, "Where does she keep the bike?" And I said, "Well, I pulled out (sic) her car. It should be right near the car." She goes, "There's no bike here. (Unintelligible) look here in the back." And I said, "Well, she's ridin' her bike but I'm a little concerned, because I think she said she was gonna take a morning ride".

Barry Morphew Arrest Affidavit #1

Why would Suzanne bother to tell Barry that she was "going to take a morning ride (in 35+ degree weather)...and when would she have said that to him? By his own admission...it wasn't Sunday morning she could have told him...and she didn't text or call him Sunday that she was biking in the morning. The day before? When? Before the chipmunk safari, the one plate steak or the passionate lovemaking? That should have been a follow up question..and important to the investigation...."When did Suzanne tell you she was going on a bike ride Sunday morning?"

 

[Auntie Cipation]

Why would Suzanne bother to tell Barry that she was "going to take a morning ride (in 35+ degree weather)...and when would she have said that to him? By his own admission...it wasn't Sunday morning she could have told him...and she didn't text or call him Sunday that she was biking in the morning. The day before? When? Before the chipmunk safari, the one plate steak or the passionate lovemaking? That should have been a follow up question..and important to the investigation...."When did Suzanne tell you she was going on a bike ride Sunday morning?"

I agree, although this would have been easy for Barry to reasonably claim she told him that any number of days prior, as part of discussing her plan to watch the wedding online on Sunday.

However, I thought he initially claimed she usually rode in the mornings, which would definitely raise some suspicion since it conflicts with what others have said (daughter's bf, I think).

MOO

 

[waldojabba]

It's sad and difficult to reconcile that thought about no moment of revelation as it's unnecessary, ķinda think there may be a chance for these young women to face and accept the truth, and acknowledge this wasn't Barry's only choice and the choice he made was awful.
Maybe if they become parents themselves, they may reevaluate things and see things much more clearly. moo

I have hope that maybe one day they will be able to peel back "the onion" and understand what went on in their house
I don’t see it happening all at once but maybe a slower recognition –
Making a connection and then another - like building blocks
They don’t have enough outside world/life experience to understand now
They have never known anything different

 

[Cindizzi]

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[justtrish]

BBM

And there’s the crux of the matter
The underlying essence of it all
Barry DID WHAT HE WANTED
One hundred percent his whole life
And it seems Barry mostly got what he wanted
Until Suzanne said she was leaving for good
So Barry DID WHAT HE WANTED
And he killed her

Yep, and in most marriages there is a give and take. I think compromise and sometimes we do the things we don't like for our partners and sometimes they do the things they don't like for us. I love to hike, my husband not so much. He will go hiking with me because he knows it's something I enjoy. He has other hobbies that I encourage him to do even thought it's not something I'm interested in. Sometimes we need family time, sometimes he does his hobbies and I hike or spend the day at home, etc. A good marriage has this negation process where one person isn't always just doing whatever they want without considering the feelings of the other person. If my husband just went and did his hobbies every free day he had without even considering what the kids and I might like to do to spend time with him, that would really not fly so well here. Same if I decided to just hike every day weather the family wanted to or not wouldn't fly either. I feel like generally when married or in a serious relationship, we feel good when our partners are doing the things they enjoy because we want them to be happy and even if those things aren't the things we love we encourage it, listen to them talk about it, and sometimes that means giving up what we really want to do, but when its give and take, it's easy to do these things.

It seems Barry just wanted what he wanted and if Suzanne's desires fit in with his plan, then so be it, but if they didn't oh well. I'm sure he "allowed" her to go on these trips because he was off doing whatever he wanted to do. I've seen comments to suggest he couldn't be that controlling because she was going off to meet Jeff here and there. Well I have no doubt that her being "allowed" was somehow fitting in with some other plan of his. He likely used it over her head to say you get to go here and there.. just like he did with the house and her RR.. she had everything she could possibly want so why was she so unhappy..

Just maybe because her husband didn't see her, see her heart and her compassion for others, her genuine desire to be more than just a sex thing, a trophy on his wall. He missed the mark by a long shot.

 

[justtrish]

In BM's ostensible/alibi scenario, if he wanted to assess the job ahead of workers coming on Monday, why did he need to leave at 5am, especially on Mother's Day?

Also if this was a real work plan and not just an alibi, you'd think he would have ordered the brick needed for the job. MOO

Exactly!

He said:
Our marriage is great!
We spent the evening grilling steaks, having sex, and being in bed by 8pm.
oh and the marriage is so great that he needed to go at 5am so he wasn't with her all day knowing his girls were also away.. but you know it's not husband day after all so why does he need to be home?

He just lies and lies and lies.

 

[Megnut]

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Ha! I guess the best defense is a big offense. When your defense is offensive.

Real misconduct, yes, we want accountability on both sides. Lawyers are supposed to be officers of the court, operating within the law. Seekers of truth.

This isn't that.

JMO