Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #35

[Knox]

Just watched the latest AM interview on PE - just have to say the depth of AMs emotion when he speaks about SM is such a stark contrast to the lack of emotion in BMs voice (assuming we don't count anger, which is the only emotion we've seen from him). Anyone would be lucky to have a big brother like AM, IMO.

I've been thinking about BM leaving at 5 am on Sunday and how strange that has always seemed to leave at that time. If we assume BM is telling the truth about when he left the house (LE certainly could verify per gps/phone records) - I don't think he left at that time to dispose of the body.

Per google, sunrise on Mother's Day in Denver was 5:50 am. I can't imagine a scenario that something happens to SM on Saturday afternoon and BM waits until after sunrise the next day to hide the body. So that doesn't really give him much time to go very far and accomplish anything in the dark. Also, wouldn't GPS data lead LE directly to any location that BM spent considerable time on his trip to Denver? JMO, but I think he dealt with SMs body on Saturday evening.

He certainly didn't leave that early to actually set up the job, if we believe MG's account. As I've been thinking about it, the reason that makes the most sense to me is the simple answer that he absolutely HAD to be on video (remember, he mentioned how the hotel has cameras 'all over') at the time that SM would normally be on her "bike ride". We don't know for certain what SMs routine was, but she was a regular biker and my guess is she had a somewhat consistent routine on when she would ride (I'd guess sometime between 8 and 9 am). I wonder if the mail left in the room is actually irrelevant to motive, but was just to establish BM was there and couldn't have been in Salida (you know, just in case the cameras weren't working).

Pure speculation of course, but that puts me squarely in the camp of thinking that SM is close to home. I hope the search efforts are successful in finding her. JMO, MOO.

Agree. I don't think BM got much sleep Saturday night, hence the nap at the hotel on Sunday and Morgan's comment that he may have spent 30 minutes on setup work.

We have the noise at the jobsite Saturday night sometime between 11-midnight. So there's that little clue- he wasn't in bed getting a good night's sleep in order to wake at 5 AM and travel to Broomfield.

BM hid Suzanne's body and cleaned up the scene under cover of darkness Saturday night/Sunday prior to 5 AM. The hotel stay is only relevant in relation to cleaning tools or potentially getting rid of small items of evidence, IMO.

 

[Dalgliesh]

My computer skills (limited) seem to fail me today, as has my memory. Here is the link to the article on whistleblowing protection that is missing from my post (above).

 

[TKG]

Yes!!

But IMO, the search and the vigil are distinctly separate. Under normal circumstances, the spouse could be at the search coordination center while the search was going on. You likely wouldn't be able to keep them away, they would want to personally thank each person for donating their time and effort to finding their loved one.

Same for the vigil, thanking folks for caring, praying, searching and keeping Suzanne's name out there.

IMO he will be hunting while we are there.

 

[swedeheart]

IMO he will be hunting while we are there.

well, i surely hope there are eyes on him on his hunting sprees.

i gotta say, if i thought my wife had even possibly been kidnapped and/or murdered, and was nowhere to be found, the last thing on my mind, and especially in my heart, would be killing animals for fun. i would think that killing literally anything for sport would just remind me of what could have happened to my wife, and, if i were an innocent person, that would be absolutely devastating. i would not want ANY kind of death around me if i was mourning. but hey. that's just me.

 

[EggSalad]

I could be interesting to know where BM has hunted in the area since he’s lived in Mayesville and if he goes to those locations this season or not.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Just watched the latest AM interview on PE - just have to say the depth of AMs emotion when he speaks about SM is such a stark contrast to the lack of emotion in BMs voice (assuming we don't count anger, which is the only emotion we've seen from him). Anyone would be lucky to have a big brother like AM, IMO.

I've been thinking about BM leaving at 5 am on Sunday and how strange that has always seemed to leave at that time. If we assume BM is telling the truth about when he left the house (LE certainly could verify per gps/phone records) - I don't think he left at that time to dispose of the body.

