Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #31

[Seattle1]

Sept 3, 2020

Exclusive: Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding the disappearance of wife, Suzanne | FOX21 News Colorado

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[Hoosierfan72]

They burn easily.

Styrofoam do, of course - but do plastic coolers also burn easily? Do hunters use styrofoam coolers or are they not strong enough for what they need? Wouldn't a burning plastic cooler leave a residue? I honestly don't know - I've only used coolers for their intended purpose.....

 

[Backstroke10]

Yes, all about him. He’s not mad they haven’t figured out what happened to his wife, he’s angry they are focusing on him.

He doesn’t want her found, and he just wants them to back off. They won’t.

He sounds extremely angry. I think it all started with the DM article saying he spent the night at a “cheap Denver hotel”. He hated that. Then the JP statements sent him over the top. I love it! MOO

 

[Lilypad13]

Apparently someone trying to establish an alibi.

We have 3 2' x 4' coolers stored at our place of business. All of which were taken and used by my DH when he used to hunt every fall. That's not even counting the numerous coolers stored in our garage and used for camping, rafting etc. SIL works as a contractor and uses coolers in his daily work also. I call foul ball on no coolers in that household.

Ok I got it now. Sorry I guess that seemed weird to me that they were looking for all his coolers. And there were none. Wouldn’t you only need one bigger one to dispose of a body? So LE must suspect she is buried or was carried somewhere in a cooler. Or coolers

 

[marylamby]

Such a defensive attitude. Still no sorrow.

His only sorrow is for himself.

 

[branmuffin]

Thank you for this. I agree with you that this is a very plausible explanation. It would possibly also explain why he - being up against the clock - was so late getting back home after hearing about Suzanne's "disappearance".
This means that there is another crime site where he dismembered/mutilated her body sufficient to dispose of the parts more easily.
Do you have any theories as to where this might be? His home address, maybe?
What are your thoughts on the building site searched by LE and the FBI? Might that be a third crime site?
Thank you again.

Back in May or June I posted a couple of links to information regarding the geological makeup of Colorado around Maysville. Plus a guide to all the abandoned mines in the area. I don't think BM is a criminal mastermind but one thing I do think he knows well is rocks. Boulders, granite, shale, gravel, etc. And I would imagine he knows where deposits of them are and how easy it would be to cover a dead body, or parts thereof, with rocks.

I keep coming back to that image of BM that TD mentioned where he was bare chested, soaking wet and cold looking the day before the videotape of BM explaining what happened to the bike. According to TD he appeared as if he'd been in the creek or the river and he walked up to his truck and sat in it with his chest against the steering wheel then he drove slowly away. I was looking at what was around there on the other side of the creek/river.

There is an old unused mine called Copper King mine just on the other side of the Arkansas River just a bit south and east of the Morphew home. I wonder whether he placed SM somewhere near that mine or under a wash of stones. Or parts of her.

I have no real idea how SM was killed. Initially, I thought it would be a bloodless murder like a strangling, drowning or suffocation, since I believed it was premeditated and that blood evidence would have been discovered during the search of the Morphew home in late May. But now we know about the abrupt end to the social media messaging between SM and her friend, I'm not so sure. It could be they got in an argument that escalated and she just got disgusted with the whole thing and put her phone down an walked away. And he followed her.

But BM being seen soaking wet and cold makes me think he was ensuring that something he had hidden was still hidden.

I also wondered whether the building site was dug up because cadaver dogs got a hit under the cement and even though it appeared they had no physical evidence in terms of bone fragments, etc I wondered if soil samples provided evidence of a dead body. JMO MOO

 

[bkgregg5]

Yes. I mean, I guess BM could have taken a cooler to work in Denver, and the girls could have taken a couple on their camping trip. But I would think that the M’s would have many more various-sized coolers than just those 2 or 3. Between camping, hunting, my tennis, kids sports, travel, etc., I’ll bet our family of four has more than 15 assorted coolers.

I agree. We are a family of seven and have a minimum of that number of coolers in our garage and shed. They range in all sizes. The fact they can’t find any (not caught up yet but based on what I know so far) is ridiculous.

Very risky to dispose of in a dumpster. People love picking through those, and that’s how bodies in suitcases are found. A cooler would be gold to some of those people.

