Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #79 *ARREST*

[Scootie98]

I haven't seen a clear picture of the marks on the hands. If they are on the outside around the knuckles and fingers....would they represent claw marks of hands trying to pry them away from her neck? How he got those marks may be seen in their configuration....just like the claw imprint on the arm. I don't picture Barry punching Suzanne...although that is possible....but more of strangulation...and her defensive reactions to it.

 

[Scootie98]

I watched Lauren's video from day 3 and the timeline and noted some interesting things.

May 9th
2:04 photo to JL
2:06: JL texts about getting naked (this makes me wonder if they were going to do something and therefore she went inside at this point)
2:11 SM last communication with JL saying she was getting on WOAH (Lauren says maybe this is what's app, but I don't know that WOAH is an abbreviation for that?? Is there another app that people can maybe video call on called WOAH?

2:26 Barry calls Suzanne 11 times

2:44 Barry home (so at this point I now believe Suzanne is inside and not outside sunbathing)

I don't recall seeing a tweet about the communication saying JL wanted to get naked nor do I recall seeing the one about WOAH. These were both in the video where Lauren went over notes from day 3.


4:10 it is noted her phone is pinging at the house
4:23 her phone is pinging on Poncha (sp?) tower.

This makes me think they are not at the same place at 410 and 423 so even if there isn't a closer tower to her house, it is noted her phone is at the house?? Then at 423 it was another location.

Another thing I noted was Barry said he was looking for the Turkey his daughter had killed, but I assumed it was around the property at their house. Listening to Lauren's video and she said it was near the RV park and that is Monarch Spur RV Park. She said there isn't a road directly there, you have to go on a different road from the main road to get to this RV park. So I am not sure if that means he went to that location in his truck or if he walked from his property through the woods to this location. It didn't sound like it was right on his property though. This RV park is the same one he told LE to look into.

Another incidence where he is putting himself at a location that he later tells LE to look at. Almost as if he is giving himself a legit reason to be at a location they might find evidence. I think they need to look there more.

Barry's mentality is certainly in play here. He consistently implants animals into the equation regardless of its circumstances....elk on the highway, turkey near the RV park, chipmunks in the yard at home, mountain lions near the bicycle scene. It is obviously a factor in this case...but more importantly, its part of Barry's profile.....he naturally attaches animals to his fictional explanations...particularly animals he hunts or wants to hunt...and does it consistently. The prosecution should highlight that...its real.

 

[Scootie98]

Speaking of boot prints and of tire tracks.
Did they discover any bike tire tracks away from the house?
If she rode out of that garage, there would be bicycle tracks.
They should match the tires on her bike.
Depending on long it was that she was riding on the dirt. To get to the road you never go on,
There should be a track. At least out of the driveway. IMO

How did Suzanne expect to get back into the house after the bike ride? Was there a combination garage door opener outside the garage door? If not.....where were her keys and garage door opener? If they were inside the house and garage...how would Suzanne have gotten back into the house after the bike ride?

 

[TrialLurking]

How did Suzanne expect to get back into the house after the bike ride? Was there a combination garage door opener outside the garage door? If not.....where were her keys and garage door opener? If they were inside the house and garage...how would Suzanne have gotten back into the house after the bike ride?

I wondered this, too. I also wondered why she would leave her camel back inside the vehicle. It seems odd not to take it. Did she leave the camel back in her car because her routine was only to drive with her bike to ride the trails?

 

[TrialLurking]

Barry's mentality is certainly in play here. He consistently implants animals into the equation regardless of its circumstances....elk on the highway, turkey near the RV park, chipmunks in the yard at home, mountain lions near the bicycle scene. It is obviously a factor in this case...but more importantly, its part of Barry's profile.....he naturally attaches animals to his fictional explanations...particularly animals he hunts or wants to hunt...and does it consistently. The prosecution should highlight that...its real.

BBM
Don't forget about the poor innocent deer that was tranq'd and lost his antlers on his property.

 

[OldCop]

@Tiff23fr Thanks for asking about my (amateur) game plan. I'd love to bounce my ideas off of you (we're in similar fields) and also off the legal eagles here.

(TL;DR - DV; timeline; witness will show motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime of murdering Suzanne Morphew).