Per google, sunrise on Mother's Day in Denver was 5:50 am. I can't imagine a scenario that something happens to SM on Saturday afternoon and BM waits until after sunrise the next day to hide the body. So that doesn't really give him much time to go very far and accomplish anything in the dark. Also, wouldn't GPS data lead LE directly to any location that BM spent considerable time on his trip to Denver? JMO, but I think he dealt with SMs body on Saturday evening.

He certainly didn't leave that early to actually set up the job, if we believe MG's account. As I've been thinking about it, the reason that makes the most sense to me is the simple answer that he absolutely HAD to be on video (remember, he mentioned how the hotel has cameras 'all over') at the time that SM would normally be on her "bike ride". We don't know for certain what SMs routine was, but she was a regular biker and my guess is she had a somewhat consistent routine on when she would ride (I'd guess sometime between 8 and 9 am). I wonder if the mail left in the room is actually irrelevant to motive, but was just to establish BM was there and couldn't have been in Salida (you know, just in case the cameras weren't working).

Pure speculation of course, but that puts me squarely in the camp of thinking that SM is close to home. I hope the search efforts are successful in finding her. JMO, MOO.

Whenever BM made the comment about the cameras at the hotel, I wondered right then if he made certain he was captured on surveillance at that place, at that time, for a very specific reason. So, you're certainly not the only one wondering along the same lines there.

 

[Knox]

I wonder if the girls will be at the vigil? I don't want to create a deep dive into discussing them, just curious as this is going to be a very large event in honor of their Mom.

 

[Hoosierfan72]

Excellent points, both about the likelihood of BM hiding SM's body on Saturday evening and about his need to be seen at the hotel in Broomfield around the time SM would normally go biking on a Sunday morning, thus the 5 am departure from Salida.

I agree that SM's body must be close to home. That is, of course, assuming no other persons were involved to whom BM would have passed SM's remains for disposal.

In a way, I hope BM had someone help him - it might be the best chance of breaking the case wide open, IMO. If he had help, that person has to be feeling immense pressure and, if they are smart, knows that they may have a very short window where they have the leverage to negotiate a plea bargain to turn on BM. I happen to lean toward believing BM acted alone (Lee Harvey Oswald, too, if anyone cares) - but it's certainly possible he either had help with the cover-up or at least has confided in someone who can help solve this case. MOO.

 

[Brubon]

IMO he will be hunting while we are there.

......hunting for a place to hide from AM and company?

IF BM has a conscience I bet sleeping proves to be difficult......perhaps wishing he had handled issues differently May 9th.

If BM is a sociopath, with no conscience, heaven help his daughters, his mother and his future significant other.

Rest in peace, Suzanne.....probably with your mom...... watching this all play out.
MOO

 

[ivegotthemic]

I went back looking for the news story where Barry said it's "too soon".

Found this news story updated on May 15th, five days after Suzanne went missing -https://www.fox21news.com/news/local/family-offers-200k-reward-for-missing-womans-safe-return-no-questions-asked/

Snipped- JOHN SPEZEE, CHAFFEE COUNTY SHERIFF

The press release said investigators from the 11th Judicial District, Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Salida Police Department, the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have joined the effort.

Someone brought this up the other day, but it just struck me again that investigators from the DA's office have been on the case since the beginning. Is that normal five days after an adult woman goes missing?

it really depends on the jurisdiction, the prosecutor and how involved they like to be, and the relationship between LE and prosecutors. sometimes everyone's one big team... other times not so much. I dont think its super unusual especially given the profile of the case

 

[Hoosierfan72]

I could be interesting to know where BM has hunted in the area since he’s lived in Mayesville and if he goes to those locations this season or not.

Great thought. I'm 100% on board with him hiding her somewhere familiar to him, and that's a great way to narrow down a list!

 

[PaulaDC]

"I'm afraid of what is out there"

 

[foxbluff]

I don't think that BM will even be in Chaffee County when AM arrives, much less at the search or vigil. The press will be there too. I don't think he can face all of those people. Moo

I agree! Perhaps BM will, at the last minute, round up his work team and take off for Broomfield to fix that infamous wall!

