Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* #109

[mrjitty]

I think it's important to keep straight aspects of evidence and procedure

If BM is charged again my understanding is that it a fresh trial from the start - this means much of what happened pretrial in the dismissed prosecution doesn't matter this time at bat

eg. Cahill messing up on the glove box DNA evidence in the prelim

The whole glove box sex offender abductor thing won't be happening in a new trial because that evidence never existed. Cahill just bumbled the testimony. A DNA expert will explain there is no sex offender.

e.g "Exclupatory evidence"

There is no exculpatory evidence. These arguments happened in the context of the discovery violations. No doubt IE wil try and make something of the dog handler at trial but it's weak sauce

We know from the state's response to the sanctions that IE managed to pull the wool of the judge's eyes to a significant extent to get the sanctions. In any do over the state needs to be on the ball with these aspects. Which I am sure they will be. But there really is not a bunch of scary evidence out there. IE 'won' by overwhelming the state with procedural attacks which the first judge was alive to but the second judge was not.

So hopefully we get a more discerning judge, and an resourced up prosecution.

 

[mrjitty]

I disagree that the prosecution (or any lawyer in a similar situation in a civil case), should refile without being prepared to address this. Messing up once was bad enough. They're lucky they didn't proceed to trial and find themselves staring at an acquittal. One bite at this apple. This case would be done. Over.
jmo

RSBM

I didn't say they don't need to address it - it simply isn't a big deal.

The prosecution wrongly believed the body was in a location but couldn't find it. Now they found it. The reason they couldn't find it is the killer hid it.

The prosecution believing the body was elsewhere isn't exculpatory evidence. It simply shows they didn't know where it was.

 

[Love Never Fails]

Last week, shortly after SM's remains were reported recovered, IE issued two statements to the media on the same day.

In her second statement sent to MSM linked below, not only did IE double down about her innocent, persecuted, client being wrongfully re-accused, but she also went "classic IE" by intentionally putting out false, self-serving information to the public --alleging a second body was found last weekend in Saguache County, and promising authorities would be issuing details the next day.

IMO, this is a perfect example of IE manipulating the details of an investigation and not unlike what we witnessed IE pull off in Court -- especially with Judge Lama. IMO, it's also what she does in the 185-page Civil Rights Complaint BM filed against 26 defendants who are mostly from Chaffee County.

Law firm representing Barry Morphew shares a new statement tied to authorities finding Suzanne Morphew’s remains

The law firm representing Barry Morphew released a new statement on his behalf on Thursday after remains belonging to Suzanne Morphew were discovered.

www.kktv.com

Sept 28, 2023

[..]

The statement released on Thursday by EyTan Law Firm on behalf of Barry Morphew :

“The first and most important focus should be that the Morphew’s just learned that they lost their beautiful mother and wife after she disappeared 3 ½ years ago.

What appears to be the overriding focus is a finger pointing right back where it started 3 ½ years ago: a movement to blindly re-accuse Barry for Suzanne’s death.

[..]

Here are the facts.

[..]

What needs to be done instead of pointing fingers at Barry Morphew, is asking the officials about the number of missing people and number of human remains that have been recovered in or from Saguache County in the recent past.

Whatever happened to Krystal Reisinger, Edna Quintana, Suzanne, the man whose remains were found by Saguache County Sheriff’s office in the foothills on July 26, 2023, or the remains of the person found in another area in Saguache County last weekend (more info to come from authorities tomorrow). What were the circumstances of their disappearances, what is cause and manner of death of the remains found in the area, what happened to them, are they looking for other remains in this area?

The public should demand answers about these five people who suspiciously went missing or were found dead in this area.
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To be clear, there's been no confirmation whatsoever that remains of another person were found last weekend in Saguache County, just as there was NO information the next day from authorities!

Some may recall that on the same day as IE's news releases, the Denver Gazette (Carol McKinley) first reported there was a second body before deleting the statement from their report hours later. And it wouldn't be the first time McKinley didn't fact-check IE as her source!

I dunno.... It just does my head in that this behavior goes unchecked, and that IE is not held accountable. JMO

She’s a spin meister. That’s it. Very expensive one too.

 

[Kemug]

I would really really love to know everything that the Ritters know or believe or think. And why they wanted a restraining order against Barry. Hopefully we'll find out one day.

 

[mrjitty]

Last week, shortly after SM's remains were reported recovered, IE issued two statements to the media on the same day.

