Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o Prejudice* #103

[mrjitty]

I see no reasonable doubt; I would literally bet my life on his guilt (I say the same for OJ).

Innocent people have no reason to lie about anything, and Barry lied about everything.

She asks for a divorce, and he tells investigators they have the perfect marriage.

She goes dark forever when he's the only one there, and he tells an insane story about that night that is contradicted by his phone, her phone, his truck, and his own conflicting stories. Then her phone last pings just before he left the house.

Then he drives to Broomfield for no reason, dumps trash, spends hours in his hotel, lies about his movements, lies to the Ritters when they call him, lies to CBI multiple times, and is literally caught on camera staging his alibi.

He admits to a frantic event in the backyard, confirms he used a tranquilizer (deer antler lie), places himself at the helmet location, deletes texts, and lies some more.

One of my favorite lies is when he said he and Suzanne had lunch together, eating veggie soup, which was actually a day or two before.

His phone, his truck data, and Suzanne's texts to JL about being alone, soundly refute this. Further evidence comes from a phone call Barry placed to Suzanne shortly after leaving, which makes no sense as they just spent a couple hours together.

To explain all of this, Barry claims he was looking for a long dead turkey in the backyard.

All of his lies are blown apart by multiple pieces of evidence, and every single one must be believed in order for Barry to be
innocent.

So you'd have to believe Barry was chasing chipmunks, looking for a turkey corpse, framed by a herd of elk, shooting deer that don't even have antlers to saw their antlers off, and looking for a bear or coyote in the darkness when Suzanne's Facebook requests went out.

Even then there are other pieces of evidence that must be explained:

You'd have to believe Barry and Suzanne breaking all established digital patterns means nothing (she is completely quiet and his location event count is off the charts)

That Suzanne went on a bike ride in a strange location, without things she would usually bring, and with a powered down cell phone that she never bothered to check on Mother's Day, with her daughters traveling home, on the day of her best friend's wedding.

Barry had had the motive, means, and opportunity. He tells us why he did it, and he tells us how he justified it to himself.

Basically, "God judges Suzanne for cheating, and I had every right to do it."

Barry is a pathological liar, a fake Christian, a confirmed abuser (psychologically controlled Suzanne via threats of suicide), and a killer.

He just got one thing right...

It's frustrating that not everyone can see it, but that's the nature of almost all murder cases.

To me it's also critical that the circumstantial evidence be approached in the correct manner.

A properly directed jury must first consider all the facts that it accepts. These need not all be proven BARD. Only then shall inferences be drawn. If the jury believes BM is guilty, they only then ask, is the case proven beyond reasonable doubt (or whatever formulation you wish to use).

The defence invites you to accept mere speculation (abductor) as a reasonable possibility - a kind of whataboutism.

There is no evidence to support an inference that an abductor exists, beyond the mere fact of SMs disappearance.

But an abductor is also in fact ruled out by the circumstantial evidence. The theory cannot account for the known facts without engaging in logical contortions.

 

[mrjitty]

If there is mistrust in a relationship (especially a long standing marriage) - it is likely a partner will have access (or will know how to access) the other partners phone. I know from the AA that both Suzanne and Barry had iphones. I seem to recall that Barry's was an older version. Does anyone know what model phone Suzanne had?

I suspect BM blundered in that he believed he had pin access to the phone but SM had changed it.

That meant he couldn't send proof of life messages from her on Saturday.

As far as we know there is no activity in any of her apps that can be discovered from her icloud.

 

[GatorFL]

And we know Grusing continues to make his presence known at the barber shop and elsewhere. God Bless him!

Refresh my memory please. CBI thought the arrest was premature? Because I thought that was all Cahill who is known for his truth and veracity? Thanks:

Looks like someone else answered. But super easy to research, it was Agent Cahill, the lead CBI investigator on the case that argued Barry was arrested prematurely. So did his partner and his superiors:

Arresting Morphew was ‘worst decision that you can make,’ CBI agent says

New documents were released Tuesday related to the Barry Morphew case.

fox59.com

Investigators in Morphew case all thought there was probable cause, but disagreed on timing of arrest

A judge will rule in the coming days whether to grant a motion by the defense to dismiss the case

www.9news.com

 

[Nikynoo]

It's easy to turn these off.

