Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #71 *ARREST*

[10ofRods]

Morning everyone, asking again because last thread closed after my post. Does anyone know if the daughters have been able to visit him? Thanks

Don't know if anyone answered, but Chaffee County Detention Center isn't allowing in-person visits due to COVID. Visitors must register online and the visits are online as well. There is a small fee. I haven't been able to find out how many visitors they are allowed per day, but they have to go to a special room for the visit and each visit is about 30 minutes.

I doubt they get unlimited visits, but would really like to know how often the daughters call - if he gets one visit per day, I'm guessing they call him every day (it's video chat).

 

[Skigh]

No court today?

The next two court days are 23rd and 24th August.

 

[Chichi baby]

The next two court days are 23rd and 24th August.

Thank you

 

[scapa]

He strikes me as the kind of guy that would think buying illegal drugs to kill his wife with Bitcoin as being an extremely cool and self-congratulatory clever thing to do. Wonder if he also purchased Roofies to put in her drinks in case he didn't get a chance to use the dart gun.

"Drunk eyes" makes me think he might have put some in a favorite beverage of hers

Don't know about ketamine or about sourcing controlled substances from the web or wherever (can speak to sourcing in clinic or hospital which I'm pretty sure we can rule out for BM) but have two quick thoughts:

1) BM is on record as decrying the alleged drug use of various "methheads" he's employed, and I'd guess that he might have had access to street-level suppliers had he wanted

2) The "drunk eyes" and allusions to SM "taking the edge off" (paraphrasing) with a drink or several strikes me as yet another instance of BM looking to take over the narrative by replacing a fact (SM apparently snapping a sunbathing selfie for her lover) with the SM of his imagination (self-medicating floozy resorting to drugs/alcohol while flouting his needs) -- a pattern we seem to have seen over and over in this case

3) If BM was on the darkweb he will have hacked around and left a trail -- just don't see him having the patience or focus to build a Tor setup properly and vapour-trail a Bitcoin and then ketamine or whatever purchase -- this is not a simple mechanical thingie, even with a Tor-loaded browser like Brave, etc.

4) We have only seen the bare frame of the State's case -- key witness and other testimony is likely to nuance that frame in a much more thorough and convincing way, but the basic scheme of preparation, execution and cover-up is already pretty striking, IMO

5) Few criminals, even professionals, are jacks or jills of all trades, IMO. BM, with his hunting experience and landscaper training and equipment, may have managed a more thorough or efficient disposal than most, but we've already seen evidence of slip-ups in terms of the texts, attempts to "silence" truck data and the trash run, and there will be more to come. I have no idea what a jury is likely to think, but even if some of this evidence is thin, its combined weight is significant. IMO, MOO, etc.

 

[StarrDetective]

No court today?

Not until Monday 8/23 and Tuesday 8/24. That’s when it’s wrapping up.

 

[MassGuy]

So I remember talk of some sort of deer farm that Barry either owned or associated with back in Indiana.

I imagine this is how he may have been able to obtain the tranquilizer.

 

[Boxer]

@OldCop bringing these over from the media thread for

LS said in her youtube live, I believe is where I heard it, while on the drive back to Colorado Springs last evening that much time was used because the D was disorganized.

The D rolled large pieces of luggage into the courtroom, hence, one can only imagine the copious amounts of files and docs that were inside.

I also recall during testimony that the technology was not working properly in order to display graphs so that may have forced the D team to use push pins, but I don't know for certain that's why they did.

That the tech failed makes sense. Thats not cool.

 

[StarrDetective]

Question: Once this hearing is complete, do we know how soon we hear the judge’s decision as to whether he’ll be bound for trial?

 

[MassGuy]

Question: Once this hearing is complete, do we know how soon we hear the judge’s decision as to whether he’ll be bound for trial?

If the Patrick Frazee preliminary is any indication, it should be right at the end of day 4.

The judge found probable cause, and immediately ordered him held without bond.

 

[zencompass]

Tonight we go live at 10:00 PM EASTERN with Chris McDonough from The Interview Room.

Thank you @Tricia!

Tonight at 10:00 p.m., I will be watching along with everyone else!

 

[swedeheart]

 

[LandManatee]

MOO - On the map shown in court (with the push pins I believe) that showed BM’s movements within the home after it is alleged he shot SM, it was said that the map represents what may have been BM chasing SM around the home until she was rendered unconscious from the tranquilizer dart.

I actually think it was just BM’s rapid movements of adrenaline in engaging the coverup of his act. I do believe it was likely SM was shot while outside sunbathing shortly after her last selfie, and was caught unaware. Even if she stumbled to react, I don’t feel she would have gotten too far before becoming immobile. Had there been a chase around and in the house between SM and BM, I think there may have been some sort of evidence to a struggle. Maybe something broken that shouldn’t be; things of that nature.

