Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee Co, 10 May 2020 *Case dismissed w/o prejudice* *found in 2023* #115

[Skigh]

Thanks for this -- interesting...

...though I admit to being a bit like Dug the dog from Up when it comes to this case -- the tiniest crumb of new/ relevant info makes me stop where I am, come smartly to attention, scan the information horizon and think CHIPMUNK!!!

Presumably you would then have to get your gun and charge around the house to exterminate the other 47 or so who also suddenly appeared.

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

Someone famous (I’m too old to remember) said “Give me liberty or give me death.”
That applies to me.
I would never have been as trusting as Suzanne.

Respectfully, IIUC that quote “Give me liberty or give me death!" is attributed to American politician Patrick Henry. According to some sources I believe it is from a speech he gave at the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.

And with regard to BM and eventual recharge and prosecution I hope….. perhaps the Aesop fable ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ will have some relevance IMO. I always enjoyed that story as a young child. And if memory serves, the tortoise won the race. I liken the CO prosecutor’s office with the tortoise. MOO

 

[Love Never Fails]

Respectfully, IIUC that quote “Give me liberty or give me death!" is attributed to American politician Patrick Henry. According to some sources I believe it is from a speech he gave at the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.

And with regard to BM and eventual recharge and prosecution I hope….. perhaps the Aesop fable ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ will have some relevance IMO. I always enjoyed that story as a young child. And if memory serves, the tortoise won the race. I liken the CO prosecutor’s office with the tortoise. MOO

Thank you for your reply. Yes it was Patrick Henry.

I cannot imagine Suzanne being stuffed into that male-looking cabin in that small city and being so controlled after fighting cancer twice. She wanted out. Boyfriend or not! Her girls will figure it out when they are older. By that time, Barry will be dead or hopefully locked up.

The prosecutor comes across as a tortoise alright. There are likely more recent cases that families care about. I understand that. It’s just that Suzanne needed freedom not death. Barry just snuffed out her life. One day he will pay for it. Either on this side or when he faces God. I’m hoping the prosecutor wants justice for Suzanne as much as we all do.

 

[TwinkieDefense]

This is an article from 2023. I thought it may have information that we’ve overlooked, maybe a reminder of something we’ve forgotten about, or just a good timeline. May 10, 2020 was quite a busy day for Mr Morphew. There are also several related links at the bottom of this write up. We’re still waiting for the final pieces of the puzzle.

Oct 2, 2023 article

Suzanne Morphew disappearance: A complete timeline of the case

Friday, Sept. 22, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation stumbled on forensic evidence which stunned cold case watchers. This is a timeline of the 3+ year old case.

gazette.com

[…]

May 9-May 10​

2:47 p.m. until 4:37 a.m. May 10

Barry’s phone went into “airplane mode,” a setting on cellphones that prevents the device from sending or receiving calls and text messages.

Agent Jonny Grusing told the court during the fall 2021 probable cause hearing that this was “…six hours we don’t know what happened.”

[…]

 

[TwinkieDefense]

In my post directly above is this -

————

2:47 p.m. until 4:37 a.m. May 10

And this -

“…six hours we don’t know what happened.”

————-

This is way more than six hours. More like 14 hours. Why the discrepancy? I’m sure I’m missing something. But What?

 

[Mauig’ma]

In my post directly above is this -

————

2:47 p.m. until 4:37 a.m. May 10

And this -

“…six hours we don’t know what happened.”

————-

This is way more than six hours. More like 14 hours. Why the discrepancy? I’m sure I’m missing something. But What?

Yeah I wondered the same thing. Either they have tightened the timeline or their math is off. Which is it?

 

[K9Enzo]

BM's phone was in airplane mode during the timeframe LE believes SM was killed. But both he and SM were known to use airplane mode because of spotty service in the area, so that detail alone doesn’t prove anything. IMO

 

[NervousNellie]

BM's phone was in airplane mode during the timeframe LE believes SM was killed. But both he and SM were known to use airplane mode because of spotty service in the area, so that detail alone doesn’t prove anything. IMO

Not to question that B and Suzanne "were known to use airplane mode because of spotty service in the area," but I don't understand why they would choose to do that? Isn't spotty service better than no service?

