Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* #108

[neesaki]

BBM From the article you posted: "Investigators also uncovered DNA on the glovebox of Suzanne's Range Rover, which traced back to an unknown male connected to three sexual assaults."

I hope the above can finally be put to rest, should that DNA be on her remains BM has been thrown a lifeline. All JMO

I’m very rusty on this case. They don’t know the unknown males identify, and he hasn’t been ruled out? How did his dna get in her vehicle?

 

[Purdue19]

MOO, pure speculation

I think the reason she was found in a shallow grave is because BM was tired. It's common for murderers to fall asleep in interrogations late at night, while innocent people usually can't. Murder causes fatigue, especially if BM was chasing SM around the house or if he strangled her. Not to mention the time frame in which I believe he dug the grave was from about 10 PM to 4 AM...so a full day of 'running errands' and then killing SM. Mentally and physically exhausting I would assume. When he reached Saguache County and began to dig the grave in the rocky soil was it 'good enough' for him? I think so. I believed he was just too exhausted and truly thought she would never be found, probably a decision he regrets, but in his fatigue in that moment it made sense to him.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Wasn't there something of his in the washer? I know the tranquillizer thingy was found in the dryer. I always assumed he washed something to cover his butt. I'll try to find where I saw that about his clothing. I recall thinking usually women don't wash sheets and clothing together.. maybe delicate things, but I wouldn't wash my hubbys clothing with bedsheets. I guess she could have. Seems much more likely a man would do that.. throwing it all in together or well in the case of covering for your crimes maybe not thinking and just hurrying up to get it done.

A pair of cargo shorts, IIRC.

 

[Puzzles8]

Lauren Scharf had a live Youtube show last night.

JMO

 

[Hoss569]

IIRC, that was supposed to be her last treatment.

Thank you, So from the way I see it, this just adds to Barry NOT knowing or caring about Suzanne at all. Unfortunately from knowing someone who has successfully gone through some treatments here recently, she may not have wanted a steak dinner. It might not have even tasted like meat; she could have also not have even been able to finish a big meal. Had Barry known Suzanne and what those treatments do, he would have known that if she ate a full dinner there was no jumping in the sack later on like he claims.

Just my thoughts

 

[Megnut]

Wasn't there something of his in the washer? I know the tranquillizer thingy was found in the dryer. I always assumed he washed something to cover his butt. I'll try to find where I saw that about his clothing. I recall thinking usually women don't wash sheets and clothing together.. maybe delicate things, but I wouldn't wash my hubbys clothing with bedsheets. I guess she could have. Seems much more likely a man would do that.. throwing it all in together or well in the case of covering for your crimes maybe not thinking and just hurrying up to get it done.

That's my thinking too, only Suzanne was interrupted.

I believe she was going to wash just sheets but was interrupted. I think Barry later wanted to wash (and keep) (cheap) his Saturday clothes. Seeing the sheets in the drum, he added his laundry. Socks, khaki shorts and his precious firefighter T.

IMO he forgot about the syringe sleeve in his pocket.

Multiple khaki shorts, he only needed to retrieve the navy T-shirt, which he was wearing on Saturday as recorded by CCTV at the shop and again the day he showed us that, at a minimum, he at least knows how to tie his own shoelaces.

His laundry comingled with bedsheets suggests to me that Suzanne only got as far as dropping the sheets in and never had a chance to hit 'start'.

JMO

 

[Boxer]

Some key truck times for ref (telematics data)
- 18.56 - Beginning of misc truck driveway activity over next 3 hours
- 21.52 - end of truck activity
- 3.25am. Truck activated
- 3.49am - Truck leaves PP
- 8.10am - Arrives RTD bus stop
I would say the big time gap was between 10pm and 3am - that is 5 hours when he has no known activity

Sounds good.
The Range Rover with no telematics.

 

[Seattle1]

EBM - The article has now changed and does not mention 2 sets of remains. I’m leaving the post in case there were 2 sets of remains and LE requested the change for investigation reasons.

This article states,”Morphew and a second person’s remains were found scattered in a dry, high-desert field south of the town of Moffat Friday, Sept. 22.”

Did I just miss that they found 2 sets of remains there on the 22nd? This is the first I heard of it.

I believe the Gazette got the details wrong and why the statement about 2nd remains scrubbed from the initial report. There was a set of male remains found in Saguache in August. These have been identified as a Lakewood man, James Montoya, 26. He was reported missing on July 28. The link was posted in the previous thread.

 

[ajaylee]

I’m very rusty on this case. They don’t know the unknown males identify, and he hasn’t been ruled out? How did his dna get in her vehicle?

Perhaps the guy worked for the shop where she got her car serviced.

 

[Purdue19]

Thank you, So from the way I see it, this just adds to Barry NOT knowing or caring about Suzanne at all. Unfortunately from knowing someone who has successfully gone through some treatments here recently, she may not have wanted a steak dinner. It might not have even tasted like meat; she could have also not have even been able to finish a big meal. Had Barry known Suzanne and what those treatments do, he would have known that if she ate a full dinner there was no jumping in the sack later on like he claims.

Just my thoughts

I think this goes right along with SM writing in her iPhone notes about how BM left 2x during her cancer treatment weeks. Just speaks to the type of person Barry is.

