Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* #106

[Cindizzi]

Barry Morphew is on the receiving end of a civil lawsuit which was filed just days after he filed a $15,000,000 complaint against police and prosecutors alleging wrongful arrest on murder charges in the disappearance of his wife, Suzanne.

In the latest legal twist, Morphew, 56, is the defendant in a complaint which alleges he defrauded an Indiana couple over an acre strip of land in Indiana which is described by the plaintiffs as "being sandwiched between two properties."

The dispute began at least a year before Mrs. Morphew went missing, but the complaint was filed May 8. Jeffrey and Cheryl Titus, who live in Cisneros, Indiana, said in the complaint that Morphew lied about why he wanted the slice of acre which adjoined two properties.

"Defendant made a representation to Plaintiffs that he needed the 1 acre lot to be able to sell his adjoining parcel. Said statement was false and known by Defendant to be false. Plaintiffs reasonably relied on said statement to their detriment," the lawsuit stated.

The Tituses said Morphew promised he would re-deed the land and then never gave it to them. The Tituses say Morphew also trespassed on their adjoining property and "killed the grass and planted trees" on it.

[…]

Barry Morphew sued on fraud allegations in Indiana land dispute

 

[Aloe]

These three things most of us know to be true:

Barry Morphew murdered his wife on the day before Mother’s Day, 2020.

He told lie after lie, but the prosecution ducked it up.

To believe he is innocent, is to be ignorant of evidence (most of the country), or some willful disregard of reason, evidence, and logic.

Barry Morphew, a proven (fraud, sexual harasser, and psychological and physical abuser etc), will get away with the murder of his wife.

The only chance now is that someone stumbles upon her body (astronomically unlikely imo), or Necrosearch has another one of their many miracles.

The latter is the best bet for justice, in the case of a man so stunningly guilty, it defies belief he’s not in prison.

BBM It could happen. Doesn't have to be searchers affiliated with LE or any professional organization. I was fortunate to find the hidden remains of a missing person for whom I was searching. MOO

 

[mrjitty]

The McStay family were discovered 4 years later when an animal dug up their shallow grave in the desert. A biker came across a skull. The gravesites were then discovered.

I don't believe BM found the perfect concealment. It is just the wilderness is very big.

Necrosearch has great examples of how hard it is to find a body in the wilderness even when you know roughly where to look

 

[mrjitty]

Barry Morphew's attorney, Iris Eytan, shot back at Leewaye's comments in a statement, writing, "What does she know about Suzanne, the broken hearts of Barry, Mallory or Macy? And, what does she know about the statute of limitations or what it feels like to be wrongly accused of murder in a national spotlight?"

RSBM

This is where IE gives herself away. She is myth-building. This is not the role of a lawyer defending a client.

 

[DeDee]

I've never had a shred of doubt that Barry was guilty of killing Suzanne.

Special Agent Grusing had one eye on Leticia Stauch the past several years. That case is over. Gannon was found. LS has gone 'up river'.

Maybe Agent Grusing can crosshairs with Barry once again. Barry should be unfinished business for Grusling but if you form friendships with wife killers, then they may get away with doing it.

Somewhere along the way, this case turned sideways. I was right here when it happened.

One can wig out over the ineptness of the DA"s office bc it was. One can wig out over Barry being the only suspect bc he was. One can wig out over the one that counts and that's the Judge. Actually, it was both of the Judges.

Patrick Murphy, made decisions that turned the case on its end. He ripped expert testimony away from Suzanne via the Prosecutors Case. 8 out of 10 experts were erased from the status recognition as being a called as an Expert in Suzanne's case all because it was in a form of punishment to the prosecution aka The State aka Suzanne Morphew.

The second Judge would be Rames (sic) Lama, over in Fremont Co., who did pretty much the same as Judge PM. He patted Murphy back, + dismissed the case and called it a day. He retired 7/22/22.

