Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #63 *ARREST*

[Momofthreeboys]

I notice that there are litte tabs at the top of each section that open info for Dec 2015 and info for Dec 2019.

When looking at the Assets, it started with $4,680 in assets in Dec 2015 ('earliest'). Then when flicking to Dec 2019 ('latest') it shows $6,680 in assets.

The tax filing (further down) in 2015 shows the $4,680 as contributions/gifts/grants/and similar amounts (public support) received.
The tax filing in 2019 shows $6,680 in cash/savings/investments.

Somewhere along the line, the foundation had a gain in assets over 5 years of $2,000. Though nothing was received in 2019.
It is not possible to see where the $2,000 was contributed as it only shows the tax returns for 2015 and 2019.

Wherever the assets were held, it doesn't seem that they earned interest. Because I would think that interest would show up as an odd amount (eg: $33.26 or some other odd amount).

The laws are pretty complex and there are multiple types of private foundations and all kinds of different reporting rules. Foundation Basics

 

[Error505]

I think they will go to trial unless for some reason there’s a plea to a significantly lesser charge due to some issue with the state’s case. Usually the state won’t do that if they have enough evidence and defendants like this think they’ll be able to talk their way out of it at trial so you get to a standstill.

Defendants like this often have a whole theory how they’re being persecuted and railroaded by the state and jurors won’t buy it. They are very difficult to defend.

BBM re: Railroaded Defendant - Yes, I’d like to see this defense team convince a jury that “Out to Get Barry” includes:

Chaffee County Sheriff
CBI
and the FBI
all Witnesses and SM’s family
That won’t fly! Only way you don’t get a conviction is a sympathetic juror. My 2 cents and all that jazz from a non-legal person. Enjoy your day in the concrete condo Barry! MOO

 

[steeltowngirl]

We can’t really talk about other people but I am super curious what and who a “key witness” might be other than people directly related to the timeline and Barry’s travels and those who can confirm last sightings of Suzanne.

Others might include witnesses that could speak to the deliberation aspect of the murder charge. Someone who knew Barry pondered the murder, and intended to kill Suzanne. Someone close to Barry.

 

[Knox]

I've lost track of details, when is the next court hearing? Will the AA be released?

 

[steeltowngirl]

I've lost track of details, when is the next court hearing? Will the AA be released?

There are 7 hearings and conferences scheduled starting 8/9/21.
Colorado Judicial Branch - Court Docket Search

The AA release follows the expiration of the order to seal. The order will expire 7 days after the conclusion of the Proof Evidence Presumption Great Hearing and Preliminary Hearing, which is scheduled to be completed on August 24, 2021. The court has concerns with the amount of information in the 130-page affidavit.
Judge files order keeping arrest affidavit for Barry Morphew sealed | FOX21 News Colorado

 

[Niner]

I've lost track of details, when is the next court hearing? Will the AA be released?

Preliminary hearings on 8/9, 8/10, 8/23 & 8/24. AA "might" be released 7 days after the last preliminary hearing of 8/24....

Oops - didn't see your post @steeltowngirl ....

edited to add: Status hearing on 8/9, 8/10 & 8/24 for the voter fraud charge.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Preliminary hearings on 8/9, 8/10, 8/23 & 8/24. AA "might" be released 7 days after the last preliminary hearing of 8/24....

Oops - didn't see your post @steeltowngirl ....

edited to add: Status hearing on 8/9, 8/10 & 8/24 for the voter fraud charge.

Fine and probation on the voter fraud? Is that what we suspect will happen?

 

[al66pine]

Body Moved? Why Risk?

There have been theories here that the body was moved, why is this a suspicion? Why would BM risk moving the body?

@TIGER0822 Moved? IF LE collected evd indicating or if LE determined SM was killed in the house but did not find her body there, then yes, her body must have been moved.*

Why would BM risk moving SM's body? Because BM realized - LE finding SM's body at their home would point to him as the killer, more likely than virtually any other person.*
After killing her at their home and immed'ly moving body to a location to which he had a connection (e.g., a past work or hunting site), he may have later moved body again to a different location unconnected to him. IOW trying to distance himself as a suspect.

