Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* *found in 2023* #110

[FromGermany1]

Thursday BM texts someone about buying a new F350

Pause.

Pin in that.

Might mean nothing. Might mean something.

He had vehicles at his disposal...

Jmo

Do you think, he did a test drive to Moffat with a new F350?

 

[carolmaria]

Re: SD’s background: re-upping this article. Medic, nurse. The Durango Herald: Veterans from five wars share stories of service, loss

Did a quick search of CO nursing licenses at nursys.com. LPN. License expired in 2002.

 

[Megnut]

Do you think, he did a test drive to Moffat with a new F350?

Not ready to commit to that but I'm drawing a big red circle around it.

As well, the timing of the blade replacement.

The call to Backhoe guy.

Barry has this uncanny way of being simultaneously nowhere and everywhere.

It had to be mentally exhausting for Suzanne to keep up with that.

For example, just when she thought he was off hunting so she and Sheila could relax, he was slinking up the driveway.

For another, midday on Saturday, I think she was unaware that Barry was zig zagging behind the house...

Nowhere and everywhere.

JMO

 

[FromGermany1]

Did a quick search of CO nursing licenses at nursys.com. LPN. License expired in 2002.

The knowledge isn't dependent on an unexpired license.

 

[Lyanna]

As time has passed, the Timeline has become distorted.
Here is a copy of 5/5 to 5/9 from a post by OLDCOP:


Tuesday 5/5

ETU SM drives MM2 to Gunnison to meet MM1 for camping trip to Utah


Wednesday 5/6

9:00 am – 11:00 am SM at Ritters’ for coffee. Per JR, SM energetic and excited

10:13 am SM texts BM: “I’m done. Could care less about what you have been up to for years. We just need to figure things out civilly.” Deleted but recovered from BM’s phone.

12:27 pm SM at Walmart Pharmacy in Salida. Has cart with items. She was handed a white prescription bag. No meds with that date found at PP.

2:43 – 5:00 BM at Tailwinds jobsite, Poncha Springs.

BM texts several suicidal messages which he deletes

3:51 pm BM to SM: I am not hiding checks. Fighting about money

ETU BM to SM: Promise there was never another. Only a fool would stray from an angel like you.

ETU SM and BM evening walk -they see the housekeeper putting trash in the dumpster


Thursday 5/7

7:27 am SM messages JL about how magical past days were

ETU Continues to message him throughout the day.

ETU BM texts someone about buying a new F350

ETU BM tries to call SM’s dad

ETU MM1 & MM2 text photos from the camping trip to BM and SM

ETU MM1 sends text to BM & SM saying, “Finally got the job!”

ETU SM goes to bike shop. SB put new tires on SM’s bike.

4:43 pm SM tells BM she has been studying all day and is making veggie stew for dinner.

Evening ETU Back and forth texts between BM & GD

Wondering if that new F350 ever had a Barry in it for a test drive?

moo

 

[Seattle1]

I'm putting Barry at Moonlight Pizza at 5ish. I can't guarantee thst he was alone but I'm convinced Suzanne wasn't with him.

Haven't ruled out that he might've been with someone who "some people" say looks like Suzanne.

Maybe that's who he was planning to build a house for, you know if Suzanne 1.0 didn't work out.

Barry might not have been so happy that Suzanne survived her second bout with cancer. He may have had other plan$ all along.

JMO

I dunno ... IMO, it doesn't follow that an investigator would testify at the PH under oath that SM sent a photo to her children of BM outside Moonlight Pizza, or that she messaged JL when BM got out of the vehicle and she had a moment, if the facts did not support the same.

ETA: Or SM sent JL a message when BM left PP to pick up the Pizza. The assumption here was SM took the photo of BM at Moonlight on this date but I suppose SM could have sent a previous photo of BM at Moonlight Pizza. Only the electronic records in evidence-- unknown to us, can confirm.

 

[scapa]

SD is the Dollar Store knock off of Suzanne IMO. Suzanne had a natural beauty and class with a tremendous, happy smile.

moo

Checks out. Dollar Store dame for a Dollar Store dude.

Next few weeks or months might be interesting as more info is learned regarding burial site evidence and forensics.