Again i think it is obvious that they were using LI precisely so they didn't have emails, WAs, Facetimes, imessage that could be discovered - otherwise they'd just use imessage and Facetime

This is why even Law Enforcement took so long to find the affair

Do you think they would not have gone through her email?

Ah, I see. if she turned all her email notifications off, then yes I agree with you.

I am not too sure how quickly LE could access all of her electronic comms - but would imagine that her browsing history via the apple account would have been accessed pretty quickly and surely, that would have indicated a footprint of sites visited?

 

[mrjitty]

Ah, I see. if she turned all her email notifications off, then yes I agree with you.

I am not too sure how quickly LE could access all of her electronic comms - but would imagine that her browsing history via the apple account would have been accessed pretty quickly and surely, that would have indicated a footprint of sites visited?

We kind of need a trial to understand all this!

 

[Nikynoo]

We kind of need a trial to understand all this!

we do indeed!

 

[Love Never Fails]

I see no reasonable doubt; I would literally bet my life on his guilt (I say the same for OJ).

Innocent people have no reason to lie about anything, and Barry lied about everything.

She asks for a divorce, and he tells investigators they have the perfect marriage.

She goes dark forever when he's the only one there, and he tells an insane story about that night that is contradicted by his phone, her phone, his truck, and his own conflicting stories. Then her phone last pings just before he left the house.

Then he drives to Broomfield for no reason, dumps trash, spends hours in his hotel, lies about his movements, lies to the Ritters when they call him, lies to CBI multiple times, and is literally caught on camera staging his alibi.

He admits to a frantic event in the backyard, confirms he used a tranquilizer (deer antler lie), places himself at the helmet location, deletes texts, and lies some more.

One of my favorite lies is when he said he and Suzanne had lunch together, eating veggie soup, which was actually a day or two before.

His phone, his truck data, and Suzanne's texts to JL about being alone, soundly refute this. Further evidence comes from a phone call Barry placed to Suzanne shortly after leaving, which makes no sense as they just spent a couple hours together.

To explain all of this, Barry claims he was looking for a long dead turkey in the backyard.

All of his lies are blown apart by multiple pieces of evidence, and every single one must be believed in order for Barry to be
innocent.

So you'd have to believe Barry was chasing chipmunks, looking for a turkey corpse, framed by a herd of elk, shooting deer that don't even have antlers to saw their antlers off, and looking for a bear or coyote in the darkness when Suzanne's Facebook requests went out.

Even then there are other pieces of evidence that must be explained:

You'd have to believe Barry and Suzanne breaking all established digital patterns means nothing (she is completely quiet and his location event count is off the charts)

That Suzanne went on a bike ride in a strange location, without things she would usually bring, and with a powered down cell phone that she never bothered to check on Mother's Day, with her daughters traveling home, on the day of her best friend's wedding.

Barry had had the motive, means, and opportunity. He tells us why he did it, and he tells us how he justified it to himself.

Basically, "God judges Suzanne for cheating, and I had every right to do it."

Barry is a pathological liar, a fake Christian, a confirmed abuser (psychologically controlled Suzanne via threats of suicide), and a killer.

He just got one thing right...

It's frustrating that not everyone can see it, but that's the nature of almost all murder cases.

I would like to send your exact words to the DA and have her say these words to the jury. With this statement, who needs the body?

 

[CGray123]

I'm just guessing a tip....it's been over 2 years so I'm thinking they had to get some new information that lined up with past investigation in order to identify a particular location....and a location that hasn't been covered in all the prior searches. I'm thinking that it must be a very high elevation or they would not have mentioned snowpack this year as an obstacle to investigation. It gives me pause only because I wonder how the conditions of this alleged location or area differ this year from when Suzanne disappeared a couple years ago. It has to be somewhere that was accessible the year that Suzanne disappeared but not accessible this year in April at the time the claim was made by the DA.