In some ways, it almost seems harder to dispose of a large cooler than a body.

It can be sometimes, especially if you want to dispose of a body in a cooler. Not that it relates to this case but google the Capano case in Delaware.

 

[marylamby]

Imagine. Surviving 2 bouts of cancer only to be murdered by “the love of your life.”

Stop it~ I've already shed tears today! Hell, I'd flip the switch at this point.

 

[Lilypad13]

How perfect is it that the anchor on Fox21 News has the last name of Kilbury (pronounced Kill Barry)?

That’s too funny!

 

[Ssschu]

Their girls were camping that weekend. More than likely they took at least one cooler.

Then the girls would have brought it back and LE would have found it. Likely has more than one cooler anyway being a hunter and landscaper.

 

[MassGuy]

I agree. We are a family of seven and have a minimum of that number of coolers in our garage and shed. They range in all sizes. The fact they can’t find any (not caught up yet but based on what I know so far) is ridiculous.

It can be sometimes, especially if you want to dispose of a body in a cooler. Not that it relates to this case but google the Capano case in Delaware.

Very familiar with that one. It also helped that they were idiots, and didn’t understand the idea that coolers tend to float.

 

[marylamby]

All I know is this...
They're going to get this guy. Of this, I'm sure. Much respect.

 

[Seni]

Sept 3, 2020

Exclusive: Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding the disappearance of wife, Suzanne | FOX21 News Colorado

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“I’ve heard the FBI lie and I know that they can legally do that in their investigations,” Barry said. “But it just pains me to know that they are doing this to me and my family.”

 

[NuttMegg]

Styrofoam do, of course - but do plastic coolers also burn easily? Do hunters use styrofoam coolers or are they not strong enough for what they need? Wouldn't a burning plastic cooler leave a residue? I honestly don't know - I've only used coolers for their intended purpose.....

Maybe not easily, but saw them up, put on a fire, sure. Might raise a black smelly cloud though.
I don't really think he killed her in the house, like I said earlier, they could have argued at 12:30 pm and maybe he took her somewhere after dark to kill her. She was so small and he's so pumped up.

 

[NuttMegg]

So what is Barry all bent out of shape about re FBI? What are the FBI lies?

 

[Hoosierfan72]

I also find it interesting that BM contends that the FBI is lying, presumably to AM, about the smell of bleach in the house? That's how I understood that comment anyway (seeing as the FBI hasn't made any public statements at all, and BMs comment came on the heels of the clip of AM talking about the second-hand info he got about the bleach smell). So..... apparently we're supposed to believe the FBI is lying to AM (who kept this quiet for the last four months) in order to ??? pick on BM?? "Frame him" for their mistakes?? Poor BM, first the CCSO, then new media, the FBI, then his ungrateful ex-felon worker who BM was so kind to give him an opportunity to make "good money" - everybody is picking on poor BM. It makes you wonder if he actually believes he's the real victim here..... JMO

 

[Seattle1]

Absolutely.

Reminds me of the Jennifer Rothwell case. Investigators smelled/noticed bleach in the house in the initial search.

Missing woman's husband arrested after carpet found soaked with blood, bleach

Yes! Nov 2019-- major snowstorm -- cars abandoned on the side roads unable to arrive home and this husband walks to the store to buy bleach and cleaning supplies.

 

[Ssschu]

Re: Lauren's phone interview with BM about the motel

I'm:/

And thinking if i had done nothing wrong i wouldn't feel the need to explain away a co-worker's claims about a motel room

I think at the most i would say LE will sort that out and that I'm grateful for the search that my wife's brother is organizing
(Just to look good, if nothing else)

It just feels off
So much concern about himself...

I haven't been able to watch it yet. Did Andy's search even come up in the conversation with Lauren? I would hope she'd ask him.

 

[bkgregg5]

Very familiar with that one. It also helped that they were idiots, and didn’t understand the idea that coolers tend to float.

He sits next to us on the beach in Rehoboth. He’s the idiot who shot the cooler and thought it would sink. Yet he’s still living on the boardwalk. Remarkably if you didn’t know his history he seems like a nice guy.

 

[Minordetails]

What could possibly be his story for that time frame?

He was at the job site?