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

[MsBetsy]

I'm thinking she was integral to the job on 5/9.
JMO

Didn't someone say the job was on the interstate? Maybe she was a flagger.

 

[Seattle1]

New to this discussion and not sure if this has been said or if it's even relevant.

What kind of business owner stays in the same room as an employee or even anyone they are on a project with?

I have worked in my field since 1997 and have owned a (small) company since 2005. Never, not once, have I shared a room with a boss or employee or colleague or subcontractor. I'm sure that does happen, but in this case, why on earth would BM be sharing an inexpensive room with this guy.

No agenda here, just a thought.

Reportedly, BM arrived in Denver/Broomfield area on Sunday morning and JP, BM's hired hand, arrived on Sunday evening after BM left for Salida (after the neighbor reported SM missing). By all accounts, BM showered in the room intended for JP, and left the wet towels strewn on the bathroom floor.

I think BM did so due to his character. It was rude and disrespectful. I can't think of any other reason. BM's also bit old for the frat house. MOO

 

[tmar]

Reportedly, BM arrived in Denver/Broomfield area on Sunday morning and JP, BM's hired hand, arrived on Sunday evening after BM left for Salida (after the neighbor reported SM missing). By all accounts, BM showered in the room intended for JP, and left the wet towels strewn on the bathroom floor.

I think BM did so due to his character. It was rude and disrespectful. I can't think of any other reason. BM's also bit old for the frat house. MOO

Leaving towels on the floor, is probably BM's habit: SM picking up after him.
Here, he expected the Cleaning Staff to pick up.

 

[swedeheart]

I didn't get a chance to listen to it. Was he slurring his words or something? Was he incoherent? I tried to play it from the link but nothing happened.

not slurring, or incoherent. he's not wasted, just a bit of a thick tongue. i don't know how else to really describe it. like i said, it could absolutely be the quality of the phone reception, but i've had a few people close to me who were addicts/alcoholics, and i've always been able to pick up on the way it sounds when someone's not completely sober. take a listen to the video when you get a minute. moo.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

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

For the first time, on record with FOX21 News, Barry Morphew has agreed to share his side of the story.

“Listen,” Barry said during a Thursday morning phonecall, “Jeff Puckett was in prison for nine years.”

Still, Barry confirmed he had hired Puckett for a project in Broomfield on Mother’s Day Weekend this year. They needed to fix a wall, Puckett said.

“I said listen, I need to do this job, I will pay you good money to come and help me,” Barry said of Puckett. “I gave him a job and an opportunity.”

It was not a last minute project, Barry explained, the job had been in the works for a month.

“That has nothing to do with Suzanne missing,” he said.

Puckett agreed to the work and traveled to Broomfield, where Barry had paid for a room. Puckett told FOX21 he walked inside and was immediately struck by a strong smell of chlorine.

“I mean, I’m not going to beat around the bush, it did,” he said. “I mean it smelled real strong. I’m like, damn, that’s just what I thought.”

Puckett also found signs that the room had been used in some capacity, and reasoned Barry had been inside at some point.

“The bed hadn’t been slept in or laid in or nothing, it was just kind of laid on or something,” Puckett said. “Maybe he got in, took a shower, and then that was it – just washed up and left.”

Puckett said he was told Barry had to leave for a family emergency that Sunday night, May 10.

<snip>

Barry said he left in a hurry, when he learned his wife was missing.

“I rushed home, left all my tools at the hotel called my workers and said, ‘I have a family emergency, you’re going to have to figure this out on your own,'” he said.

But Puckett said the crew couldn’t finish their work.

“We had nothing to work with,” he said. And he described what would have been necessary in order to complete that particular job.

“Once you build [the wall] up, you run a layer block, some dirt, get [it] inspected, then you keep continuing until the next level – and there was nothing like that to work with,” Puckett said. “That kind of pissed me off, so I come on back.”

<snip>

“I did nothing wrong in the hotel,” Barry said. “There’s cameras all over the hotel, I did nothing wrong.”

The hotel isn’t the only location where the presence of a strong smell has been mentioned.

Suzanne’s older brother, Andrew Moorman, brought up something he’d heard, following a search of the Morphew family home.

“From what I understood secondhand, they said there was an overwhelming smell of bleach in the home,” he said.