ITA that the area LE have been focused on must be a high elevation.

I am beginning to look at differences in the weather for explanations as to why the area could have been accessible to BM in May 2020 but not to LE in April 2022.

In 2020, a pretty decent snow accumulation over the early winter was melted off rapidly by abnormally high temperatures, and unusually dry conditions in April and May, according to the University of Colorado's 2020 Western Water Assessment:

"The dramatic change in seasonal runoff forecasts from April to June 2020 was caused by extremely warm and dry conditions in April – June 2020. Snow typically continues to accumulate at the higher elevations in April and May, but in 2020, warm and dry conditions melted existing snowpack at a faster rate and little additional snow accumulated in the region after April 1st. Dry conditions continued through the remainder of the water year. Much of Utah and portions of western Colorado and central Wyoming saw the driest April – September period on record. April – September 2020 precipitation was in the bottom 10% of years for nearly all of Colorado and Utah and over half of Wyoming. Although temperatures averaged over the entire 2020 water year were generally near average, April – September 2020 temperatures were much above normal (hottest 10% of years since 1895) for most of Utah and the western two-thirds of Colorado."

By contrast as of April 2022 Colorado snowpack and stream flow was near normal levels according to the WWA.

 

[CGray123]

I agree. I don't see a trial without substantial new evidence, such as Suzanne's remains.

Remember, CBI also said the arrest was premature. And we know the AA was filled with stuff that wasn't going into the trial because that fact has been reported, and has been talked about here.

IMO, the arrest was Linda Stanley and Spezze's premature version of a victory lap and they both stumbled upon their faces.

Now, I do agree that Barry seems like the most likely suspect. But, as we have seen, the most likely suspect can walk away scot-free from this kind of highly circumstantial case.

RBBM. IIRC, Cahill explained in the hearing early this year that his "premature" comment did not reflect a view that the evidence was insufficient, but rather that the team had not been called together to coordinate, cross reference the evidence, make sure everything was there, and organize it in preparation for the arrest and its sequelae. MOO, based on recollection.

His assessment was spot on: the problems that resulted in discovery sanctions were the direct result of this lack of advance preparation.

 

[Scootie98]

This is all my opinion. The thing is, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that BM murdered her. I don't think they can do that, unless they start over and produce more conclusive evidence than before, and drop some of the more improbable theories-like BM using a tranquiller gun on SM.

Just because there is not a proven reason for her disappearance doesn't automatically mean her husband murdered her. Again, there is that reasonable doubt thing.

In fact, there is reasonable doubt all over this case. First and foremost reason for reasonable doubt now is that the prosecution dismissed the charges against him.

They way this case is playing out in public opinion, it reminds me in a way of the Curtis Reeves shooting of Chad Oulson in a Florida movie theatre. Not because the dynamics of the cases, but because probably 90% of people were loudly convinced Reeves was guilty. But they were surprised when the jury came back with "Not Guilty" In this case, it also seems like 90% of the people are loudly convinced BM is guilty, but in my opinion, a jury could only come back with "Not guilty" based on the evidence we saw in the AA and in the media.

But I think we're going to have to live with BM living not in prison, but life ruined nonetheless, by government overreach because, in my opinion, there will never be another murder case filed against him. Unless some government informant worm's his way into BM's life at taxpayer expense, and BM breaks down and confesses. Or unless they find SM's body and there is evidence there.

Percentages stated above and everything else is just my opinion.

My understanding of the Oulson shooting is that the shooter was not in question....only the shooting itself was. BM is documented to have been, and remains, the last person to both accompany Suzanne, and to have seen or heard from her alive.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Ah, I see. if she turned all her email notifications off, then yes I agree with you.

I am not too sure how quickly LE could access all of her electronic comms - but would imagine that her browsing history via the apple account would have been accessed pretty quickly and surely, that would have indicated a footprint of sites visited?

IOS Safari browser history can be easily cleared after each use. Staying signed out of google accounts and not backing up Safari to the cloud would make it more difficult to access search history. If Suzanne did the above, LE likely needed a warrant and cooperation from social media, telecom and tech providers to access her web history.

