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

[citygirl]

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.

BBM
Just now hearing that he melted down her wedding ring, I am interested to learn when that happened!
Moo.

 

[Seattle1]

WHAT?! HIS ring or HER ring?



While Suzanne’s phone has not been found, investigators were able to recover documents from her iCould account. One of those documents was a list Suzanne made on May 8, entitled “grievances.” It included notes like “wedding ring,” which Barry allegedly took and melted at some point. She also noted women on Facebook, which Barry told her was good for business, as well as an incident in Mexico where Barry tried to take her phone away and look at it.

Prosecutors Outline Barry And Suzanne Morphew's Movements On Days Around Her Disappearance

Thanks, @Cindizzi for an additional news link with one more summation of what a reporter heard at the ph!

Now I'm curious about 'melting down a wedding ring.' Perhaps SM was referring to BM allegedly having his own wedding ring melted down. Others cited not that he melted his ring but that SM complained that BM didn't wear his wedding ring in her "50 reasons" to leave the marriage.

 

[rainbowshummingbird]

I have a question for you beautiful and brilliant sleuthers. What is your best guess as far as the explanation given by Barry to LE regarding his and Suzanne’s activities from the time she sent the selfie to JL and the time that Barry left to drive to Broomfield?

 

[10ofRods]

The prosecution suggests that the erratic movements recorded on BM’s phone are evidence of him chasing SM around the house (I’m not clear if around the house means inside, outside, or both).

Is there a guess if this chasing was before or after being (potentially) hit with a dart?

I’m a little surprised a dart would leave no blood trail, and no blood from falling over. Maybe he cleaned really well.

This is all so horrible to hypothesize. What kind of monster shoots their spouse with a tranquilizer dart? So unbelievably horrible. How I wish she’d left earlier, with no warning I think she knew he was dangerous, but I don’t think she ever imagined this level of diabolical.

I don't think those darts would leave any more blood than when we have our blood drawn - or get a shot. Hardly enough for most of us to "leave a trail." I usually have like one dot of blood on the bandaid, everyone I know says the same thing.

It is way more diabolical than I could have ever dreamed of. It is making me physically ill to think about it.

She thought she could manage him until she got out (and she wanted to leave with some money, it seems). He threw her off with his talk of suicide. It's just all so tragic and he is a monster.

 

[10ofRods]

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.

I'm not going to detail how he could avoided screaming and her using the phone, but I'm sure he thought that through in advance.

 

[bestill]

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!

Thank you, I had not seen this. She comes to life in this video! I feel her friends pain and it's clear she adored her girls.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

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.

Yes, I think it will make it to trial. Bigger question in my mind is on what charges. I'm leery of a judge being able to stick to Murder 1 so far but I could see a different charge, Barry out on bond and a trial sometime in the next 12 months. I do not think so far they have supported the aggravation factor either and I don't see the state being able to keep him in jail for another year until trial...but we have 2 more days.

 

[Warwick7]

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. 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" 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!

BBM
This happened on Saturday night the 9th

 

[Deleted member 222031]

Maybe it's OBB, as in obfuscating.

The question is why the judge allowed it. The defense may be OBB but the judge overruling an objection on presentation of an altered item of evidence produced by the prosecution is just ODD. To me, anyway.
JMO

 

[HongKongPhooey]

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.

Maybe he's read (or watched the TV film) of Agatha Christie's "death in the clouds"! In that, the murderer creates a psychological moment to distract and pushes a poison dart into the neck of his victim. I am being at least half serious, in that it could have happened along those lines.

 

[Warwick7]

BBM
Just now hearing that he melted down her wedding ring, I am interested to learn when that happened!
Moo.

Is this correct tho. Or did it come from a Salida newspaper with extensive misinformation?

 

[Love Never Fails]

Frazee’s had a material witness, which meant the whole process was more succinct. She walked them through all the scenes, and evidence was able to be collected that corroborated her claims.

The defense also didn’t use anywhere close to equal time, which sped things right along.

So without a witness like that, the picture has to be painted a very different way. All the connections have to be made the long way, which is time consuming.

The defense has dragged things out, so the prosecution hasn’t gotten anywhere near as far as they would have liked. So the full impact of the evidence has not yet been felt, with 2 more days remaining.

I do feel very good so far, and fully anticipate many of the things that are lacking, are in fact coming.

I know nothing about how the prosecution will connect the dots. But just given what he was doing on Mother’s Day, I could easily sentence BM to life. He has already proven to be a liar about what he was doing and why. He couldn’t even think up something he was throwing away. I’m pretty sure he knows the investigators have found something. When more information is presented I have no doubt the jury will vote for LWOP one hundred percent.

 

[Tortoise]

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

Don't tell me you weren't impressed with his many changes of outfits? He thought that was genius. Long sleeves, short sleeves.

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[Boxer]

Thanks, @Cindizzi for an additional news link with one more summation of what a reporter heard at the ph!

Now I'm curious about 'melting down a wedding ring.' Perhaps SM was referring to BM allegedly having his own wedding ring melted down. Others cited SM complained that BM didn't wear his wedding ring in her "50 reasons" to leave the marriage.

If true. That's all fifty reasons in one.

 

[Synergizer Bunny]

It’s shocking that the one thing BM admitted to disposing in the 5 trash runs was tranquilizer material. Surely they pressed for a reason he had it, where he got it, etc. No answers yet?

I wonder what the date was that Barry made this admission. Remember, how the Profiling Evil guys kept stressing "dark web." We can assume that Barry was listening to these guys. Maybe, Barry bought the darts and/or tranquilizer from the dark web; and he knew that police knew. That could be the reason why he came clean with that information.

JMO.

 

[Whitneyh]

BBM
This happened on Saturday night the 9th

correct - just ment the faebook codes on the 8th and the rest on the 9th thought that was ovbious

 

[Warwick7]

Maybe he's read (or watched the TV film) of Agatha Christie's "death in the clouds"! In that, the murderer creates a psychological moment to distract and pushes a poison dart into the neck of his victim. I am being at least half serious, in that it could have happened along those lines.

Ahhhhh! Great movie!

 

[OldCop]

Still think it is ODD.

There can be many different tools that do the same job.

 

[mainemom376]

I let the Q&A run after Lauren’s segment was over, and it was pretty good. Mike said something I find encouraging: he said that the prosecution will try to put just enough in so that the Judge finds there is sufficient evidence to proceed to trial. He said the bare minimum.

So you think they are saving some bombshells for trial? I sure hope so!! JMO

 

[cattlekate]

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.

Maybe. But in rural Colorado we are attuned to weird noises. As well as headlights during the night.

I don’t know where BM would auger. Certainly not in BLM/USFS lands as it’d be noticed. Certainly not on stream-bottom private lands as he’d be noticed. And why make a pre-dug hole possibly on public lands to be noticed by hikers during the intervening days?