Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #27

[LietKynes]

I'm struggling with the amount of arrogance it must take to publicly call out 3 law enforcement agencies in an interview when your wife is missing. He really is an arrogant son of a gun.

Ita.
Son of a something else as well.

 

[ReckoningDay]

Exactly.

JMO
First off, how and why was the friend even there so quickly?
Afterall, it sounds like BM had not even gotten there yet so the only people that knew SM was missing should have been the neighbor, the children, BM, and LE. So how and why was this friend there so quickly? IMO, obviously because he was called by someone and most likely BM.

Secondly, what are the odds this friend happened to be in the same location at the precise time LE found the bicycle?

It almost sounds like the friend could have been the one who found the bike.

If so, then did the person that asked him to help look for SM give so many good clues on where to look that it brought him to that exact spot?

And the kicker is lets say you were a close friend of someone and you just learned hours ago that your friend's wife was missing and so you go over there to try to help find her. And lo and behold you find her bicycle. Then why would you immediately jump to the conclusion that evidence needs protecting and there is evidence all over the bike?

Heck at that moment in time, I would still expect her to be found!
I would think she wrecked and walked away from the bicycle and is not far from there. Trying to stop LE from touching the bike would be the furthest thing from my mind at that exact moment in time. I would start looking for her right around the bike area and work outwards thinking she wrecked and got hurt and walked away from there.

Sure, a day or so later when she is still missing is when all that becomes important to me as a friend that got called over there to help see if I could help find her. .
But not in the couple hours from when I was just notified she was missing and if I had went over to help look for her and found her wrecked bike. I would immediately think a normal bike wreck and she walked off.

Ohhh such excellent points. Good sleuthing! (Although I hate that BM is probably reading here, and will try to create a narrative to fit this. <modsnip>)

 

[oviedo]

So...... if I'm LE and I read that interview with BM, I think the first thing I do is call up BM and ask him to take a polygraph, right? (Which, btw, I trust SMs family's account on that anyway).

I was struck by the profound difference between the statements/emotion from SMs family versus BM. BM just doesn't look/sound/act like a broken man. SMs father and brother are clearly broken and devastated.

And 100% agree with all the statements about BM adding God to our list of suspects. Disgusting. MOO, JMO.

I think this may stem from his arrogance - that's the sense I am getting from him...i think he thought there wouldn't be that much attention and everyone would fall in line with his lion/abduction/accident theories and his buddies would be speaking out for him more. It will be an interesting week ..
JMO

 

[allyoucantleavebehind]

Honestly, my first thought. He might be implying SM was spending time with someone known to her and that person harmed her. I also get the impression he believes this is someone she should not have been with.

"People don't know the truth" , "oh Suzanne", "it's too soon".

Who knows really.... IMO

Yes, who knows? But if BM is implying that Suzanne was spending time with someone sketchy or dangerous, he is also indirectly suggesting that she was doing something wrong or blameworthy. Which--again--seems like an effort on his part to impugn the victim or to introduce doubt in a situation where the primary person of interest seems to be entirely devoted to creating doubt about what happened rather than finding his wife.

I would not be surprised at this point if BM said Suzanne appeared to him in a dream and said she is happy in heaven and that she wants LE to stop bothering BM or trying to find her. I feel like BM is messing with our heads, and I am very worried for their daughters' mental health in all this.

 

[Nerissa]

Romantic and (cough) pretty useless. Though I sometimes get asked to write eulogies (and that means so much to the families but it breaks my heart because I over-identify with them. It's hard not to start caring deeply about a life when you write a eulogy for that person and see them as a human who did their best and whose loss is just devastating).

When my kids tell their friends "Mom is a poet," we get some of the funniest looks and laughs.

I'm a creative writer as well - & BM's language is just giving me the chills - not the good kind either.

Two things that strike me: "They don't know the truth".....THEY - he doesn't say something like: 'we don't know the truth...' OR
'we don't know what happened....'
It's "THEY" don't know - IMO the implication being that HE does know......

