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

[mrjitty]

It was so shocking to hear him make that statement, even having observed the extraordinarily selfish man over a year or so at that time.

A man whose wife and mother of his two miracle daughters has disappeared. And the first hurtful thing he mentions is the harm to his reputation and integrity (the subject of his $15 million lawsuit). It's like Iris is the little horned devil on his shoulders and he has become so accustomed to what she is whispering in his ear that he actually believes, and believes others will believe, her shtick.

I think this clearly indicates how self serving IE is.

For all she knows, a smoking gun has been found in that gravesite, in which case her comments are going to be very embarrassing. But she is simply shameless.

Any credible attorney states that her client maintains his innocence, delivers a message from her client, and says they will wait for what the investigation will reveal.

You don't stake your own personal credibility on a grave find where you have no idea what has been found. Especially you don't start manufacturing a new theory of the case based on wild speculation

 

[mrjitty]

It's funny how after all the discussions about the digital evidence this may be the thing digital can't help with.

But maybe we finally get forensics?

 

[kittythehare]

It's funny how after all the discussions about the digital evidence this may be the thing digital can't help with.

But maybe we finally get forensics?

i don't think we'll get anything at all for a very long time..

It's not going to be simple.

Disturbing..

 

[Kemug]

https://x.com/laurenscharftv/status/1707493567420092718?s=61&t=Vp-AZ81ShrhzLNqqCFHAgA

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Note "Please pray for her daughters", not "her husband and daughters" - very telling.

 

[Kemug]

Same. Hoping tomorrow will be a FELONY FRIDAY!

No, not tomorrow, let's let him stew first!

 

[waldojabba]

As far as I remember, Suzanne celebrated the end of her cancer treatment already. So it may have been something like aftercare from the Monday on or a special program for ex-cancer patients. MOO

That Monday after she was killed was going to be her first maintenance treatment iirc.
JMO

 

[Megnut]

Waist high....

They describe LE in a hole waist high....

3 feet.

Incredible that her remains were found, after predation of both the 2 and 4 legged variety and that her grave was found too. I imagine they brought dogs out...

Maybe they dug deeper than BM did, assuming LE was standing in the hole BM dug, but it gels.

Not quite an hour from PP. There and back, two hours.

Leaves about two hours for digging.

3 feet deep... possibly deeper, just not the 6 feet deep enough required to prevent aminal disruption...

Didn't need to be 6'x2' hole either. Still it had to be broad enough for the digger to get that deep, standing in it, throwing out shovels full....

He was racing the clock the whole time... sunrise looming... probably underestimated how hard the digging would be, overestimated how quickly he could dig. How much blood and sweat did he pour into that effort? Sweat had to be pouring from his brow. Oh, Suzanne...

The details are going to be disturbing.

JMO

 

[Megnut]

I wonder why he chose such an exposed location? Did he have somewhere more remote in mind? Had he started somewhere else but there was traffic so he relocated? Or did he have a location in mind but did some calculus and decided he might not have time? Just picked a spot and started? Did he choose a landmark so he could remember the spot?

Did telematics eventually give him away? Before, during, after?

In another case, LE had a tracker on a suspect, and when comparing data points, discovered a 5-minute discrepancy coming and going, isolated to a segment of the road... critical evidence leading to an arrest and eventual LWOP sentence.

Did BM make a subsequent trip out that direction, even for legitimate reasons, and some careful LEO noticed a time/mileage discrepancy and investigated?

BM may have felt bulletproof. LE looking at higher elevations. Under 6 feet of Colorado snowpack. Mineshafts.

Something to consider: might he have attempted, in the days leading up to Mother's Day Weekend, to prepare a grave somewhere else? Used his beloved bobcat, damaging the blade, ultimately deciding to abort. Worried about tracking...

In the case I mentioned above, at the time of the arrest warrant, LE theorized that the suspect paused on that stretch to leave the child's body there, later dispersed by animals. Only later did they discover that it was her second visit to that location, to retrieve his body to hide across country.

Attributing BM's frenetic movements around the house on May 9 to chasing Suzanne as she succumbed to sedation may need re-interpreting. In that scenario, why would he ever need to be close enough for gouges? I think his movements correspond with points of entry and eventual access and that he missed with the first dart and administered the second one manually.