AMHOO based on the evidence of the case and a dose of good common sense

More than one thing can explain Murphy's actions: Judge PM must hate women. I might set out to prove it. Then, again, I'm living free and ...

I've never had a shred of doubt that Barry was guilty of killing Suzanne.

 

[Lyanna]

The hand holding creeps me out. I just wish Barry had the stones to do interviews on his own, no props to show that Suzanne’s daughters choose him. He needs that affirmation always. IE is a whole other story. She’s a good attorney, I’ll give her that. And I see she is on her own now, no more Eytan Nielsen.

Hand holding is creepy, and agree - would be nice to see Big Ol Barry doing an interview on his own - but imagine how much trouble his mouth would get him in! Imagine that's partly why the girls are there - keep him on track to the script and partly to present a united, loving front in the face of adversity against the DA/CBI/FBI and everyone else who dares NOT believe a word out of his lying lips.
I'm not a fan of Iris. Understand a need to be abrupt/brutal even, in her job, but find she's distasteful with her lack of empathy or concern about the real victim in this and see her as a liar, twisting info to confuse/distract and blatantly bullsh*#t about. She lacks morals, she lacks humanity and I dont understand it. If Barry was innocent, she would show Suzanne the same care or attention she shows him - but nothing, no focus at all and barely a mention of Suzanne unless it's an attempt to victim shame or blame.

All moo and jmo.

 

[osu]

Fremont Co. Sheriff: 925 cases in two years have been dismissed, sealed under District Attorney
May 18, 2023

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – In numbers given exclusively to 13 Investigates, Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper said his office has tracked 925 cases, 166 of which are felony cases, that have been dismissed and then sealed under 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley's watch.

The numbers are dismissals from January 1, 2021, to early May 2023 from Fremont and Custer counties since Stanley took office.

The Sheriff said the total number includes felony, misdemeanor, and traffic case dismissals. Stanley charged 418 of those cases herself, including 99 felonies. The rest are cases that she inherited from previous District Attorney's.

13 Investigates crunched the numbers on the total amount of felony cases filed by Stanley's office in 2021 and 2022. That number is 1,174, which equates to a little over 14% of felony cases that have been dismissed and then sealed in that timeframe.

"I thought it was awfully high. If you look at it, it's more than one a day, even for holidays on weekends," Sheriff Cooper said. "It's work that my staff and the staff of the other law enforcement agencies that for all intents and purposes was wasted."

[…]

More of the article at link:

Fremont Co. Sheriff: 925 cases in two years have been dismissed, sealed under District Attorney

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – In numbers given exclusively to 13 Investigates, Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper said his office has tracked 925 cases,

krdo.com

 

[kittythehare]

Fremont Co. Sheriff: 925 cases in two years have been dismissed, sealed under District Attorney
May 18, 2023

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – In numbers given exclusively to 13 Investigates, Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper said his office has tracked 925 cases, 166 of which are felony cases, that have been dismissed and then sealed under 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley's watch.

The numbers are dismissals from January 1, 2021, to early May 2023 from Fremont and Custer counties since Stanley took office.

The Sheriff said the total number includes felony, misdemeanor, and traffic case dismissals. Stanley charged 418 of those cases herself, including 99 felonies. The rest are cases that she inherited from previous District Attorney's.

13 Investigates crunched the numbers on the total amount of felony cases filed by Stanley's office in 2021 and 2022. That number is 1,174, which equates to a little over 14% of felony cases that have been dismissed and then sealed in that timeframe.

"I thought it was awfully high. If you look at it, it's more than one a day, even for holidays on weekends," Sheriff Cooper said. "It's work that my staff and the staff of the other law enforcement agencies that for all intents and purposes was wasted."

