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

[Boxer]

Poncha Springs unanimously approves Tailwind subdivision

The subdivision is a 27.5-acre lot, which will be divided into 68 lots, on the east side of Poncha Springs Lane to the south of U.S. 50.

The breakdown of the area will include 8.62 acres of commercial lots, 2.76 acres of multi-family units (duplexes and townhouses) and 9.9 acres of detached single-family lots.
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I believe BM was supposed to look at a commercial job in the subdivision - the business named earlier(?)

I believe the daughters moved to Tailwind immediately after SM vanished. BM followed shortly behind. BM was said to be working and living at the development when he was arrested. His equipment was certainly mobilized at the site and equipment/tool trailers were all within his view.

MOO

Kims Gym
MOO This is the business he was supposed to check in with.
Its on the east side of Salida according to Google maps.

 

[Warwick7]

A lot has happened recently, but my heart is sinking and I am not eyeing the ‘smoking gun’ first degree murder charge. I hope the prosecutor has a lot more information. I really hope that MG testifies.

I've been following and I'm also not seeing the smoking gun that I expected to see. IMO. I'm becoming quite perplexed.

I don't think they're supposed to be a smoking gun. The prosecution spoke of "meat and potatoes." All they need is just enough to move the judge to make the decision to go to trial.

 

[Seattle1]

The woman he was dating lived there
Her initials SD

Thanks, @303gmf. I recall LS saying in her recap that the BM's defense team advised his gf not to attend the ph. I can't believe he still has a gf!

Was the video taken this week or when BM was arrested in May?

 

[seekingjustice**]

Another tweet about Grusing:

"In 10 interviews with Barry, the only thing we could get him to move on was his tranquilizer material from his garage… he couldn’t say which trash run they were disposed in."

That's interesting the tranquilizer material had been from the garage.

One more clue.

Very interesting detail. It's also very interesting that he happened to throw the tranquilizer material away on the very same day that SM went missing and coincidentally also a dart cap was found in the dryer. I wonder what BM's excuse was for throwing away the tranquilizer material and why did he need to take it all the way to Broomfield to throw away instead of disposing of it locally.

 

[Cindizzi]

@Cindizzi, I read about this issue last week, and IMO, the reporting is much to do about nothing -- spearheaded by political opponents of DA Stanley (an elected position). This has no effect on the Morphew case.

In addition to the Chaffee County District Court (Salida, CO), the 11th Judicial District also includes the Courts of Custer County (Westcliffe, CO), Fremont County (Canon City, CO), and Park County (Fairplay, CO).

While the 11th District is a cluster of small counties, there is nothing small about the miles between each court and/or the task of managing the court calendar for each of these counties.

In recognition of the logistics of District 11, there is not one Judge in Chaffee, Custer, Park, or Fremont County with the exception of Judge Ramsey Lama in Canon City that wants to schedule hearings in his court on Monday.

While DA Stanley made it clear that every county court under her jurisdiction including Fremont has been seriously impacted by COVID backup, and it's not the appropriate time for Judge Lama to want to force his judicial housekeeping calendar (i.e., sentencing, status hearing, etc.) on Monday when his fellow officers of every court in the district have long held Monday as their day in Chambers.

The headlines here are definitely misrepresenting the facts, and this issue has no effect on the Morphew trial. MOO

Colorado Judicial Branch - 11th Judicial District - Homepage

Thank you so much for clarifying what’s going on. I feel bad that I even posted it here without researching further. I had a good feeling that it didn’t concern BM case and Chaffee County, I have never followed SR until the past couple of days.
Hate that DA Stanley is dealing with all this. JMO

 

[Seattle1]

Some of the tweeters have errors. LS has Suzannes phone making an OG call 2:53 am 5/10.

Kims Gym
MOO This is the business he was supposed to check in with.
Its on the east side of Salida according to Google maps.

Big thanks @Boxer. I couldn't remember the name 'Kims Gym' to save myself today! Both Tailwind and Kims Gym are off of Hyw 50, about 4 miles apart, and where the Super Walmart is equidistance between the two properties.

(Maysville/PP is also off of Hwy 50, and closest to Tailwinds than Kims).

 

[Puzzles8]

“You don’t just see beauty when Suzanne is around, you feel it”: Friends describe missing Chaffee County woman | FOX21 News Colorado

Suzanne, a strong woman on many levels, overcame Hodgkins Lymphoma twice. Once before her children were born, and again as the Morphew family moved to Colorado. The family says they celebrated her last cancer treatment on October 1, 2019.

Suzanne was so happy on the day of her last treatment. She was still coming in for maintenance treatments, but the chemo was done and she was doing great. She was supposed to come in for her maintenance the Monday after Mother’s day, but of course, did not show up. She was a bright light in this world. I really miss Suzanne and pray that justice is served.

What a beautiful way to remember Suzanne and her battles with cancer.
Thank you

 

[Seattle1]

Funny that you say this. When he said want to go for a hike--she says "where?" He never answers her.