What I would look for on that map (especially in the hour after he got home) are the following:

-Did BM go into Mallory’s room? (Stripping of sheets to wrap SM’s body)
-How many times did he go into the garage?
-Did he go into the laundry room?
-How many times did he go in and out of the back patio door area?
-Did he go near the security system box where it was discovered the cords had been disconnected?
-Did he spend time wherever the home computer was located? (Possibly booking the HIE room)

I had read a post that compared the use of a tranquilizer to a scene from the movie What Lies Beneath. In the movie Harrison Ford uses a tranquilizer to subdue his wife and then puts her in a bath tub to drown. I strongly feel this is the first part of what happened to SM but possibly in the hot tub instead of bath tub. I hate to admit, but it’s clever in that it explains no blood being found in the home. BM then likely used the bedsheets to wrap SM’s body in for concealment and transport out of the home. I feel extra chlorine tabs were used to clean up any bodily excretions within the water/tub. Faced with his wet clothes (and towels if used for cleanup and/or bedsheets), he likely put everything on a dry cycle, hence the discover of a forgotten dart cap in the drying machine.

MOO

 

[StarrDetective]

If the Patrick Frazee preliminary is any indication, it should be right at the end of day 4.

The judge found probable cause, and immediately ordered him held without bond.

Great! Thanks!

 

[jakat]

@Knox
Thinking about that. Why disrobe her and get rid of clothes?

I'm not sure, but Fotus Dulos disrobed Jennifer and threw her t-shirt and bra in the garbage. LE found both items.

 

[Scootie98]

I don’t think any reporter has commented on it. Monday a reporter tweeted that one of the girls was showing BM how much her hair had grown. So that sounds like they haven’t seen each other in awhile.
JMO

I do believe this. I think he took pleasure in planning this "hunt" too. At the end of the previous thread someone posted about BM and him not having an active affair that LE discovered. I think this was purposeful. I can't wait to hear about his past, I think the fact that he was not having an affair in 2020 is more unusual then him having one and being caught, because I think this guy was always on the hunt in many ways.

there was no evidence of BM having an affair....that is different than there was no affair. We don't know what we don't know...and so it is with LE.

 

[Cindizzi]

So the Salida hometown newspaper is the Mountain Mail and they were the first to be granted a seat in the courtroom. I expected to encounter a paywall, but didn’t when I went to check out their reporting.

First of all, THIS :

Suzanne grew up in Indiana and she and her family moved to Salida in 2008.

What?

And second of all, did any other reporter say THIS about JL ? :

Barry had not known about the affair. However, Harris said that in questioning Libler, Liler said if Barry had any idea he (Libler) and Suzanne were together Barry would have talked to him first and he didn’t think Barry had anything to do with her disappearance.

Preliminary trial reveals Suzanne had an affair

 

[Scootie98]

Tranquilizer darts themselves are pretty easy to purchase, it's the medication used with them that is controlled so it would be interesting to find out who purchased the remaining three found in the Morphew home, assuming the dart cap found in the dryer was the remaining fourth. If they were bought under the purview of the firehouse why would BM have them in his possession? Would he be able to legally buy the sedative that is used in the dart?

The uses of the darts seem to be fairly benign for wildlife and farm creatures from what I've read. However, they can be much more lethal used on a human if said human has a combination of other things in their system like alcohol and/or antidepressants.

Any research relating to acquisition or administration of tranquilizers on BM's phones or computers will be quite an interesting development, if it happened...as well as purchase documentation.

 

[Cindizzi]

there was no evidence of BM having an affair....that is different than there was no affair. We don't know what we don't know...and so it is with LE.

I was just answering someone wondering if the daughters had visited BM in jail. Perhaps you didn’t mean to quote me?

 

[StarrDetective]

So the Salida hometown newspaper is the Mountain Mail and they were the first to be granted a seat in the courtroom. I expected to encounter a paywall, but didn’t when I went to check out their reporting.

First of all, THIS :

Suzanne grew up in Indiana and she and her family moved to Salida in 2008.

What?

And second of all, did any other reporter say THIS about JL ? :

Barry had not known about the affair. However, Harris said that in questioning Libler, Liler said if Barry had any idea he (Libler) and Suzanne were together Barry would have talked to him first and he didn’t think Barry had anything to do with her disappearance.

Preliminary trial reveals Suzanne had an affair

Weird.

ETA- no mention of SM’s texts about MM2 suggesting she get a restraining order and divorce BM. No mention of a lot of less than favorable BM details…

 

[303gmf]

So the Salida hometown newspaper is the Mountain Mail and they were the first to be granted a seat in the courtroom. I expected to encounter a paywall, but didn’t when I went to check out their reporting.

First of all, THIS :

Suzanne grew up in Indiana and she and her family moved to Salida in 2008.

What?

And second of all, did any other reporter say THIS about JL ? :

Barry had not known about the affair. However, Harris said that in questioning Libler, Liler said if Barry had any idea he (Libler) and Suzanne were together Barry would have talked to him first and he didn’t think Barry had anything to do with her disappearance.

Preliminary trial reveals Suzanne had an affair

Ugh! Lazy hometown journalist
I expected better