Not saying BM did this, just thinking of possibilities. my2ct.
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* Not trying to be a smart aleck. Conceivably, there's a chance (one in a bazillion?) BM was not responsible for either killing or moving. IRL crime, when a dead body is moved, it's likely the killer or an accomplice did it. So, a possible sequence of events for LE to consider investigating, imo.

 

[charminglane]

As a volunteer FF, BM had access to a gas mask or other breathing apparatus.
Makes moving a decomposing body easier, I would think.
Not sure if he moved her. Less chance of witnesses, gps, phone data, or cameras if only in one place.

 

[Boxer]

Preliminary hearings on 8/9, 8/10, 8/23 & 8/24. AA "might" be released 7 days after the last preliminary hearing of 8/24....

Oops - didn't see your post @steeltowngirl ....

edited to add: Status hearing on 8/9, 8/10 & 8/24 for the voter fraud charge.

Why is the date for the AA for murder tied to a voter fraud charge? MOO they are doing all they can to get a plea out if him.
MOO his attorneys wont go for it. They have succeeded in getting juries to see police as stupid and biased.
They only need one biased, anti-police juror, MOO easy to do in a polarized atmosphere.

 

[Error505]

As a volunteer FF, BM had access to a gas mask or other breathing apparatus.
Makes moving a decomposing body easier, I would think.
Not sure if he moved her. Less chance of witnesses, gps, phone data, or cameras if only in one place.

BBM Discussion:
As a VFF, what all did BM have access to? Does VFF have an incinerator for disposing of roadkill, fire hazards, etc? Does VFF have access to ATVs, trucks or equipment w/o GPS?
Spezze refused to let any VFF assist in searches from the get go! Why? Any ideas? Most are trained in search & rescue!
FYI
Firehouse #5 isn’t far from PP.
16820 County Road 220, Salida, CO 81201
Google Earth Map VFF #5
Google Earth
Screenshot from #GoogleMap
EBM to add #5 address

 

[Error505]

Others might include witnesses that could speak to the deliberation aspect of the murder charge. Someone who knew Barry pondered the murder, and intended to kill Suzanne. Someone close to Barry.

According to a post by FOX News on FB, by May 18, 2020 LE reported having received 150 Tips. That’s quite a few tips for that size of community, and we know they weren’t reporting sightings of stranger abductions. I think they were reporting BM sightings, comings and goings. screenshot of article
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[10ofRods]

Body Moved? Why Risk?
@TIGER0822 Moved? IF LE collected evd indicating or if LE determined SM was killed in the house but did not find her body there, then yes, her body must have been moved.*

Why would BM risk moving SM's body? Because BM realized - LE finding SM's body at their home would point to him as the killer, more likely than virtually any other person.*
After killing her at their home and immed'ly moving body to a location to which he had a connection (e.g., a past work or hunting site), he may have later moved body again to a different location unconnected to him. IOW trying to distance himself as a suspect.

Not saying BM did this, just thinking of possibilities. my2ct.
______________________________
* Not trying to be a smart aleck. Conceivably, there's a chance (one in a bazillion?) BM was not responsible for either killing or moving. IRL crime, when a dead body is moved, it's likely the killer or an accomplice did it. So, a possible sequence of events for LE to consider investigating, imo.

Well, I think the primary reason to hide the body is to remove evidence about cause of death.

I don't think she was killed inside the house, anyway. Maybe on the property, but not in the house. IMO.

I think Suzanne's body would have given lots of evidence as to who murdered her.

 

[TKG]

Well, I think the primary reason to hide the body is to remove evidence about cause of death.

I don't think she was killed inside the house, anyway. Maybe on the property, but not in the house. IMO.

I think Suzanne's body would have given lots of evidence as to who murdered her.