Domestic violence and the danger of divorce would be my first topic, with all the evidence of Barry's pre-disappearance control (an expert witness on DV; Barry controlling the money; SO's and Suzanne's sister's testimony about a violent marriage; probably put the daughter who recommended a restraining order on the stand (gently) and I'd also ask her if the door frame had been broken the last time she was at the house; the nose clipping event; the times he pinned her down to the bed; the time he threw her into a closet and held a gun to his head; all his suicide messages; then put the expert back on the stand to give a statement about how suicidal controlling spouses often turn homicidal. The fact that women are most vulnerable to murder (femicide) when they try to leave would get hammered home. I'd also have a chart of all the things that constitute DV (it's not just punching people, shoving and blocking exits and "clipping" in the face while making wild hand gestures, getting in someone's face, yelling, threatening, financial control, sexual control, implicit threats of violence - such as "bumping" one's big muscular body up against someone to herd them around as if they are a deer, religious control, gaslighting, blaming the victim - all of that needs to be discussed and good graphics made). How abusers try to isolate the victim more and more, to control and to silence them.

Then I'd start the timeline of how Suzanne planned to leave (starting with her financial moves to try and get some money to go, constantly reiterating how secretive she needed to be). Starting May 6, the timeline will ramp up and begin to include Barry Morphew's opportunity (daughters gone, Suzanne alone, poor cellular connection, distance between houses in that area and his motivation (financial and she's leaving). I'd go into Barry Morphew's financial patterns (including his dependence on Suzanne for big sums of money). Barry's actions from May 6-11th would be combed over with a fine tooth comb. He has no alibi. I'd try to establish that his financial motivation was huge, that he carried a gun around the house, that he admitted shooting the gun on May 9th, and I'd introduce the broken door frame. I'd have a map of the larger area and another of the PP house. I'd include the elk head with flesh attached outside the house to attract mountain lions, I'd include his rapid move to get conservatorship, his getting rid of Suzanne's things, his bizarre statement about saving just one person, his exchange of his truck for a new one, and his selling of the RR (maybe two RR's) and his sale of the Indiana house. I'd hope that SO has information about Suzanne wanting to move back to Indiana. I'd bring in any witnesses who could explain that Barry believed only death could end a marriage and Suzanne's statements about Barry permitting no discussion of divorce ("because it will never happen.") Here, I believe it's tricky. Surely JL can testify to Suzanne's reasoning about divorce, at least to some degree. Anyway, this would be the timeline section (I'm really good at drawing timelines myself, with color coding and I would have slides and when all the timeline was put together, it would be highly incriminating). Barry had opportunity, he had means, he had motive. The scratch marks would be presented in this part. I'd probably also have a local LE witness talk about how it's a small town and many already knew Barry and that his reputation as a friendly, God-loving man made them reluctant to draw the conclusion that he was a murderer, and have that person tell why their mind changed. I'd include his attempt to influence MG as a witness. I'd include the lies he told to his nephew (put the nephew on the stand).

I'd include the financial forensics in the timeline section. This would include all the evidence the Suzanne did not voluntarily leave.

There'd be quite a bit of testimony, but I'd boil it down to a simple timeline and that timeline would be there at the summation. Obviously, the trash dump would be a big part of it.

Then I'd do all his lies in a big chart (how his story changed many times). The reset of the truck's GPS would be part of this (another set of experts here - to do car and phone GPS, including from a third phone which I believe he used in this crime and evidence of Suzanne's phone from the Cloud). I know Barry made more than just trash run stops and that LE has evidence of him out and about on May 9-10 (the evidence that caused Monarch Pass highway to be shut for a day - even if they didn't find much, they had reason to believe Barry had been in certain places - where Suzanne's body may still be hidden). I'd describe the searches for Suzanne and why Barry was excluded from official searches and how he behaved when Andy tried to search. I'd put Andy on the stand. His lack of cooperation and lying to the investigators needs to be strongly emphasized (not just because of that one charge, but for the whole case). He had knowledge of his own guilt. He also lies. I'd include lies told to the Moorman family about not being part of the loan (despite borrowing money to invest in community property). I'd include his lying about working on Sunday in Broomfield. The reset of the GPS would be emphasized as evidence that Suzanne was disposed of. I'd certainly mention the tranquilizer material, of course and bring in an expert to tell how that would help Barry avoid certain kinds of forensic evidence.