In her second statement sent to MSM linked below, not only did IE double down about her innocent, persecuted, client being wrongfully re-accused, but she also went "classic IE" by intentionally putting out false, self-serving information to the public --alleging a second body was found last weekend in Saguache County, and promising authorities would be issuing details the next day.

IMO, this is a perfect example of IE manipulating the details of an investigation and not unlike what we witnessed IE pull off in Court -- especially with Judge Lama. IMO, it's also what she does in the 185-page Civil Rights Complaint BM filed against 26 defendants who are mostly from Chaffee County.

Law firm representing Barry Morphew shares a new statement tied to authorities finding Suzanne Morphew’s remains

The law firm representing Barry Morphew released a new statement on his behalf on Thursday after remains belonging to Suzanne Morphew were discovered.

www.kktv.com

Sept 28, 2023

[..]

The statement released on Thursday by EyTan Law Firm on behalf of Barry Morphew :

“The first and most important focus should be that the Morphew’s just learned that they lost their beautiful mother and wife after she disappeared 3 ½ years ago.

What appears to be the overriding focus is a finger pointing right back where it started 3 ½ years ago: a movement to blindly re-accuse Barry for Suzanne’s death.

[..]

Here are the facts.

[..]

What needs to be done instead of pointing fingers at Barry Morphew, is asking the officials about the number of missing people and number of human remains that have been recovered in or from Saguache County in the recent past.

Whatever happened to Krystal Reisinger, Edna Quintana, Suzanne, the man whose remains were found by Saguache County Sheriff’s office in the foothills on July 26, 2023, or the remains of the person found in another area in Saguache County last weekend (more info to come from authorities tomorrow). What were the circumstances of their disappearances, what is cause and manner of death of the remains found in the area, what happened to them, are they looking for other remains in this area?

The public should demand answers about these five people who suspiciously went missing or were found dead in this area.
_______________________________________

To be clear, there's been no confirmation whatsoever that remains of another person were found last weekend in Saguache County, just as there was NO information the next day from authorities!

Some may recall that on the same day as IE's news releases, the Denver Gazette (Carol McKinley) first reported there was a second body before deleting the statement from their report hours later. And it wouldn't be the first time McKinley didn't fact-check IE as her source!

I dunno.... It just does my head in that this behavior goes unchecked, and that IE is not held accountable. JMO

I have no idea why these conspiratorial attempts to influence potential jurors are allowed.

 

[Love Never Fails]

I would really really love to know everything that the Ritters know or believe or think. And why they wanted a restraining order against Barry. Hopefully we'll find out one day.

So would I. I think the answer they would give is pretty simple though. They figured out Barry is the one who killed Suzanne as we did, by his mounting lies. Then they were afraid, very afraid and didn't want to be drawn into the quagmire that is Barry Morphew.

It’s also possible that Suzanne confided in Mrs Ritter as Barry left home for days at a time with no explanation to Suzanne. In fact, according to Suzanne's own words, when she would confront him, he wouldn’t discuss it and became defensive as in: “Me Tarzan. You Jane.”

Can you imagine? He wouldn’t even take her phone calls or he would turn off his phone. In the beginning I thought he was involved in organized crime or drug cartels. To say he made his money as a landscaper is a stretch. His work was below par, he had a hot temper, etc. You can’t build a business that way. People get clued in to you. And they did, in Indiana. When moving to CO, it looked like the Beverly Hillbillies from his truck. No offense to the Beverly hillbillies!
And please answer this: how many people bury large furniture in their front yards???
Barry did!

Then I figured no, he just wanted Suzanne’s money and for her to be the “little woman” literally.

Makes me sick and makes by blood boil.


It’s a wonder we aren’t watching a trial of her killing hom! But no, Suzanne was gentle and kind and just wanted to move on and live in peace.

Barry should be hung on the town square. Imo.

 

[justtrish]

Barry, arriving on scene that Sunday, I've been up in Denver, big job, all day....

Yeah, no.

Dumping evidence, cleaning tools, staging tools, showering, waiting for the bike to be found...

Barry's first biggest mistake -- revealing his awareness of a crime before anyone else knew there was one.

Glaring.

Exactly!

I'd say first mistake was lying to the Ritter's and then the police about where he was before there was even a bike found or any evidence that something was wrong. "I'm at the job site with workers present"

Second was assuming it was a lion. I mean geez if I arrive home and someone has found a loved ones bike "wrecked", I wouldn't think wildlife got them, I'd think they got up and perhaps was disoriented and walked off and we would need to immediately search the area and call local hospitals to see if someone took her there. WHY did he jump to mountain lion? It's absurd!

