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

[marylamby]

Classic behaviour.
Borce Ristevski also couldn't get those words out of his own mouth "I didn't have anything to do with the disappearance of my wife". So he allowed his daughter (and, at one very early point, his wife's aunt) to spring to his defense in front of a bunch of journos.

As far as the daughters distancing themselves, it will all depend on how much loyalty they feel. Will they testify against BM? Are they still visiting him in jail, perhaps providing him with extras so he doesn't have to have only jail fare? Time will tell, but after following the Ristevski case, there is a chance that the daughters remain under his manipulative spell - despite loving their mother too.

He's got money and his lawyer to see that he gets his Jiff and granola.
As for his daughters, it may even come down to their faith. If they're called to testify (and I think they will be), they'll swear on the bible to tell the truth. I hope their mother's memory and influence on their lives will compel them to do so.

 

[DeDee]

They technically don’t need to if they have enough evidence that he killed her. My thought is if their evidence is weak, motive might help the jury…but they don’t need one.

By law, revealing a killer's motive to the Jury is not required of the Prosecution Team. However, thus far, we are trying a case for Murder 1 without a body. 26 years of marriage, cancer survivor, gorgeous daughters and a million dollar home. Jury is going to want to know why he felt he had to murder a beautiful lady such as Suzanne.

That's when all the strong evidence will be presented that will reveal Barry's bold and dastardly steps toward freedom. We only know a small portion of the tip of that iceberg.

If the Lord is willing, reveal where this sweet lady can be found.

 

[mom2chloe]

Stunning manipulation from Barry here. He sends his daughter outside to chase Lauren and her friend off. When Lauren shows her the text that Barry has been communicating with them, she offers to go inside and get Barry.

Both emerge from the house, and the daughter is very emotional. Barry weaponizes this, by saying “look at what you’re doing to my daughter.”

He knew they were outside, he knew the reporters only wanted to talk to him, but he put her in the middle in order to turn the tables and basically make himself a victim of overzealous reporters who were traumatizing his family.

What a guy.

When the daughter left, Lauren and her friend tried to speak with Barry again. They could hear the tv, but he never answered the door.

As they were preparing to leave, the daughter suddenly returned. So they speculate that Barry once again tried to use her to run interference.

Barry is a total misogynist IMO and all of this proves it. I remind you he is a man with one living mother and two sisters at least one of whom have covered for him life long. IMO
He should never be granted bail because he has nothing to lose and hell will rain down. IMO
His girls are at extreme risk if he is released. IMO

 

[sk716]

I think the motive is going to be solid; we will know why Barry did this.

I’d be stunned if it wasn’t financially motivated.

I'll be stunned if it was financially motivated. Even the slightest bit of suspicion can put a halt to estate payouts. If he was cash strapped, he had better options for quick funds and being as SM was just beating her second round of chemo, there wasn't going to be any life insurance. I think she was going to leave and was laying the groundwork when he found out. His ego couldn't take the hit. He probably had a crap ton of illegal stuff going on in his businesses that she could burn him with and she would get everything ... wait, sorry, just found that feasible financial motive. It's a stupid motive, because he loses everything either way.

 

[steeltowngirl]

I'll be stunned if it was financially motivated. Even the slightest bit of suspicion can put a halt to estate payouts. If he was cash strapped, he had better options for quick funds and being as SM was just beating her second round of chemo, there wasn't going to be any life insurance. I think she was going to leave and was laying the groundwork when he found out. His ego couldn't take the hit. He probably had a crap ton of illegal stuff going on in his businesses that she could burn him with and she would get everything ... wait, sorry, just found that feasible financial motive. It's a stupid motive, because he loses everything either way.

I don’t know if Suzanne had life insurance, or if it factors at all into the case, but it’s not impossible. Life insurance that is purchased before a major illness, such as cancer, is still in full force during and after that illness is treated. And in the event that the insured dies during the course of that illness and premium payments are up to date, the full death benefit is applicable and paid in full.