What does putting one's phone in airplane mode accomplish? I realize it makes your phone not trackable, but that has nothing to do with spotty service. Is it to save battery power since your phone might use a lot of power to search for a signal?

 

[K9Enzo]

Not to question that B and Suzanne "were known to use airplane mode because of spotty service in the area," but I don't understand why they would choose to do that? Isn't spotty service better than no service?

What does putting one's phone in airplane mode accomplish? I realize it makes your phone not trackable, but that has nothing to do with spotty service. Is it to save battery power since your phone might use a lot of power to search for a signal?

IIRC, SM's sister mentioned in an interview on The Interview Room YouTube channel (which is now banned on Websleuths) that SM would sometimes use airplane mode to save her phone battery. That’s what she told her sister. Those interviews with SM's sister were really insightful.

When I’m in remote areas with no service, I've also use airplane mode to keep my phone from draining the battery. That explanation made sense to me when I heard it. Who knows, maybe SM and MB both used airplane mode at times as an excuse to disconnect from family or friends. Honestly, it could have been both. The spotty service and battery drain were valid reasons, but it may have also been a convenient way to avoid contact now and then. Just my speculation.

And maybe BM did put his phone in airplane mode to kill SM. I just think that’s a tough sell when he probably had a pattern of doing that while he was home anyway is all. IMO

 

[FromGermany1]

IIRC, SM's sister mentioned in an interview on The Interview Room YouTube channel (which is now banned on Websleuths) that SM would sometimes use airplane mode to save her phone battery. That’s what she told her sister. Those interviews with SM's sister were really insightful.

When I’m in remote areas with no service, I've also use airplane mode to keep my phone from draining the battery. That explanation made sense to me when I heard it. Who knows, maybe SM and MB both used airplane mode at times as an excuse to disconnect from family or friends. Honestly, it could have been both. The spotty service and battery drain were valid reasons, but it may have also been a convenient way to avoid contact now and then. Just my speculation.

And maybe BM did put his phone in airplane mode to kill SM. I just think that’s a tough sell when he probably had a pattern of doing that while he was home anyway is all. IMO

When had he been available to his business clients - only when absent from his property? I wonder.

 

[girlhasnoname]

BM's phone was in airplane mode during the timeframe LE believes SM was killed. But both he and SM were known to use airplane mode because of spotty service in the area, so that detail alone doesn’t prove anything. IMO

I think the historical phone data for BM will tell the story of whether he routinely used AP mode or not. If he didn't normally use it as a general rule, why would he have used it during the time of the crimes right before/after?

JMO

 

[girlhasnoname]

This is an article from 2023. I thought it may have information that we’ve overlooked, maybe a reminder of something we’ve forgotten about, or just a good timeline. May 10, 2020 was quite a busy day for Mr Morphew. There are also several related links at the bottom of this write up. We’re still waiting for the final pieces of the puzzle.

Oct 2, 2023 article

Suzanne Morphew disappearance: A complete timeline of the case

Friday, Sept. 22, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation stumbled on forensic evidence which stunned cold case watchers. This is a timeline of the 3+ year old case.

gazette.com

[…]

May 9-May 10​

2:47 p.m. until 4:37 a.m. May 10

Barry’s phone went into “airplane mode,” a setting on cellphones that prevents the device from sending or receiving calls and text messages.

Agent Jonny Grusing told the court during the fall 2021 probable cause hearing that this was “…six hours we don’t know what happened.”

[…]

Maybe LE pieced together what BM was doing (by truck or phone telematics) during that time except for a 6 hour timeframe? IDK, just a guess.

 

[Megnut]

It's actually narrower than that iirc. He backed up the truck at like 10:30 pm and then there's no phone or vehicle data until like 3:30 am. At the time, there was a lung four hour window, ample time to relocate Suzanne's body. And now it appears that's exactly what he did, Moffatt and back and time enough to dig a shallow grave in hard soil.

