Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #72 *ARREST*

[marylamby]

I had asked in (maybe) thread #70 when the tweets about trash runs came out, if that’s what the answer was to the #5 riddle that PE had been referencing. Someone then said they had counted six trash runs. Anyone recall that?

It's been corrected to 5 different dumps, re our amazing collaborators. I think they're @OldCop and @oviedo ?
Could be the '5'. Station 5 still makes me curious tho.

 

[Trocroc9]

I think @Niner said they miscounted and it was actually 5 dumps.

 

[Cindizzi]

Watching Unmasked with Chris and Lauren. Lauren says Barry stopped and purchased some things at Walmart. Please let Walmart be what brings this dude down. Somewhere around 47:00 minutes. Still live.

Finally we get some kind of explanation of where the “ fire fighting training “ came from.

 

[Herat]

Finally we get some kind of explanation of where the “ fire fighting training “ came from.

And his purchases at Walmart haven't been mentioned, yet, have they?

 

[155etta]

Finally we get some kind of explanation of where the “ fire fighting training “ came from.

Yup.

 

[marylamby]

Watching Unmasked with Chris and Lauren. Lauren says Barry stopped and purchased some things at Walmart. Please let Walmart be what brings this dude down. Somewhere around 47:00 minutes. Still live.

Thanks! Had this in a tab but my evil laptop decided to do an update without my permission!

 

[marylamby]

I think @Niner said they miscounted and it was actually 5 dumps.

Yes, total props to @Niner !

 

[Cindizzi]

What makes my stomach sink is Chris pointing out how this trial will go:
First, Suzanne will be put on trial
Second, the evidence will be put on trial
Third, LE will be put on trial

Looking back, I recall Chris and Mike King telling SM’s sister and stepbrother that things will get ugly and to prepare for things to come out to make SM look bad.
MOO

 

[marylamby]

Let’s see:

Barry arrives home, and there is frantic activity in the backyard. Barry is dumb enough to all but admit to this some nine months later, with the hilarious “Alvin and the Chimpmunks,” story.

Suzanne never shows a sign of life after that moment, but Barry sure is a busy boy.

He conceals the location of his phone, and wipes the his vehicle data. One of these things could be a crazy coincidence, but two is astronomically unlikely.

Then we get to the good stuff. Barry claims to have set his alarm for 4:30, but he’s active a good hour before that. His phone is in the vicinity of the bike location, and his vehicle activity supports this massive lie.

Then of course, Suzanne’s phone goes dark before Barry even leaves the house that morning. Weird right?! We will surely hear more about this during round two.

It’s Mother’s Day, and Suzanne’s phone never comes online. Not only that, but she doesn’t communicate with a soul. Not her lover, not her daughters, not her best friend. No one.

Meanwhile, husband of the year is dumping trash, changing shirts, spending 11 minutes at this job site that he left incredibly early for, and most importantly, lying through his teeth to the FBI about it.

He claimed he worked all day, and actually received the phone call from the neighbor while he was at the job site. The evidence shows that this was a stunning lie, and he spent most of the day in his hotel room (probably napping, as he wouldn’t have slept since the prior day).

I’ll stop here to answer your question, “is it possible one of them went to his house on Mother’s Day and caused Suzanne’s demise?”

I would argue no, as Suzanne could only be murdered once.

*clarity

DON'T stop there!
Write these ingredients down; toss in the second half of the prelim, stir in the AA and season to taste!
I'm SURE the prosecution would appreciate the recipe!
(I'm so not kidding!)

 

[Cindizzi]

And his purchases at Walmart haven't been mentioned, yet, have they?

I went back and listened again and it sounded like nothing has come up in Court (yet) about Walmart, but it’s Lauren saying that early on that she had heard from a witness that BM was in a Walmart and he was wearing a Chaffee County Fire shirt and the cashier said something about what are your plans for Mother’s Day and he indicated that he would be “ in training “.

I wonder what day that was.

And yeah, Walmart and Home Depot purchases seem to get them every time. Moo

 

[RickshawFan]

No, there is no scenic background -- not even the bathing suit. Reporter LS described the photo as SM on her stomach, raises her head for a selfie headshot, her hair draped forward covering her bathing suit.