[…]

More of the article at link:

Fremont Co. Sheriff: 925 cases in two years have been dismissed, sealed under District Attorney

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – In numbers given exclusively to 13 Investigates, Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper said his office has tracked 925 cases,

krdo.com

Linda Stanley only took up office in January '21.
whereas all that looks like she is inept, I suspect she is being and has been sabotaged too.
I don't know what the balance is.
But she certainly seemed to face hostility and jealousy and malice..

i just googled her to check date and the iris came up in almost all search results.. I had not googled iris.. Prominent too was local media reports about the time her licence was suspended for a week because of something pretty minor..
just sayin;..

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Linda Stanley only took up office in January '21.
whereas all that looks like she is inept, I suspect she is being and has been sabotaged too.
I don't know what the balance is.
But she certainly seemed to face hostility and jealousy and malice..

i just googled her to check date and the iris came up in almost all search results.. I had not googled iris.. Prominent too was local media reports about the time her licence was suspended for a week because of something pretty minor..
just sayin;..

I don't think she is being sabotaged. She owns her history and if she is underperforming she owns that also. It is difficult to unpack whether the locals are unhappy with her conviction rate post arrest and/or there is a history of not delivering disclosure in a timely manner causing case dismissals - where that point of intersection is if there is one. The prosecutor always has the ability to accept a case to go to trial or say no not now. So for me it depends if she is agreeing to arrests before she feels confident it can stand trial or just what is going on. The Morphew case is just one data point of a case she took and said publicly she was ready and then wasn't and also failed to meet disclosure deadlines...so just one data point in her job history. It concerns me if this is "more" than just the Morphew case in high level felonies in this jurisdiction because then it could become more than just finding a new independent prosecutor for the Morphew case singly which is what the public interested in this case desire.

 

[waldojabba]

Linda Stanley only took up office in January '21.
whereas all that looks like she is inept, I suspect she is being and has been sabotaged too.
I don't know what the balance is.
But she certainly seemed to face hostility and jealousy and malice..

i just googled her to check date and the iris came up in almost all search results.. I had not googled iris.. Prominent too was local media reports about the time her licence was suspended for a week because of something pretty minor..
just sayin;..

IMO It is obvious to anybody paying attention, who is not agenda driven, that there have been efforts afoot to hinder and hamper Linda Stanley from being effective in her job. I call that sabotage. It’s the very definition of sabotage IMO

But here’s the thing – all this undermining has not taken her down - It just gets in the way of justice, especially for Suzanne, bc any effort to discredit Linda on anything, carries over to discredit Linda on the Morphew investigation.

Iris’ evil lawsuits. They totally get in Linda's way of finding Suzanne, tying up all the integral people of the investigation
in overblown mostly manufactured bs. That is why I have written Gov Polaris, as Chris Moorman requested, to get a special prosecutor for Suzanne’s case –

The rest of the blah blah in the media regarding Linda has no impact on me – it only serves to reinforce to me that there is sabotage afoot and we need the FOCUS, time and expertise of a special prosecutor to move forward for Justice For Suzanne.
ALL IMO

 

[Momofthreeboys]

IMO It is obvious to anybody paying attention, who is not agenda driven, that there have been efforts afoot to hinder and hamper Linda Stanley from being effective in her job. I call that sabotage. It’s the very definition of sabotage IMO

But here’s the thing – all this undermining has not taken her down - It just gets in the way of justice, especially for Suzanne, bc any effort to discredit Linda on anything, carries over to discredit Linda on the Morphew investigation.

Iris’ evil lawsuits. They totally get in Linda's way of finding Suzanne, tying up all the integral people of the investigation
in overblown mostly manufactured bs. That is why I have written Gov Polaris, as Chris Moorman requested, to get a special prosecutor for Suzanne’s case –

The rest of the blah blah in the media regarding Linda has no impact on me – it only serves to reinforce to me that there is sabotage afoot and we need the FOCUS, time and expertise of a special prosecutor to move forward for Justice For Suzanne.
ALL IMO

It does not surprise me that some people who were upset about the Morphew case have had laser eyes on Linda Stanley. But as I said before she "owns" her work history as we all do in our careers. If there is no "history" out of the ordinary for her with the most egregious of the felony cases allegedly dismissed and her actions are not egregious compared to other DAs that will play out as will it play out as well as for the advocates who are focused on getting new prosecutor to review the Morphew case and those that are focused on the attempts by Barry in the civil suit. But yes all those advocacy efforts in one direction or the other will collide I suspect. And when all the varying advocates are feeding the media they will go in the direction of the facts they find out from the various advocates - unless they ae a tabloid journal then all bets are off regarding facts LOL.