Question for lawyers/ legal-minded folk -- if BM/ IE move to dismiss defendants from the civil suit, can the supervising judge and/ or the said defendants decline the request?

 

[susiQ]

This qualification is also very remarkable and useful.

Yes, indeed! One has to wonder what year SD’s car was. No telematics?? Not implying she was involved……
knowingly.

Just curious.

 

[Seattle1]

Wondering if that new F350 ever had a Barry in it for a test drive?

moo

IIRC, BM only purchased his vehicles from a favored Indiana dealer.

 

[Megnut]

IIRC, BM only purchased his vehicles from a favored Indiana dealer.

Raises the natural question -- was this F350 in Indiana? Or local to Salida? Was Barry genuinely interested in buying it? Or borrowing it?.... or borrowing something from it?

I just can't trust much.

JMO

 

[10ofRods]

^ VR 'eye-tied' & ewell-ed by me for focus...likely unneeded as your material is invariably and eminently laser-focused ^​

I thought, when confronted with averments that blood was the result of one marital disagreement, Barry only conceded swinging toward Suzanne, [NB. unlawful offer of force = criminal assault], mistakenly "clipping" her nose. [And here we have that assault consummated by a battery.]

Now, IMO {& from a very personal "blinding-flash" sensation, the result of my unnoted southpaw opponent's leading left during compulsory boxing PE @ USNA}, "clocking" someone is VERY diff from "clipping" one's target.
And were "tho' she be small, she is fierce" Suzanne* actually been "clocked" by our push-up king, she may well have died there and then.

* Spoken by Helena about her friend Hermia, both fictional characters from Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Good points. Either way, Barry was asked "Have you ever hit your wife?" and he says something like "No, yeah, well, a couple times, once I clipped her on the nose by accident." Something like that.

My point is that he admitted to police that some part of his body came into contact with Suzanne's nose (which is part of her face). So he hit her face, to put it into how I'd write it down. He admits he was using some part of his body with momentum such that his body "clipped" Suzanne's face. It's actually quite painful to be clipped on the nose, whether it starts a nosebleed or not. And it can be quite dangerous, especially if the nose has less cartilage at its tip.

Personally, I don't use either "clocked" or "clipped" often enough to know the subtle distinction. And I've never heard either word in use in my regular life. Oxford gives yet another definition for clocking (to hit on the head and then gives "clocked on the nose" as an example; making it sound like just a minor buffing of the face, I guess).

And I'm not sure I know what Barry meant by "clipping," frankly. I've never heard anyone use "clip" to mean "bop on the nose" or "strike the nose." I've heard it in firearms talk (equivalent to graze, I think - but also has other means in that subculture, so I don't think it's used much to mean "graze" any more). I am noticing that some MSM adds an extra word to Barry's statement he "only clipped her nose," to make it clear that whatever contact he had with Suzanne's face during the argument, it was not a severe blow.

I don't really care about the severity. I want to know why his hand hit her nose. It's never an "accident" to swing on someone. Swinging on someone with a plan to miss at the last minute is still assault, and it apparently was beyond Barry's skillset, so he was negligent as well as cruel in his attempt to intimidate her. This is the 'evidence of domestic violence" that may have affected some of Judge Murphy's and other judge's rulings regarding Barry and firearms.

IMO.

 

[Auntie Cipation]

This qualification is also very remarkable and useful.

If a video surfaces showing her at a Sonic drive-thru, I think my brain will explode...

 

[Seattle1]

Did a quick search of CO nursing licenses at nursys.com. LPN. License expired in 2002.

IMO, SD did not continue nursing following military discharge from service. I listened to the Chaffee County court hearing involving a local businesswoman seeking a restraining order against SD. During the hearing, it was revealed by SD that her primary source of income was VA Disability Compensation, and the Court determined her monthly benefits exceeded the limit for a court-appointed lawyer. (This was from my personal notes from the hearing previously posted here in real-time). MOO

 

[Lyanna]

IIRC, BM only purchased his vehicles from a favored Indiana dealer.

Not thinking he genuinely wanted to buy it but maybe it had other benefits that suited him? Maybe a little drive, throw a bit of incriminating whatever out the window?