I realize Suzanne had cancer as a young person, but she may have been cancer-free for a number of years before it reoccurred, and a policy may have been purchased and in effect.

Suzanne’s sister has mentioned there were financial problems, so it’s not a stretch to consider finances as one motivator. There may be others.

Finances may have been motive for Suzanne Morphew’s presumed murder, sister says

 

[JosieMae]

Good thinking. I’m still wishing for an explanation why she couldn’t report from the search, seemed really unfair!

I believe it was out of concern for her safety. LS was essentially MIA until after the arrest.

 

[303gmf]

I believe it was out of concern for her safety. LS was essentially MIA until after the arrest.

Agree, my nosy mind wants all the dirty deets and soon!

 

[MassGuy]

I'll be stunned if it was financially motivated. Even the slightest bit of suspicion can put a halt to estate payouts. If he was cash strapped, he had better options for quick funds and being as SM was just beating her second round of chemo, there wasn't going to be any life insurance. I think she was going to leave and was laying the groundwork when he found out. His ego couldn't take the hit. He probably had a crap ton of illegal stuff going on in his businesses that she could burn him with and she would get everything ... wait, sorry, just found that feasible financial motive. It's a stupid motive, because he loses everything either way.

Yup. Barry doesn’t strike me as the type to worry about such things.

I don’t think this is going to be all that complicated. Suzanne starts talking about divorce, Barry knows he’s going to lose half his assets, the house, and his lifestyle.

So murder is the easy way out.

 

[Alethea]

They technically don’t need to if they have enough evidence that he killed her. My thought is if their evidence is weak, motive might help the jury…but they don’t need one.

Juries generally like to know why a crime happened. But IMO that's most important when there's no relationship (or strong relationship) between the victims. Why did someone randomly kill their coworker? Couldn't it have been someone else?

Domestic violence is so common that I think jurors understand all the reasons one spouse may kill the other. Jealousy, finances, control, etc. It shouldn't be that hard for Suzanne's friends to give the jury a few reasons to think about.

 

[TKG]

Yup. Barry doesn’t strike me as the type to worry about such things.

I don’t think this is going to be all that complicated. Suzanne starts talking about divorce, Barry knows he’s going to lose half his assets, the house, and his lifestyle.

So murder is the easy way out.

I agree with the financial motive. I also think it will come to light that there was some recreational substance abuse by BM. MOO IMO

 

[MassGuy]

I agree with the financial motive. I also think it will come to light that there was some recreational substance abuse by BM. MOO IMO

I actually think that if Barry was using anything, it was steroids.

 

[10ofRods]

Barry is a total misogynist IMO and all of this proves it. I remind you he is a man with one living mother and two sisters at least one of whom have covered for him life long. IMO
He should never be granted bail because he has nothing to lose and hell will rain down. IMO
His girls are at extreme risk if he is released. IMO

I agree that he's a big risk to others if released. I sure hope the judge agrees. Right now, I think the Court is prepared to keep him inside until the trial is over.

I actually think that if Barry was using anything, it was steroids.

For sure - at least, that's my opinion based on body metrics and their rapid shift in the year post-disappearance (where he was under scrutiny),

But, he did admit to hanging around with "meth heads," and meth is sometimes used as a "bump" in body building (during the "cutting" phase, where they are trying to lose body fat and gain muscle definition). So given his vanity, I wouldn't be surprised if he knew where to get it and might well have used it Saturday night in order to perform some pretty time-consuming and super-human feats, without sleeping (so he crashed the next day at the hotel room, as would be normal for someone who only had a couple of hits of meth on their person, which is how the body builders keep themselves from all out addiction - they buy small amounts and their supplier may be the steroid supplier as well; IME).

It's also possible he was using nothing and just has lots of T-receptors in his biceps and calves.

 

[TIGER0822]

Classic behaviour.
Borce Ristevski also couldn't get those words out of his own mouth "I didn't have anything to do with the disappearance of my wife". So he allowed his daughter (and, at one very early point, his wife's aunt) to spring to his defense in front of a bunch of journos.