 

[Teche]

from Cindizzi’s post #740 (correct # at least as of tonight) (post didn’t link properly, so citing it by hand)

The piece of land was sandwiched between two adjacent properties and not good for much except Jeff and Cheryl Titus say he [BM] lied about why he needed to keep it.

Really?!?! BM LIED? Shocking.

Well, if his lips are moving . . . .

IMO

Probably a good place to search for Suzanne.

 

[Lyanna]

Probably a good place to search for Suzanne.

Agree, even if Suzanne isn't there, there may be something that could help locate her or evidence of some kind.
When I read about it, I kept thinking of those tree sacks that he reportedly threw away at one of his many truck clearance stops on the way to Broomfield.
But, they may find a couple of armchairs or a sofa that he didn't want or need anymore buried there .

moo

 

[Seattle1]

Patrick Murphy, made decisions that turned the case on its end. He ripped expert testimony away from Suzanne via the Prosecutors Case. 8 out of 10 experts were erased from the status recognition as being a called as an Expert in Suzanne's case all because it was in a form of punishment to the prosecution aka The State aka Suzanne Morphew.

^^rsbm

Please link these specific allegations about Judge Murphy stated as fact.

During the December 14 hearing on pretrial motions, Morphew’s attorneys filed a motion asking that Murphy be disqualified because he is friends with the woman’s attorney Sean McDermott, and all activity on this case stopped until the Court responded to the defense motion.

 

[Seattle1]

Fremont Co. Sheriff: 925 cases in two years have been dismissed, sealed under District Attorney
May 18, 2023

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – In numbers given exclusively to 13 Investigates, Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper said his office has tracked 925 cases, 166 of which are felony cases, that have been dismissed and then sealed under 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley's watch.

The numbers are dismissals from January 1, 2021, to early May 2023 from Fremont and Custer counties since Stanley took office.

The Sheriff said the total number includes felony, misdemeanor, and traffic case dismissals. Stanley charged 418 of those cases herself, including 99 felonies. The rest are cases that she inherited from previous District Attorney's.

13 Investigates crunched the numbers on the total amount of felony cases filed by Stanley's office in 2021 and 2022. That number is 1,174, which equates to a little over 14% of felony cases that have been dismissed and then sealed in that timeframe.

"I thought it was awfully high. If you look at it, it's more than one a day, even for holidays on weekends," Sheriff Cooper said. "It's work that my staff and the staff of the other law enforcement agencies that for all intents and purposes was wasted."

[…]

More of the article at link:

Fremont Co. Sheriff: 925 cases in two years have been dismissed, sealed under District Attorney

FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – In numbers given exclusively to 13 Investigates, Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper said his office has tracked 925 cases,

krdo.com

IMO, Sheriff Allen Cooper is another one of IE's minions-- similar to the "concerned citizen," a resident of Denver, CO who each filed complaints in late 2022 against DA LS with the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel (OARC) where IE coincidentally happened to be interviewed as a witness, all before hand delivering her own complaint to OARC on 3-29-23, followed by her own press conference. IMO, KRDO is also doing IE's bidding.

 

[Murphy1950]

Patrick Murphy, made decisions that turned the case on its end. He ripped expert testimony away from Suzanne via the Prosecutors Case. 8 out of 10 experts were erased from the status recognition as being a called as an Expert in Suzanne's case all because it was in a form of punishment to the prosecution aka The State aka Suzanne Morphew.

RSBM

Fremont County judge Ramsey Lama on Friday declined to dismiss the case against Morphew, who is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the May 2020 disappearance and presumed death of his wife Suzanne.