 

[CGray123]

A check of DA LS's attorney registration today shows her in good standing - no suspension in effect.

It seems unlikely that she could have completed 45 hours of training since the suspension, so I infer that as her public statement implied, she had completed all, or nearly all, the required continuing education hours and assumed erroneously that the CLE provider would submit the documentation to the Supreme Court.

 

[Nikynoo]

ITA that the area LE have been focused on must be a high elevation.

I am beginning to look at differences in the weather for explanations as to why the area could have been accessible to BM in May 2020 but not to LE in April 2022.

In 2020, a pretty decent snow accumulation over the early winter was melted off rapidly by abnormally high temperatures, and unusually dry conditions in April and May, according to the University of Colorado's 2020 Western Water Assessment:

"The dramatic change in seasonal runoff forecasts from April to June 2020 was caused by extremely warm and dry conditions in April – June 2020. Snow typically continues to accumulate at the higher elevations in April and May, but in 2020, warm and dry conditions melted existing snowpack at a faster rate and little additional snow accumulated in the region after April 1st. Dry conditions continued through the remainder of the water year. Much of Utah and portions of western Colorado and central Wyoming saw the driest April – September period on record. April – September 2020 precipitation was in the bottom 10% of years for nearly all of Colorado and Utah and over half of Wyoming. Although temperatures averaged over the entire 2020 water year were generally near average, April – September 2020 temperatures were much above normal (hottest 10% of years since 1895) for most of Utah and the western two-thirds of Colorado."

By contrast as of April 2022 Colorado snowpack and stream flow was near normal levels according to the WWA.

It was unseasonably hot here in the UK too during April and May 2020.

So, are we looking for an area that he was able to get to in the dark ( Saturday late PM/early Sunday AM), or earlier Saturday? Or was it on his route to Denver?

Do you think BM is lazy (i.e. will take the easiest route to do something)?

 

[rainbowshummingbird]

It was unseasonably hot here in the UK too during April and May 2020.

So, are we looking for an area that he was able to get to in the dark ( Saturday late PM/early Sunday AM), or earlier Saturday? Or was it on his route to Denver?

Do you think BM is lazy (i.e. will take the easiest route to do something)?

Moon illumination was at 94% 9 May, 2020. I guess it would’ve been a bright night.

 

[Megnut]

It was unseasonably hot here in the UK too during April and May 2020.

So, are we looking for an area that he was able to get to in the dark ( Saturday late PM/early Sunday AM), or earlier Saturday? Or was it on his route to Denver?

Do you think BM is lazy (i.e. will take the easiest route to do something)?

IMO Barry spent the afternoon/ evening hours of 5/9 disguising the crime scene. Phase I. Preparing Suzanne's body for transport (IMO a cooler with neutralizing agents), burning her distinctly bound journal, doing laundry (IMO he washed his shorts because -- and this is important if true -- he took them off before she was dead. He did not throw them away, he laundered them. Potentially damning implications IMO), repairing and staining the breached doorjamb, etc. After about 10:30 on 5/9, I think Barry did not re-enter PP (until escorted by officers on 5/10) and I believe it was 100% by design.

I think Barry waited until full dark for Phase II. (Could he binocular his way to the R neighbors' house? See when they reached Lights Out? They were his only neighbors for miles, I think, so he'd want to wait until they were down for the night.)

I think Barry may have borrowed a vehicle for use overnight. From his hospitable, out-of-state neighbors who'd never know or from the fire camp (IMO Barry could hike for MILES with a full-size elk, a well-sealed yeti or his lithe wife).

By 5 am, his work was done, short of the dumpster runs. And let's face it, his "alibi"? He went to Broomfield TO throw things away!!! That's it! Not to work. Not to eyeball it or set it up for his crew, nope, nothing. He went to Broomfield to shower, to throw stuff away and to wait....