As far as the daughters distancing themselves, it will all depend on how much loyalty they feel. Will they testify against BM? Are they still visiting him in jail, perhaps providing him with extras so he doesn't have to have only jail fare? Time will tell, but after following the Ristevski case, there is a chance that the daughters remain under his manipulative spell - despite loving their mother too.

 

[kkdj]

I actually think that if Barry was using anything, it was steroids.

Same. he was into his body.

 

[10ofRods]

Ok, thanks to @Cindizzi the mystery is solved. In the audio clip towards the bottom of the article, Gene speaks to Lauren about spending time with Suzanne in Okeechobee, Florida “two years ago.” So we’re probably talking about Christmas of 2018. In any event, it proves that Barry is a lying liar who lies.

‘People don’t know the truth’: Suzanne Morphew’s husband breaks silence after three months | FOX21 News Colorado

I wonder if that's the previously mentioned Florida trip where Suzanne wanted or planned to go by herself, but Barry showed up.

So, in summer 2018, Barry signs up for volunteer firefighter training (probably level 1) in Salida. By November, they have purchased the Puma Path house, IIRC, without a bank loan (but we don't know if paper was taken back by the prior owner or if Barry knew the owners). Then we have the Christmas photo from 2019, I believe it was (it's Christmas morning, according to Suzanne's FB, the one where Barry is reading the Bible). So perhaps Suzanne wanted a kind of family reunion before she moved "out west." FL would be a good place for everyone to meet up.

I believe the road trip to visit the colleges (Barry and elder daughter, posted on Suzanne's FB, posted here as well), was Spring 2018. I'm just trying to piece together when Suzanne may have first gone to CO - did she go househunting when they bought the house in November? Or did she just look at pictures? MM says Suzanne liked the house - but we can't know for sure if that was "in love with the house" or "in love with the house Barry wanted." Many a person has fake-liked something in order to placate an ornery or abusive spouse.

Barry claims it had been 3 years since she was estranged from her family (so from early-mid 2017). Why would she be avoiding her family even before the move and even before the loan that Gene graciously gave them? Clearly, they were in touch with her family when the loan was made (and according to the siblings, afterwards, although there may have been some squabbling...)

Now we know that she reached out to her father just a month before her disappearance, and that she corresponded with Andy on her birthday - just days before she went missing. Was this renewed interest in her own family and this reaching out...uncomfortable for Barry?

Maybe he's a grudge collector.

Or someone who is really bad with estimating time. Or is motivated to estimate time in order to support his own grandiosity. By this, I mean, it's *his* calendar that counts as history and he is accustomed to restaging the past. Again, I know this sounds really familiar to a lot of you.

I mean, he did eventually put the long gun down and let Andy come on his property to look around. Not exactly to "look for Suzanne," but I bet that's what Barry's timeline says.

 

[Seattle1]

I wonder if that's the previously mentioned Florida trip where Suzanne wanted or planned to go by herself, but Barry showed up.

So, in summer 2018, Barry signs up for volunteer firefighter training (probably level 1) in Salida. By November, they have purchased the Puma Path house, IIRC, without a bank loan (but we don't know if paper was taken back by the prior owner or if Barry knew the owners). Then we have the Christmas photo from 2019, I believe it was (it's Christmas morning, according to Suzanne's FB, the one where Barry is reading the Bible). So perhaps Suzanne wanted a kind of family reunion before she moved "out west." FL would be a good place for everyone to meet up.

I believe the road trip to visit the colleges (Barry and elder daughter, posted on Suzanne's FB, posted here as well), was Spring 2018. I'm just trying to piece together when Suzanne may have first gone to CO - did she go househunting when they bought the house in November? Or did she just look at pictures? MM says Suzanne liked the house - but we can't know for sure if that was "in love with the house" or "in love with the house Barry wanted." Many a person has fake-liked something in order to placate an ornery or abusive spouse.

Barry claims it had been 3 years since she was estranged from her family (so from early-mid 2017). Why would she be avoiding her family even before the move and even before the loan that Gene graciously gave them? Clearly, they were in touch with her family when the loan was made (and according to the siblings, afterwards, although there may have been some squabbling...)

