Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #40

[jakat]

Hi there - sorry to ask but I’ve got some software that is used to enlarge images with little-to-no loss in resolution. I’ve actually used it on some other cases - just for experimentation myself - and used aerial images and enlarged them (sometimes 2-6x their original size) and the level of detail you could then see was so much better than you could imagine. While it may not work too well, depends on the orig file (if it’s a picture of a screen or something low res that’s not great), I’d be happy to try it and then post them here, just to share. Could you possibly PM me the image(s)?

You will have to ask PaulaDC for the image. Sounds like you have some great software for images.

 

[k-mac]

Mike said at the start 'for searchers to turn off the app this thing is OFFICIALLY over".
1 minute or so before Chris mentions the code 33.
They BOTH appear sombre and neither their usual warm smiley selves.

Big words and clear mood from old time professionals.

Its likely A TELL. IMO

MOO

 

[BeckyF]

It’s quite odd, IMO, that PE guys thought the search ended Sunday but Andy had to set them straight. I thought these guys were a team? Is it possible one part of the team knows of a development being announced on Monday and the other part of the team didn’t know about this? Is Andy saying they will search for 2 more days so that a certain person is caught off guard?

 

[LandManatee]

What stood out to me at the 12:10 min mark of PE SearchUpdate #4 video, was Mike King talking about how his team was up until 3:30am, talking to people who had submitted credible evidence to the case through the Evidence Room page.

Just another testament to all the behind the scenes work going on that needs to be truly recognized and appreciated.

 

[Deleted member 102539]

AM confirmed SM was a "domestic abuse" contact person in her church.

Which church: Indiana or Colorado?
If Barry wouldn't behave so verrry bad and incomprehensible since MD 2020, I would now think, Suzanne's abductor/murderer could be a man, who "lost" his wife and children through counseling by a DV victim support group; target would be in the man's primitive mind probably the contact person.
The one person, whose life was worth it and was saved by the disappearing/death of Suzanne, could be a woman/DV victim. But Barry isn't the type, whom I would believe this meaning of the remarkable sentence being honest. Cynical - maybe.

<modsnip> His attitude as a husband, whose wife is missing and perhaps murdered by a "mountain liar", also doesn't fit with an innocent person. MOO

 

[swedeheart]

...But if they knew an arrest was imminent, and the arrest is BM why would both PE and AM both be talking so kindly about him on this episode? I would think that , at least Andy’s tune would not be so seemingly neutral/positive toward Barry.

i think they are changing tactics, and trying to appeal to his humanity. he's cornered, he knows it, and now we all want those girls to be safe until he's arrested.

jmo.

 

[mslord]

I think it would be a bad look for any Colorado LE for Andy to be the only arrest they have in reference to Suzanne’s case.

I didn’t hear that he was scolded

in the first minute of the PE tonight, Chris slips in "code 33" without any context.

code 33 is used by police to essentially kick everyone off the radio frequency to make way for emergency.

Thats what I feel like today WAS

Stand back, it's coming....

I’ll play devils advocate to the code 33 “slip”

I would like to think that CM is slipping in Easter eggs, but I took that as “alright housekeeping is over, code 33 let’s clear all other chatter and get on with the show”

 

[Deleted member 102539]

@ 11:52 Andy says -

- I had a lady today that reached out with some paperwork on tree invoices, that was quite interesting.

- I handed that right over to CBI and I'm gonna tell you right now, he was just about to jump out of his seat over it.

- So you know, that's really important stuff and they couldn't get their hands on it quick enough.

Watch Chris's reaction to what Andy is saying ... somehow it seems this information is pointing to something LE may have suspected, but needed substantiation of. Maybe the location the trees went is going to be important?

Wonderful, if useful, BUT why did it last more than 4 months before someone reached out with such an important document?

 

[303gmf]

Not home yet. Still have 2 hrs to go, but stopped for break. Traffic hardly moved on 285 between before Fairplay and Bailey. Anyway, i think it will likely be tomorrow before i have chance to set up the conversation. Things to share are interesting, but not earth shattering.

Prime leaf peeping weekend traffic!
The joke from 285 area homeowners is “every weekend is the boat and camper show”

 

[MrsWatson]

You know, I used to watch Good Morning Britain in the morning, and now it's PE.

My feeling is that something was found that points definitively to loss of life. I have no idea what that may be, although I think it could be related to the undisclosed search location with the many LE vehicles. (now there's some sleuthing.)

A cooler?
A weapon?
Remains?
All of the above?
None of the above?

The general tone of the episode was much different than we've seen before, which is significant.

I'm hopeful we'll see Murder in the first degree Monday.

MOO

 

[BeckyF]

...But if they knew an arrest was imminent, and the arrest is BM why would both PE and AM both be talking so kindly about him on this episode? I would think that , at least Andy’s tune would not be so seemingly neutral/positive toward Barry.

So that they don’t antagonize him? IMO Andy is not neutral or positive towards him on the inside. He perhaps is attempting to relate to him while remembering less traumatic times.

 

[Madeleine74]

In catching up on the speculation, there's something that makes no sense IMO:

if you knew or at least believed that remains had been found of the missing person you've been searching for, why would you ask hundreds of volunteers to continue searching for 2 more days and who knows how many hours and miles for said missing person? You're asking people to continue to expend physical and emotional effort and possible injury to hiking mountains and trails they don't need to?