JMO

 

[MrsWatson]

Because we have tons of random DNA in our houses and cars. It either has to be DNA from a very specific act, or this DNA in her car has to be everywhere else - on her bike, her helmet, in her house, touch DNA at least on her body. A good example: Sho-Sho probably has DNA in SM's house, she was cleaning there, right? - it doesn't make her the killer. And if we are suspecting that it is the killer, then there should be their phones traveling together, or something else.

Now, of course BM will be hinting at the dealers, only for a dealer it makes zero sense to kill a client. Especially a client with money from a good neighborhood. And BM thinks marijuana is a drug, but it is legal in Colorado. Not that it is not addictive, but so is coffee and nicotine, yet no one kills for them.

BBM

I thought Shoshana cleaned a nearby AirBnB, not Suzanne and Barry's home.

 

[Niner]

I even had the number 13 as a mile marker from the news and googled it, resulting in a nice red point on the map. But then I didn't know, how to check this point further. Was perplexed, when I read another number later on.

here is what I have in my notes. Taken from early articles.

CBI agents located human remains (dry bones found in a shallow grave (3 ft. deep) in a dry field of sagebrush on east side of Saguache County) in the area of Moffat in Saguache County (which is 45 miles south of Salida) near mile marker 113 on Hwy 17 on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023 during an unrelated investigation (CBI was searching for 55-year-old Edna Quintana who had gone missing in the region on May 3, 2023) . The El Paso County Coroner’s Office identified the remains as Suzanne Morphew (dental records & her cancer port) on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023.

Does this look correct? Had to skip a few posts... do not have all day to read the 300 plus since last night!

 

[k-mac]

I wonder why he chose such an exposed location?

JMO

I reckon BM'S experience with earth moving equipment and soils he picked that area because it was 'sand dunes' easy shovelling.....although not really which is why it ended up being shallow.
He improvised the best he could and NEVER went near it again.
(fear of getting caught)
moo

 

[osu]

DBM

 

[Inthedetails]

Waist high....

They describe LE in a hole waist high....

3 feet.

Incredible that her remains were found, after predation of both the 2 and 4 legged variety and that her grave was found too. I imagine they brought dogs out...

Maybe they dug deeper than BM did, assuming LE was standing in the hole BM dug, but it gels.

Not quite an hour from PP. There and back, two hours.

Leaves about two hours for digging.

3 feet deep... possibly deeper, just not the 6 feet deep enough required to prevent aminal disruption...

Didn't need to be 6'x2' hole either. Still it had to be broad enough for the digger to get that deep, standing in it, throwing out shovels full....

He was racing the clock the whole time... sunrise looming... probably underestimated how hard the digging would be, overestimated how quickly he could dig. How much blood and sweat did he pour into that effort? Sweat had to be pouring from his brow. Oh, Suzanne...

The details are going to be disturbing.

JMO

Wow, I can see why BM was confident. It's easy to think she would never be found in that location. Amazing story that she was!

jmo

 

[BeachSky]

Waist high....

They describe LE in a hole waist high....

3 feet.

Incredible that her remains were found, after predation of both the 2 and 4 legged variety and that her grave was found too. I imagine they brought dogs out...

Maybe they dug deeper than BM did, assuming LE was standing in the hole BM dug, but it gels.

Not quite an hour from PP. There and back, two hours.

Leaves about two hours for digging.

3 feet deep... possibly deeper, just not the 6 feet deep enough required to prevent aminal disruption...

Didn't need to be 6'x2' hole either. Still it had to be broad enough for the digger to get that deep, standing in it, throwing out shovels full....

He was racing the clock the whole time... sunrise looming... probably underestimated how hard the digging would be, overestimated how quickly he could dig. How much blood and sweat did he pour into that effort? Sweat had to be pouring from his brow. Oh, Suzanne...

The details are going to be disturbing.

JMO

No kidnapper is going to bury a body 3 feet.
They may throw some tumbleweed or plywood over the victim..but in that remote location.. I would doubt they would bother with any concealment.
Just incredible how transparent BM’s big picture he painted remains. What are the odds that a man who’s wife wanted a divorce just happened to be alone on Mother’s Day..her daughters both away,her husband away …decides to go for a bike ride and ends up an hour away under 3 feet of dirt. All whilst her busy husband is carrying shovels into a hotel lobby then leaving his room smelling like bleach & stopping at numerous trash bins to discard & discard.
Ugh.
I want to see his red botox face back behind bars. May justice be sure & swift.

