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

[mrjitty]

When you mentioned that your phone only experienced a mile or so of drift I was wondering if it was representative of the area along Hwy 50 west of the Morphew residence.

Note also that BMs truck never showed any static drift

It always remained reliably where it was parked

 

[mrjitty]

Maybe US lawyers know the answer to this.

The civil claim keeps claiming exculpatory evidence/facts were withheld and cites for example, Hoylands email which notes the phenomenon of "Static Drift"

While these email discussions are something that may need to be discovered, I don't see how they are exculpatory evidence. There was no actual evidence of static drift cited here. Hoyland merely notes the theory of it.

So sure, IE's CAST expert can argue static drift at trial based on the data, but the mere existence of theories the defence can argue isn't exculpatory evidence IMO

 

[girlhasnoname]

And the media and nearly all the people, like lambs to the slaughter joined her on her 'alternative' reality planet.

It is my opinion that the alternative civil rights lawyer is taking up far too much of my time and not for the first time.
This straight after Tee and just prior to Tee is making it a Tee sandwich for me.


(antn' we can go digging while we're awaiting, that we did not dig before?)
Like shortcuts to the burial ground? Possibility he dug it on a different occasion ?

I wonder if he didn't dig the shallow grave on Friday or sometime on Saturday before he got a new blade on the Bobcat? He wouldn't have wanted soil samples or anything to be traceable.

MOO

 

[FromGermany1]

I wonder if he didn't dig the shallow grave on Friday or sometime on Saturday before he got a new blade on the Bobcat? He wouldn't have wanted soil samples or anything to be traceable.

MOO

I can't believe, BM could have used his bobcat in a desert-like area near the road without getting attention from anyone, neither during the day nor at night. How would he have explained, what he was doing there, if someone had asked?
When MG said, BM left the impression on Saturday morning, he had just had the worst night of his life (or similar wording), then I think, there was indeed a certain reason for it and it still would be very interesting to know of that reason. But was it driving to Saguache County? With his dear bobcat? Without his bobcat, but with a set of shovels? Idk.

 

[longtimereader]

I can't believe, BM could have used his bobcat in a desert-like area near the road without getting attention from anyone, neither during the day nor at night. How would he have explained, what he was doing there, if someone had asked?
When MG said, BM left the impression on Saturday morning, he had just had the worst night of his life (or similar wording), then I think, there was indeed a certain reason for it and it still would be very interesting to know of that reason. But was it driving to Saguache County? With his dear bobcat? Without his bobcat, but with a set of shovels? Idk.

I hope that investigatore could tell the difference in a hole dug by hand vs by a machine. It is possible that 3 years may have erased some of that evidence.

 

[Birmingplumb]

I hope that investigatore could tell the difference in a hole dug by hand vs by a machine. It is possible that 3 years may have erased some of that evidence.

wonder if they know where the old bobcat bucket is at now- there should be traces of metal in the hole from hitting rocks to match or dirt still on old bucket hopefully-I resurface those buckets with stainless welding due to the wearing off of the metal during use. Where does the metal go if not in the hole ?

 

[WestGL]

I wonder if he didn't dig the shallow grave on Friday or sometime on Saturday before he got a new blade on the Bobcat? He wouldn't have wanted soil samples or anything to be traceable.

MOO

I think the location of the body points to unplanned scrambling, that he killed Suzanne in a rage and wasn’t ready to adequately cover it up. Maybe someone’s theory from earlier, that he had a rough plan in his head, wanted to place her at his construction site. Maybe even was changing the bobcat blades to prepare for that in the coming days, but wasn’t actually ready and was diverted to scramble for a new plan. Where to bury a dead wife, think Barry think!

For the year or so that we hypothesized about this case, everyone was so sure that he was the ultimate earth mover dude with his career in landscaping/hardscaping, experience with earthmoving machinery. That he had planned to hide her body in a way that could never be found. 6-8 feet deep under newly planted trees, or deep under hundreds of thousands of pounds of concrete or deep under ornamental landscaping boulders as big as cars.

