Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #37

[Feistyomi]

We have had so little info in this case, and now as AM has stepped up, we actually have clarification of some of our little pieces of evidence we’ve had...
IMO, We speculated that BM made up the lion story, not sure how that ended, pretty sure it was accepted that BM initiated it, tho.
AM has now stated that LE had seen lion in the area, AM also tells us, that mountain lion was actually lesser of evils to BM, as BM told him, if it wasn’t a lion, some one else had her, and was doing something to her.

So, hard as it is, we need to cross lion off as one of BMs self imposed miss steps, IMO.
I’m gonna keep revisiting, now that we have a brother’s insight.

Personally, I don't believe 2 people saw SM on Sunday- I don't believe anything that comes out of BM's mouth.

AM has given us a 3.5 hr. window of opportunity to work with- and I do believe AM. I don't think BM had a partner in this crime. BM thought everyone would believe his story, and his employees would verify his alibi. Seems like he failed the work site alibi in both concept and follow through.

I guess it's possible BM could have a partner, but I think he/she would've been found out by now. It's hard to keep a partner quiet - just ask Frazee how that worked out for him!

MOO

I have hard time keeping up, what is the 3.5 window of opportunity from AM? That’s really useful, and actually works FOR BM as much against him...
JMO, nothing he has shown us, indicates a highly organized person, anything but?!
Yet he has managed to pull this off, with this ever shrinking window of opportunity...
So what did AM use to determine the time available?

 

[citygirl]

I’m not the least bit worried about this. I’m sure he’s being watched, and they’d have a team on him before he got word of Suzanne’s body being found.

If he books a flight, I imagine they’d know.

He’s very recognizable, and I don’t think he’d manage to hide very long if the worst somehow did happen.

I agree.
The one thing I do worry about is taking his own life. Maybe having 2 living daughters will be an impediment to that?
He has to be jumping out of his skin right now.
He's like a trapped rat.
MOO.

 

[Feistyomi]

We have had so little info in this case, and now as AM has stepped up, we actually have clarification of some of our little pieces of evidence we’ve had...
IMO, We speculated that BM made up the lion story, not sure how that ended, pretty sure it was accepted that BM initiated it, tho.
AM has now stated that LE had seen lion in the area, AM also tells us, that mountain lion was actually lesser of evils to BM, as BM told him, if it wasn’t a lion, some one else had her, and was doing something to her.

So, hard as it is, we need to cross lion off as one of BMs self imposed miss steps, IMO.
I’m gonna keep revisiting, now that we have a brother’s insight.

Personally, I don't believe 2 people saw SM on Sunday- I don't believe anything that comes out of BM's mouth.

AM has given us a 3.5 hr. window of opportunity to work with- and I do believe AM. I don't think BM had a partner in this crime. BM thought everyone would believe his story, and his employees would verify his alibi. Seems like he failed the work site alibi in both concept and follow through.

I guess it's possible BM could have a partner, but I think he/she would've been found out by now. It's hard to keep a partner quiet - just ask Frazee how that worked out for him!

MOO

I have hard time keeping up, what is the 3.5 window of opportunity from AM? That’s really useful, and actually works FOR BM as much against him...
JMO, nothing he has shown us, indicates a highly organized person, anything but?!
Yet he has managed to pull this off, with this ever shrinking window of opportunity...
So what did AM use to determine the time available?

 

[Puzzles8]

I agree with you about accounting for the time he showed up on surveillance at the hotel.

Also, I figured he had to eat sometime after such a busy night and probably stopped at McDonald's in Salida on the way out of town Sunday. They open at 5:30 am.

And get gas, don't forget about the gas!

 

[OldCop]

Irrelevant whether or not SM actually rode the bike or not. The fact the bike was discovered at an unusual location and position (down a steep embankment and on its side) alongside a road is a red flag condition (possible accident).

True

1st officer observes the bike scene to determine if the person who is assumed to have been riding the bike is also down the embankment alongside or in close proximity to the bike. Call out: anyone down there? Are you alright? Response or no response. No visual.

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Determine best method to arrive to scene down the embankment without much disruption or determine if safer method to arrive to bike. I believe the roadbed turns a 90 within 100-150 feet or so from the top of the embankment location to where the roadbed is lower and meets the lower level of the ravine. There is an easy access into the ravine that provides easy path access to the bike location. If multiple officers are set to search the ravine each should enter along the same path then spread away from the bike as possible.

Preservation of life is the #1 priority. Your suggestion to have the officers cross the river from the other side would waste time and would increase danger to LE. There is also reportedly some type of fence they would have to climb over to reach the bike. See attached map.

2nd officer observes along the road bed, both directions, looking for rider (since no response from the ravine) and for road indication of an accident: skid or drag marks and other notable disruption.