I think Barry worked HARD between 11pm and 3:30 am. I just don't know what he was doing or what he had for equipment. Hiking, digging, backfilling, landscaping (using his skills to erase signs of disturbance -- as you'd see when an earthmover might dig a trench for access to a sewer line, only to fill it back in, finishing it off in such a way that no one would know work had been done).

IMO Suzanne could be in a mineshaft (very likely IMO she's there with the missing elk carcass or whatever he hunted during either his alleged bear hunt or turkey seach) or she's in an actual lion's den or near to it (with that same elk or deer as bait -- I think his insistence on the mountain lion may have held truth -- she would've been mauled by a lion -- because he/Barry dragged her up the mountain, set the table and invited a lion to clean up) or he used all of his skills to barry her in a couch pit, for instance raking back his own driveway and then finessing it to perfection over the top of her or he barried her in a pre-dug hole, planted a tree, arranged a couple of dumb rocks and felt he'd done a solid.

When he returned to PP at 3:30 am, IMO he was filthy, was running on adrenaline, stripped down, rinsed off (without ever going inside). Again with the shorts, IMO if he'd worn them overnight, they'd be in the throw away pile, not the laundry.

Naked and barefoot, I think he stepped onto the trailer, stepped into the bucket of the Bobcat and climbed into the seat to drive it off the trailer because it was his only way to remove the trailer from his truck.

(I wish/hope LE tested the loose dirt/gravel on the trailer. I think Barry may have stolen a load of soil/sand from the beach property for backfill.)

IMO he did SOMETHING between 4 and 4:30 following that left turn. Less than elk but more than helmet --

And headed out of town.

JMO

 

[Momofthreeboys]

RBBM. IIRC, Cahill explained in the hearing early this year that his "premature" comment did not reflect a view that the evidence was insufficient, but rather that the team had not been called together to coordinate, cross reference the evidence, make sure everything was there, and organize it in preparation for the arrest and its sequelae. MOO, based on recollection.

His assessment was spot on: the problems that resulted in discovery sanctions were the direct result of this lack of advance preparation.

Agree. I've often thought they had gathered what they could but did not allow time for late reports and general scrutiny of what they had....the AA felt hastily prepared and disorganized in my opinion and reflective of not allowing sufficient time for review by the team and editing. And in my opinion in the long haul it "cost" prosecution the position they found themselves in. I never got the impression that investigators from CBI didn't think there could be a case...just that they felt "not ready".

 

[Megnut]

Oh, man. How far is PP from the fire camp? Could Barry have hiked it? Left PP at dark thirty with Suzanne over his shoulder, hiked to the fire camp to avail himself of vehicles there? Barry was STRONG. If not as far as the FC, did he hike his way to another vehicle, giving him greater access to higher elevation close to PP just not immediately adjacent?

He had four full hours and I believe he used every single minute -- and that is WHY Suzanne remains missing.

JMO

 

[Boxer]

My understanding of the Oulson shooting is that the shooter was not in question....only the shooting itself was. BM is documented to have been, and remains, the last person to both accompany Suzanne, and to have seen or heard from her alive.

Its a pattern that the last person to see the missing person is so often the murderer.
The fact that hese people lie so skilfully when questioned about their last contact or at least they lie a lot, shows that murderers are already completely blown out as regular people who have palpable remorse and regret.

MOO lying as a practice
prepares murderers to cover up anything they do, and they have a victim mentality (we used to call it self pity) coupled with entitlement (old word: greed) and it creates an environment for criminal intent to flourish.

 

[Jayhawk]

IMO Barry spent the afternoon/ evening hours of 5/9 disguising the crime scene. Phase I. Preparing Suzanne's body for transport (IMO a cooler with neutralizing agents), burning her distinctly bound journal, doing laundry (IMO he washed his shorts because -- and this is important if true -- he took them off before she was dead. He did not throw them away, he laundered them. Potentially damning implications IMO), repairing and staining the breached doorjamb, etc. After about 10:30 on 5/9, I think Barry did not re-enter PP (until escorted by officers on 5/10) and I believe it was 100% by design.