I have thought he couldn't tell her where for fear she may inadvertently text anyone and tell them. I always wondered if that was "plan A" and it fizzled.

But with what you are saying---that makes complete sense.

This text exchange with SM on Saturday morning, initiated by BM, is so typical of the nasty, narc we know him to be!

We already know BM told MG he was going to take off early to "make the wife happy," hiking or other, but it doesn't take long to see that BM's morning texts were nothing more than BM baiting SM to see if she was showing signs of softening her stance to be rid of him.

As soon as SM responded, asking BM if he wanted her to meet him, he discontinued any idea his invitation would be a mutual decision and responded that he was headed home.

IMO, BM never had any intent to do anything with SM on Saturday since he already had a long-standing appointment to change the blade on the bobcat, check out a job at Kims Gym, pick up spa supplies, and maybe meet with JP.

More important to BM, he was first going to eat SM's veggie stew, and then he would end her life.

MOO

 

[Pink2017]

Well done ! It looks like a shadow of one ! I’ve been obsessing about the Fitbit or smart watch since the beginning !

also regarding their carrier for cell - if it’s Verizon - I have that and can log in and see all the calling and texting history for all the phones on my plan- it includes duration and time stamps too- so if someone wanted to know cell history on their plan it’s easy enough to see if you have access at the manager level. I believe the hearing mentioned Verizon
SUZANNE MORPHEW: Where was Barry Morphew on May 9 and 10? | FOX31 Denver
ETA
Verizon records show BM cell phone at 7:19 a.m. on May 9 receiving a signal. Neilsen asked, "Can a phone receive a signal in airplane mode?" Grusing said, "I don't know."
https://twitter.com/LaurenScharfTV/status/1425225446120165380?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1425225446120165380|twgr^|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https://d-3689975143977924577.ampproject.net/2107302322000/frame.html
Edit tweet for initials

SM knew that watch, if synced to her phone, was dangerous to leave around the house. She either wore it all the time & allowed syncing, or stopped wearing it to control the flow of information between devices. It was a dangerous game with BM, my guess is she turned off the watch sync.

 

[EggSalad]

Yes, according to preliminary hearing. He was at Tail Winds at 11:00 am on Saturday. He was home at 11:30. It takes about 12 minutes to get home from there. What was he doing for the other 18 minutes?
Note: It is about 5 miles from the Salida dig/job site where he was with MG that morning and 1 minute from the Poncha Market. Don’t know if that means anything. Yet.

Im not sure where MG lives but if I recall, BM picked her up for work that morning right? Maybe he was dropping her off at her home/apartment since they quit early that day and that is what he was doing at Tailwinds.

 

[EggSalad]

A lot has happened recently, but my heart is sinking and I am not eyeing the ‘smoking gun’ first degree murder charge. I hope the prosecutor has a lot more information. I really hope that MG testifies.

I suspect there is a lot more info. We haven’t gotten much of the digital evidence beyond some basic phone on/airplane, limited car data of one vehicle, and text messages. This rabbit hole goes much deeper.

The FBI also had two women secretly record conversations with BM, I can only imagine the contradictions of the story he told LE vs them.

We haven’t learned anything about the gun included in the charge, nor the preserved biological material.

IMo, BM seemed the understand the basics of electronic tracking and did his best to avoid them. However, his knowledge was surface level and he did so many things wrong and all of that will be exposed through data. The FBI will have all the tools needed to dissect what BM was doing when he thought he was undetected.

 

[Deleted member 222031]

I wonder if they had separate bedrooms. I wonder if JL tried to call her.

Or

Maybe we will find out SM's sister called her (or SO) to see if she was ok, since, on the 8th he was being abusive.
I think it was the 8th...

Confused. I thought these calls were 12/10 when Barry had her phone IIRC? Need to look at the tweets again.

 

[girlhasnoname]

I suspect there is a lot more info. We haven’t gotten much of the digital evidence beyond some basic phone on/airplane, limited car data of one vehicle, and text messages. This rabbit hole goes much deeper.

The FBI also had two women secretly record conversations with BM, I can only imagine the contradictions of the story he told LE vs them.

We have learned anything about the gun included in the charge, nor the preserved biological material.

IMo, BM seemed the understand the basics of electronic tracking and did his best to avoid them. However, his knowledge was surface level and he did so many things wrong and all of that will be exposed through data. The FBI will have all the tools needed to dissect what BM was doing when he thought he was undetected.

ITA, and I think MG will be important going forward in the trial. She can testify to Barry's actions on Saturday and his early morning call and drive by on Sunday.

There's a reason ole' BM didn't want her turning her phone over to LE.

MOO

 

[EggSalad]

Has anyone seen a complete transcript for the BM & SM texts the morning of Saturday May 9th?

this is the hiking/snow tires/coming home/hot tub stuff exchange.

