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

[mrjitty]

Given the bobcat data on saturday morning it would make some sense that the bobcat was left at the worksite on friday with the truck and trailer.

 

[mrjitty]

From the AA. How I would love to see the CAST report.

The location activities registered by Barry's phone were abnormally high in frequency during the late nights and early morning hours of May 8-9, 2020 and May 9-10, 2020 while at the Morphew residence.

On May 8, 2020 at 7:06 PM, Barry's phone called Suzanne while his phone was likely traveling west along US-50. Suzanne's phone location was approximately three miles east of Barry's phone. The call lasted 73 seconds and was the last recorded phone call for either device on May 8, 2020.

On Friday, May 8, 2020 at 7: 18 PM, Barry's phone registered its last event of the day; its next event was at 6:46 AM on May 9, 2020, when Barry's phone registered "Power On."

On May 9, 2020 at 6:46 AM, Barry's phone was taken out of airplane mode. (Your affiant knows that airplane mode is a setting available on smartphones and other portable devices. When activated, this mode suspends the device's signal transmission technologies like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, effectively disabling all voice, text and phone services. GPS may or may not be disabled.)

On May 9, 2020, from 7:22 AM to 7:39 AM, Barry's phone registered locations at his "Tailwinds" work site near Poncha Springs. During that time, Suzanne's phone exchanged messages with her friend, Sheila Oliver (7:35 AM), and Greg Fisher accepted her Facebook friends request (7:30 AM).41 Suzanne's phone was located at the Morphew residence, per CAST (Cellular Analysis Survey Team) analysis for the entire day of May 9, 2020.

 

[mrjitty]

I guess my question is, how did BM get to work on Saturday morning.

The bobcat starts work at the "Tailwinds" site at 7.29am.
Morgan places him there
His phone places him there

What was the location of BMs phone May 9, 2020 at 6:46 AM (assuming at home) and how did he get to tailwinds?


Also it seems "CR-105" is indeed the river beach work site and they worked two sites that day (See AA - MG statement). So I am coming to the conclusion he was picked up by SM at CR-105 friday night after 8pm and left his truck / bobcat at the worksite ready to start at 7.30 am. He then has lots of location activities on his phone at PP that night. He was definitely up at 6.46am saturday.

Morgan says she was picked up by BM on saturday am.

SM's phone never leaves home and she sends text to friend.

There has to be another car.

 

[susiQ]

MOTION For Extension Of Time To File Answer Or Otherwise Respond FBI : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

FBI Motion for Extension

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This one's Grusing's and Harris' - they're requesting an extension until Boxing Day.

Wonder what Barry's response will be to this one?
Ebm - Barry and Iris won't want Grusing around this case now I imagine.

Moo

BM/IE response = CaChing!!! This is great! IE is going to bleed her cash cow….or is that bull elk, bone dry!

Just wondering, when dropping a few defendants named in the civil suit, does the amount of damages sought get reduced as well?? That would suck for BM as he’s going to need every last dime to have IE defend him. And that’s assuming they would win the civil suit which seems doubtful, to me anyway.

 

[mrjitty]

What I am wondering about that suit is there is now a super active multi-agency criminal investigation underway 4 realz, and as far as we know, BM is a target. So can the defendants require a stay because discovery cannot take place right now?

Also surely the defence cannot allow discovery / depositions by return?

 

[K9Enzo]

All this tends to suggest SM's RR went nowhere in the weekend IMO

But like others, I am wondering why her wallet etc are in the RR. Suggests she came back from somewhere but never got a chance to sort things out?

I also note the general lack of telematics for BM's truck on friday night / saturday am. We see that it is at PP ay 7pm but nothing else, and we don't see it go to tailwinds in the morning. It reappears at 10am near Rob Mizell.

Wasn't it suggested SM picked BM up from tailwinds job site?

I wonder did they have a fight in the car or something on the friday and SM never ended up going back to her RR?