Also: "this thing is just tragedy(tragic)" (sorry working on memory with the quote...)

"This thing" - this THING is your wife BM!!!!

Also, distancing - 'this thing' - I think that his inner narrative is that 'this thing' that's 'tragic' was something that got out of hand, he has a sorta 'aw shucks' attitude about & has, IMO, since the get-go.

"This thing..." narrative also strikes me in conjunction with his 'Oh, Suzanne' plea months ago - as including her in on 'this thing that's just tragedy'.....that she is partly to blame for what happened....

He shows zero sympathy for SM - his religious talk plus actually saying, in effect, that she wouldn't mind dying for someone else (!) - he never sounds worried for her, about her or tormented about what fate or pain she may have suffered much less the idea that she may be alive, being held captive: it's like BM is over it already & wishes other's were too.......

I ain't BM & I ain't likely to neither any time soon, just FYI, buddy

JMO

 

[allyoucantleavebehind]

I'm a creative writer as well - & BM's language is just giving me the chills - not the good kind either.

Two things that strike me: "They don't know the truth".....THEY - he doesn't say something like: 'we don't know the truth...' OR
'we don't know what happened....'
It's "THEY" don't know - IMO the implication being that HE does know......

Also, distancing - 'this thing' - I think that his inner narrative is that 'this thing' that's 'tragic' was something that got out of hand, he has a sorta 'aw shucks' attitude about & has, IMO, since the get-go.

"This thing..." narrative also strikes me in conjunction with his 'Oh, Suzanne' plea months ago - as including her in on 'this thing that's just tragedy'.....that she is partly to blame for what happened....

He shows zero sympathy for SM - his religious talk plus actually saying, in effect, that she wouldn't mind dying for someone else (!) - he never sounds worried for her, about her or tormented about what fate or pain she may have suffered much less the idea that she may be alive, being held captive: it's like BM is over it already & wishes other's were too.......

JMO

Exactly. Exactly. I had the same feeling. The same exact feeling as you--no one can be "responsible"... which is so common in cases of abuse. So common even in church cases I've seen down here where pastors blame the molestation of kids on demons, on anything that wasn't them. "It just happened." "This Thing." "A tragedy." A fatalist undercurrent which implies there was no way to prevent it--that it was fated.

 

[swedeheart]

So tell me, all of you insulting PE and stanning* Barry Morphew: why do you believe he is innocent? I genuinely would love to know your viewpoint, as opposed to just coming here to throw shade at the guys (and gal) trying to help find Suzanne. Let us hear your thoughts so we can understand.

*slang for the art of being slightly “obsessed” with an artist/person/character. “I stan Frank Ocean.”

 

[K9Enzo]

Yes, who knows? But if BM is implying that Suzanne was spending time with someone sketchy or dangerous, he is also indirectly suggesting that she was doing something wrong or blameworthy. Which--again--seems like an effort on his part to impugn the victim or to introduce doubt in a situation where the primary person of interest seems to be entirely devoted to creating doubt about what happened rather than finding his wife.

I would not be surprised at this point if BM said Suzanne appeared to him in a dream and said she is happy in heaven and that she wants LE to stop bothering BM or trying to find her. I feel like BM is messing with our heads, and I am very worried for their daughters' mental health in all this.

I was still being vague with my thoughts. It's possible he was implying she was having an affair. He's throwing out many scenarios, why not this one? I mentioned earlier that I feel like he's disappointed in her. He is putting the blame on her or God is (back to who knows, he's confusing to me). Do I believe this? No.

 

[Hair of the Dog]

Honestly, my first thought. He might be implying SM was spending time with someone known to her and that person harmed her. I also get the impression he believes this is someone she should not have been with.

"People don't know the truth" , "oh Suzanne", "it's too soon".

Who knows really.... IMO

Never pass up a chance to throw shade at your missing wife and the men and women looking for her. VERY Christian of you Barry! Apparently he skipped over a few significant chapters when he was sitting in his chair reading the bible. JMO.

