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

[10ofRods]

@oviedo, thank you for that amazing timeline.

Clearly, despite airplane mode, there's still GPS data (just as in the To Live and Die in L.A. podcast). So I would expect the GPS expert person to be on the stand and we will be in for a long and bumpy-for-Barry ride.

He definitely took his phone to Bloomfield. However, obviously, they're still checking out all the possible stops where he could have put a body. And sadly, I think it's possible he didn't take a phone on that particular trip (nor a vehicle that had a GPS module).

He has managed to hide her body extremely well. I'm so sad today for what she went through.

 

[DizzyB]

We also know that BM was a big game hunter that took exotic trips across the globe to "trophy hunt." I have no doubt that BM had access to serious, tranquilizer material.

CM/Interview Room further reported that BM and his bobcat were working in Indiana last year on or around the property of another large deer farm. The owner of the property is believed to be a longtime friend of BM. Personally, I think this individual was the matching donor to BM's $100K reward for SM.

MOO

https://www.wildlifefarmdatabase.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IN.pdf
Barry is on page 6, Hamilton County, as a licensed game breeder of deer.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

The wearing off in 30 minutes has some very serious implications, IMHO:

1. He has ~30 minutes to get her restrained, moved, secured if she is kept alive.

2. He has ~30 minutes to kill her. I think drowning in the hot tub is a very real possibility.

In trying to draw attention away from the act, he may have actually called attention to it by spending time at the store to buy all that chlorine.

We don't know what "all that" chlorine is. Could be a normal amount someone would keep on hand for a hot tub. Remember Suzanne sent him a text reminding him to stop and get pool supplies.

 

[oviedo]

We also know that BM was a big game hunter that took exotic trips across the globe to "trophy hunt." I have no doubt that BM had access to serious, tranquilizer material.

CM/Interview Room further reported that BM and his bobcat were working in Indiana last year on or around the property of another large deer farm. The owner of the property is believed to be a longtime friend of BM. Personally, I think this individual was the matching donor to BM's $100K reward for SM.

MOO

BBM
I always thought it was the boyfriends father - and we never really knew if BM put up "his" $100,000 so that it could even be matched - I wonder if the other $100,000 is now being used for his defense because I do think the "matching" funds were delivered.
JMO

 

[Momofthreeboys]

This particular killer had use of heavy equipment (including an auger), a trailer to haul it, and the benefit of time and complete control over his own work schedule. BM may have made his hole weeks before SM disappeared and that hole sat temporarily filled until his moment to use it arrived. The only constraint would be that it would have to be a location in relatively close proximity to where he could haul that trailer with equipment aboard.

He didn't haul it with his truck....at least not based on what we heard yesterday that his truck only moved one time and a very short distance perhaps down his driveway....between the time he got home and the time he left for Broomfield. If it didn't read the tweets correctly, please someone correct me.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

And then he could leave said shovel (and a rake) in the lobby of HIE Broomsfield.

Whatever happened to all of those tools, anyway?
Did he wash those off first, so no trace of area soil sample?

jmoo

Didn't sound like it....sounded like the surveillance cameras showed him going to his truck and bringing his tools to the lobby if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Warwick7]

At 4:44 p.m., BM’s truck door opened and closed. At 5:25 p.m., the gear shift went from park to reverse and moved backward in the driveway 95 feet-At 10:17 p.m. on May 9, BM's phone was taken off airplane mode and it was home.

I think he used a second vehicle to take her somewhere and his phone was in airplane mode the whole time until he returned home at 10:17pm

SM's phone made an outgoing call at 2:53am of May 10. That was a half an hour before the door event occurred on BM's truck.

Curious who the phone called? Was it a mistake - did they have similar phones ?

At 3:25 a.m. May 10, BM’s truck doors were opened and closed. The phone moved toward the location where the bike was found, according to Grusing.

I think he was planting the bike during this time - however, MH said it was very steep so that seems dangerous in the dark?

At 4:31 a.m. May 10, BM's phone went back into airplane mode. His phone came back online and he traveled toward Broomfield. Agent Grusing pointed out that GPS can still be tracked when a phone is on airplane mode.