Did he borrow a truck from his out if town neighbors? Did he have to swap batteries because theirs was dead, from storage? Did he borrow a four-wheeler? Was he off-roading? How fast and how far could he get in two hours in an ATV?

Whether then or that infamous turn, I think BM -- dumpster magnet that he is -- detoured long enough to pitch the first bit of evidence in the campground trash.

JMO

 

[GOBliaison]

I don’t understand why SUZANNE’s daughters haven’t taken her remains for a burial. I mean, she was their MOTHER.

Has BM not given his permission for them to do so?

And if he or they don’t want the remains, why won’t they let SUZANNE’s birth family have them?

Hard to believe that the daughters would hold SUZANNE hostage because she had an affair.

Seems the BM et al are a very hard-hearted bunch.

Please...
...might we learn from a family law/estate planning/elder law cohort on-site...
... what means may be available to Suzanne's heirs, at present or eventually,
to preclude her remains from ever lying next to
her controlling, narcissist, murderer/ "widower"
when that miscreant eventually assumes room temperature.

​

PLEASE
TIA !

 

[Megnut]

Please...
...might we learn from a family law/estate planning/elder law cohort on-site...
... what means may be available to Suzanne's heirs, at present or eventually,
to preclude her remains from ever lying next to
her controlling, narcissist, murderer/ "widower"
when that miscreant eventually assumes room temperature.

​

PLEASE
TIA !

Do NOT suggest such a revolting thing.

You turned my stomach.

But now I can't not hear head-shaking Barry whining, "the girls need you. I just want you back." He also said, as I recall, that if Suzanne cane back, he probably wouldn't take her back, wronged as he was. BAM in her bones notwithstanding. Reading from his upside down Bible, obscuring a couple of commandments with his meaty paws, he has probably forgiven her for being not right in her head, only entertains hot girls from Salida and/or his latest Suzanne 2.0 because a man has needs, and has fully rewritten history into which he was the heartlorn lover, and has picked out a his and hers burial plot this side of Moffatt.

Well, not if he has to pay for it.

Barry buries on the cheap.

JMO

 

[girlhasnoname]

Thank you for your Service:

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

5/8/25

Missing mom Suzanne Morphew was dumped in 'The Boneyard'. Police found bombshell evidence... but her killer is still free - Daily Mail

As another Mother’s Day approaches, one of Suzanne’s friends, Tisha Leeway, tells the Daily Mail she is furious that, still, no one has been held accountable.

‘I’m so frustrated that there hasn’t been an arrest,’ fumed Leeway. ‘They have the body, they have the autopsy. So why the silence? Why the lack of progress?

‘I’ve seen cases tried with less evidence than they have right now, so why hasn’t there been an arrest? We’re coming up on the fifth year… Suzanne deserves better than this.’

Leeway said she hopes whoever is responsible for her friend's death spends every day looking over their shoulder.

‘That person has to go to bed and live with what they’ve done for the rest of their life, so I believe they’re already in a prison within themselves,’ said Leeway.

Leeway believes she knows who is responsible for Suzanne’s death and is hopeful an arrest will be made by the end of the year.

Recently, a video emerged on social media, appearing to show a smiling Barry Morphew, 57, posing for selfies with his youngest daughter while out to dinner in Utah.

Leeway said the footage made her sick to her stomach.

‘It makes me sick to think that somebody gets to continue to live their life and have no cares in the world, and it seems his daughters have moved on too,’ she said.

‘After the autopsy came back, I thought things would’ve switched around, but I guess not.'

 

[Momofthreeboys]

5/8/25

Missing mom Suzanne Morphew was dumped in 'The Boneyard'. Police found bombshell evidence... but her killer is still free - Daily Mail

As another Mother’s Day approaches, one of Suzanne’s friends, Tisha Leeway, tells the Daily Mail she is furious that, still, no one has been held accountable.