 

[Birmingplumb]

IMO he didn't want the recorded call shared with the public, but LS must've recorded it to get the quotes in the article. A reporter can't do that from memory. So, I would be very interested to read her transcript of the call(s).

I think the usual suspect "I answered every question" instead of "I answered every question truthfully" was because he orchestrated his speech to be pass a voice analysis and dictated do not record me so you would indeed record and do a voice analysis which is what he wanted and prob practiced with a paid voice analysist computer or program to sell him being truth full . No questions like where were u at....? It was all orchestrated and he dictated what he would say already practiced. IMO This was to pass a voice analysis IMO

 

[JerichoTina]

I also don’t think it would be difficult to trip him up in an interview or conversation.

IMO

This is my feeling, as well. The way he comes across in interviews makes me think he must have slipped up during his 30 hours of questioning by LE.

 

[happyday]

I was still being vague with my thoughts. It's possible he was implying she was having an affair. He's throwing out many scenarios, why not this one? I mentioned earlier that I feel like he's disappointed in her. He is putting the blame on her or God is (back to who knows, he's confusing to me). Do I believe this? No.

I think he was alluding to her having an affair also. But in a vague way b/c it’s not true & he’s just throwing spaghetti at the wall.

 

[Ontario Mom]

“This is the most devastating thing that has ever happened to me”

I guess we see who his priority is. Would have been more gracious if he had said US, instead of ME.


“But I have got to keep my faith and trust in God. And Suzanne trusted the Lord and if one person got saved from this, she would think it was worth it. And we are just a Godly, loving, caring, family and this thing is just a tragedy.”


So WHO, exactly , would be 'saved' from her death? I don't understand that part at all.

In Christian circles when someone says something like that, what they mean is, if God can use something awful to bring others to the faith, then at least there's a silver lining in the heartbreaking situation. Some tiny sliver of hope to hang onto.

What makes it particularly disgusting for me is, a.) I believe she is deceased, b.) I (99.99%) believe BM is responsible and c.) he actually stated that SM would be okay with being murdered/disappeared/whatever, as long as someone else came to the faith as a result.

I believe he's trying to convince himself that someone might get saved as a result of this (although why he says that is mind boggling since there's nothing redeemable about how she went missing), and make himself feel better about what he's done.

Just the fact that he said this at all, tells me all I need to know about his own version of Christianity.

jmo

 

[nyvictoria]

Barry did admit an inconsistency in one timeline he provided to investigators.

“It was only because I didn’t know the time that I did something, a mechanical thing, to my bobcat,” he said. “I was confused and I just found out my wife was missing, and I was a little bit not in my right mind when they were asking me these questions, but I did the best I could and I answered everything. I never once declined any interview.”

Regardless of what others may think, Barry said a big concern of his is the way in which the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office has handled this investigation.

“The Sheriff’s Department screwed this whole thing up from the beginning and now they are trying to cover it up and blame it on me,” he said. He went on to cite an incident he found particularly troubling, which occurred, he said, when deputies found his wife’s bike.

“My buddy was there right after that, and he said that they completely destroyed the evidence, and he tried to stop them, but they wouldn’t listen to him and said, ‘this is not CSI,'” Barry said. “There’s no evidence for the investigators to see because the Sheriff’s Department completely obliterated it.”
“People don’t know the truth”: Suzanne Morphew’s husband breaks silence after three months | FOX21 News Colorado


This tells me all I need to know ... a'la Lecticia Stauch

Me too. Wow. He’s right about one thing. We don’t know the truth but Barry’s unrecorded misdirection certainly isn’t it. So he was out of his mind and did a mechanical something to the Bobcat but didn’t know what time it was when he did it. Is this the wild animal he wants to blame for his wife’s disappearance? A little Freudian slip? And more LE bashing and why not throw in a cover up now too! Sounds like he’s angry because his buddy tried to stop LE from doing their job but they kept on working the scene.

Nice try, Barry.

eta: What the actual F is this:

“And Suzanne trusted the Lord and if one person got saved from this, she would think it was worth it.”