Why is this being challenged when it was an unopposed exhibit admitted by the prosecutor?

I'm not challenging it at all. I'm just curious about whether SM was actually sunbathing at that moment or if something else could have been up. It might put a different spin on it, if, say, it was a shot from a time she and SL had enjoyed together.
But it sounds as though it's not technically possible for that photo to have been taken unless SM had actually been sunbathing in that moment.

It seems odd to me to be sunbathing in early May in Colorado.

So, now, after a little search, I have historical weather data. Gunnison, CO Weather History | Weather Underground On May 9 at Gunnison-Crested Butte Airport, the max temperature was 64 degrees F at 3-6ish in the pm. (The program jumps to that location for historical data.), with a max wind speed of 21 mph. I don't think I'd be out there sunbathing.

While I was looking at that, in case this is relevant,..... I noticed the temperature was well below freezing at night, i.e. 25 degrees F. It was 25 degrees minimum average the whole of April. This may have presented some challenges if BM was out there digging stuff, because the ground might have been hard. It might also harden up footprints. Gunnison, CO Weather History | Weather Underground I'm not suggesting anyone might find the footprints (although they might), but more that BM might be paranoid about them.

 

[RickshawFan]

The defense doesn't need your help. Wink, wink

No worries. Evidently, it's not technically possible for the photo to be anything other than the State says it is.

 

[155etta]

What would a tranquilizer dart do to a 100ish pound woman? My only experience is Ace Ventura, ha.

 

[charminglane]

Sadly, I don't think he killed her out on the patio. I also don't think it's possible immobilize a human instantly with a tranquilizer dart - although if he used one intended for, say, a buck...it would probably take only a few minutes. Within those few minutes, the person would become increasingly disoriented and then collapse. If it was ketamine, they might very well still have some consciousness of what was happening.

My view of what happened next is pretty dark and there's no reason to share all of it. What follows may be too much info for some, I'm trying to be delicate.

I would assume that Barry had preassembled the "packaging" he needed and did not use towels, sheets or anything like that.

Barry would have had game bags, for example. You can look it up on Amazon. Every hunter has them.

His goal is to make sure that no evidence of decomp/death is present on his property. As I have posted many times, he had time on his side - because even if she did die on the property (I think it was likely through suffocation), it would have taken several hours for decomp to be even remotely detectable by the world's best cadaver dog. Cadaverine is produced after the enzymatic process that causes rigor mortis has taken place. So he needed to do something such as put her in a large cooler or toolbox, because while others may disagree, I don't think he took an immobilized Suzanne and propped her up on the passenger side of whichever vehicle he used for disposal.

Hunters don't usually hunt humans, but if Suzanne did get a few moments to try to flee, Barry would have grabbed her, snatched her phone, cornered her until the tranq took effect.

I can think of many variations on this scenario and readily see how it appealed to Barry, with his penchant for hunting (which takes planning too). The only part that is still really fuzzy for me is what type of terrain he would have chosen to either bury her or toss her body.

He would either have chosen some place near PP (to keep the bike/abduction theory going - but that's higher risk for him) or, as we all suspect, he went somewhere in a RR without GPS...

Would a cadaver dog be able to hit on a body wrapped in several layers of plastic, then placed in a container, and then put several feet under ground? We simply don't know. Cadaver dogs are not 100% accurate. If the outer container was airtight or nearly so, and the packaging of the body was properly done...I think it would be very tough for a cadaver dog - even now, when the interior of that packaging is fully decomposed.

Of course, disposal could have taken place elsewhere, with a vehicle that has no GPS, in which case, I don't think there's much chance of ever finding Suzanne's body.

In an earlier post I had imagined/stated that an unconscious/deceased Suzanne could have been loaded into the front passenger seat.
I did not imagine her propped up. I believe she could have been shoved down into the footwell.
A "Weekend at Bernie's" situation was not my intention, just to be clear.

 

[DizzyB]

I went back and listened again and it sounded like nothing has come up in Court (yet) about Walmart, but it’s Lauren saying that early on that she had heard from a witness that BM was in a Walmart and he was wearing a Chaffee County Fire shirt and the cashier said something about what are your plans for Mother’s Day and he indicated that he would be “ in training “.