Overactive imagination most likely, but can't help think he could have benefited from a test drive

Moo

 

[Seattle1]

Raises the natural question -- was this F350 in Indiana? Or local to Salida? Was Barry genuinely interested in buying it? Or borrowing it?.... or borrowing something from it?

I just can't trust much.

JMO

IIRC, BM bought a new truck in Indiana (in July 2020) following SM's disappearance. I believe he delivered SM's RR to the Indiana buyer and drove back to CO in the new Ford. MOO

 

[Megnut]

IIRC, BM bought a new truck in Indiana (in July 2020) following SM's disappearance. I believe he delivered SM's RR to the Indiana buyer and drove back to CO in the new Ford. MOO

So perhaps the call was about the truck he enthusiasm bought, something already in the works....

Or maybe not.

He reached out to Backhoe guy, from whom he had no intention of buying...

The guy's just slippery.

Jmo

 

[Seattle1]

If a video surfaces showing her at a Sonic drive-thru, I think my brain will explode...

Brilliant duckling!!

 

[debrat007]

If Suzanne had not communicated with JL & SO on Saturday, I would have thought that Barry murdered Suzanne on Friday night. That last week of Suzanne’s life is hard to make sense of. They were “done”, yet Suzanne talked about going for a hike together. Apparently they had Moonlight Pizza together. I remember there was a house for sale that was discussed. Suzanne confided in her sister, she was ready to move on. I know that it’s not necessary to have a plausible story for a jury to follow in order to get a conviction, but this is all hard to follow. Yup, Barry did this, but I would like some holes plugged.

Hi. Based on facts shared in AA, PH and recent comments here we know Barry admitted to hitting (my words not his ) her previously. All it takes is once and trust begins to fade. Add to that his hard heart for her health (no compassion and she could’ve died of cancer), possible dalliances, anger management issues (Indiana charges) and you get a wife living on pins and needles and doing her best not to trigger him in anyway. IIRC he asked her first if she wanted to go for a hike (this scared me when I read it because he does not seem like a hiker to me and I wondered if he was already planning to murder her at this point) and she agreed but then he changed his mind. So MOO, she was playing the content wife while getting her ducks in a row. Tragically, she underestimated his rage, volatility, lack of self control, desire for money, power and control.

 

[SteelCity91]

Hi. Based on facts shared in AA, PH and recent comments here we know Barry admitted to hitting (my words not his ) her previously. All it takes is once and trust begins to fade. Add to that his hard heart for her health (no compassion and she could’ve died of cancer), possible dalliances, anger management issues (Indiana charges) and you get a wife living on pins and needles and doing her best not to trigger him in anyway. IIRC he asked her first if she wanted to go for a hike (this scared me when I read it because he does not seem like a hiker to me and I wondered if he was already planning to murder her at this point) and she agreed but then he changed his mind. So MOO, she was playing the content wife while getting her ducks in a row. Tragically, she underestimated his rage, volatility, lack of self control, desire for money, power and control.

Yes, that hike he wanted to go on the day before always made me wonder too but you're right.. he doesn't seem like a hiker.

 

[DizzyB]

Hi. Based on facts shared in AA, PH and recent comments here we know Barry admitted to hitting (my words not his ) her previously. All it takes is once and trust begins to fade. Add to that his hard heart for her health (no compassion and she could’ve died of cancer), possible dalliances, anger management issues (Indiana charges) and you get a wife living on pins and needles and doing her best not to trigger him in anyway. IIRC he asked her first if she wanted to go for a hike (this scared me when I read it because he does not seem like a hiker to me and I wondered if he was already planning to murder her at this point) and she agreed but then he changed his mind. So MOO, she was playing the content wife while getting her ducks in a row. Tragically, she underestimated his rage, volatility, lack of self control, desire for money, power and control.

Know that I am playing Devil’s Advocate here, I knew Barry did it since I saw that absurd Oh Suzanne video. But understand that Suzanne was no shrinking violet. She flew to different parts of the country to rendezvous with JL, who in my opinion is not a good guy. I think she was a woman that realized that there could be life after Barry, and wanted out. He wasn’t going to allow that to happen. But if we put Suzanne on a pedestal, certain types might sympathize and listen to Hurricane Iris spin a tale. I want Barry to be held responsible for what he did, and I think the facts will seal the deal. The other stuff mucks it up, in my opinion.