What does that even mean? He makes it sound like Suzanne sacrificed herself. Ugh.

 

[Hair of the Dog]

I was still being vague with my thoughts. It's possible he was implying she was having an affair. He's throwing out many scenarios, why not this one? I mentioned earlier that I feel like he's disappointed in her. He is putting the blame on her or God is (back to who knows, he's confusing to me). Do I believe this? No.

I think he is throwing out anything that comes out of the hamster wheel in his head. What does he have to lose?

 

[MrsWatson]

I was still being vague with my thoughts. It's possible he was implying she was having an affair. He's throwing out many scenarios, why not this one? I mentioned earlier that I feel like he's disappointed in her. He is putting the blame on her or God is (back to who knows, he's confusing to me). Do I believe this? No.

Agree. I had the impression he was trying to throw a big umbrella of shade over her. Too friendly. Talked to the wrong people. Talked to the wrong men. Talked to perhaps one man in too friendly of a manner. Talked to shady people. And defo the side eye of was she fooling around? without saying it.

The more I watch/listen to that, the worse he comes off. Just heartless. No sense of loss or fear. Done and dusted. Nothing to see, moving right along.

MOO

 

[allyoucantleavebehind]

Yeah, I really didn't get the impression it was a interview but more a platform for the family to make a statement.

Yes. The family is trying to bring attention to this case right now. I think they are working with LE and that LE is probably encouraging this in the hope that more leads might come forward--and also to counterbalance the attention that BM has been receiving in his narrative of "my suzanne." The M family is saying: "Suzanne is beloved. We need answers. We trust LE. Please help us find her." (So different from BM's narrative which is anti-LE and not focused on finding Suzanne.)

 

[NuttMegg]

Yes, who knows? But if BM is implying that Suzanne was spending time with someone sketchy or dangerous, he is also indirectly suggesting that she was doing something wrong or blameworthy. Which--again--seems like an effort on his part to impugn the victim or to introduce doubt in a situation where the primary person of interest seems to be entirely devoted to creating doubt about what happened rather than finding his wife.

I would not be surprised at this point if BM said Suzanne appeared to him in a dream and said she is happy in heaven and that she wants LE to stop bothering BM or trying to find her. I feel like BM is messing with our heads, and I am very worried for their daughters' mental health in all this.

If he can get people believing, no matter how subtly, that it was her own fault for meeting up with some guy, then he can give himself points for clamming up to save her reputation (the reputation that he is subtly trashing). That could even account for that repulsive statement he made that she would be happy (and presumably willing to die) if even one person was saved. Saved from knowing what really happened, with that person she knew so "well".

 

[Error505]

I tell you what, her brother’s words were powerful. And her dad was in essence making his last wishes known, worried he won’t live long enough to see this through, making sure his little girl is found. Heartbreaking and powerful. Their words will stick with me just like Gannon Stauch’s mother’s words when Letecia was arrested for Gannon’s murder.

 

[Boxer]

I think this may stem from his arrogance - that's the sense I am getting from him...i think he thought there wouldn't be that much attention and everyone would fall in line with his lion/abduction/accident theories and his buddies would be speaking out for him more. It will be an interesting week ..
JMO

Launching a successful narrative is how many murders succeed in not being investigated at all.
BM is trying to get back there without exposing himself to the media, which is very strange.
A recent similar example is Tammy Daybell's death not being even cursorily investigated for non homicidal cause due to a husbands narrative being accepted over applying state procedures for an unexplained death. In that case since the coroner was not a MD, the actual responsibility in Idaho to call for autopsy fell to the Sheriff, if the death was not attended by a physician or was unexplained. The sheriff in that case let her unexplained death go in to the past accepting Chad Daybell's narrative that she was sick. No investigation would have ever come of her death without the other murders surrounding her.

MOO staging a death to conceal a murder turn out to be common.
Chaffe County Sheriff is from Denver and has a lot of homicide experience, so he is going to professionally checklist, apply training and follow procedure even if deputy didn't handle the first contact right.
And we see what the Sheriff thinks after applying his investigative tools.