Or because he’s a hunter always roaming the area that he had scoped out all the abandoned mines in the area and had the perfect mineshaft to hide her hundreds of feet in the Earth.

Almost no one suggested/guessed that he drove out to the middle of a vast Sagebrush desert, and once he got to a point where there was no lights around, drove a little off the highway and tried to hand shovel and chip through rocky hard soil and only manage to barely bury her 2 feet deep.

 

[Megnut]

I wonder what intel led LE to the beach site.

If the neighbor hadn't been startled awake, hadn't turned her porch light on, where would this case be now.

I think he bolted because he knew he'd been caught.

Get me from the beach front to the sagebrush boneyard and I bet, minute for minute, it lines up.

He "borrowed" a truck.

JMO

 

[susiQ]

Can inmates have an emotional support chipmunk?

I think they can! Unfortunately, BM is on their ”do not visit” list!!

 

[LOVEORLUST]

At the prelim maybe?

In the 185-page civil complaint...

 

[Momofthreeboys]

I wonder if he didn't dig the shallow grave on Friday or sometime on Saturday before he got a new blade on the Bobcat? He wouldn't have wanted soil samples or anything to be traceable.

MOO

I honestly don't think he dragged a bobcat out to Moffat either in daylight or nighttime. Too much risk of being spotted and questions asked and the noise at night would be noticeable.

 

[Megnut]

In the 185-page civil complaint...View attachment 452555View attachment 452556

Sounds like IE is intentionally confusing terms.

Too bad Barry already accounted for the missing mileage with his ill-explained jaunt up 50 to the Garfield turn around.

IMO it is IE's singular desire -- to unring the 3 30 bell.

Not gonna happen.

JMO

 

[justtrish]

In the 185-page civil complaint...View attachment 452555View attachment 452556

Well they said it themselves it was an inference.. a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning.. so that's actually accurate.. now they have MORE evidence and can make a very different inference.. nobody stated the AA as fact.... it's simply taking the current evidence and making a best guess of the events based on the pieces they have at the time. Just because she was found somewhere else, doesn't mean their initial assessment wasn't a logical inference based on what they had then.

Barry was changing his story every time they gave him something new.. he admitted to going to Garfield to turn around.. any reasonably smart person could then infer that it's possible he went that far to turn around because he was dropping some other evidence or possibly Suzanne herself.

LE isn't claiming to be the all knowing all seeing powers and this AA wasn't presented as the 100% facts.. it was laid out for the judge to see and decide if there was evidence to arrest Barry.. I see no deliberate lies in there and an inference isn't defined as absolute fact.

 

[justtrish]

I just listened to an excellent podcast episode. Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan was on Suzanne's case. Lots of general info about burying bodies, what to expect from a body that was out there this long as far as animal activity and so on. Nothing stated as facts in this case since nobody has that info, just general information about shallow buried bodies and what they can and can't tell, etc. Very informative.

 

[Seattle1]

I wonder if he didn't dig the shallow grave on Friday or sometime on Saturday before he got a new blade on the Bobcat? He wouldn't have wanted soil samples or anything to be traceable.

MOO

Had SM been buried on/near his PP property, I think he would have used the Bobcat for a deeper grave beneath nursery trees but I'm reminded that CW was able to bury his wife, Shanann, quickly in a shallow grave near the oil wells, possibly while his daughters waited in the truck for their fate. A strong, fit, man peaked on adrenalin, I think this would be only minutes. JMO

Shanann Watts' Body Found In Shallow Grave Near Oil Tank Where Girls Found

The body of Shanann Watts was found buried in a shallow grave near an oil tank where the bodies of her daughters were found on Anadarko Petroleum property.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Seattle1]

LE isn't claiming to be the all knowing all seeing powers and this AA wasn't presented as the 100% facts.. it was laid out for the judge to see and decide if there was evidence to arrest Barry.. I see no deliberate lies in there and an inference isn't defined as absolute fact.