I think Barry waited until full dark for Phase II. (Could he binocular his way to the R neighbors' house? See when they reached Lights Out? They were his only neighbors for miles, I think, so he'd want to wait until they were down for the night.)

I think Barry may have borrowed a vehicle for use overnight. From his hospitable, out-of-state neighbors who'd never know or from the fire camp (IMO Barry could hike for MILES with a full-size elk, a well-sealed yeti or his lithe wife).

By 5 am, his work was done, short of the dumpster runs. And let's face it, his "alibi"? He went to Broomfield TO throw things away!!! That's it! Not to work. Not to eyeball it or set it up for his crew, nope, nothing. He went to Broomfield to shower, to throw stuff away and to wait....

I think Barry worked HARD between 11pm and 3:30 am. I just don't know what he was doing or what he had for equipment. Hiking, digging, backfilling, landscaping (using his skills to erase signs of disturbance -- as you'd see when an earthmover might dig a trench for access to a sewer line, only to fill it back in, finishing it off in such a way that no one would know work had been done).

IMO Suzanne could be in a mineshaft (very likely IMO she's there with the missing elk carcass or whatever he hunted during either his alleged bear hunt or turkey seach) or she's in an actual lion's den or near to it (with that same elk or deer as bait -- I think his insistence on the mountain lion may have held truth -- she would've been mauled by a lion -- because he/Barry dragged her up the mountain, set the table and invited a lion to clean up) or he used all of his skills to barry her in a couch pit, for instance raking back his own driveway and then finessing it to perfection over the top of her or he barried her in a pre-dug hole, planted a tree, arranged a couple of dumb rocks and felt he'd done a solid.

When he returned to PP at 3:30 am, IMO he was filthy, was running on adrenaline, stripped down, rinsed off (without ever going inside). Again with the shorts, IMO if he'd worn them overnight, they'd be in the throw away pile, not the laundry.

Naked and barefoot, I think he stepped onto the trailer, stepped into the bucket of the Bobcat and climbed into the seat to drive it off the trailer because it was his only way to remove the trailer from his truck.

(I wish/hope LE tested the loose dirt/gravel on the trailer. I think Barry may have stolen a load of soil/sand from the beach property for backfill.)

IMO he did SOMETHING between 4 and 4:30 following that left turn. Less than elk but more than helmet --

And headed out of town.

JMO

I am of the opinion that the Broomfield job which he hastily gathered workers was his planned alibi. I think it is very possible that Barry either found out about the affair or suspected the affair after Suzanne made it clear she wanted a divorce. I think he either buried her or she is in a mine. One day the truth will be known.

 

[CGray123]

It was unseasonably hot here in the UK too during April and May 2020.

So, are we looking for an area that he was able to get to in the dark ( Saturday late PM/early Sunday AM), or earlier Saturday? Or was it on his route to Denver?

Do you think BM is lazy (i.e. will take the easiest route to do something)?

The DA's MTD says the location they focused on before the winter of 2021-22 precluded further search is "in a remote and mountainous region nearby the Morphew residence." You don't have to go far to find such a place. Maysville is located in the Saguache Range, which includes eight of the twenty highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, and the town is surrounded by several "13'ers" and their associated, interconnecting ridges.

Pahlone Peak (about 13,000 ft.) is directly behind the Puma Path property south of US 50, with Mt. Ouray (nearly 14,000 ft.) immediately SSE of Pahlone. Taylor Mountain and Mt. Aetna are just across the road to the north. Rugged and remote as it is, the area is accessible by roads and trails for outdoorsmen like BM, and MOO it would be familiar territory for all the hunters, hikers, and climbers who live in the region.

It makes sense to me that BM would use a place he knew pretty intimately to hide SM. As well it would be a place he could reach and return from, using the 2015 Range Rover, in the roughly four hours his devices were turned off. If BM knows such a place, his compadres also know it, and they know the places he has been with them. MOO, many former buddies fell out with BM after reading the affidavit and began to help LE. I think there's a good chance they will find SM's remains when the area is safe to search. JMO.

MOO, the cold and altitude will have preserved more than her bones, and forensic examination will complete the case against BM.