That information had apparently been relayed to him by initial investigators.

“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.”

Moorman said CBI agents brought up other concerns as well.

“They did ask us, ‘why can’t we find any coolers at the house?’ And I said, ‘well I have no idea. I don’t know how many they had to begin with,” he said. “But I assume, as a hunter and a guy that maybe camps, he would have a few, and they couldn’t find a single one.”

Thanks for this, really helpful

 

[HongKongPhooey]

BM and JP worked together on another job. This was the first time that JP was doing a job for BM. I think a lot of these guys run in the same circles and see each other on various jobs. MOO

Maybe JP knew at least one of the other workers beforehand too.

JMO

 

[tmar]

Thx for this post. It is encouraging that you feel that the daughters will be able to detatch from their father's enfluence. Moo

We have a case in Australia, where the daughter, even after the trial, where her father is found Guilty, still appears to be under his influence, not absorbing 'what happened'.
The father lied for years to everyone.
She supports, and visits him.
There was even CCTV of the father driving to the site, to dispose of the body BUT she just will not accept this.

 

[seekingjustice**]

Says BM "This whole thing is killing us and that is why I want our privacy.”

Poor Barry, all he wants is his privacy. Innocent families don't care about their privacy, they want to shout from rooftops searching for their loved ones!

 

[Poedelini]

The more i hear the more im convinced this was premeditated. Sloppy, but premeditated. Jmo

 

[Sarahlou]

Says BM "This whole thing is killing us and that is why I want our privacy.”

Poor Barry, all he wants is his privacy. Innocent families don't care about their privacy, they want to shout from rooftops searching for their loved ones!

Exactly. This case is really frustrating. Seeing someone get away with it so far. I just hope justice is done one day very soon.

 

[Itsapuzzle]

I have SO much catching up to do .... but it does sound like the wheels are comin' off Barry's trolley ....

 

[lamlawindy]

Just a reminder that surveillance footage, gps data, phone records etc. is still counted as evidence. As is witness testimony of odd behaviors, financial irregularities, establishing motive and so on. Direct evidence of a crime is not necessary to lead to a conviction any more. It just makes the case more challenging to prove, and the weight of circumstantial evidence gathered probably has to be heavier to tip the scales of justice.

You're correct that GPS data, cell records, etc. are all forms
of circumstantial evidence, as is the type of witness testimony you mentioned.

You're also 100% correct that a circumstantial-only case needs to be "heavier" than one with direct evidence. In fact, here in Indiana, the defendant in such a criminal case is entitled to a special jury instruction:

Where proof of guilt is by circumstantial evidence only, it must be so conclusive in character and point so surely and unerringly to the guilt of the accused as to exclude every reasonable theory of innocence.

Indiana Pattern Jury Instruction 12

 

[Dr.StClements]

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

Oh, he really does think he's the victim, and that what he is experiencing definitely usurps his wife's position in this tragedy.
It's all about his ego (which has taken a few knocks) and such wounds run deep in people with his type of personality.
MOO

 

[DizzyB]

Reportedly, BM arrived in Denver/Broomfield area on Sunday morning and JP, BM's hired hand, arrived on Sunday evening after BM left for Salida (after the neighbor reported SM missing). By all accounts, BM showered in the room intended for JP, and left the wet towels strewn on the bathroom floor.

I think BM did so due to his character. It was rude and disrespectful. I can't think of any other reason. BM's also bit old for the frat house. MOO

This. Barry expected to be away for 4 days, but never got his own room. How many rooms did he rent? Was anyone else doubled up? I think that JP is just the first person who spoke out publicly about being part of that crew. Pretty odd that Barry would seek him out for this job. I’m sure that LE had a lot of questions about that. It’s all of the things that make no sense.

 

[Dr.StClements]

It’s typical narcissistic behaviour. All the stories he churns out make sense to him so he’s baffled why the rest of the world doesn’t understand. He doesn’t have to explain the timeline because he wasn’t a part of what everyone is accusing him of. Why do we not get that? In his mind his work mates and LE are ALL liars and out to get him. Can we not see that? MOO

I have dealt with narcissistic family members and have sat through hours of convoluted explanations and meandering stories that only make sense to them. Any lapses of logic you point out, they will have a story about how YOU are wrong. Thankfully, the situations I have dealt with aren’t as disturbing as this one.