 

[steeltowngirl]

The whole glove box sex offender abductor thing won't be happening in a new trial because that evidence never existed. Cahill just bumbled the testimony. A DNA expert will explain there is no sex offender.

I’d like to nominate CeCe Moore from Parabon to explain how partial and anonymous DNA works. I watched her last Friday on 48 hours discuss how she solved the Linda Slaten murder cold case after 38 years. She’s amazing, and makes a complex topic easier to understand.

 

[GOBliaison]

Yes for sure!

I didn't mean for my previous response to be directed AT you. I admit I have a rather distasteful view of Barry and so I think my response was more the reaction to him introducing this thing to her, when it's my view that he had very little interest in her outside of what he claimed was the only thing men wanted.. sex. Every interview he did showed how little he thought of her despite him saying he loved her, none of his actions pointed that way and all those lies...

This was a new hobby and I am remembering something about her bike having just been in the repair shop that week prior.. I look to see where I saw that, but maybe someone else here recalls where that was said?? I believe she had just gotten it back and I'm even remembering something about Barry saying he took it out of her car for her because she asked him to. That just felt like more of a cover for why his fingerprints might be on that bike when found. She usually didn't ride at their house, she took the bike to other trails that were easier/beginner trails.

I share your recollection, @justrish, as well as back then satisfying myself :
BUT OF COURSE! ...
- he needed it ASAP himself for his fantabulous and incontrovertible staging ruse, and
- because Suzanne's bike needed to be "not visible" when, at-long-last, the repeatedly-dispatched Puma Path Ritter Security Associates, LLC, got around to properly doing his bidding and "...look through the garage window to check and see if her bike is there". This last inasmuch as third-party witness confirmation of Suzanne's 'absent' bike was integral to the foregoing fantabuvertible-ruse-ploy, not.
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My earnest thanks,@justtrish, for dusting-off my long-past recollections and hypotheses!

 

[DeDee]

< PSBM > ___________________________

To be clear, there's been no confirmation whatsoever that remains of another person were found last weekend in Saguache County, just as there was NO information the next day from authorities!

Some may recall that on the same day as IE's news releases, the Denver Gazette (Carol McKinley) first reported there was a second body before deleting the statement from their report hours later. And it wouldn't be the first time McKinley didn't fact-check IE as her source!

I dunno.... It just does my head in that this behavior goes unchecked, and that IE is not held accountable. JMO

Appreciate the heads-up on the relationship of the reporter, CMc and the D attorney, IE. We'll make a note to carefully scrutinize any future CMc tweets, esp for possible D leaks to the press.

@Seattle1 or anyone else may recall more details about what Suzanne was studying the week of her death. Maybe she was going to test for renewing a teaching certificate?

Pg 39 of the unredacted AA

 

[Megnut]

Appreciate the heads-up on the relationship of the reporter, CMc and the D attorney, IE. We'll make a note to carefully scrutinize any future CMc tweets, esp for possible D leaks to the press.

@Seattle1 or anyone else may recall more details about what Suzanne was studying the week of her death. Maybe she was going to test for renewing a teaching certificate?

Pg 39 of the unredacted AA

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Something along the lines of life coaching IIRC.

JMO

 

[SteelCity91]

^^rsbm

IMO, BM dumped the biking outfit on his Sunday trash run around Broomfield so it would not be found in the house. I think SM went to the grave wrapped in tree burlap or similar that blends in with the earth.

ETA: Add photo from AA - page 81/129

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I am a little behind but I wanted to comment on this... I always wondered if her biking outfit was also thrown and on the side of the road somewhere. Only because 2/3 things he scribbled on a piece of paper were found on side of road. IMO

 

[SteelCity91]

Yes I seem to remember a Broomfield city ordinance of no construction type work on Sunday? Something along those lines ?

YEP and if Barry says he "had the best night ever" with Suzanne in a long time the night before.. why leave her on Mother's Day to be by herself all day. Why wouldn't you enjoy each others company a little bit longer? Make some Breakfast the next morning. He could have waited to head to Broomfield later that day. He's a liar. IMO

 

[DeDee]

I would really really love to know everything that the Ritters know or believe or think. And why they wanted a restraining order against Barry. Hopefully we'll find out one day.

Left a note for you.