Can’t answer if unconscious. Other observations are warranted.

nd or 3rd officer: time to restrict or at least limit foot and vehicle traffic in the immediate area/top of the embankment. Secure the broader scene. There is no immediate need to retrieve the bike. No need to have multiple LE stomping through the top/along of the embankment.

RBBM
We don’t know how long LE waited before retrieving the bike. It may have been after it was photographed and fingerprinted. It may have been to positively identify it as SM’s bike. It would be too dangerous to bring a lay person down to look at it.
BM’s friend has never come forward to say he was there when the bike was found. He has never corroborated BM’s statements. LE has released no information about who found the bike or when. As a matter of fact they have never confirmed that the bike was found.
We don’t know they were “stomping through the top/along the embankment. All we know is that they were desperately searching for SM.

 

[Goldenseal]

Personally, I think Barry, the big bad game hunter, would have been barfing all over the place. Then again, maybe that's part of what the bleach was about.....

Honestly, I also think BM would be too squeamish to cut her up. The big cooler is where I'm at.

 

[foxbluff]

Am I the only one who thinks BM must be sweating bullets about now?

 

[enelram]

We have had so little info in this case, and now as AM has stepped up, we actually have clarification of some of our little pieces of evidence we’ve had...
IMO, We speculated that BM made up the lion story, not sure how that ended, pretty sure it was accepted that BM initiated it, tho.
AM has now stated that LE had seen lion in the area, AM also tells us, that mountain lion was actually lesser of evils to BM, as BM told him, if it wasn’t a lion, some one else had her, and was doing something to her.

So, hard as it is, we need to cross lion off as one of BMs self imposed miss steps, IMO.
I’m gonna keep revisiting, now that we have a brother’s insight.





I have hard time keeping up, what is the 3.5 window of opportunity from AM? That’s really useful, and actually works FOR BM as much against him...
JMO, nothing he has shown us, indicates a highly organized person, anything but?!
Yet he has managed to pull this off, with this ever shrinking window of opportunity...
So what did AM use to determine the time available?

We don't know how AM came up with the estimate of the time window.
I agree w/ you, BM does appear to be a "disorganized" type perp. Maybe that's also playing into the statement that he did a quick dump and run. IDK, just guessing, but that's the first thing I thought of.
I'm pretty sure LE profilers have a pretty good description of type of perp here and his assumed actions.

 

[spaceycasey]

dbm

 

[citygirl]

MOO. I’m 100% LE knows SM is deceased, the only thing holding them up from arresting the perp is proof of her demise.

We need the remains or other proof of death, unless BM breaks and confesses.

Maybe he killed her in the house and it wasn't bloody? Strangulation or suffocation? He was a big man and able to overpower as she was tiny.
LE was in their house several times.
IMO, if they found any evidence of her demise, they would have cuffed him.
MOO.

 

[Hatfield]

Sorry, I'm reading backwards. Have we figured out any specifics about why a stop in messaging would alarm the friend on Saturday? Just curious if there were more info yet.

I would only be worried about a friend abruptly not responding, if the previous message were something alarming. jmo

Discussion starts around the 3 minute mark and they talk about that friend that was communicating with SM that abruptly stops.

This may not be the only place they talk about it. Its just the first one I found.

 

[Moonchime]

Could Barry arrange something privately, like a boat charter or a private plane?

He could try, maybe. But in my opinion, BM is being monitored closely by LE. MOO

 

[Error505]

Maybe he killed her in the house and it wasn't bloody? Strangulation or suffocation? He was a big man and able to overpower as she was tiny.
LE was in their house several times.
IMO, if they found any evidence of her demise, they would have cuffed him.
MOO.

I agree. I can’t imagine LE found any definitive proof in the home that SM is deceased. An arrest would have occurred by now, body or no body, if that was the case.

 

[citygirl]

While I think 285 is probably fairly deserted in the wee hours, I think BM definitely would have taken one of those dirt county roads off the highway to dispose of whatever he wanted to dispose.
I also think you are right in assuming that SM’s body will be found much closer to her home.

Perhaps he has visited close to this site on his many dirt bike runs?
He said he's been out searching everyday.
MOO.

 

[EggSalad]

Someone brought up a good point the other day.

Whoever did anything with her remains most likely used a vehicle to get close to the location because its not like someone on foot dragged her very far on foot. So wherever she is, it has to be a place that is close to some road or trail where a vehicle of some sort got close.

So I am thinking along the lines of wherever she is has to be pretty close to some vehicle trail. Whether that is a regular automobile dirt road or a smaller trail like an ATV trail or something. I would guess within 50-75 yards of some vehicle access.
JMO

Agreed. But the daunting thing is just how many dirt roads there are in this area. I was looking out near Firecamp and there are just miles and miles of power line roads and dirt roads that run off them.