I wonder what day that was.

And yeah, Walmart and Home Depot purchases seem to get them every time. Moo

Gotta love those Walmart cameras. Did he wear the Chaffee County Firefighter tshirt so they could spot him and know he was in Broomfield “doing a job” on Mother’s Day?

 

[marylamby]

Tree Pod Burial

MOO - Since CM’s Webslueths video interview, there has been speculation on the importance regarding the purchase of a 50lb cornfeed bag that BM supposedly made.

Some have said BM might have dumped the cornfeed in order to use the burlap sack the feed usually is packaged in, to transport SM out of the home.

In one of the SM FB groups I follow, they posted the attached image regarding tree pod burials. This is a thing and it brings into perspective how BM may have hid SM’s body.

Couple this with the report that one of the daughter’s ex-boyfriends was threatened by BM with ‘getting buried under a tree and no one will find him’ words. BM definitely has the means to accomplish this sort of burial.

MOO

Holy crap. I can't believe that's an actual thing. What blade thing did BM have to get fixed? Did/does he have one of those burrowing bobcat attachments that look like a huge, badass corkscrew? AAAH!

 

[sunshine4040]

I went back and listened again and it sounded like nothing has come up in Court (yet) about Walmart, but it’s Lauren saying that early on that she had heard from a witness that BM was in a Walmart and he was wearing a Chaffee County Fire shirt and the cashier said something about what are your plans for Mother’s Day and he indicated that he would be “ in training “.

I wonder what day that was.

And yeah, Walmart and Home Depot purchases seem to get them every time. Moo

I am confused. The "Spa" where there is a discrepancy in the timeline. Is that where you get chlorine or chemicals for
the Hot Tub? And one poster said their hinky meter came on when the owners were interviewed? She texted to get the "Spa Stuff"?

What stuff? I do not have a hot tube, but I'm not sure it needs too much chlorine or other "Stuff" IMO

 

[waldojabba]

IMO this is a great discussion of the case so far and adds more detail from Lauren. Seems like, as some of us suspected the teal clothing item may have been her biking jacket BM was carrying in to the hotel in Broomfield along with other items - really worth the time to watch

 

[OldCop]

@OldCop this is what we need to finish the timeline - the “messy” notebooks right?

Yes, he went in with notebooks with “messy papers” and came out with “neat”ones. Maybe it was one of the missing journals, but it could also have been the plans for that wall he was supposed to be fixing and he grabbed them as he was running out the door in Maysville. He brought them up to the room and put them in some kind of order and went to the job site.
Or, they were the journals and he hid them in the wall where he moved a few blocks.
The third possibility was that he grabbed a handful of mail as he ran out the door. Remember the paperwork he threw in the basket in his room at the HIE?
He was trying to seal his alibi.
I wish we knew what type of journals she had. Some folks use the old diary style, some use fancy leather bound ones with “Journal” embossed on the front and maybe the year. Other folks just use plain old spiral notebooks or composition books.

 

[OldCop]

Oh man, this just occurred to me. Think about this for a second.

This photo was sent about 40 minutes before the prosecution alleged Barry murdered Suzanne.

Grusing testifies that Suzanne sent her lover, Jeff Libler, a photo at 2:03 p.m. on Saturday, May 9. Grusing says that #BarryMorphew told them that Suzanne appeared drunk in the photo. Grusing says it's the last 'proof of life' for Suzanne.

May 9th while #BarryMorphew was away #SuzanneMorpehw was sending LinkedIn messages to Jeff Libler. Investigators showed a picture Suzanne sent to Jeff to Barry, he said she "looked drunk" and she had "drunk eyes"
Investigators say this is the last sign of Suzanne being alive

Now, Barry would claim Suzanne was alive and well when he returned home, so he should know her condition, and he shouldn’t be deducing anything from a photo.

She was drunk on their wonderful day together, or she was not. It’s not complicated.

So I’d like to hear this entire interview, because I can totally see him getting in a jam with this line of questioning.

https://twitter.com/russellhaythorn/status/1425188918912114688?s=21

https://twitter.com/ashleykktv/status/1425188597632753673?s=21

Great catch, @MassGuy!