It’s possible it was as habit for SM to leave her purse in her vehicle. It’s convenient. I leave mine in my car mostly parked in the garage, sometimes in the driveway. We’re secluded on vast acreage. imo

 

[K9Enzo]

MOTION For Extension Of Time To File Answer Or Otherwise Respond FBI : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

FBI Motion for Extension

archive.org

This one's Grusing's and Harris' - they're requesting an extension until Boxing Day.

Wonder what Barry's response will be to this one?
Ebm - Barry and Iris won't want Grusing around this case now I imagine.

Moo

Imo, it’s standard to request extensions. I don’t find this odd. I do think IE and team want Grusing to testify in the civil case. He’s named for a reason known to them.

What’s interesting to me is how the civil case plays out and I think it will move forward regardless of SM being recovered. LE will continue to investigate and now have a huge focus in SM’s remains and recovery site. It might lead right back to a BM arrest, or in another direction. I’m hoping for a new investigation team to pour over everything.

Back to the civil case and what will be interesting to me is the testimony from the different agencies and departments. IMO, they sometimes don’t play nice with each other during investigations and we might not see a cohesive front in their testimony. Imo

 

[FromGermany1]

It’s possible it was as habit for SM to leave her purse in her vehicle. It’s convenient. I leave mine in my car mostly parked in the garage, sometimes in the driveway. We’re secluded on vast acreage. imo

I would have a lady handbag and my wallet would fit into it. My driver's license and my vaccination certificate would be in the handbag also. If I would get out of my vehicle at home, I would always take my handbag with the purse/license/certificat into my home.
Too bad, I don't have a car.
I found it a bit strange, that LE discovered several items in different places in the RR. Sounded messy to me.

 

[FromGermany1]

I don't quite understand, how it's supposed to work:
BM sues all sorts of people for defamation of reputation and gets justice. Afterwards a new trial takes place perhaps (because Suzanne was found), and at the end BM is possibly convicted as the murderer, he was already suspected of being in 2020. Did someone still damage his reputation???

 

[browning]

That’s how I recalled it. Thanks so much. Poor Barry has no guns during hunting season and hopefully he will be locked up before next year’s season begins. I am taking pleasure in this and maybe his hunting buddies are no longer buddies either.

You do realize he can still purchase firearms.

 

[FromGermany1]

You do realize he can still purchase firearms.

Ohhh!

 

[mom2chloe]

You do realize he can still purchase firearms.

Guns and ammo are expensive. I am hoping he spent all his money on his defense. Fingers crossed!

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Guns and ammo are expensive. I am hoping he spent all his money on his defense. Fingers crossed!

I don’t think he ran through all his money. And at the end he would have gotten his cash bail back. He’s probably not worth what he was before he was arrested but he’s not indigent in my opinion.

 

[susiQ]

I don’t think he ran through all his money. And at the end he would have gotten his cash bail back. He’s probably not worth what he was before he was arrested but he’s not indigent in my opinion.

True, he may not be indigent, but he sure is indignant !

 

[10ofRods]

Did the neighbors succeed in getting an R/O against Barry or not? I thought they did.

I suppose it may have expired by this point.

 

[10ofRods]

You do realize he can still purchase firearms.

In Colorado? He was convicted of a felony and Judge Murphy gave him permission only to have a bow or muzzle loader:

Barry Morphew moving to Denver; pleads guilty to forgery - Denver Gazette

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A judge on Thursday placed Barry Morphew on one year of supervised probation and ordered him to perform 32 hours of community service after Morphew pleaded guilty to a felony count of forgery for using his missing wife’s name to...

denvergazette.com

Of course, I suppose the situation could have changed, but CO law is pretty clear that a convicted felon cannot own firearms (the sentence for the felony included gun restrictions, so I assume that forgery carries a sentence of up to several years - even though Barry pleaded out and got a reduced sentence, it's still a qualifying felony in CO, I think.

Did we learn that the Judge had changed his order? I know it can be appealed, etc. Did Barry appeal it?

The above article has him living in Denver, btw. I have no clue where he actually is, of course.

