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

[mom2chloe]

I love Agent Grusing even more and his antics have provided me a much needed giggle today. Love that man! He is not afraid of Barry and despite Barry’s falsely perceived friendship Grusing is a gift that keeps on giving. I hope he continues after all well groomed men frequently need hair cuts.

 

[MassGuy]

I love Agent Grusing even more and his antics have provided me a much needed giggle today. Love that man! He is not afraid of Barry and despite Barry’s falsely perceived friendship Grusing is a gift that keeps on giving. I hope he continues after all well groomed men frequently need hair cuts.

Grusing knows Barry better than Barry knows himself. He knows exactly what makes him tick.

 

[Diddian]

Grusing knows Barry better than Barry knows himself. He knows exactly what makes him tick.

I have no way of knowing, but given who BM is, IMO the more likely story is that there is someone at that shop or salon who shared with investigators something useful (like personal and informed awareness of an earlier than admitted intimate relationship between BM and SD) and BM was there to intimidate or harass that witness. So, Grusing showed up to counter that attempt.

JMO.

 

[Seattle1]

AA provides that BM further told investigators his last use of the tranquilizer was two days prior to SM reported missing. ^^rsbm

Pardon me -- I was thinking of two deer in April when I typed two days.

It was a similar theory with the tranquilizer dart gun. Barry said it was possible he used the gun in April to shoot two deer. He wanted to take their “horns” so he shot them with a dart and sawed the horns off. The dart would allow them to wake up and run away. Rohrick testified it would be extremely rare to see a deer with horns in April. He also testified they were never able to find the horns Barry claimed to have taken. 8/24/21

Morphew Hearing: More Details Shared About Alleged Tranquilizer Dart In Suzanne Morphew Disappearance

The preliminary hearing for Barry Morphew continued Monday with testimony from multiple investigators.

denver.cbslocal.com

 

[Aloe]

Yes, the stat the you provided is the very sad and scary one. Too many people seem to think that they "own" their partners. I still hope for justice for Suzanne.

I in no way deny Barry's involvement, but for the sake of clarity, was Suzanne known to have the alarm activated/doors locked when home? Not everyone does away from cities and large suburbs. If that is indeed a known, then that is pretty solid support for Barry's guilt.

I don't even get why BM, let alone a random dude, would have tossed the helmet away from the bicycle. It's always perplexed me.

And thanks for tolerating my Devil's Advocacy. It's interesting to try to explain away things. I know fundamentally though that under all this is the loss of Suzanne.

Regarding the helmet location being away from the bike. I think it may have been done this way by BM to frame a lion ( while said dragging up the hill by said lion, head was eventually separated from the helmet). BM initially thought his lion stage up would fly...as do pigs.
Oops eta MOO

 

[Aloe]

I have no way of knowing, but given who BM is, IMO the more likely story is that there is someone at that shop or salon who shared with investigators something useful (like personal and informed awareness of an earlier than admitted intimate relationship between BM and SD) and BM was there to intimidate or harass that witness. So, Grusing showed up to counter that attempt.

JMO.

Strongly agree with this @Diddian.

 

[Megnut]

What did we learn today? B is back in town.

Free to B anywhere he pleases, he's back there.

Hmm.

JMO

 

[Aloe]

His wife of 26 years is asking for a divorce, eith the social negativity and financial problems that will initiate.
That request moves her from a low risk, suburban housewife to a high risk victim.

Bumping... to echo between the mountains and in the canyons @Boxer

 

[Trebor5591]

Please see the published Defense Exhibits for details on the Rx animal tranquilizer that BM acquired in Indiana. (The lot number of Rx located in the garage was traced to an Indiana Vet).

The AA provides that BM had tranquilizer gun(s), also located in the garage -- one of which was tinkered with by a CCSO investigator and believed inoperable.

AA provides that an investigator opined his belief that a 22 could be modified to shoot tranquilizer darts.

AA provides that BM further told investigators his last use of the tranquilizer was two days prior to SM reported missing.