^^rsbm

Agree, this wasn't a Warrantless Arrest Affidavit but was presented to the judge for probable cause to obtain an Arrest Warrant for BM. And if you believed the Civil Suit about all the alleged exculpatory evidence omitted from the AA, this would have been a 200-page document!

A reminder there is no State Statute limiting the page count of the AA and how the defense and Judges Murphy and Lama each remarked how the 129-page AA was the longest ever seen in their careers. I've long wondered if the intent was to edit out 100 pages but time didn't allow when authorities were afraid BM was soon to flee the state.

 

[Hilt]

Had SM been buried on/near his PP property, I think he would have used the Bobcat for a deeper grave beneath nursery trees but I'm reminded that CW was able to bury his wife, Shanann, quickly in a shallow grave near the oil wells, possibly while his daughters waited in the truck for their fate. A strong, fit, man peaked on adrenalin, I think this would be only minutes. JMO

Shanann Watts' Body Found In Shallow Grave Near Oil Tank Where Girls Found

The body of Shanann Watts was found buried in a shallow grave near an oil tank where the bodies of her daughters were found on Anadarko Petroleum property.

www.cbsnews.com

Looking at soils data for the San Luis Valley in the vicinity of the burial site, the material should be a mixture of sand, silt and clay, not rocky. This is consistent with its location in a dry lakebed. Logs from a number of wells around Moffat indicate sand and clay at the surface with no reported hardpan (the kind of shallow layer that would represent the deepest a person could likely go with a shovel).

The type of shallow soil material in the area where Suzanne was found should have been fairly easy digging for a pushup king pumped on adrenaline.

 

[justtrish]

^^rsbm

Agree, this wasn't a Warrantless Arrest Affidavit but was presented to the judge for probable cause to obtain an Arrest Warrant for BM. And if you believed the Civil Suit about all the alleged exculpatory evidence omitted from the AA, this would have been a 200-page document!

A reminder there is no State Statute limiting the page count of the AA and how the defense and Judges Murphy and Lama each remarked how the 129-page AA was the longest ever seen in their careers. I've long wondered if the intent was to edit out 100 pages but time didn't allow when authorities were afraid BM was soon to flee the state.

I think they could have had a 2 page document and gotten an arrest warrant. Imagine that and how much the defense would have claimed was "left out".. probably cause is as easy as she her girls left May 5th, she texted Barry on May 6th that she was done. She was leaving him. He deleted many texts from that exchanged and lied to LE about the state of their marriage. Her phone went silent in the morning hours before Barry left for Broomfield. She never communicated again with anyone after 2:47pm on May 9th when Barry's phone showed he was running around the house and then he put his phone in airplane mode. He changed his story many times over the course of the various interviews to fit evidence presented to him. He lied about where he was on Sunday May 10th.

What else would have been needed to be said?

 

[Boxer]

I think they could have had a 2 page document and gotten an arrest warrant. Imagine that and how much the defense would have claimed was "left out".. probably cause is as easy as she her girls left May 5th, she texted Barry on May 6th that she was done. She was leaving him. He deleted many texts from that exchanged and lied to LE about the state of their marriage. Her phone went silent in the morning hours before Barry left for Broomfield. She never communicated again with anyone after 2:47pm on May 9th when Barry's phone showed he was running around the house and then he put his phone in airplane mode. He changed his story many times over the course of the various interviews to fit evidence presented to him. He lied about where he was on Sunday May 10th.

What else would have been needed to be said?

I plotted out the chipmunk points. It all made perfect sense as a chase around the house. IE was BSing when she crafted her through walls narrative.

 

[Megnut]

I plotted out the chipmunk points. It all made perfect sense as a chase around the house. IE was BSing when she crafted her through walls narrative.

Yup. He raced around the house trying to locate Suzanne and gain entrance. He didn't go through walls. He went in thru the garage probably and then through a locked door.

He was hellbent.

JMO