 

[Chimera]

Also the bedsheets from the daughters bed. That is bothering me. Did he tranquilize her and lay her in that bad? Was he trying to figure out what to do. When he came home was there some files out? I recall she was still doing book work for him for his business. Did she see something off with the books? Did he burn those files with her journal? Did he realize she knew too much, she was leaving him and she was not going to do that. He then drove her in the sheets to the dump sight and did he wash them when he got home just in case?

Bbm.
I didn't know about the bed sheets.

Wonder if they were found with Suzanne ?
Of course they're not going divulge that just yet.
Omo.

 

[10ofRods]

We know Suzanne had a treatment scheduled for the 11th, do we know if that was the first of the treatments or had they already started? I tried to search but couldn't come up with an answer.

I believe Suzanne was about to celebrate her last chemo treatment.

There were many convos about this in the early threads - that she was basically cancer free, and was going to be able to move on with her life. She could now go to another place, if she wished (hard to transfer one's chemo to a new place - can be done, but she was almost finished).

Interesting -- no street lights.

Ha- no, no street lights anywhere near mile marker 113 on Highway 17. Or in much of rural Colorado. Pitch dark at night.

Plenty of dark places nearer to Puma Path, but he knew they'd search that area and the Monarch Pass area, and of course, it was indeed searched.

BM helped in the search. He knew where Suzanne actually was, of course (IMO) and got lots of "support" from others during the search near Puma Path.

I'm going to say something slightly off-the-wall. Anthropologically speaking, when a family member choose a burial site, they often have deep preferences. Indiana is flat and my dad (who is from the flat part of Colorado) had all his ancestors and siblings buried in cemeteries that were...flat. Here in SoCal, there are plenty of hilly cemeteries (much preferred by some Californians). But, growing up in Flat Colorado - with the mountains in the distance (the way it looks on Highway 17), his heart ran to wanting a flat expanse of...grassiness.

I am assuming that cemeteries in Indiana are flat and grassy.

Highway 17 runs parallel to the mountains - beautiful mountains off in the distance. It's very peaceful out there. Various kinds of songbirds. I think BM is an evil manipulator, but I do not believe he is completely heartless. I don't think he would want to be seen as heartless. If he did indeed bury her out there, early in the morning hours the day after Mother's Day, he had to know that the body would be subject to predation, but he made some attempt at an actual burial.

I certainly hope her bones tell a story about her cause of death. The Big Questions I have are all around manner of death. But the burial, to me, says "BM did it" and he could not quite allow the "Love of his life, Angelic Suzanne" to be without a burial. He wanted to quell his own conscience with that act.

IMO.

 

[Megnut]

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Bbm.
I didn't know about the bed sheets.

Wonder if they were found with Suzanne ?
Of course they're not going divulge that just yet.
Omo.

The sheets were still in the dryer IIRC.

 

[Curiousobserver]

"It's very hurtful to lose your reputation and your integrity," Barry said.

Suzanne Morphew's Husband Barry: Where He Is Now That Missing Colorado Mom's Body Has Been Found

The remains of Suzanne Morphew, the Colorado mother of two last seen alive on Mother's Day 2020, were discovered last week, authorities revealed Wednesday – more than a year after a murder charge against her husband Barry Morphew was dismissed.

themessenger.com

You can't lose your integrity, you have to give it away.

 

[Megnut]

You can't lose your integrity, you have to give it away.

I'm pretty sure he sold his.

But good news, it's likely waiting for him in the bowels of hell.

Jmo

 

[Purdue19]

I'm going to say something slightly off-the-wall. Anthropologically speaking, when a family member choose a burial site, they often have deep preferences. Indiana is flat and my dad (who is from the flat part of Colorado) had all his ancestors and siblings buried in cemeteries that were...flat. Here in SoCal, there are plenty of hilly cemeteries (much preferred by some Californians). But, growing up in Flat Colorado - with the mountains in the distance (the way it looks on Highway 17), his heart ran to wanting a flat expanse of...grassiness.

I am assuming that cemeteries in Indiana are flat and grassy.

I lived in the same town as the Morphew family in Indiana...this assumption is true with pretty much every cemetery I can think of in the surrounding area. Interesting insight.

 

[clearskies1]

If a person thinks they have limited time to stage a crime scene, hide evidence, and create some kind of alibi....something is going to give. JMO.

 

[branmuffin]

Could be an accomplice, but I've believed all along that the older SUV they had (without GPS) was the "accomplice."

So he went to Moffat in that older vehicle, buried Suzanne (I do think he killed her at the burial site). It's possible he had an ATV (I wish we knew). He must have been so worried that someone spotted him out in that remote place, but it's unlikely that anyone did, in the middle of the night - and he would have just looked like another Joe, going to work or play out in that area.

Speculation, of course.

I remember reading that the night of Sept 10 was dry and clear with a waning gibbous moon with 88 percent luminosity. That's plenty bright to find your way through low growing brush on flat terrain. He could see what he was doing but possibility anyone driving by in the early hours may have seen him too, or at least his vehicle parked on the road.

Salida May 10, 2020 Historical Weather (Colorado, United States) - Weather Spark

weatherspark.com

 

[jaeljoh]

It appears she was "buried" pretty close to Saguache County Landfill signs. That seems well thought out. These signs (one on each side of hwy 17) are between mile marker 112 and 113. Sorry if this was already mentioned. MOO

 

[Curiousobserver]

I'm pretty sure he sold his.

But good news, it's likely waiting for him in the bowels of hell.

Jmo

Easy to sell and almost impossible to buy back...