Thank you!

 

[Aloe]

I think it bears repeating: There's the truth, and there's Iris's version of the truth. JMO

For sure MOO and I'll bet Grusing looms large on her burgeoning fecal roster.
MOO EBM

 

[mom2chloe]

What did we learn today? B is back in town.

Free to B anywhere he pleases, he's back there.

Hmm.

JMO

I hope B is not comfortable enough to let someone trim his whatever with a straight razor. Then again maybe he is that stupid. Nothing surprises me. Enjoy your vanity B while it lasts lol

 

[BeckyF]

I have no way of knowing, but given who BM is, IMO the more likely story is that there is someone at that shop or salon who shared with investigators something useful (like personal and informed awareness of an earlier than admitted intimate relationship between BM and SD) and BM was there to intimidate or harass that witness. So, Grusing showed up to counter that attempt.

JMO.

I love this theory!

 

[PaulaDC]

I have no way of knowing, but given who BM is, IMO the more likely story is that there is someone at that shop or salon who shared with investigators something useful (like personal and informed awareness of an earlier than admitted intimate relationship between BM and SD) and BM was there to intimidate or harass that witness. So, Grusing showed up to counter that attempt.

JMO.

Why Floyd the Barber knew all the town gossip if anyone is old enough to remember.

 

[O.Incandenza]

Relative to Cahill's participation at the preliminary hearing, it's no secret that after the DA's office prepared Agent Cahill to testify at the hearing, his testimony was inconsistent with his instruction.

SBM

Just regarding this one point, my recollection from the CBI report is that Cahill was not prepared at all by the prosecution prior to the PH. Rather, he was notified by the defense a day or two before the hearing that they would be calling him.

His testimony was not good, as he himself admitted, and I think he deserves blame for that. But I personally think that more of the blame for how that debacle unfolded falls on the DA. They didn't prep Cahill, nor did they have their own DNA witness prepped. Rather they let the CODIS hits be introduced by the defense calling Cahill, and they didn't have any witness to explain to the judge why they weren't important. It seems like that should have been fairly easy, and I think their failure to do so probably led to Barry getting out on bail.

 

[Kemug]

I wonder if continued sightings of Grusing by Barry might eventually panic Barry into fleeing?

 

[Seattle1]

SBM

Just regarding this one point, my recollection from the CBI report is that Cahill was not prepared at all by the prosecution prior to the PH. Rather, he was notified by the defense a day or two before the hearing that they would be calling him.

His testimony was not good, as he himself admitted, and I think he deserves blame for that. But I personally think that more of the blame for how that debacle unfolded falls on the DA. They didn't prep Cahill, nor did they have their own DNA witness prepped. Rather they let the CODIS hits be introduced by the defense calling Cahill, and they didn't have any witness to explain to the judge why they weren't important. It seems like that should have been fairly easy, and I think their failure to do so probably led to Barry getting out on bail.

Respectfully, it would be inconceivable that a prosecution witness for the
state not be prepared by the prosecutor prior to their testimony. The following confirms that Cahill was prepped by the DA's office:

Then we have an obvious dispute between Cahill and the District Attorney. CBI agents testified that because of what Cahill said on the stand at the preliminary hearing Stanley wanted Cahill off the case. Stanley herself was called as a defense witness in March and acknowledged that she expressed disappointment to the CBI as to how Cahill answered questions. Stanley surprised the courtroom when she said Cahill “didn’t answer as he had been prepped”.

Ed Norden: Prosecution missteps in Morphew murder case

About 1,000 jury notices had been mailed out across Fremont County in March in a murder trial that was garnering national attention. All of that changed April 19 in a Cañon City courtroom when Dist…

www.canoncitydailyrecord.com

 

[mrjitty]

Grusing knows Barry better than Barry knows himself. He knows exactly what makes him tick.

Make sense to get in Barry's face and let him know he is being watched

 

[mrjitty]

There isn't just tower data, there is satellite data too.

Exactly - and from this kind of data, a baseline can be established.