Where do you think she was killed? Do you have a theory?? You're not alone in your thinking, i've always believed it was in the house or on the property. Interested in your theory, they are always well considered

 

[windrower]

BBM Discussion:
As a VFF, what all did BM have access to? Does VFF have an incinerator for disposing of roadkill, fire hazards, etc? Does VFF have access to ATVs, trucks or equipment w/o GPS?
Spezze refused to let any VFF assist in searches from the get go! Why? Any ideas? Most are trained in search & rescue!
FYI
Firehouse #5 isn’t far from PP.
16820 County Road 220, Salida, CO 81201
Google Earth Map VFF #5
Google Earth
Screenshot from #GoogleMap
EBM to add #5 address

I’ve always been a bit more interested in the Colorado Firecamp, which is north of Maysville on Hwy 240. Looks like some trails take off from there, and less-populated roads are very close off of 240.

Of further interest, is that a person mentioned as a BM friend lives right off of 240, close to where it intersects Hwy 50. Now if this is where BM was staying when he couldn’t be in the Puma Path house, then he very well could have been pacing and looking out windows, as described by the friend early on.

But not to, maybe, catch a glimpse of his missing wife (as if!), but to see if any LE activity was taking place on Hwy 240 and up the road at the firecamp area.

And I’ll apologize in advance for this next thought. Early on, a member here posted about a wood chipper on-site at the firecamp (iirc, this was verified) and its possible use by BM. I was never onboard with the idea that BM had used such with SUZANNE.

But with the judge setting up a protection of sorts for the daughters with the delay of releasing the AA (and I realize a very gruesome act may not be one of the reasons the judge did so), and Error505’s post today about the fire house reminding me of the firecamp, well, I went a little way down that dark road.

My theory all along has been BM took SUZANNE up in the national forest south of the Puma Path house, which is not based on anything other than my suppositions and thought processes.

I hope LE has been able to narrow down the areas of burial possibilities.

 

[al66pine]

Why Move Body?

Well, I think the primary reason to hide the body is to remove evidence about cause of death.
I don't think she was killed inside the house, anyway. Maybe on the property, but not in the house. IMO. I think Suzanne's body would have given lots of evidence as to who murdered her.

@10ofRods bbm Thx for your post, good points. Yes, moving body often removes evd of CoD, esp'ly when body is not recovered for months. And as you say, Suzanne's body may give/would have given lots of evidence as to who murdered her.
Also as I mentioned, moving it away from victim's & perp's home/crime scene also distances BM (only a little bit, not far) as being the perp, rather than someone else as perp.
BM's stmts to LE in this case indicate he did not want SM's body/remains to be located at all, did not want LE to investigate disappearance as a death.

 

[10ofRods]

Where do you think she was killed? Do you have a theory?? You're not alone in your thinking, i've always believed it was in the house or on the property. Interested in your theory, they are always well considered

Well, if someone truly didn't act impulsively but instead deliberated how to do it, suffocation would be one theory. If the murderer chose drowning instead, he'd obviously want to get the body hidden well. No coroner could mistake hot tub or bath tub drowning for creek or lake drowning. Anyway, if it happened in the house, there was no large amount of blood or else charges would have been filed sooner. IMO.

Strangulation (which is one of the most common ways for a spouse to kill their partner) generally leaves lots of forensic evidence.

In watching this case, I thought it was fascinating that Barry found it "too soon" to talk about Suzanne's disappearance until about 10 days after she was gone. He was clearly still nervous about the situation.

But after about a month, he starts to think about filing court paperwork, does some travel, may even resume seeing the girlfriend (IMO). To me that indicates that he had a date in mind past which the body, if found, would tell medical examiners much less.

So if he put her in water, after a month, a lot of evidence of strangulation would be gone, as well as any bruises or defensive marks on her body. If he put her in a grave or a mine shaft, there would probably still be evidence of bruises and defensive marks on her body, as well as easily recovered evidence about the state of her lungs (which would tell a lot about manner of death - and perhaps place of the murder).

Barry just kept getting more and more confident. I find it strange that he brandished a weapon to keep Andy Moorman and company off his property, that he allowed friends to mobilize to scare off AWP. In the first 2-3 months he really didn't want that body to be found.