Then I'd wrap up with witnesses who could speak for Suzanne in some way. If that one pastor can be brought to the stand to repeat what Barry said to her, that'd be great too. But I'd have SO back on the stand, Suzanne's sister, one or both of the daughters, anyone who could read out Suzanne's grievance list, the texts between Suzanne and her supporters. If necessary, I'd address the issue of why they left Indiana (if defense claims it's due to the affair, I'd counter with it was due to Barry becoming increasingly violent - even in the workplace, of which there are two examples where there are witnesses). I'd imply that Suzanne wanted out, but that Barry had cornered her.

(And then I think about getting lucky...does the prosecution have witnesses from the gym who might know if Barry used steroids? Because I think he did...did Suzanne reveal anything to the Ritters about the state of the marriage - that would a lucky break; what about that DV group? etc What does SD know? )

I'd take the risk of putting one or both daughters on the stand, or at least Macy (I believe she really did advise her mother to get out and get a restraining order and I believe she's seen way more than we know). I don't think Macy will lie on the stand.

I'm stumped as to whether Barry actually had affairs. We all thought he did, but so far, no evidence that he did - except that he's with SD within two months after Suzanne disappears and SD's BF seems to believe she was already involved with Barry at the time of Suzanne's disappearance - that's just an intuition of mine after seeing his picture in the crowd at the first presser - but I think he knows when they got together).

At any rate, I'd make this trial about the dramatic story of a beautiful young woman who marries a man who truly believes he's in charge of her and that physical intimidation is just how he roles. If Barry is acquitted (by those 1-2 jurors who deep inside agree with him), at least the story of Suzanne's life, her endurance of DV, and the fact that apparently happy, well-to-do families may not actually be happy. That "Godly" men are capable of deception and I'd want to leave the jurors with a strong notion of Barry Morphew as deceptive and the exact opposite of what some members of his community thought him to be.

And I"d fervently hope that he was found guilty of all the charges, but if not, at least of felony possession of an illegal weapon and felony deception of the 8 LE/public officials. Because I do not want Barry to own any guns or be in possession of any guns for the rest of his life.

No more hunting for Barry.

Outstanding post, @10ofRods! What you have outlined here is what some of the most experienced WSers here can visualize as we develop our theories and put together our timelines.
Others with less organized minds and/or less experience have many of the same facts available to them, but are not able to grasp all the data to lay it out in an understandable pattern which reveals the true picture to them. This is why so many people had a hard time with the Prelim. It was just floating facts, but little story.
This is also why a prosecutor’s ability to tell the story in a simple, clear, and concise manner is so important at trial. Of course they must insert the data to back up the story, but not do so in such a way that the storyline is lost. The defense will try to muddy the picture by throwing out all kinds of “what ifs” most of which have nothing to do with the case. The prosecutor must be on his toes; he must be able to reel the jury back in as they start floating away on irrelevant data rafts.
@10ofRods , your example is the way this case must be presented, especially as it is a circumstantial case, a cumulation of factoids. It takes that big box of puzzle pieces, (the one that has no picture on the cover for the jury to see), and lays them all out, interlocking every piece to form the most beautiful, complete, picture.

 

[Skigh]

I wondered this, too. I also wondered why she would leave her camel back inside the vehicle. It seems odd not to take it. Did she leave the camel back in her car because her routine was only to drive with her bike to ride the trails?

Surely she would have wanted her camel back in the house so she could fill it with fresh water before she went out.

 

[TrialLurking]

Two questions, do you or anyone know if the 18 miles missing is each way or round trip? Please don’t laugh because it’s unclear at least to me.
Your thoughts on a cellphone jammer are extremely interesting to me especially because I live in a state where several years ago a recent widow/school teacher and her 16 year old daughter were brutally murdered in their home. A jail informant contacted the FBI and local LE stating that he knew these two were killed after a cell jammer was installed (?) at their front door prior to the assaults and murders.
The fact that BM’s truck was reset has me totally confused but a cell phone jammer in the house matters. I look forward to what the truck people can add to when and why the truck reset. I bet it’s damning! IMO

I am confused about this, too. I don't really know much about vehicles, and I didn't even know you could reset your truck? Never heard of it. It did lead me to believe that he was trying to reset where he had been at. My first thought was he was making it appear that he came home at 5:30pm. He didn't want to make it appear that his truck was not at PP when SM phone when silent.