Sorry, I'm reading backwards. Have we figured out any specifics about why a stop in messaging would alarm the friend on Saturday? Just curious if there were more info yet.

I would only be worried about a friend abruptly not responding, if the previous message were something alarming. jmo

MOO, perhaps the best friend had the backstory on recent marital issues and/or escalating domestic violence.

Maybe SM and the friend are messaging and SM says that she has all day because BM is going to be away working at a job site all day. Then BM shows up sometime after 11am when he quits working early. SM tells her friend, ‘Oh BM just got home and he needs to talk. I’ll message you back in a little bit’.

and then the follow up message never happens.

 

[Feistyomi]

If SM seen on Sunday MOO it would eliminate BM.
He was in Denver. The HIE will have his check in time, which I think was on Saturday night. Confusing.

This could be the bombshell we’ve waited for, we just have to question the msgr?
IMO, we have had an incredible amount of speculation about character, but from those who know him best, truthfulness has never been a factor. IMO
WHY would he lie about this?

We don't know how AM came up with the estimate of the time window.
I agree w/ you, BM does appear to be a "disorganized" type perp. Maybe that's also playing into the statement that he did a quick dump and run. IDK, just guessing, but that's the first thing I thought of.
I'm pretty sure LE profilers have a pretty good description of type of perp here and his assumed actions.

TIA, there’s a disconnect, you can’t have a disorganized person plan this out to the degree that this seems to have been planned, ie, he can’t even handle last minute scheduled job, yet he can time this disappearance to the minute?

He can’t organize search, flyers, etc, but he can figure out how to elude gps, phone/ texts, etc?

JMHO, if BM did this, he would already have been charged. Because chances are we would already have her body.

 

[Goldenseal]

Could Barry arrange something privately, like a boat charter or a private plane?

Yes, but the DHS aerial surveillance and Coast Guard surveillance since 9/11 is pretty good, and he'd be taking a big chance. Plus Canada and Mexico are pretty hacked off already about Americans jumping the border during COVID. Many Canadians are reporting cars with American plates to the RCMP, which will not be happy with you. Canada was kind enough to let American tourists through the Peace Arch (border crossing in Washington State) onto the main highway to Alaska, after warning them to go straight through Alaska and not go wandering around Canada, and plenty of Americans ignored that and drove to wherever they wanted -- Banff, Okanagan, Vancouver Island, etc. The police are not amused.

 

[enelram]

I agree. I can’t imagine LE found any definitive proof in the home that SM is deceased. An arrest would have occurred by now, body or no body, if that was the case.

not so sure= in the Fotis Dulos case, LE found enough blood in her garage that the ME said
she could not have survived the assault, and yet there was no arrest for several months.
I'm guessing for AM to use the word "murder"
now, that LE DID find significant cleaned up
blood, maybe only visible under luminol or such.
Something found led them to believe a "murder" took place, IMO.
One good thing about AM, he's sharing some good details with us. Hope he continues to help us fill in the blanks.

 

[GordianKnot]

I will definitely take pics and post on a daily basis. It may be in evening, thou, when I am back at the hotel.

Anyway, let me know if there is anything in particular that I can do and check out while I am in Salida.

Snipped for Focus:

NoSI, great to hear that you're going to be there actively contributing to the search!

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If you could let us know whether and/or what type (i.e., CCSO, CBI, FBI, etc.) of an LE presence is there during the search activities, and what it is specifically that LE appears to be doing to support the search efforts, that would be fantastic info.

If you're in the area of Puma Path, any traffic, store or other security cameras that you happen to spot nearby would be interesting to know.

Finally, if you spot Sheriff Spezze, please thank him for all his hard work and singular dedication to this case.

Thanks for putting your literal boots on the ground in pursuit of justice for Suzanne!!

Godspeed to all the searchers.

Jesus, take the wheel…and I say that reverently.

 

[NuttMegg]

SBM from those who know him best, truthfulness has never been a factor. IMO
SBM
He can’t organize search, flyers, etc, but he can figure out how to elude gps, phone/ texts, etc?

I don't recall any of those "who know him best attesting to his truthfulness", that his truthfulness has never been a factor. AM knows him well and says that BM lied to him about taking polygraphs. His employees say that he didn't really leave the tools the job required.
Regarding searches, flyers, etc. Maybe it's not "can't" but instead "doesn't feel like it".

Recently he told LS that he was surprised to learn from her that there were no missing flyers in the LE office in Salida. Seems he wasn't interested in making sure there WERE flyers in that office, he's the one who lives there.