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

[Megnut]

We learned from TD via PE that he and LS scoured the area for traffic cams, noting that the only stretch clear of them, conveniently, was the area where the bike was found.

It's possible the bike was placed where it was found not from the road but from the creek. Thrown UP the ravine.

Or else someone risked driving past the cameras, possibly with a bike in the back of a truck.

I'm going to call it. The camera captured a truck all right. No bike, just coolers. No bike, just coolers, and maybe hauling a Bobcat

JMO

 

[skyvoyager]

I think those two cars at the house the neighbor didn't recognize belong to Cassidy and Morgan. Which means Barry drove from the Puma Pass home to the hotel with them in his vehicle. I doubt there was any funny business. Barry must have dumped the body before leaving at 5 am on Sunday. MOO.

i thought it was established that the 2 vehicles belonged to SM. one newer and one older vehicle....

 

[enelram]

That’s a good point. I know we can’t sleuth JP but BM said he spent 9 yrs in jail so that sounds serious. I loved it when JP said it was either foul play or the aliens got her! My thoughts exactly!

Yes I agree.
How much more clear could JP be???
All the fingers were pointing to 'da boss'.
bwahahaha.

 

[ajaylee]

Someone earlier made a post laying out the huge blocks of time on Saturday and Sunday where we have no idea where BM was or what he was doing.

However....unlike media interviews, BM can't walk out of an interview with the authorities. He has allegedly spent 30 hours being interviewed by the FBI.

I don't imagine the FBI let him walk away without coming up with an accounting for his whereabouts during those long periods of time. I think that's how he got tripped up on the time he repaired the bobcat - they are patiently and thoroughly checking his word on every detail.

That said, I'll be very surprised if this doesn't end up being a 'no body' trial.

BTW....I think BM tripped himself up yesterday. Didn't he specifically say he took tools to Bloomfield? I suspect he'll lie and say he didn't think it was safe to leave the tools at the hotel while he attended to his family emergency. I think he may also have mentioned the dirt. Completely at odds with what JP said.

 

[MadTing]

The fact that LE brought up lack of coolers is interesting, I think they have evidence to suggest he did have coolers, possibly seen on video with them, I don't believe they would bring that up solely on the basis that he was a hunter.

 

[Topppps]

Which means body is close to home.

Yep, that work site they dug up seems like the most likely location. Would Barry really stuff Suzanne in a cooler place the cooler in the back of his truck drive with Cassidy and Morgan to Denver?

 

[Lilypad13]

I guess that part about the 11th district means nothing

CHAFFEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Salida, Colorado
PRESS RELEASE
May 13, 2020
On May 10, 2020 the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office responded to County Road 225 and West Highway 50 on a report of a missing woman. Investigation revealed that Suzanne Morphew, age 49, from Maysville had gone for a bike ride in that area and had not returned home.
A search began immediately. Over the past 4 days over 100 search personnel from Chaffee County Search and Rescue, Department of Corrections, and the Chaffee County Combined Tac Team have scoured the area. Numerous Drones have been used for countless hours to assist in the search. 8 different tracking and scent dogs from the Department of Corrections and the Search and Rescue Dogs of Colorado were deployed to aid in the search. Members from Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the South Ark Swiftwater Rescue Teams have searched area watersheds and Reach Air Ambulance flew search missions as well, however Ms Morphew has yet to be located.
In conjunction with the search the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation into the disappearance of Ms Morphew. Investigators from the 11th Judicial District, Colorado Bureau of Investigations, the Salida Police Department, the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigations have joined the effort.
A dedicated tip line has been established by the Colorado Bureau of Investigations. That tip line number is 719-312-7530. Anyone with information into the disappearance of Ms Morphew are asked to call the tip line.
*****Chaffee County Sheriff John Spezze*****

Sorry didn’t see that but it sure jumped out at me in the most recent press release. I did research a Grand Jury and it is very interesting. Apparently the D.A. can file the complaint or take the evidence to a grand jury to decide and one benefit of this is it remains secret and they can call witnesses to testify in secret and the person they might be indicting does not even know this is going on. There are also risks with using a Grand Jury but from what I read it’s used in serious criminal cases to determine the probability of winning a case based on the evidence and witnesses you do have so it sounds like it could be an option for a no body case. Grand jurors hear multiple cases and serve for weeks or months at a time. Please correct me if I have misunderstood any of this. I am not an attorney...or even that observant evidentally.