Walker said the last activity on Suzanne’s phone was from 4:23 a.m. on May 10, 2020. Her phone pinged from a cell tower in Poncha Springs - Around 5:37 a.m., BM was heading towards Buena Vista, driving through Johnson Village.

I think the phone is between that cell tower in Poncha Springs and Broomfield - was he dumb enough to put the cell phone in a public trash can? Poncha Market on May 12 together with the note?
And a store manager at the Poncha Market described an encounter with Suzanne’s husband, a few days after Suzanne’s disappearance was publicized.

“Somebody knocked on the window and it was Barry Morphew,” Tiffany Butala said.

The note left by Barry, Courtesy of Poncha Market
Butala is a store manager at the market and watched Barry on May 12th around 8 p.m. write the note on the back of a receipt.
‘People don’t know the truth’: Suzanne Morphew’s husband breaks silence after three months | FOX21 News Colorado

so many theories we had about what he was doing, why and where - and to only get pieces of the timeline (knowing the AA is full of details) is frustrating.
ETA - the note was written on may 12 so he didn't put that in the trash on May 10 - i just can't believe he would put the phone in the trash in the first place.

Yes after reading everything I came to the conclusion that he used a second vehicle. Older vehicle or an all-terrain vehicle.

 

[Warwick7]

Its a really risky tactic.

I ran an animal unit for drug studies and have administered many of the drugs he would have needed to use. Direct IV and the animal may go down very quickly. Some animals react very badly and don't go down for minutes while in between they get very agitated as they go under. If the drug is not delivered IV then the physiology happens much more slowly. If he shot her with a dart she almost certainly would have had time to scream and even run a short distance.

Thank you for the info....but, crap not what I wanted to hear.

 

[Boxer]

And then he could leave said shovel (and a rake) in the lobby of HIE Broomsfield.

Whatever happened to all of those tools, anyway?
Did he wash those off first, so no trace of area soil sample?

jmoo

If he was so smart about hiding a body why so obtuse about the trash run?

 

[Boxer]

Its a really risky tactic.

I ran an animal unit for drug studies and have administered many of the drugs he would have needed to use. Direct IV and the animal may go down very quickly. Some animals react very badly and don't go down for minutes while in between they get very agitated as they go under. If the drug is not delivered IV then the physiology happens much more slowly. If he shot her with a dart she almost certainly would have had time to scream and even run a short distance.

Agree.
MOO I see a scenario where once a dart hit her, she knew he was killing her, she ran for the vehicles to sound a horn.
That is why I think BM spent extra time on the windshield, I think she made it there.

 

[mainemom376]

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).

Thank you. I am going to strongly assume that the daughters are either in total denial or that they are totally brainwashed into thinking he is innocent, but I would love to know if either have asked where he put Suzanne. Also wondering if after yesterday they want answers. All JMO

 

[*Verdigris]

Didn't sound like it....sounded like the surveillance cameras showed him going to his truck and bringing his tools to the lobby if I'm not mistaken.

I meant wash them off first, in the truck bed @ the carwash.
Or such.

 

[Diddian]

He didn't haul it with his truck....at least not based on what we heard yesterday that his truck only moved one time and a very short distance perhaps down his driveway....between the time he got home and the time he left for Broomfield. If it didn't read the tweets correctly, please someone correct me.

The poster I responded to mentioned that digging a hole is not likely in that stony mountain territory. My point in response was that was not an impediment to BM because he had heavy equipment. And, as I wrote in my previous post, since it was his equipment and he had both means to transport it and complete control over his own schedule, he could have prepared such a hole at anytime - weeks before May 9.

 

[Curiousobserver]

I think he shot or jabbed her with the dart and made sure she could not use that phone. And as soon as he could he picked her up and in the hot tub they went.
Then he had wet clothes (with a dart cap in his pocket) that needed to go in the dryer.
I'm guessing he wanted chlorine to clean the hot tub and whatever else?
IDK where she might be or if she is in one piece.
I'm suspicious of the tools.
As far as what he did in the hotel room..well maybe he slept cuz he certainly was busy all hours of the night.
They also mentioned his going down to the creek bind the house...I've always been suspicious of that for some reason.