Someone asked if Barry had a burner phone. It's highly possible. This phone traces back to Barry first using it Nov 2019. Accessing the phone since May 5 - May 12:

05/05/2020 12:48:34 PM (UTC-6)
05/10/2020 08:47:28 AM (UTC -6)
05/10/2020 11:50:52 AM (UTC -6)
05/11/2020 07:54:50 AM (UTC -6)
05/11/2020 08:14:29 AM (UTC -6)
05/11/2020 05:44;42 PM (UTC -6)
05/12/2020 05:58:11 PM (UTC-6)

Pg 42 of the unredacted AA

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[GOBliaison]

But, this hold back from discovery is essentially the crux of her complaint. All of it. I see what you're saying but I wouldn't refile this case and attempt to try it again without having an answer for every single thing she pointed out/laid out, and for which the judge slammed the state for not disclosing, penalizing them so severely that they really had no choice but to file that motion to dismiss.

On the depos, he could still plead the 5th since he still has criminal exposure. However, this is typically admissible in civil cases from which a jury is free to draw (and usually does) an adverse inference. And, circumstances have changed in the past week now.

The judge granted the motion to dismiss in April; she filed suit May 2nd, and now suddenly, there's a body and a new investigation. Not insinuating she'd otherwise have urged him to lie, but the calculus is now different imo. This is why I think she's been a bit unhinged with the "social media statements". She started her train down the tracks. Now she has to figure out how to navigate this new development. I don't think he can come out looking good pleading the 5th. She'll be fighting to narrow the scope - something that may prove difficult with her bucketful of Claims and boatload of defendants.


All jmo

 

[Lyanna]

Appreciate the heads-up on the relationship of the reporter, CMc and the D attorney, IE. We'll make a note to carefully scrutinize any future CMc tweets, esp for possible D leaks to the press.

@Seattle1 or anyone else may recall more details about what Suzanne was studying the week of her death. Maybe she was going to test for renewing a teaching certificate?

Pg 39 of the unredacted AA

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There was something about her becoming a personal trainer iirc?
Until I've found a source am saying MOO, JMO
Ebm - pg 15 AA JL states Suzanne was going to Phoenix to become a certified fitness trainer. She left a day early and met with JL in Dallas for two days. This was October 2019. Not sure if she'd still be studying May 2020 though

 

[Megnut]

I am a little behind but I wanted to comment on this... I always wondered if her biking outfit was also thrown and on the side of the road somewhere. Only because 2/3 things he scribbled on a piece of paper were found on side of road. IMO

Yes, a list of what to look for... because those are the items he staged...

No mention of her, no mention of her phone.

Two things he didn't want found.

JMO

 

[10ofRods]

There was something about her becoming a personal trainer iirc?
Until I've found a source am saying MOO, JMO
Ebm - pg 15 AA JL states Suzanne was going to Phoenix to become a certified fitness trainer. She left a day early and met with JL in Dallas for two days. This was October 2019. Not sure if she'd still be studying May 2020 though

I thought it was Life Coach. It was on her LinkedIn. She was reading books about becoming a Life Coach (based on her faith and her surviving cancer) and seemed to be reaching out to LinkedIn resources based on that interest. She had quite a few self-help books recommended as well. Not sure if that LInkedIn is still up. But I bet someone here kept screen shots.

But if the AA says that JL says "Certified Fitness Trainer," maybe that is indeed what she was thinking of doing. Not sure if she ever got certified, as I don't recall that being on her recent LinkedIn. At any rate, Suzanne was developing a career for herself.

IMO.

 

[GOBliaison]

If memory serves,I should with respect suggest the following textual addenda:

Para.I, third line :
Strike the first word,"not"; replacing therefor the phrase: "tardiness in responding to myriad ["shopping/fishing/excludable/et al." -ed.] demands."

moobopr
my/own/opinion/based/on/personal/recollection

 

[Error505]

Just the thought that SM was found mere weeks before snow starts to fall in CO is mind-blowing. And the coincidence (or not) that she was found due to a search for another person is crazy. I just can't shake the feeling that someone tipped off LE. For the experts.....now what? What is a realistic expectation in your own opinion of what may happen next? All JMO

Searches have been ongoing since May, 2023, for Edna Quintana who has gone missing in the area. Another missing person’s remains were found in the area in June, while searches were happening for Quintana. I have a strong feeling Suzanne’s remains were found via drone searches. The area is really vast, makes more sense to conduct extensive drone searches looking for anomalies in the landscape, bones, etc.
So MOO is Drone search turned up something which bore checking out, finding Suzanne.

MSN