I guess that isn't the case because we do know his truck activity prior to 5:30 pm, but did he know that? JMO

edited because I forgot BBM

 

[SouthAussie]

I am confused about this, too. I don't really know much about vehicles, and I didn't even know you could reset your truck? Never heard of it. It did lead me to believe that he was trying to reset where he had been at. My first thought was he was making it appear that he came home at 5:30pm. He didn't want to make it appear that his truck was not at PP when SM phone when silent.

I guess that isn't the case because we do know his truck activity prior to 5:30 pm, but did he know that? JMO

edited because I forgot BBM

It will be interesting to hear when the Google searches happened, to find out how to reset the vehicle's computer.

Pretty sure BM wouldn't have known how to do that without doing some internet searches.

 

[kshultz06082]

OK, TY. This looks to me like 3 bandaids on BMs arm

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OK, TY. This looks to me like 3 bandaids on BMs arm
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Are we looking at the same marks? Top circle looks like a scratch (fingernail dig) that had maybe started to heal but the scab came off. For lack of a better word, an open wound.

 

[TexieLouWho21]

MOO I asked someone with far more knowledge than I on vicheles some questions. This was after I was down the rabbit hole for hours. I asked if the battery disconnected will erase all the GPS data. He said no, it will retain most data like a computer. I likened it to a black box on a plane. He said yes something like that. I asked can you unhook the odometer. He said absolutely. I asked how much time that would take. He told me it was really easy to unhook ,then reconnect the odometer. He told me he could teach me to do it in just a few minutes. He works on cars as a hobby. Even does complete rebuilds from the frame up. MOO

 

[303gmf]

I haven't posted in quite a while but have watched this case from the start. After learning much more about the timelines and the windows of time that may have been used to dispose of evidence - I want to go back to a theory I had long ago. I am sure that LE has thought of this in all the hours and searches too. So much has been fixated on BM ' s hunting - but he probably also did a lot of fishing. As this outdoorsman, he would know of many places nearby to throw a line out. I direct attention to Colorado's largest reservoir - just down highway 50 and not far out of Gunnison. Well within the timeline to make a night time trip for disposal. There are two bridges where the highway passes over - and the guard rails are not that high. Below the water depth is very deep. Very very deep. At night this is a very low traveled area. Camera's ? I doubt it. But for someone desperate to hide something - a much easier disposal than trying to dig a deep hole.
Very unfortunately, any kind of deep diving or searching would require a heck of a lot of resources.
One thing that I wonder about in regards to items that BM may have used to dispose of evidence. There has been much talk about missing coolers. Maybe with weight that would work - tossing it over into deep water. But I have wondered about a potential tool chest he may have had in the back of his Ford and if it was ever missing ?
I think about a potential tool chest ( many are metal and fit snugly in the bed of a truck. I definitely had a hunter/ fisher friend with one of these in the bed of his Ford. It nestled up next to the cab and was metal. Made for a Ford pickup. My friend sure kept alot of tools and random stuff in there. It had a hinge that he simply used a heavy duty lock on. Like I said - it was metal and pretty good sized. Bigger than a cooler and heavy on its own. Very sinkable - forever - if you catch me.
I have also wondered about all of those random tools left by BM at the hotel in Broomfield. Obviously out of the back of his truck. Obviously not needed for that supposed job that day. Right ? So did those tools have a ' home ' - in the bed of his truck beforehand ? Had they been kept in a tool box that was not there anymore ? Were these random tools left at the hotel vs. brought back in the bed of his truck for a reason ? Not like they were used for something gross and nefarious - but simply because they no longer had a home in the bed of his truck ? And that might set off suspicion ?

Good theories!
Blue Mesa is at record lows, he couldn’t have planned for drought. Off 50 at 149 bridge is the closest spot from Gunnison, wish AWP could have a lookie-see underneath that bridge area

 

[nodamselindistress]

I am so tired of seeing story after story in MSM about the SM disappearance keep referring to her vanishing on a bike ride....THERE WAS NO BIKE RIDE!!!