 

[MsBetsy]

i thought it was established that the 2 vehicles belonged to SM. one newer and one older vehicle....

Yes, they both belonged to the Morphew's. I think one was what Suzanne currently drove and the other was her older vehicle, maybe used by her daughter.

 

[EggSalad]

I think those two cars at the house the neighbor didn't recognize belong to Cassidy and Morgan. Which means Barry drove from the Puma Pass home to the hotel with them in his vehicle. I doubt there was any funny business. Barry must have dumped the body before leaving at 5 am on Sunday. MOO.

I like this line of thinking but it creates an interesting question in my mind. If C & M leave with BM at 5am Sunday morning why is JP involved in this at all? Is it because BM was trying to set up JP to be a POI with the hotel room and deflect attention from himself? But if so, why leave your mail in the trash placing you in that room?

 

[Murphy1950]

I just wonder if the 3 worker names had been out there for some time, with the press hounding them for interviews. I had heard the other names, but not Jeff’s. And Jeff decided to be the first one to speak publicly. He really didn’t implicate Barry, just stated what Barry c0nfirmed.

Don't think it's accidental his story came out. I think it was timed to follow Andy's. Part of LE turning up the heat. JP had his chance to clear himself before Barry started in. Morgan and Cody may have been given the same opportunity. Bottom of the ninth....

ETA...JP could have easily brought in Morgan's name. The Daily Mail, are you kidding me??? They would have loved it! I think it's key that he didn't.

 

[MsBetsy]

Yep, that work site they dug up seems like the most likely location. Would Barry really stuff Suzanne in a cooler place the cooler in the back of his truck drive with Cassidy and Morgan to Denver?

Did they all drive together? I got the impression Barry drove there alone.

 

[EggSalad]

Someone earlier made a post laying out the huge blocks of time on Saturday and Sunday where we have no idea where BM was or what he was doing.

However....unlike media interviews, BM can't walk out of an interview with the authorities. He has allegedly spent 30 hours being interviewed by the FBI.

I don't imagine the FBI let him walk away without coming up with an accounting for his whereabouts during those long periods of time. I think that's how he got tripped up on the time he repaired the bobcat - they are patiently and thoroughly checking his word on every detail.

That said, I'll be very surprised if this doesn't end up being a 'no body' trial.

BTW....I think BM tripped himself up yesterday. Didn't he specifically say he took tools to Bloomfield? I suspect he'll lie and say he didn't think it was safe to leave the tools at the hotel while he attended to his family emergency. I think he may also have mentioned the dirt. Completely at odds with what JP said.

IMO, BM has to mention the tools because there is hotel video of him carrying a tool box into that room.

It probably means there is also video of him leaving the room with that same tool box and he’ll have to say ‘I wasn’t thinking clearly, I was distraught and took them back home by mistake.’

 

[Knox]

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.

IMO, BM had a couple of regular employees he kept busy. If he got work which needed labor over and above his regular people, he hired extras for that job only.

It doesn't sound like he used a labor agency, but rather talked to people around town to see if they wanted to work. Felons have a hard time getting a regular job, so as Barry said in his interview with Lauren, “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's not odd to have hired Puckett, IMO. The interesting part of the hotel debacle is the timeline. If BM left a sleeping Suzanne in the home at 5:00 AM and didn't leave until late afternoon, what did he do for the 8 plus hours he was in Broomfield/Denver?

Further, Barry also told Lauren, "It was not a last minute project, Barry explained, the job had been in the works for a month".

Ok Barry, so if the job had been on the books for a month, why wasn't the dirt ordered and scheduled to arrive and the equipment in place?

Then we still have the mysterious activity at the job site Saturday night and the acknowledgment that he lied about something to investigators related to the bobcat. How does that fit into the Denver job?

 

[MadTing]

" A mechanical thing on my bobcat"

Why would you not be more specific? he sounds like he doesn't want to be specific because this thing he did to his bobcat played a part is her disappearance. An innocent person would be going off on long tangents explaining their every move that day in great detail.

 

[Error505]

I think so, too. It's not an uncommon phenomenon. The human mind is capable of compartmentalization to the point where severely traumatized people will completely "lose" (block) their memories of certain events.