MOO

 

[FromGermany1]

Locals call the area at the center of search for missing Colorado woman 'The Boneyard'

Locals call the area at the center of search for missing Colorado woman 'The Boneyard'

krdo.com

Montoya’s family said he was always himself and had an infectious laugh. His family said Montoya was last seen at a bar in Lakewood before his body was found four hours away in Saguache County.

“Saguache County is getting a reputation for being called ‘The Boneyard’ just because they've found over the years so many bodies or bones,” Corinna said.

Montoya’s case is still being investigated and the family continues to wait for answers, but they said Saguache County is the place to dump bodies because it is so secluded and off the grid.

bbm

Hopefully, BM didn't need a young carpenter for his business and for minimum wage in April 2023 .....

 

[Inthedetails]

No kidnapper is going to bury a body 3 feet.
They may throw some tumbleweed or plywood over the victim..but in that remote location.. I would doubt they would bother with any concealment.
Just incredible how transparent BM’s big picture he painted remains. What are the odds that a man who’s wife wanted a divorce just happened to be alone on Mother’s Day..her daughters both away,her husband away …decides to go for a bike ride and ends up an hour away under 3 feet of dirt. All whilst her busy husband is carrying shovels into a hotel lobby then leaving his room smelling like bleach & stopping at numerous trash bins to discard & discard.
Ugh.
I want to see his red botox face back behind bars. May justice be sure & swift.

MOO

Right - no abductor is going to dig a grave in that location to bury a victim of a random crime. No way.

I'm curious if she was buried with something from the home, like wrapped in a blanket. Even cruel murderers can find it hard to leave a body of a loved one they killed without some sort of wrapping or covering besides dirt.

jmo

 

[Nikynoo]

Waist high....

They describe LE in a hole waist high....

3 feet.

Incredible that her remains were found, after predation of both the 2 and 4 legged variety and that her grave was found too. I imagine they brought dogs out...

Maybe they dug deeper than BM did, assuming LE was standing in the hole BM dug, but it gels.

Not quite an hour from PP. There and back, two hours.

Leaves about two hours for digging.

3 feet deep... possibly deeper, just not the 6 feet deep enough required to prevent aminal disruption...

Didn't need to be 6'x2' hole either. Still it had to be broad enough for the digger to get that deep, standing in it, throwing out shovels full....

He was racing the clock the whole time... sunrise looming... probably underestimated how hard the digging would be, overestimated how quickly he could dig. How much blood and sweat did he pour into that effort? Sweat had to be pouring from his brow. Oh, Suzanne...

The details are going to be disturbing.

JMO

I really don’t think she was buried 3 feet down. Looking at the soil, that would be an incredibly difficult task and would take a while. I can understand CBI excavating a deeper hole though, just to collect evidence. Are they sure the agent wasn’t on his knees? I would imagine also that any lookyloos would not have had a clear view of what was going on.

 

[waldojabba]

BBM

I thought Shoshana cleaned a nearby AirBnB, not Suzanne and Barry's home.

Correct. She cleaned for the Cushing’s - their neighbors across the creek in Monarch Estates. She did not clean the Morphew house that we know of. Remember Barry claimed to have met her at the dumpster after the murder. The other cleaning lady in the subdivision -was Bridget. Barry and Suzanne met her also at the dumpster while on a walk shortly before the killing. The association dumpster was located at the bottom of the Morphews driveway on Puma Path. Some of the houses in this subdivision including the Cushings, were rented out as Airbnb’s. JMO

 

[FromGermany1]

That Monday after she was killed was going to be her first maintenance treatment iirc.
JMO

So, BM was 2 or 1,5 days too early with his disappearing of Suzanne. On Monday, after the appt., she wouldn't have had her port any longer probably. One chance less for identifying SM, if found against all odds. Bad luck, it seems. As he deserved so much! 3,5 years good luck are enough! IMO

 

[FromGermany1]

I reckon BM'S experience with earth moving equipment and soils he picked that area because it was 'sand dunes' easy shovelling.....although not really which is why it ended up being shallow.
He improvised the best he could and NEVER went near it again.
(fear of getting caught)
moo

Maybe he prepared with a lovely bulldozer two or three little places for burying someone, so it didn't seem to be graves until May 2020. Could have been partly used by another killer, one grave left for BM. MOO and pure speculation of course!