First and foremost the DA needs to hammer that into the jurors minds, otherwise there is way more room for reasonable doubt. SM would have taken her car if she was going on a bike ride, that is why all her biking accessories were in her car.

Excellent point made above re: how would SM have expected to get back in the house IF she had gone on a bike ride from the house.

All JMO.

 

[OldCop]

Boot Laces?
@Pink2017 Why keep?*
{{{ETA: Tagging others posting re bootlaces, just fyi
@Diddian. @justtrish @EggSalad. @scapa @DizzyB @Auntie Cipation @Seattle1 @Blue Amethyst }}}
BM' laces stmt: Iirc, at PH LE said BM said, he carried boots & other items into HIE room, then removed laces, then carried boots out again, to throw away because boots had holes in them, but kept the laces because they were still good/usable.

What can state do w BM's stmt? Is there HIE or other vid of boots? IDK. If so, does it corroborate BM's stmt to LE? IDK, but let's say prosecutor does have corroborating vid. avail for trial.

Q: Should state use or not use that vid or LE's testimony re BM's stmt at trial?
A: Depends on state's theory of BM's use of laces & when used.

Q: Does BM's stmt w or w/out vid incriminate him?
A: No, not either one, in and of itself

Q: Is BM's laces stmt hinky?
A: Yes yes, yes. Plausible? Maybe.

Q: If state uses to say/suggest BM used laces to restrain or strangle SM?
A1: If prosecution's theory is BM restrained/strangled her at home, or before BM arrived at hotel, then logically/likely boot laces would no longer be in boots. If she was strangled/restrained, he poss'ly left body/disposed of elsewhere (& assume state has no evd of where), before BM went to HIE.
So imo, may not be good evd for state to use.
A2. OTOH if state's theory is before BM arrived w laced boots at HIE, SM was still alive, then he did not use laces to strangle or restrain her prior to that. Or If he did use laces for that, then he put laces back into boots. What?
Nah, not very logical. my2ct.

Someone here ) sorry forgot who, but TYVM) suggested if BM's stmt to LE which LE repeated at PH is factual, then the reason BM may have taken laced boots into HIE to clean boots, but was unsuccessful in cleaning, so decided to throw boots away. That seems possible too. If state uses that idea it's consistent w BM's stmt, but adds the cleaning step he neglected to mention.
Lots of good ideas here.

BTW, do we know if BM's boots even had laces? Seems likely, but he wore cowboy boots at PH.
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* Why keep? Because they're usable for footwear or other purpose (a cat toy w feather?) If person buys new laces for med./hard worn boots, then boots wear out, some would remove laces for next/new pair of boots at same time as tossing the holey boots. Or__?

Here are 4 photos of BM with different with 2 different types of footwear. The first shows BM in an undated photo at Monarch River Estates, (where PP is). The second is a close up of this photo showing his footwear. It appears he is wearing a type of work boot with laces.
The third photo was taken at PP. I believe it was Tuesday the 12th, right after SM disappeared. These look to be hiking boots. The fourth photo was taken at the same time. Gee, he is having trouble with those pesky laces.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

Are we looking at the same marks? Top circle looks like a scratch (fingernail dig) that had maybe started to heal but the scab came off. For lack of a better word, an open wound.

This is most likely a screen shot from a video which degrades and then an enlargement of a degraded image so much of what is seen is highly pixelated and very degraded. I think someone else pointed this out also. It is not very reliable for making assumptions. I see many pixelated areas. If prosecution can get an expert who can show the difference between fingernail scratches and scratches from tree branches I am guessing they will use the originals LE took. If it won’t pass the smell test by a jury it won’t be used.

 

[Kemug]

BBM
Don't forget about the poor innocent deer that was tranq'd and lost his antlers on his property.

It sure was a zoo.

 

[COHinkyMeter]

@Tiff23fr Thanks for asking about my (amateur) game plan. I'd love to bounce my ideas off of you (we're in similar fields) and also off the legal eagles here.

(TL;DR - DV; timeline; witness will show motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime of murdering Suzanne Morphew).