I agree- if he shot her with the dart there would be screaming and she would have time to text something if she had the phone. Perhaps more plausible is that he physically subdued her while injecting her because he thought that was more "humane" for what was coming next.

 

[CaseZero]

I am finally caught up with these threads! Holy moly, but you girls and guys are amazing in how you so quickly put together timelines and hypotheses.

I believe the prosecution has enough to bind Barry over for trial. I'd be shocked if the judge decided otherwise.

JMO- I believe Barry has been plotting Suzanne's disappearance for a long time, well before the May 6th declaration by SM to BM that the marriage was over and she wanted to sort things out civilly. BM wanted to stay married for the money and the girls; the two things he still had control over. I also believe the move to PP was a part of his plan if only to further isolate her from family and friends.

 

[Whitneyh]

Just curious: What are Websleuthers’ ideas about WHEN BM killed Suzanne? And WHEN he put her someplace? And WHERE? All which fit what we now know about BM’s truck movements. (I am still confused about the Range Rover and if it had tracking data.)

Last thread a knowledgeable poster pointed out that one cannot just go and spontaneously dig a deep hole in mountain soil/rocks. I agree.

Many many threads ago a very clever poster pointed out that recent spousal/child murderers use familiar job/hobby knowledge to try to outsmart LE. I agree as that’s been the case with Frazee, Watts, Redwine, S Peterson, Henthorn, and even Letecia and her hiking/shopping places.

I am personally trying to reconcile the truck movements which LE presented and the (so far) lack of info regarding cadaver hits at PP.

I think he was in her messages/facebook on or around May 8th sent the codes to himself then he decided to kill her I don't think this was financially motivated at this point. Theres a more vindictive evil component to this. MAY 9th BM came home from his work site had soup with her or whatever probably one last ditch effort using emotional manipulation and blackmail - she didnt take the bait. So he said he was "running an errand" so he could have the element of surprise on his side - likely they faught again in the house and she very likely knew he was going to kill her thats what he wanted. I think he ditched her body in the woods and her phone which is where this assanine mountain lion story came. IMO intially he wanted her to be found - this changed at some point and he went back buried her body and planted the bike. Thats why he had to throw away clothes at different trash cans but I dont think this was initially in his plan he got sloppy. Reminds me of the Jason Young Case he changed his clothes on camera too at the hotel!

 

[citygirl]

If he was so smart about hiding a body why so obtuse about the trash run?

Shades of Fotis Dulos.
MOO.

 

[bestill]

Sneaking up on her and jabbing her makes a lot of sense. I had not thought about that.

 

[10ofRods]

have they even tried to prove she is dead yet?

Yes, although they don't have to prove that she's dead in the preliminary. They just have to show that she's probably dead. Here's how they did it:

• She never touched her secret bank accounts
• She didn't take her car
• She stopped texting to anyone at all past the time when Barry came home on Saturday afternoon
• She is never seen or heard from again after Barry comes home on that afternoon
• Barry had been physically and emotionally abusive before
• Barry had threatened suicide (and therefore, was unstable)
• Barry had likely just found out about her affair
• Barry likely knew she had reached out to her sister about the abuse
• They were fighting over money
• She didn't follow through on any plans with JL
• Barry goes to a great deal of trouble to reset data on his truck, and to put his phone in airplane mode while he travels about in the middle of the night and in the afternoon when Suzanne ceases to give proof of life

They don't have to prove it to a jury at this point - that's different. This is for the judge who, by the way, has seen all of the evidence, not just what we're seeing. In particular he's got that A.A. to guide him. Judge gets to decide whether there's a reasonable suspicion that Suzanne is dead.

In short, a turbulent relationship with two motives for murder - and Suzanne turns up missing.

 

[Lyanna]

Do you have link to this video?

If link doesn't work, it's thread 66 post #87
About 6minute 9sec mark, she feeding birds but a chipmunk runs onto her knee and another one running round

Eta - it worked!