Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #34

[NuttMegg]

MG said the previous plan, since April, was that she and Barry would go up and repair the wall. IE 2 people needed. But, Barry specifically, before he "knew" his wife was gone, sent up 2 people to fix the wall, or even 3 depending on that little inconsistency. So, why did he send so many people up there if it was a 2 person job, and he was also going to be there? This was Sunday he told her to round up the crew, and Sunday he told JP to go to Denver, all after she was most likely killed.

 

[Goldenseal]

Do we know how many hotel rooms were actually booked

No, we do not.

 

[TKG]

I doubt it, if they're lovers why is he in the back seat? It's like she wants him as far as possible from her.

The better question is if there's 3 or even 4 of them working, why did Barry only rent 1 room?

I thought it was odd they were all sharing a room. I also found it strange that MG and BM were planning on doing the work by themselves. First, late April, then plans changed and then the two of them were to come again in early May. Then it was pushed again to MD weekend and he suddenly needed a crew?

Was the camping trip postponed a couple of times due to COVID? Also serendipitously coincide with the crime?? So much info!

 

[Topppps]

I thought it was odd they were all sharing a room. I also found it strange that MG and BM were planning on doing the work by themselves

Yeah maybe Barry thought that just Morgan Gentile being there wouldn't be a sufficient alibi since people would then assume Barry and Morgan are lovers?

 

[osu]

Thanks for the pic, @osu . Yeah, I can't tell. He's got a bunch of crap piled on the left side near the rear window, but it is on a toolbox, or just a pile o'crap? And on the other side, are those just shadows?

YW. I agree..it’s really hard to tell what’s shadows and what isn’t. The photo is a snapshot from the FOX21 video and it’s not very clear.

JMO

 

[K9Enzo]

I completely agree with Hoosierfan72's great post. I felt the same way about JP's testimony. How much of what they are saying is colored by their current suspicions about BM?

I think the riverside (in the water) deserves a much closer look. Is it shallow enough to use ground-penetrating radar?

Also...why on earth would LE ask for MG's phone? I don't recall JP mentioning giving up his phone. Yes, you can buy a pay-go disposable pretty cheap, but if LE has your phone, you've lost all your contacts, etc. Major inconvenience, IMHO.

For that matter, why would the two fellows who spoke to her be telling her that she did not have to give up her phone to LE if asked?

If that's all true, it sounds like perhaps something on BM's phone led them to want to see MG's phone. That might go back to the microexpressions when speaking about BM and her reluctance to take a lie detector test. She probably fears (and rightly) that they're going to ask her about things she doesn't want to talk about. For example, if she had a one-nighter with BM, she wouldn't want it to come out now, especially if it had nothing to do with SM's disappearance.

Just one reason LE may have wanted her phone - if BM used her as an alibi during the time period in question (whatever that is to LE), then their phones should be at the same location and time together. IMO

 

[Feistyomi]

I'm a little undecided on one of MG's comments in her interview to LS, it doesn't make much sense to me - maybe I am overthinking it? MG said that if BM was innocent she would have expected him to maybe talk to her as she has worked with him a long time, but then, in the next sentence she says she is scared of him? Does she mean she is scared of him now as she thinks that he is responsible for Suzanne's disappearance or has she always been scared of him? Because, if I was scared of someone that I worked with and had been scared of them for a long time - I wouldn't expect them to talk to me about issues outside of work etc because I wouldn't see us as having a comfortable working relationship. I would avoid spending much time with them alone or at all tbh unless absolutely necessary, also MG said that the original Broomfield job was supposed to be just her and BM iirc, I wouldn't be too happy about spending time working with someone that scared me when it would just be the 2 of us, and assuming that they would car share - travelling that distance together alone? with someone your scared of? like I said, maybe I am overthinking it, but idk.

DBM

 

[TKG]

Here’s the FOX21 photo showing the bed of BM’s pickup truck. I can’t tell for sure but not seeing anything that looks like a built-in tool box.

Search for Suzanne Morphew pushes on despite silence from Chaffee County Sheriff | FOX21 News Colorado

JMO

There were great photos of his truck in the TD video as he drove by and as TD walked past his truck as it was parked. I'll see if I can dig some up.

 

[ajaylee]

As I understand it, this was re-work from a job that wasn't done right last fall, so when he says it's been in the works for months, he's telling the truth. If he was really really busy, I can understand him wanting to sandwich a job like this in between other contracts, particularly because I don't think he's going to get paid for the rework, but he will still have to pay for his workers and employees. Perhaps he meant to be onsite at least part of the time to make sure the rework was done correctly - pretty awkward if his crew botched it a second time.

I must have missed something. MG is working at the Salida site, presumably for the day, but then BM abruptly sends her home at 11:00. SM's communications with her friend abruptly stop at 12:30. Sometime - that afternoon? - BM meets up with JP to discuss the job.

When did BM tell MG about the Bloomfield job?

She heard BM was out and about in town Saturday afternoon after he sent her home from the Salida site - did she get that from JP?