Poor Suzanne and her two girls.

He's a good fit with a particular personality disorder characterized by narcissism, fragile ego, sociopathy and I think we can add psychopathy here.
In my past and recent life I was involved with sadistic rapists, murderers, serious serial offenders, and pedophiles (both those who did or didn't murder their victims). In my personal life, my narcissism-detecting antennae play a huge role in who I choose to be friends with. One of my close girlfriends is married to a raging narcissist. She is too in love with him to see it. I can hardly bear to be in the same room as him, but I love my friend and she comes first, so I tolerate him without making any issue of it.
I want to be there for my girlfriend when everything falls apart, and it will- spectacularly.

Those of us standing on the periphery often see the bigger picture and the warning signs, which I suspect is what happened with Suzanne and her family. She loved BM and was likely blind to his more worrying traits, perhaps until very recently when things started to unravel.
It's impossible to reconcile how someone seemingly so devoted to her family, beloved by many others, and with a caring and thoughtful approach towards all could meet with such a vile end.
But be assured, BM will have already justified in his own mind the need for him to silence his wife forever. He may never admit it to anyone in confidence (we'll not hear why because that justification doesn't exist in the real world) but it's already there in his mind. He's defiant, and I find that particularly alarming, for reasons I don't want to get into here.
If what we are seeing in public is typical of his behavior in private then I am concerned about what he might be capable of. It's not uncommon for narcissists who have committed heinous crimes to take their own lives rather than face a lifetime in jail. I've known this happen after all their avenues (e.g. appeals) have been exhausted. They prefer to take their secrets to the grave, rather than give grieving family and friends any kind of explanation or genuine show of remorse. It's their final act of selfishness and is intended as such.
MOO

 

[dixiegirl1035]

RSBM
last edit. (lol): it's interesting that it was "too soon" to talk about his missing wife for the last 4 months, but it's not "too soon" to jump on the phone with a reporter when someone tells a lie about barry! gotta take care of THAT business REAL quick!

I wonder if in that hour long call for which we got snippets, that he took the opportunity to publicize the upcoming 1,000 volunteer search request. That would have been a perfect opportunity to state "please come out and help my wife later this month", even if he didn't plan on attending such.

MOO

 

[Dr.StClements]

BBM But it doesn’t pain him that his wife is missing. In fact, he doesn’t want to talk about her at all. Barry only cares about himself and only wants to talk about himself. MOO

Lassoing their daughters into his answers. Important to keep that tight rein on them for as long as he can.

 

[MrsWatson]

I'm having thoughts about the lack of coolers, and the possible use of the Bobcat at an odd time, and remembering Anne Marie Fahey and her being dumped in the ocean in a cooler that wouldn't sink and had to be shot. Also, my dad was a big outdoors guy and had a gigantic cooler to put an intact fish in for taxidermy later. Easy to fit an adult in there, without any grisly post-mortem work. I wonder if BM thought by burying Suzanne in the cooler, it would stop the scent?

No matter what, not having any coolers at all is very strange. Even when I lived in a student apartment, I still had a litte Igloo stuck in the closet, KWIM?

MOO

 

[Dr.StClements]

My husband is an attorney and he said the D.A. could be working with LE now in preparing to take Suzanne’s case before a Grand Jury to see if they find enough for an arrest? Or something like that...attorneys or those that know please chime in here when you can. It’s late in my time zone and my eyes are getting heavy. I want to research Grand Jury in Co but I’m too tired tonight. I wonder if how often they convene a Grand Jury has changed due to Covid. Everything else has so wonder how are they doing jury duty selection these days? I hope you are right and this means an impending arrest next week. Tomorrow would be even better!

I hope you get/got a good night's sleep, Lilypad 13. We'll all be here, together again, when you wake.

 

[Dr.StClements]

I think the reason we are all confused is due to word salads.

"The pathological narcissist uses word salads intentionally, to manipulate and control by inducing that confused, addled state you know so well.

It is a form of gaslighting, the ‘go to’ method for brainwashing to foster loss of trust in reality and yourself. As such, as well as the markers above, the narc’s word salad also includes blaming, denial, shaming and aggression."

Yep, and he's high on the sociopathy scale too.