Now we know that she reached out to her father just a month before her disappearance, and that she corresponded with Andy on her birthday - just days before she went missing. Was this renewed interest in her own family and this reaching out...uncomfortable for Barry?

Maybe he's a grudge collector.

Or someone who is really bad with estimating time. Or is motivated to estimate time in order to support his own grandiosity. By this, I mean, it's *his* calendar that counts as history and he is accustomed to restaging the past. Again, I know this sounds really familiar to a lot of you.

I mean, he did eventually put the long gun down and let Andy come on his property to look around. Not exactly to "look for Suzanne," but I bet that's what Barry's timeline says.

I think there's a more accurate timeline for Morphews and the Colorado connection on SM's Twitter.

It's pretty clear that the daughter was eyeing schools in Colorado since late 2015. SM/BM may have been window shopping for their next home as early as 2016.

I believe the daughter enrolled in Colorado school in 2017 and the Morphews relocated in 2018.

MOO

 

[jondaba]

By law, revealing a killer's motive to the Jury is not required of the Prosecution Team. However, thus far, we are trying a case for Murder 1 without a body. 26 years of marriage, cancer survivor, gorgeous daughters and a million dollar home. Jury is going to want to know why he felt he had to murder a beautiful lady such as Suzanne.

That's when all the strong evidence will be presented that will reveal Barry's bold and dastardly steps toward freedom. We only know a small portion of the tip of that iceberg.

If the Lord is willing, reveal where this sweet lady can be found.

Amen!

 

[10ofRods]

I think there's a more accurate timeline for Morphews and the Colorado connection on SM's Twitter.

It's pretty clear that the daughter was eyeing schools in Colorado since late 2015. SM/BM may have been window shopping for their next home as early as 2016.

I believe the daughter enrolled in Colorado school in 2017 and the Morphews relocated in 2018.

MOO

Thank you - and thank you for your earlier information, as well (about the timeline). I need to change that college search trip on my timeline - I'm sure you're right about it being 2017 now that I think about it.

It's a stressful phase for some families (children moving out), and moving in general is often way more stressful than anticipated. What keeps coming into my mind is that Barry plowed ahead, meeting people, making friends, networking, attempting to restart his business in the lean times of CO landscaping, while Suzanne's cancer recurred and she had to deal with that. I'd say this is a highly stressed family. Taking on a new mortgage is a stressor, and their financial situation seems to have been strongly tested. Leaving behind one's hometown/home state is always a shift. I feel as if this whole tragedy could have been averted with some professional care and counseling, but who knows...

 

[Seattle1]

Thank you - and thank you for your earlier information, as well (about the timeline). I need to change that college search trip on my timeline - I'm sure you're right about it being 2017 now that I think about it.

It's a stressful phase for some families (children moving out), and moving in general is often way more stressful than anticipated. What keeps coming into my mind is that Barry plowed ahead, meeting people, making friends, networking, attempting to restart his business in the lean times of CO landscaping, while Suzanne's cancer recurred and she had to deal with that. I'd say this is a highly stressed family. Taking on a new mortgage is a stressor, and their financial situation seems to have been strongly tested. Leaving behind one's hometown/home state is always a shift. I feel as if this whole tragedy could have been averted with some professional care and counseling, but who knows...

I dunno about averting the situation. Since I'm of the mind that BM's motivation was financial, I see a situation where they weathered the storm, they were going to be cashed out on the contract sale of their Indiana residence in a couple of weeks, and I think SM either wanted to end the marriage or she was not in agreement with BM's plans for the proceeds. Within only weeks of SM disappearing, we know BM immediately purchased the Longhorn Estates lot.

Perhaps SM voiced she was not in agreement with BM -- maybe for the first time, and he could not handle it.

I think BM was already resolved to losing SM to cancer and had already detached from her. MOO

 

[K9Enzo]

Was it true BM bought property for his mom with a plan to build a home for her? Like my MIL or not, I would have strong feelings on that. IMO