Domestic violence and the danger of divorce would be my first topic, with all the evidence of Barry's pre-disappearance control (an expert witness on DV; Barry controlling the money; SO's and Suzanne's sister's testimony about a violent marriage; probably put the daughter who recommended a restraining order on the stand (gently) and I'd also ask her if the door frame had been broken the last time she was at the house; the nose clipping event; the times he pinned her down to the bed; the time he threw her into a closet and held a gun to his head; all his suicide messages; then put the expert back on the stand to give a statement about how suicidal controlling spouses often turn homicidal. The fact that women are most vulnerable to murder (femicide) when they try to leave would get hammered home. I'd also have a chart of all the things that constitute DV (it's not just punching people, shoving and blocking exits and "clipping" in the face while making wild hand gestures, getting in someone's face, yelling, threatening, financial control, sexual control, implicit threats of violence - such as "bumping" one's big muscular body up against someone to herd them around as if they are a deer, religious control, gaslighting, blaming the victim - all of that needs to be discussed and good graphics made). How abusers try to isolate the victim more and more, to control and to silence them.

Then I'd start the timeline of how Suzanne planned to leave (starting with her financial moves to try and get some money to go, constantly reiterating how secretive she needed to be). Starting May 6, the timeline will ramp up and begin to include Barry Morphew's opportunity (daughters gone, Suzanne alone, poor cellular connection, distance between houses in that area and his motivation (financial and she's leaving). I'd go into Barry Morphew's financial patterns (including his dependence on Suzanne for big sums of money). Barry's actions from May 6-11th would be combed over with a fine tooth comb. He has no alibi. I'd try to establish that his financial motivation was huge, that he carried a gun around the house, that he admitted shooting the gun on May 9th, and I'd introduce the broken door frame. I'd have a map of the larger area and another of the PP house. I'd include the elk head with flesh attached outside the house to attract mountain lions, I'd include his rapid move to get conservatorship, his getting rid of Suzanne's things, his bizarre statement about saving just one person, his exchange of his truck for a new one, and his selling of the RR (maybe two RR's) and his sale of the Indiana house. I'd hope that SO has information about Suzanne wanting to move back to Indiana. I'd bring in any witnesses who could explain that Barry believed only death could end a marriage and Suzanne's statements about Barry permitting no discussion of divorce ("because it will never happen.") Here, I believe it's tricky. Surely JL can testify to Suzanne's reasoning about divorce, at least to some degree. Anyway, this would be the timeline section (I'm really good at drawing timelines myself, with color coding and I would have slides and when all the timeline was put together, it would be highly incriminating). Barry had opportunity, he had means, he had motive. The scratch marks would be presented in this part. I'd probably also have a local LE witness talk about how it's a small town and many already knew Barry and that his reputation as a friendly, God-loving man made them reluctant to draw the conclusion that he was a murderer, and have that person tell why their mind changed. I'd include his attempt to influence MG as a witness. I'd include the lies he told to his nephew (put the nephew on the stand).

I'd include the financial forensics in the timeline section. This would include all the evidence the Suzanne did not voluntarily leave.

There'd be quite a bit of testimony, but I'd boil it down to a simple timeline and that timeline would be there at the summation. Obviously, the trash dump would be a big part of it.

Then I'd do all his lies in a big chart (how his story changed many times). The reset of the truck's GPS would be part of this (another set of experts here - to do car and phone GPS, including from a third phone which I believe he used in this crime and evidence of Suzanne's phone from the Cloud). I know Barry made more than just trash run stops and that LE has evidence of him out and about on May 9-10 (the evidence that caused Monarch Pass highway to be shut for a day - even if they didn't find much, they had reason to believe Barry had been in certain places - where Suzanne's body may still be hidden). I'd describe the searches for Suzanne and why Barry was excluded from official searches and how he behaved when Andy tried to search. I'd put Andy on the stand. His lack of cooperation and lying to the investigators needs to be strongly emphasized (not just because of that one charge, but for the whole case). He had knowledge of his own guilt. He also lies. I'd include lies told to the Moorman family about not being part of the loan (despite borrowing money to invest in community property). I'd include his lying about working on Sunday in Broomfield. The reset of the GPS would be emphasized as evidence that Suzanne was disposed of. I'd certainly mention the tranquilizer material, of course and bring in an expert to tell how that would help Barry avoid certain kinds of forensic evidence.