Honestly, at this point it almost sounds like BM particularly wanted JP and MG out of town, but I can't see for the life of me why. If the Bloomfield job was his backup alibi (in case the mountain lion or abduction stories didn't work out), he had to have known that it was a very easily checked alibi.

I've changed my mind multiple times, but at this moment I'm inclined to think he planned to get rid of SM but something threw a big monkey wrench in his plans Saturday morning and he freaked out.

Re: the mountain lion story and the local authorities' quick dismissal. Yes, mountain lions have attacked adult cyclists, even two cyclists riding together (on two bikes). BUT....the only time I've ever heard of that was on mountain biking trails, not on the side of a highway. Further, if a mountain lion does take a cyclist down, the first thing it does is drag it's prey away.

If SM had been attacked by a mountain lion as BM suggested, I find it hard to envision a scenario where the lion attacked the rider and the attack caused the bike to fly off the side of the road to the bottom of a ravine. Further, there certainly would be evidence of a body being dragged, whether from the side of the road or, more difficult to believe, rider and bike flew off the edge, down a ravine, and then the cat dragged the rider off.

 

[K9Enzo]

Lauren Scharf has done a beautiful job getting all these people to talk and getting LE involved. She's such a chess master.

Curious - how do you think any of her reporting resulted in getting LE involved? I'm assuming all this info coming out is old news to LE, probably from back in May. It's just news to us. I could be wrong.

I do think her reporting might have influenced the Sheriff to support AM private search however.

IMO

 

[K9Enzo]

Just one reason LE may have wanted her phone - if BM used her as an alibi during the time period in question (whatever that is to LE), then their phones should be at the same location and time together. IMO

Replying to my own post. At the same time, they don't need her actual phone to track it's location. Scratch this idea.

 

[swedeheart]

MG said the previous plan, since April, was that she and Barry would go up and repair the wall. IE 2 people needed. But, Barry specifically, before he "knew" his wife was gone, sent up 2 people to fix the wall, or even 3 depending on that little inconsistency. So, why did he send so many people up there if it was a 2 person job, and he was also going to be there? This was Sunday he told her to round up the crew, and Sunday he told JP to go to Denver, all after she was most likely killed.

ohhh...so MG and BM were sharing a room? (*insert side-eye right here)

 

[HongKongPhooey]

I dont think MG's mentioning that room means they were all sharing. She may just have gone in there but it doesnt mean she was sleeping there.

JMO

 

[MimosaMornings]

MG said the previous plan, since April, was that she and Barry would go up and repair the wall. IE 2 people needed. But, Barry specifically, before he "knew" his wife was gone, sent up 2 people to fix the wall, or even 3 depending on that little inconsistency. So, why did he send so many people up there if it was a 2 person job, and he was also going to be there? This was Sunday he told her to round up the crew, and Sunday he told JP to go to Denver, all after she was most likely killed.

So the previous plan was for two people to go repair the wall - MG and BM.
Did the plan include sharing a room?

 

[NuttMegg]

dbm dups

 

[muppethead]

ohhh...so MG and BM were sharing a room? (*insert side-eye right here)

I thought BM was never supposed to stay overnight - he was supposed to set them up so they could work and he could come back and work locally. So it could be Morgan in the other room and JP and C and the "boys" room?

 

[Topppps]

Curious - how do you think any of her reporting resulted in getting LE involved? I'm assuming all this info coming out is old news to LE, probably from back in May. It's just news to us. I could be wrong.

I do think her reporting might have influenced the Sheriff to support AM private search however.

IMO

Yeah you said it yourself she had a hand in getting LE involved in AMs search. She's also getting Barry JP and MG to talk which no doubt LE is monitoring.

 

[NuttMegg]

I thought BM was never supposed to stay overnight - he was supposed to set them up so they could work and he could come back and work locally. So it could be Morgan in the other room and JP and C and the "boys" room?

BM said once he learned SM was missing, he told the crew they were on their own, and had to figure things out themselves, without him.

 

[Hoosierfan72]

This. I think both JP and MG are remembering what happened colored by current suspicions.

Agreed. The phrase "looked like he had just had the worst night of his life" is particularly inflammatory, unless she actually voiced it that way at the time. A statement like that could be damning if she can back it up by someone she said it to or wrote it down (she doesn't strike me as the type of person to keep a diary, but you never know) - but if not, I think it can actually work against her credibility as a witness as it possibly reveals some bias/resentment/etc. on her part. I'd rather her stick to factual descriptions (his clothes were dirty and rumpled, he had bags under his eyes, he was hyper/manic in his words and actions, etc.) On one hand, I'm glad to see these individuals sticking up for themselves and to BM, but I'm worried that those emotions may be playing a part in how they are speaking about the events in question. MOO, JMO

 

[Tate123]

Some of the stuff that Morgan said seemed to be assumptions on her part, and she actually noted them as such, i.e. the hush money, Barry’s bad night, him seeming stressed. I am trying to separate the noise from the facts.

Me too and it's difficult to do because of my own suspicions.