However, Lama issued sanctions against the prosecution by excluding 12 of their 14 endorsed expert witnesses, stating in the order that it was a "significant," but "warranted" sanction given their record of compliance with the court.

Morphew prosecutors say order to exclude expert witnesses is ‘tantamount to dismissal’

The prosecution's motion says the exclusion of these witnesses damages their case "in a profound way."

www.9news.com

 

[Twistinginthewind]

The McStay family were discovered 4 years later when an animal dug up their shallow grave in the desert. A biker came across a skull. The gravesites were then discovered.

I don't believe BM found the perfect concealment. It is just the wilderness is very big.

Necrosearch has great examples of how hard it is to find a body in the wilderness even when you know roughly where to look

Good points, @mrjitty

I haven't followed this case closely, and am wondering if there was any cellphone or vehicle GPS data or witness accounts on where BM went around the days of her disappearance that might lead a search team to some possible locations where he disposed of her body?

I know a bit about the trash stops he made on the way to his hotel out of town, not sure if that lead to anything... but other information on other places he may have gone out in the wilderness?

In the Erin Corwin case, LE knew through a text she had sent to a friend that her lover was "taking her out in the desert for a special day", that she thought was going to be him proposing to her, but instead he killed her and dumped her body down a mine shaft. Then he tried to explode the mine shaft by shooting into a tank of propane gas he also threw down the shaft.

Anyway, that little tidbit of information (the text to a friend he didn't know about), along with things he said to people, and IIRC searched for on his computer, led them to search dozens of mine shafts and they eventually found her way out in the desert, at the bottom of a deep abandoned mineshaft.

That was the case I came to WS for, back in 2014. The search was grueling and heroically performed by LE and Search and Rescue, just based on little bits and pieces of circumstantial evidence. And he was convicted based on things like a piece of rope he used to lower the propane tank into the mine shaft he left there matched rope he had in the back of his vehicle, he told a friend he knew where to hide a body where it would never be found out in the desert, and IIRC, he had done searches on his computer for abandoned mine shafts.

I guess I'm just hoping there will be a "redo" on this case in terms of searching for Suzanne, and there are some forensic bread crumbs remaining that could lead them to find her.

I have thought because he knows about fires, and most people know burning a body destroys DNA and would eliminate it from interest by wild animals who could bring her body to the surface, that he did something like take her body out to the desert not too far from their home (within a few hours' drive during the time when his whereabouts were unknown and before he "declared her missing"), hid it in a cave or sinkhole, set fire to it (sorry), and covered it up with vegetation or rocks or whatever would obscure it from sight. And any info on where he may have traveled during that time would help.

Sorry if this has all been covered before, and there is nothing to go on, just holding out hope she will be found.

TIA & MOO

 

[waldojabba]

Good points, @mrjitty

I haven't followed this case closely, and am wondering if there was any cellphone or vehicle GPS data or witness accounts on where BM went around the days of her disappearance that might lead a search team to some possible locations where he disposed of her body?

I know a bit about the trash stops he made on the way to his hotel out of town, not sure if that lead to anything... but other information on other places he may have gone out in the wilderness?

In the Erin Corwin case, LE knew through a text she had sent to a friend that her lover was "taking her out in the desert for a special day", that she thought was going to be him proposing to her, but instead he killed her and dumped her body down a mine shaft. Then he tried to explode the mine shaft by shooting into a tank of propane gas he also threw down the shaft.

Anyway, that little tidbit of information (the text to a friend he didn't know about), along with things he said to people, and IIRC searched for on his computer, led them to search dozens of mine shafts and they eventually found her way out in the desert, at the bottom of a deep abandoned mineshaft.