We are observing only mere glimpses into BM's mindset and he's been pretty consistent with the "I'm innocent/grief-stricken/under immense stress not knowing what has happened to my wife or where she is/poor me, the victim/I'm being set up by LE to cover their incompetence". He will be amplifying these messages on a loop to his daughters. It's akin to a kind of brainwashing.

Something happened to fracture the extended Morphew-Moorman family communications two or so years ago. We don't know what that was, and it might not be of any huge significance in the bigger picture. It will, however, make it more difficult for the Morphew girls to reach out to the Moorman side of their family right now. BM convincing his daughters that the three of them need to support one another (at the expense of all other family connections) will be one of his priorities, the corollary being that if they did talk to anyone else, they'd be "betraying" their father and their tight family unit.
It's very possible that the daughters are currently angry at the "unfair" treatment LE is dishing out by setting their father up. Brainwashing has that effect. They are still viewing the world through their parent/father's lens and - due in part to the pandemic - have had little respite from that. They are isolated, with little opportunity for reality check challenges via work colleagues, friends, school associates, and other family members.
And he's all they have now (as they see it), so it's unsurprising that their traumatized minds are denying/blocking what is far too painful to contemplate.
The dam will breach, eventually. I think that the major search being organized by AM could well be a catalyst for that to happen. It will force the daughters to see things they haven't wanted to look at before. I suspect that the tight-knit family unit will begin to fracture at that point- if it hasn't already started doing so.

Excellent explanation @Dr.StClements Thank you for this post. I agree, AM’s search is going to be a catalyst for possibly another “leak in the dam” as this gets closer to an arrest.

 

[EggSalad]

IMO, BM had a couple of regular employees he kept busy. If he got work which needed labor over and above his regular people, he hired extras for that job only.

It doesn't sound like he used a labor agency, but rather talked to people around town to see if they wanted to work. Felons have a hard time getting a regular job, so as Barry said in his interview with Lauren, “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's not odd to have hired Puckett, IMO. The interesting part of the hotel debacle is the timeline. If BM left a sleeping Suzanne in the home at 5:00 AM and didn't leave until late afternoon, what did he do for the 8 plus hours he was in Broomfield/Denver?

Further, Barry also told Lauren, "It was not a last minute project, Barry explained, the job had been in the works for a month".

Ok Barry, so if the job had been on the books for a month, why wasn't the dirt ordered and scheduled to arrive and the equipment in place?

Then we still have the mysterious activity at the job site Saturday night and the acknowledgment that he lied about something to investigators related to the bobcat. How does that fit into the Denver job?

And we have BM saying that he brought up leaving early Sunday morning to SM at the last minute. That doesn’t jive with a project that has been planned for a month.

 

[Error505]

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

Barry is the “victim” in Barry’s eyes. He sounds so much like Letecia Stauch (Gannon case) it’s sickening!!!! Moo

 

[Tate123]

Don't think it's accidental his story came out. I think it was timed to follow Andy's. Part of LE turning up the heat. JP had his chance to clear himself before Barry started in. Morgan and Cody may have been given the same opportunity. Bottom of the ninth....

I couldn't agree more @Murphy1950! LE is behind all of this imo.

 

[NuttMegg]

IMO, BM has to mention the tools because there is hotel video of him carrying a tool box into that room.

It probably means there is also video of him leaving the room with that same tool box and he’ll have to say ‘I wasn’t thinking clearly, I was distraught and took them back home by mistake.’

Too late. Yesterday was 3rd September, he clearly said he left the tools in the hotel. Unless LS cut off the rest of the sentence......"but I had to take them back with me". I don't think she would do that, any reporter would know that is altering the whole concept of the statement.
I think he left the tools, but in someone else's room, I just don't understand why it is so important to him to emphasize tools, and JP to deny "machinery", I think that's the word he used. If anyone else accompanied BM to the hotel, why wouldn't they have left with him when he went back to Salida? If they did come to Denver with him (no evidence of that, just speculation), that would mean they would be dependent on JP for getting to and from job site. Just reading between the lines, there was, imo, some friction that stopped JP and the other 2 from working together without BM there.

 

[Poedelini]

For a guy who wants to be in control so bad it really makes me think Suzanne is indeed close to home. Even so, it is searching for a needle in a haystack. Jmo