‘I’m so frustrated that there hasn’t been an arrest,’ fumed Leeway. ‘They have the body, they have the autopsy. So why the silence? Why the lack of progress?

‘I’ve seen cases tried with less evidence than they have right now, so why hasn’t there been an arrest? We’re coming up on the fifth year… Suzanne deserves better than this.’

Leeway said she hopes whoever is responsible for her friend's death spends every day looking over their shoulder.

‘That person has to go to bed and live with what they’ve done for the rest of their life, so I believe they’re already in a prison within themselves,’ said Leeway.

Leeway believes she knows who is responsible for Suzanne’s death and is hopeful an arrest will be made by the end of the year.

Recently, a video emerged on social media, appearing to show a smiling Barry Morphew, 57, posing for selfies with his youngest daughter while out to dinner in Utah.

Leeway said the footage made her sick to her stomach.

‘It makes me sick to think that somebody gets to continue to live their life and have no cares in the world, and it seems his daughters have moved on too,’ she said.

‘After the autopsy came back, I thought things would’ve switched around, but I guess not.'

Perhaps there is something they found at the burial site or in the autopsy that doesn't add up? I have to assume investigators and the current prosecutors office have all the actual facts of the entire case. Also if anything was overlooked in the early investigation sometimes it's hard to be retroactive.

 

[al66pine]

Current location of SM’s remains?

Please...
...might we learn from a family law/estate planning/elder law cohort on-site...
... what means may be available to Suzanne's heirs, at present or eventually,
to preclude her remains from ever lying next to
her controlling, narcissist, murderer/ "widower"
when that miscreant eventually assumes room temperature.

​

PLEASE
TIA !

IDK whether SM’s remains are still in a county coroner’s (Chaffee or El Paso?) storage, custody, and control or elsewhere. Anyone?

Ap. 29, 2024 article** quoted both Prosecutor Anne Kelly & def atty Iris Eytan. It states:
“The Morphew family was offered to retrieve Suzanne’s body, but “they want to ensure the suspect is apprehended before they take what could be an important piece of evidence in the suspect’s prosecution.”
** Ap. 29, 2024 article

Suzanne Morphew's death ruled a homicide, animal sedatives found in her body

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) - An autopsy by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office found missing Salida woman Suzanne Morphew was killed. On May 10, 2020,

krdo.com

So, who specifically “offered” and to which specific family member(s) was “offer” made?

For more than a year since Ap. 2024 autopsy report was completed, BM has failed to claim SM's remains IIUC.

Or have I missed an update? TiA.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Current location of SM’s remains?


IDK whether SM’s remains are still in a county coroner’s (Chaffee or El Paso?) storage, custody, and control or elsewhere. Anyone?

Ap. 29, 2024 article** quoted both Prosecutor Anne Kelly & def atty Iris Eytan. It states:
“The Morphew family was offered to retrieve Suzanne’s body, but “they want to ensure the suspect is apprehended before they take what could be an important piece of evidence in the suspect’s prosecution.”
** Ap. 29, 2024 article

Suzanne Morphew's death ruled a homicide, animal sedatives found in her body

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) - An autopsy by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office found missing Salida woman Suzanne Morphew was killed. On May 10, 2020,

krdo.com

So, who specifically “offered” and to which specific family member(s) was “offer” made?

For more than a year since Ap. 2024 autopsy report was completed, BM has failed to claim SM's remains IIUC.

Or have I missed an update? TiA.

I think they are most likely being held in the county where Suzanne remains were found. I would guess that Susan's remains were offered to her family, probably her brother and/or sister. If they were offered to BM and the daughters, and they didn't claim them, that tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about all of them.

Sounds like the Suzanne's side of the family just want to keep them in LE custody until after a trial just in case they might be needed, erring on the side of caution. I can't say I blame them, they know now that Suzanne has been found and will be laid properly to rest after the murdering psycho BM gets convicted and goes to prison for LWOP.

JMO