I’m still extremely skeptical of this exchange being genuine. Why:

-It emotionally seems very out of character given the exchanges the previous few days and what we learned about Thurs-Fri
-It conveniently matches up with BM telling MG he was going home to make the wife happy to go on a hike, yet that is a lie because in the texts BM says no to a hike
-it sets up the perfect alibi to purchase a bunch of chlorine
-The snow tires is what I’m most interested in. I’d imagine putting snow tires on an old Range Rover makes that the family vehicle to run out in winter when the roads are bad. However, I believe the police can issue you a ticket if you are driving a car with snow tires past a certain date. Perhaps that old RR still had the snow tires on and BM was worried about using that vehicle (even though it was his only option since it didn’t have GPS) because getting pulled over for snow tires would be worst case scenario for him. So depending on the content of that text exchange, if SM is asking home to remove the snow tires, we have yet another alibi as to why the old RR had new tires put on that Saturday and then could be used as the body disposal vehicle.

I mean, one coincidence I can dismiss. But 3-4 all on the day he killed his wife and all 3-4 being crucial to the murder and cover up, is just too damn suspicious to me.

And in each instance (hike, tires, hot tub) SM is the one initiating the request. Just too many coincidences for me.

 

[Deleted member 222031]

Do we know if they took readings from Suzanne’s car? Were there any other vehicles available? The released timeline doesn’t account for the neighbor to the construction property that heard loud sounds late in the evening of 5/9. So far Barry’s phone comes off airplane mode at 10:17pm but his truck shows it hadn’t moved for most of the evening. Did it move after 10pm? Were all the phone stats released or just some? Could there be others after 10:17pm?

I’m thinking the good bulk of whatever happened, had to have been from 2:47pm to 10pm when phone was in airplane mode. There would be zero reason to switch it otherwise. As to lack of anything else being found, my thought is this…what if Suzanne was never really “dead”, then there would be nothing to find right? If he tranquilized her, he knew he had a certain amount of time. Getting shot with a dart wouldn’t leave blood and no decomp. I think he had a hole ready for her, wrapped her in the sheets that were never found, and buried her in the dark of night while she was tranquilized. I think she’s likely close by the Puma Path residence. And that honestly seems like the path of least resistance. I don’t believe he’s smart enough for some elaborate clean up. She was probably never dead for long enough anywhere for them to find anything glaringly obvious. JMO

Also, do vehicles not have GPS info that LE can access? I always assumed most newer cars did? Can’t they figure out where he was driving based off that info?

How do we know the sheets were never found?

As pointed out in other posts, we don't have enough vehicle data from what is public so far to create a complete picture/timeline.

Some are thinking the vehicle he used to move her body did not track GPS. I don't think we know. Open to correction if I'm wrong.

Speculation is great, but facts/evidence is better. And publicly released info is the best of all. That would be the AA and after that, the trial.

All JMHO.

 

[dalsglen]

Did we ever find out who it was skulking about on their bike at the search/dig?

 

[DizzyB]

I agree, @steeltowngirl. Why would the defense be relying on word of mouth statements from two store employees when all that technology is available nearby? And why would BM feel the need to lie about going there in the first place?

Grusing stated that his belief is the employee is mistaken about the timing. Whenever Barry went there, he could not have been there long if it was on Saturday, because of the tight timeline.

Salida Stove & Spa is on the same road and within 1 minute of DSI. Was it a quick visit before or after the blade replacement at DSI? Lauren tweeted that Barry texted the owner of Salida Stove on Friday at 1:18 pm (thx cindizzi) about getting the hot tub fixed. Could Barry have been there Friday? Suzanne texted about getting hot tub stuff Saturday morning.
https://twitter.com/LaurenScharfTV/status/1425215042937556992

 

[Cindizzi]

Grusing stated that his belief is the employee is mistaken about the timing. Whenever Barry went there, he could not have been there long because of the tight timeline.

Salida Stove & Spa is on the same road and within 1 minute of DSI. I believe it was a quick visit before or after the blade replacement at DSI. Lauren tweeted that Barry texted the owner of Salida Stove at 1:18 pm-was that before his visit, did he drop in quickly shortly after? https://twitter.com/LaurenScharfTV/status/1425215042937556992

The text from BM to the owner was on 5/8 Friday.

 

[genuineusa77]

It's probably been mentioned, but where was Suzanne looking for houses, Colorado?

 

[Pink2017]

I am wondering if the police have proof of Barry using the Dark Web. If he did, I wonder if that's where he purchased the illegal drug for the tranquilizer gun.

JMO

BM's knowledge base likely too shallow to accomplish acquiring cryptocurrency and accessing the dark markets without premeditation. It's simply NOT as easy as just opening a laptop. It requires forethought, the learning curve is steep for a layman. If, and IF BM acquires illicit products through the Dark Market, the USPS would have a scan record of the package to the destination address. IMO, he'd only accomplish these herculean steps with thorough---long term planning and would be surprised.