 

[EggSalad]

"I'm afraid of what is out there"

I believe that quote was followed up by something like “People don’t know the truth.”

and then we get another quote from BM Along the lines of “If Suzanne knew she saved just one persons life in this, she’d think it was worth it”.


That combination of quotes sways sends my imagination down a rabbit hole.

 

[LietKynes]

"I'm afraid of what is out there"

Yep.
Unreal.
Smh.

I agree! Perhaps BM will, at the last minute, round up his work team and take off for Broomfield to fix that infamous wall!

bbm
I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Dalgliesh]

Colorado is an at will employment state. Unless you can prove that MG fits into some extremely narrow exceptions, BM was/is allowed to end her employment with any or no reason whatsoever. And, in fact if MG is acting as an independent contractor, which is common in construction day workers, she would not be eligible for unemployment compensation.
Colorado Wrongful Termination Laws

I intended to respond more coherently to this, but my search engine developed a bug and impeded my access to this site. I agree with the general proposition that Colorado employment law starts with employment at will: one can be dismissed or resign without the obligation to give or receive a reason. However, I respectfully suggest that my previous posts demonstrate that the exceptions to this doctrine are not "extremely narrow" as @elmomom states. They include an exception for the discharge of an employee in retaliation for performing a public duty - like providing information to LE on request, that may be relevant to a murder investigation. If MG believes as she says, that BM retaliated against her because she cooperated with LE - and the facts she describes in her LS interview certainly support that inference - she should consult an attorney.

If BM has a contract with her that describes her as an "independent contractor" and not as an employee, it is very likely IMO that the contract will be set aside and she will be treated by the law as an employee for all purposes - including unemployment insurance and protection against retaliatory discharge.

If she does pursue legal remedies, MG may do a public service by placing BS under close scrutiny and gaining access to his records, including data from his phone, vehicles, and equipment. This is all MOO, but if I were MG I would seek a consult with one of the first rate employment attorneys in Denver, listed on the peer-review site, Superlawyers. Who knows, AM and other family members may join in the civil litigation fun, by filing a wrongful death lawsuit against BM and covering some of MG's expenses.

Just a thought - MOO of course.

 

[K9Enzo]

I could be interesting to know where BM has hunted in the area since he’s lived in Mayesville and if he goes to those locations this season or not.

Agreed. I speculated several threads back I would be interested in any known illegal poaching locations as well. IMO

 

[Barry]

"I'm afraid of what is out there"

LE, prison, lawsuits....

 

[Diddian]

In a way, I hope BM had someone help him - it might be the best chance of breaking the case wide open, IMO. If he had help, that person has to be feeling immense pressure and, if they are smart, knows that they may have a very short window where they have the leverage to negotiate a plea bargain to turn on BM. I happen to lean toward believing BM acted alone (Lee Harvey Oswald, too, if anyone cares) - but it's certainly possible he either had help with the cover-up or at least has confided in someone who can help solve this case. MOO.

I'm inclined toward BM acted alone too. Whether reactionary rage or planned ambush, I think BM heard some kind of hard "No" from SM and that changed who she was to him and got in the way of plans he's determined to pursue.

I lean toward planned ambush, given the nonfunctioning cameras, the daughters out of town, the interrupted SM conversation with a friend, as well as my belief that surviving cancer twice as SM had done likely made SM a stronger and more assertive person and one who would stand up to and condemn bullying. BM couldn't have that; he needed to be indulged and admired.

 

[MassGuy]

I am betting that LE, Necrosearch, etc. is going to do some new intensive searching on their own even before Andy and crew arrive for their search.

I am sure LE would love to find SM before the public search comes because if the public search ends up finding her, then it will not necessarily be a good look for them that the public can do what they could not. The pressure is really on them now to try to find her before the public search begins.

I also hope LE joins in the public search and includes their own resources to go hand in hand with the public searches.

We all have the same goal. Lets find Suzanne.

Definitely. The fact that they are on the press release tells me that they’ve already begun. They are great at finding anomalies in terrain, which could prove very valuable here.

I don’t necessarily think it would be a bad look if Suzanne was found by an independent search. We’re talking about a vast and unforgiving search environment.