 

[MyBelle]

In Colorado? He was convicted of a felony and Judge Murphy gave him permission only to have a bow or muzzle loader:

Barry Morphew moving to Denver; pleads guilty to forgery - Denver Gazette

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A judge on Thursday placed Barry Morphew on one year of supervised probation and ordered him to perform 32 hours of community service after Morphew pleaded guilty to a felony count of forgery for using his missing wife’s name to...

denvergazette.com

Of course, I suppose the situation could have changed, but CO law is pretty clear that a convicted felon cannot own firearms (the sentence for the felony included gun restrictions, so I assume that forgery carries a sentence of up to several years - even though Barry pleaded out and got a reduced sentence, it's still a qualifying felony in CO, I think.

Did we learn that the Judge had changed his order? I know it can be appealed, etc. Did Barry appeal it?

The above article has him living in Denver, btw. I have no clue where he actually is, of course.

BBM. I hope you are right!

It took more than a decade for Heidi Firkus and her family to receive justice. The clock continues to tick toward justice for Suzanne.

JMO

 

[SortaSleuthy]

I listened to the podcast while driving to an appointment. Really not much new imo. The one part I found interesting is that birds may use the victims hair in their nests. Do we know if Suzanne wore a wig due to hair loss with chemo?
After listening to this, I do believe the tools BM used to dig the grave were among the tools he brought to the Broomfield HIE. As far as I remember LE never gathered those tools and brought them in as evidence correct? I think Morgan and Puckett just brought them back to Barry. They must be long gone now -or at least for sure since the discovery of the body.
All imo
JMO

Before he went to the hotel he went to the Broomfield job site where he moved some of the wall blocks and dug around “to check the soil hardness”. (ie: double purpose-to remove the prior soil and check hardness.)

 

[mrjitty]

From the AA

Barry was shown a picture of the locations around the Morphew house of Suzanne's phone activity at 4: 10 AM and 4: 15 AM on May 10, 2020. He said, "Well, if she did that, I have no idea that it went anywhere but the house, but if you was to ask me, I'd say, 'It was at the house the whole time."'

The thing here is that SM's phone is being positioned by the tower not by GPS - so 'static drift' is not a thing here, or at least not in the same way

Say the tower appears to show the phone on the move, before it disconnects on the road to Garfield at 4.23 am

How accurate are these readings? Hard to say, but it is a hell of a coincidence when we know BM was heading that way at that time.

 

[SortaSleuthy]

Hmm.

I don't know what metadata is, specifically, but I don't think there's a corresponding legal term. Metadata seems to refer to the embedded data in the photo itself.

Suzanne was almost over her chemo. I think her recent pictures show her actual hair, but I don't think any of us know for sure. I'm going by personal knowledge of people I know who had chemotherapy for similar cancers at that time (my own physician went through similar chemo, had their full head of hair).

Did you not see Suzanne's pictures of herself biking (within one month of her death)? She's beautiful, has more muscle than many her age, is clearly fit. Today's cancer treatment really emphasizes staying fit and healthy (for good reasons).

Bikini photos by cancer survivors are NOT odd. At all. Many women with cancer still sport a great body by today's (ridiculous) American standards.

But that's different than body image. For most of us, if we are healthy, and our bodies have "improved" in some way - we are very body positive. You should see all of us in bikinis in SoCal. And I see people taking photos of themselves in all kinds of health states. I just watched an adorable 80 year old taking (somewhat revealing) selfies at the UCLA hospital - she was rocking her ballet flats and her legs were...admirable. The gentleman taking the pictures knew that. I will admit that I was surprised by this "photo shoot," but then I took a good look at that admirable woman (who was having surgery that day).

Don't assume that other women's body image "goes low." Suzanne was beaming in many photos (although I'd love to know which was her last photo - the Bike Helmet photos have to be recent - within six months or so - and she's radiant in all of them - and far more fit than many people doing selfies).

IMO.

“Suzanne was almost over her chemo.”
This was her final cancer check. They probably scheduled a date for removal of the port.