Then I'd wrap up with witnesses who could speak for Suzanne in some way. If that one pastor can be brought to the stand to repeat what Barry said to her, that'd be great too. But I'd have SO back on the stand, Suzanne's sister, one or both of the daughters, anyone who could read out Suzanne's grievance list, the texts between Suzanne and her supporters. If necessary, I'd address the issue of why they left Indiana (if defense claims it's due to the affair, I'd counter with it was due to Barry becoming increasingly violent - even in the workplace, of which there are two examples where there are witnesses). I'd imply that Suzanne wanted out, but that Barry had cornered her.

(And then I think about getting lucky...does the prosecution have witnesses from the gym who might know if Barry used steroids? Because I think he did...did Suzanne reveal anything to the Ritters about the state of the marriage - that would a lucky break; what about that DV group? etc What does SD know? )

I'd take the risk of putting one or both daughters on the stand, or at least Macy (I believe she really did advise her mother to get out and get a restraining order and I believe she's seen way more than we know). I don't think Macy will lie on the stand.

I'm stumped as to whether Barry actually had affairs. We all thought he did, but so far, no evidence that he did - except that he's with SD within two months after Suzanne disappears and SD's BF seems to believe she was already involved with Barry at the time of Suzanne's disappearance - that's just an intuition of mine after seeing his picture in the crowd at the first presser - but I think he knows when they got together).

At any rate, I'd make this trial about the dramatic story of a beautiful young woman who marries a man who truly believes he's in charge of her and that physical intimidation is just how he roles. If Barry is acquitted (by those 1-2 jurors who deep inside agree with him), at least the story of Suzanne's life, her endurance of DV, and the fact that apparently happy, well-to-do families may not actually be happy. That "Godly" men are capable of deception and I'd want to leave the jurors with a strong notion of Barry Morphew as deceptive and the exact opposite of what some members of his community thought him to be.

And I"d fervently hope that he was found guilty of all the charges, but if not, at least of felony possession of an illegal weapon and felony deception of the 8 LE/public officials. Because I do not want Barry to own any guns or be in possession of any guns for the rest of his life.

No more hunting for Barry.

I rarely post, but this is EXCELLENT!! I really hope that someone from the DA's team reads here at WS. You would make a fabulous addition to their team, FWIW...

 

[Lilypad13]

Could it be that, while he was out getting the blade changed, he could have been watching SM via the home trailcams, and maybe he saw her doing something like taking a selfie, texting or talking on the phone -- if he was already suspicious of her activities, he might have been calling over and over just to try to disrupt her connection with someone else? MOO

Yes and I also suspect he found out how to read her texts in real time. If they share an account he could read her texts in the Cloud and he might have installed some type of spyware on her phone where he can see everything she is doing even on Linked In or What’s App.

One thing that is really bugging me is the trip to the Spa & Stove store (might have name wrong) after the last communication from Suzanne to JL. If Barry killed her around 2:50 pm then why go to that store right afterwards? To cover his butt for the “get hot tub stuff” text? But yet he didn’t purchase anything? Just inquired about getting the hot tub fixed? Makes no sense. But if he had just committed the murder of his wife and was in a high adrenaline state because he had all kinds of things to take care of then why take the time to go there? And then try and reset his truck data after he got back home? Somehow this is an important clue.

 

[Bluebythec]

When you’re fighting for your life I don’t think “handedness” matters. You’ll use whatever hand you can get free.

 

[DizzyB]

Here are 4 photos of BM with different with 2 different types of footwear. The first shows BM in an undated photo at Monarch River Estates, (where PP is). The second is a close up of this photo showing his footwear. It appears he is wearing a type of work boot with laces.
The third photo was taken at PP. I believe it was Tuesday the 12th, right after SM disappeared. These look to be hiking boots. The fourth photo was taken at the same time. Gee, he is having trouble with those pesky laces.

I see a camo jacket in one of the photos. I wonder if it was “the” camo jacket. I’m sure Barry has many. I did read something about camouflage clothing-it’s the equivalent of a snowflake. Every article is different, as the location of the pattern and individual component piece cut factors in.