By the time he moved out of Puma Path, he may have been convinced that both his story about what happened and the forensic evidence of the body might dovetail.

OTOH, my gut tells me that he put her body someplace off the property (so that when found much later, disarticulated, it might look like a "mountain lion got her"). Or that she "went into the water." Whatever Barry did, he was confident that the crucial period of finding forensic evidence that was truly damning was over.

So, I think strangulation (perhaps with his arm against her windpipe with consistent pressure rather than a grab and strangle scenario) or suffocation or perhaps drowning are the most likely possibilities.

Sometimes I think he simply took her on a walk to a predetermined place, with that short rifle. If he shot her, though, he has to be very worried that the body will be located. Very hard to shoot a person without leaving clear forensic evidence. If he actually thought he had managed to do that (shoot without leaving evidence in the bones), he's both really stupid and really arrogant. Entirely possible.

Now, if 10-20 years passes before she is found, it'll be hard to prove conclusively which gun killed her. But his behavior for the past year shows me a man who is not particularly worried about forensic evidence and has already spun stories to cover what might be found. A stranger could have strangled her (we'd most likely have no evidence of defensive wounds on her body). A stranger could have drowned her. Or she could have just fallen in the water after her bike accident.

So...the prosecution needs to show that there was never a bike ride, for starters.

If Barry believed his body itself smelled of cadaverine after moving Suzanne, and that he might be leaving evidence around his own house/kitchen and therefore, he bleached areas in house - that, to me, says he disposed of a body. If no bike ride and Barry Morphew had to disinfect his house, his tool box, his own body, etc., well...you see where I'm going.

 

[Error505]

I’ve always been a bit more interested in the Colorado Firecamp, which is north of Maysville on Hwy 240. Looks like some trails take off from there, and less-populated roads are very close off of 240.

Of further interest, is that a person mentioned as a BM friend lives right off of 240, close to where it intersects Hwy 50. Now if this is where BM was staying when he couldn’t be in the Puma Path house, then he very well could have been pacing and looking out windows, as described by the friend early on.

But not to, maybe, catch a glimpse of his missing wife (as if!), but to see if any LE activity was taking place on Hwy 240 and up the road at the firecamp area.

And I’ll apologize in advance for this next thought. Early on, a member here posted about a wood chipper on-site at the firecamp (iirc, this was verified) and its possible use by BM. I was never onboard with the idea that BM had used such with SUZANNE.

But with the judge setting up a protection of sorts for the daughters with the delay of releasing the AA (and I realize a very gruesome act may not be one of the reasons the judge did so), and Error505’s post today about the fire house reminding me of the firecamp, well, I went a little way down that dark road.

My theory all along has been BM took SUZANNE up in the national forest south of the Puma Path house, which is not based on anything other than my suppositions and thought processes.

I hope LE has been able to narrow down the areas of burial possibilities.

I’ve got my eye on VFF #5 - just wished we had a local who could tell us what is in and around the #5 facility. I know there are hundreds of old mines located just in Chaffee County - 361 to be exact, but most are on private property
Chaffee County, Colorado Mines
Speculation & MOO

 

[GordianKnot]

Why is the date for the AA for murder tied to a voter fraud charge? MOO they are doing all they can to get a plea out if him.
MOO his attorneys wont go for it. They have succeeded in getting juries to see police as stupid and biased.
They only need one biased, anti-police juror, MOO easy to do in a polarized atmosphere.

The voter fraud charge is not tied to the murder charge at all.

It was filed as a completely separate charge.

That charge the DA filed r/t voter fraud has nothing to do with trying to negotiate a plea.

It's simply about holding Barry accountable for all of the crimes he's committed.

JMO.

 

[155etta]

I’ve got my eye on VFF #5 - just wished we had a local who could tell us what is in and around the #5 facility. I know there are hundreds of old mines located just in Chaffee County - 361 to be exact, but most are on private property
Chaffee County, Colorado Mines
Speculation & MOO

Is this the "5" that PE was teasing about??