That logic isn't working for me. IMO

Asking people to continue searching implies the missing person either hasn't been found, or the confidence level that what the dogs hit on is 1. a body and 2. your loved-one's remains, is low enough that you believe it's not over yet.

 

[mslord]

Finally watched all of the day 4 PE review video...

My takeaways:
-I really don’t think that the code 33 is anything more than CM police speak for “let’s get on with the show, clear other chatter.” Could be wrong, just my speculation

-They are certainly biting their tongue, a lot. To me, it feels like they do have insider information but rightfully cannot speak too much regarding it. I don’t think anything is 100%, maybe we’re at 75% likely an arrest is imminent. There was a time when CM was speaking to AM saying something to the effect of “if nothing else comes of this you tried your best to find your little sister.” I don’t know why this would be verbalized if they have confirmation from LE of something that is imminent. This could be just speaking to the (still low) probability of recovering Suzanne to bring her body home, though, and not necessarily speaking to an arrest being imminent.

-Yes, the tone is somber. The last 15 minutes or so are the most informing regarding the investigation. The way AM spoke about Barry changing his tone about hoping for his innocence and AM getting pretty choked up towards the end of his time on the show tells me that he either is very close to his closure or might already have it. We’ve gone from AM giving BM heat in the press to him almost being sympathetic to BM. Who wants their brother in law to murder their sister anyway? I’m sure they had a good relationship at some point. The change in tone tells me that AM might already have his closure.

To close, we got a little closer to knowing what this “#5”? We get a nice little recap from the crew from about 46:15-

#1 WE HAVE NOT LEFT THE HOUSE
#2 EVIDENCE ROOM IS WORKING (EFFECTIVE FOR LE, DOCUMENTS FROM TODAY “GAME CHANGING”)
#3 THE MOUNTAIN LION HAS BEEN ELIMINATED
#4 KEEP GOING, KEEP MOVING FORWARD TRUE CRIME COMMUNITY. THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE, “YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, STEP UP AND DO THE RIGHT THING.”
#5 ???

It has to be the arrest, right? Read that all in order, we haven’t left the house, we have received critical evidence, there was no mountain lion, and crowdsourcing is helping with leading to [#5] the arrest of BM.

#5 is the arrest of BM

JMO

 

[MadTing]

wonder if the tree invoices are for the NEW trees
that look recently planted in the Morphew yard??

Or at the other location that the two dogs hit on.

 

[MadTing]

What would be the significance of damage to the back of a truck in this case?

I wonder if somebody drove at night with their lights off to avoid detection and hit something or hit another truck due to not having any lights and being unable to see.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

There’s a comment under PE video on YT where somebody wants to thank Tater’s owner for walking his aunt back to her car after the vigil

Who or what is "Tater"?

@NatureLover posted this last thread -

"Tater is a sweet little Italian Greyhound in Salida with my husband." - She may be travelling back home as the last time she was on thread was Saturday at 12:14 AM (as she stated she was friends/went to school with Suzanne's older siblings)

 

[MadTing]

If AM did mean to refer to him as a Loving Husband, my thoughts about that are perhaps it's a psychological tactic to appeal to his conscious - along the lines of "accidents happen, we don't believe that you're a monster.

Barry also may have been at one point in time a loving husband and at some point things changed.

 

[seekingjustice**]

In catching up on the speculation, there's something that makes no sense IMO:

if you knew or at least believed that remains had been found of the missing person you've been searching for, why would you ask hundreds of volunteers to continue searching for 2 more days and who knows how many hours and miles for said missing person? You're asking people to continue to expend physical and emotional effort and possible injury to hiking mountains and trails they don't need to?

That logic isn't working for me. IMO

Asking people to continue searching implies the missing person either hasn't been found, or the confidence level that what the dogs hit on is 1. a body and 2. your loved-one's remains, is low enough that you believe it's not over yet.

I get the sense that they are being cautiously optimistic that the dog hits are a very strong lead, especially the hit with the two dogs but I think the search needs to go on until they know the outcome of what the dogs have detected because there's no guarantee that this will turn out to be human remains.

 

[BeckyF]

Wonderful, if useful, BUT why did it last more than 4 months before someone reached out with such an important document?

I agree! I don’t know the significance of these invoices but the delay in turning these over makes no sense. LE has canvassed the area, talked to local businesses, posted fliers. It’s like the Stepford Wives syndrome.

 

[BeckyF]

Wonderful, if useful, BUT why did it last more than 4 months before someone reached out with such an important document?

I agree! I don’t know the significance of these invoices but the delay in turning these over makes no sense. LE has canvassed the area, talked to local businesses, posted fliers. It’s like the Stepford Wives syndrome.

In catching up on the speculation, there's something that makes no sense IMO:

if you knew or at least believed that remains had been found of the missing person you've been searching for, why would you ask hundreds of volunteers to continue searching for 2 more days and who knows how many hours and miles for said missing person? You're asking people to continue to expend physical and emotional effort and possible injury to hiking mountains and trails they don't need to?

That logic isn't working for me. IMO

Asking people to continue searching implies the missing person either hasn't been found, or the confidence level that what the dogs hit on is 1. a body and 2. your loved-one's remains, is low enough that you believe it's not over yet.

Maybe it’s a ruse. Jmo