I think there is a temptation to jump from GPS alone being less accurate than GPS+Cellular to "this data means nothing" which is a fallacy which is easy to demonstrate.

I use GPS in a garmin watch for running, and sometimes I do note that on days with poor GPS connectivity, my watch may misjudge the km marker (i know pretty much exactly where these are). So in other words, it hasn't yet "seen" that i am further down the road.

However this all shakes out in the wash. At the end of the run, my route is accurately mapped.

Also there is baseline. You can see when I am inside the house. Then you can see when I am outside - so the importance is the comparison between two known locations independently established.

In this case LE likely have base lines over extended periods.

e.g. BM in his house when he is known to be there (e.g, asleep) vs BM known to be outside - e.g. leaving in his Truck.

So of course you can make wild speculation that maybe his phone was really inside and stationary all along - but that is not a convincing argument against the weight of data.

Especially since the accused himself confirmed he was running around outside the house at the time in question.

 

[mrjitty]

Respectfully, it would be inconceivable that a prosecution witness for the
state not be prepared by the prosecutor prior to their testimony. The following confirms that Cahill was prepped by the DA's office:

Then we have an obvious dispute between Cahill and the District Attorney. CBI agents testified that because of what Cahill said on the stand at the preliminary hearing Stanley wanted Cahill off the case. Stanley herself was called as a defense witness in March and acknowledged that she expressed disappointment to the CBI as to how Cahill answered questions. Stanley surprised the courtroom when she said Cahill “didn’t answer as he had been prepped”.

Ed Norden: Prosecution missteps in Morphew murder case

About 1,000 jury notices had been mailed out across Fremont County in March in a murder trial that was garnering national attention. All of that changed April 19 in a Cañon City courtroom when Dist…

www.canoncitydailyrecord.com

I do wonder if Cahill was just not good at his job?

We can't expect that detailed DNA evidence would be argued at a prelim. It is completely normal for police witnesses to be the competent witness to adduce multiple exhibits - think phone evidence, telematics etc, to demonstrate the basis of the case - but that the meaning of the evidence will only be determined at trial.

I found it odd that Cahill didn't appear to have done his work in advance of the trial, to have proper answers to these points. Not that he was qualified to interpret the evidence, but that he could confidently say, he had been informed there was no DNA from an out of state sex offender (for example).

I wonder if he had BSed his superiors on this issue he was supposed to have been dealing with, then that became evident in the prelim.

So like you say, he's a poor witness.

 

[FromGermany1]

Man infamous for killing wife with horse tranquilizer in 1980 dies in Jackson prison hospital

An autopsy was to be completed, but authorities believe David Davis, 70, died Nov. 9 of congenital neuromuscular disease, corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said Tuesday, Nov. 18.

www.mlive.com

I sometimes vaguely thought of this crime, when we started to talk about the tranquilizer, which BM might have used. Just now I found at least this above about that crime.

More to it, just for comparing with BM's possible methods .....
(If I have seen the story on TV, BM could have done also and much earlier than me. Btw among other things I remembered well the sex part and that the killer forgot to put his wife's shoes back on.)

David Davis Archives - Forensic Files Now

forensicfilesnow.com

The prosecution would conclude that on the day Shannon died, David Davis suggested they have sex outdoors. While Shannon was getting undressed, he sneaked up on her and gave her one or two shots of succinylcholine to immobilize and kill her, but she fought back before the drug took effect. She left scratch marks on his arm, which the Mohrs noticed at the hospital. (He said they came from tree branches he brushed by in his hurry to summon help for Shannon.)

He then staged the horse accident by hitting her head with the rock, the prosecution believed.
-.-
David filed an appeal with a federal court that year. There was continuing controversy over the lab work purported to reveal the presence of succinylcholine — a number of industry professionals regarded the tests as junk science — but it didn’t help David’s case much.

The real smoking guns were the insurance policies, David’s tall tales about his life, and the murder scene appearing staged.

He lost on appeal.