That was the case I came to WS for, back in 2014. The search was grueling and heroically performed by LE and Search and Rescue, just based on little bits and pieces of circumstantial evidence. And he was convicted based on things like a piece of rope he used to lower the propane tank into the mine shaft he left there matched rope he had in the back of his vehicle, he told a friend he knew where to hide a body where it would never be found out in the desert, and IIRC, he had done searches on his computer for abandoned mine shafts.

I guess I'm just hoping there will be a "redo" on this case in terms of searching for Suzanne, and there are some forensic bread crumbs remaining that could lead them to find her.

I have thought because he knows about fires, and most people know burning a body destroys DNA and would eliminate it from interest by wild animals who could bring her body to the surface, that he did something like take her body out to the desert not too far from their home (within a few hours' drive during the time when his whereabouts were unknown and before he "declared her missing"), hid it in a cave or sinkhole, set fire to it (sorry), and covered it up with vegetation or rocks or whatever would obscure it from sight. And any info on where he may have traveled during that time would help.

Sorry if this has all been covered before, and there is nothing to go on, just holding out hope she will be found.

TIA & MOO

“I guess I'm just hoping there will be a "redo" on this case in terms of searching for Suzanne, and there are some forensic bread crumbs remaining that could lead them to find her.”
I definitely think this case would benefit from fresh eyes. The fact that no one thought to look into Suzanne’s LinkedIn messages ( she and JL used that platform for messaging ) until LE stumbled upon the spy pen left me incredulous and wondering what else they missed. But obvi no investigation is perfect and we are all human.
Maybe now that this case has been declared a cold case someone could step in and put a hot shot cold case team on it. Since it’s also an open investigation, I am not sure how that would work. Just a thought and All my opinion

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

One might wonder too, if the recently filed case is processed, rather than perhaps being dismissed or rejected - might it be an attempt to obtain additional evidence or arguments that the prosecution has and would utilize in an effort to prosecute? As some might say, a fishing expedition?

Or would that only be revealed to the defendant’s attorney through discovery if the case is refiled?

I’m not an attorney, so perhaps these thoughts are without merit or validity?
MOO

 

[Spartygirl]

Daily Mail weighs in, including BM's victim blaming.

Missing Suzanne Morphew's daughters and husband break their silence

Barry Morphew, 55, was charged in May 2021 with murder of his wife Suzanne, who vanished while out on a bike ride in Salida on Mother's Day 2020. Her body has never been found.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I remember his "Oh Suzanne" video at the beginning.

What a fake attempt

Now this.. Truly victim blaming. and More Lies from BM's mouth

When asked about Suzanne, Barry told ABC News on Monday morning: 'We had a wonderful life, a wonderful marriage. ***LIE**
**So wonderful that SM is having chat sessions with old BF --"

So wonderful that BM, himself was signed up to online affair websites.

Barry Morphew 'visited Ashley Madison and Celebrity Jihad sex sites'​

it showed visits to the cheaters' dating site Ashley Maddison and Celeb Jihad, which features nude photos and videos of celebrities posted by purported Islamic extremists.
Also searches on BM phone-
Barry's phone searched "Older Man Younger Woman Relationships - YouTube" (Recovered from Deleted Web Searches on Barry's phone).
On January 24, 2020, Barry's phone searched "3rd base! My first hand job: Dear Teen Diary, 9th Grade, Entry 14 - You Tube" (Recovered from Deleted Web Searches on Barry's phone).
On January 25, 2020, Barry's gh9,n~ accessed, "LocalSnapSext.com," "Find a Cute Girl Near Salida," and, " ome Get Dirty, .- (along with other such sites that were recovered from "Deleted Web Searches" on Barry-s phone).
**these are from the affidavit**

All lies from BM mouth. There was NO wonder marriage, Suzanne had told a friend she was waiting for girls to graduate, Suzanne told BM she
" Was done"

Missing Suzanne Morphew's daughters and husband break their silence

Barry Morphew, 55, was charged in May 2021 with murder of his wife Suzanne, who vanished while out on a bike ride in Salida on Mother's Day 2020. Her body has never been found.

www.dailymail.co.uk