Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #45

[MsBetsy]

Why did he hand a reporter pieces and parts of old letters? Answer is simple, he chose pieces to shove his narritve. His narritive all along has been to push how they are a "godly loving, caring family."

BM is preoccupied with validating his own self worth.

BM is trying to manipulate others into seeing him as better than he really is.

That begs the question, what is the opposite of a loving, caring, godly husband???

BM shows us lovey dovey parts of letters, yet AM finds out information about d-i-v-o-r-c-e.....

Where did divorce comment occur? I had not heard or seen that. But I certainly could have missed it. Thank you in advance[/QUOTE]

At one point Andy speculated that Suzanne may have asked for a divorce. He said he had recently heard that the marriage was not so "hunky dory." He did not go into further detail, but he might have been referring to the friend who SM had been talking to when the communication ceased either at 8:00 am, 12:30 pm, or 9:00 pm on Saturday.

Maybe he spoke to her or another friend SM had confided in. I'm thinking it was not the friend SM had been communicating with, since he does not know the time of day they were communicating.

 

[OldCop]

Suzanne Morphew Timeline as of 10/9/20

This timeline represents the period from 5/8/20-5/12/20, the dates which LE deemed most important regarding her disappearance. The information was compiled from CCSO press releases, MSM, permitted WS information such as PE broadcasts and the TD video, and with input from WS members. This is a floating timeline which is adjusted as new facts come to light.

Friday 5/8/20

Evening, exact time unknown:
-BM works at “beach area” at Salida dig site (MG)

Saturday 5/9/20

A.M.:
-BM & MG at Salida dig site. MG states BM was acting unusual. MG is supposed to rake out beach area that BM had worked on the night before. (MG). BM picked up MG (unverified) to bring her there.

11:00 a.m.:
-BM tells MG to go home. He tells her he has to go home to make wife “happy” and take her hiking or biking. (Did BM drop off MG?)

12:30 p.m. : (conflicting information, time not verified, could be later in the day, or even earlier)
-SM is talking with BFF on a message app or FB when suddenly she stops replying.

4:00 p.m.: New Info
-SM & BM are seen in a sandwich shop in Salida

Afternoon, exact time unknown:
-BM makes contact with JP and hires him for a Broomfield job on Sunday. According to JP, this was an in person meeting in Salida. Was this before or after SM and BM were in the sandwich shop?
-MG states that BM was seen shopping around town. (Unverified)

Evening, exact time unknown:
-SM’s bff receives texts that seem “unusual” from SM
-Friends of BM see SM appear in “Friend Suggestions” and “People You May Know” on their FB pages. (@Hoosierfan72)
-New Info: Friends of AM receive friend requests from SM

11:30 p.m.:
-A neighbor of a home being built in Salida hears heavy machinery running for about a half hour. BM has been hired to do prep work for a foundation pour at this site. This is the same site where he is also prepping the “beach area”.

Sunday 5/10/20

4:00 a.m. New Info
-According to MG, BM contacts her and asks her to get a crew together to head to Broomfield for the job. MG stated that BM sounded like he had the worst night of his life. ?
-It was first reported that BM was on the road driving to Broomfield when he began texting MG. Later reports said BM actually pulled up outside MG’s house and texted her from there.
-Was BM actually at/in MG’s House that morning at 4:00 a.m.?

5:00 a.m.: Conflicting Info
-BM told LE that he leaves SM sleeping and heads to a job in Broomfield, CO approximately 3 hours from his home in Maysville. The job allegedly consists of a repair to a wall that BM had completed the previous September and that had structural problems.


A.M. Exact time unknown:
-BM checks into the HIE in Broomfield.
-JP confirms Salida job with BM. (JP)

5:46 p.m.:
-SM is reported missing by a neighbor. SM’s daughters allegedly contacted her and said they were worried because they hadn’t been able to reach their mother. Exact details are unclear, but neighbor checked the house and did not find SM but noted her car was there. ETA THE FOLLOWING INFO SHOULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO PE NOT TD: The neighbor then allegedly contacted BM and he asked her to go back and check if her bike was there. The neighbor checked, returned home, and called BM on her landline and told him the bike was gone. BM asked her to call LE.

Approximately 6:00 p.m.:
-BM started home to Maysville. (TD)
-LE arrives at the Morphew home where they are met by the neighbor who reportedly told them that SM had not returned from a bike ride.
-LE begins a search. Dog teams from the prison and County SAR teams are called in. (CCSO)


After 6:00p.m.?: (Time not confirmed)
-JP, MG, and a third worker arrived at the HIE in Broomfield. It is not clear if all 3 travelled together. JP and MG both report that there was an intense smell of chlorine in the room and several wet towels on the floor. JP stated that it looked like someone had laid down on the bed, on top of the bedspread. MG stated that the bed looked like it had been slept in and remade.

Approximately 6:10 p.m.
-BM let workers know that he had left for a family emergency and that they were on their own. Workers allegedly found some of BM’s tools in a “hotel cart”. MG stated they looked like a bunch of tools from the back of BM’s truck. Both JP and MG indicated they had neither the correct tools nor the materials to do the job.

Sometime before 9:00 p.m. :
-LE allegedly finds SM’s bike down a hill about a quarter of a mile from her home. (Never verified by LE). There is no sign of SM. The Morphew home is allegedly sealed off.
-Friend(s) of BM arrive at search area (unverified)

Approximately 9:00 p.m.:
-BM arrives home.
-Friend(s) tell BM that SM’s bike was found and that LE mishandled the scene/evidence. (BM to TD)

(At some point, either Sunday night or Monday, volunteer firefighters were told not to participate in the official searches. BM told TD in a later video that his friend tried to stop LE from mishandling the evidence, which may have been the reason that they were not allowed to participate further.)

Monday 5/11/20

Time unknown:
-Concrete foundation is poured at the Salida dig site.

A.M.:
-Search resumes after overnight break. Over 100 LE are eventually involved including LE on foot, drones, divers, aircraft, SAR, Swift Water Rescue units, and various canines.
-BM calls MG crying and tells her SM is missing and that either a mountain lion got her or she was abducted. He stated they were going up the mountain to search. He tells MG and JP to stay in Broomfield and wait for supplies to be delivered for the job.

P.M.:
-AM arrives in town to help look for his sister, meets with BM and some friends, and they formulate a plan to search for SM the following day.

Tuesday 5/12/2020

A.M.:
-LE continue their search. No request for volunteers was made.
-BM, AM, and friends divide into teams to search. They were not allowed to search where LE was actively searching, but could cover area already searched. AM and BM we’re on separate teams. At one point, a member of AM’s team separated from the group. They backtracked to try to find him. He was later located back at the home where BM was staying. (On the following Thursday, 5/14/2020, a personal article, (now believed to be SM’s bike helmet), belonging to SM, was found about 20 yards from the trail where AM’s team was searching. Were they meant to find it? Was it placed there by the disappearing team member?)

Exact time unknown:
-MG, JP, and possibly one other person arrived back in Salida after no supplies were delivered to complete the job in Broomfield.
-MG was allegedly approached by two individuals connected to BM, TN and GD, who told her she would not be paid for her time in Broomfield because it would look like hush, hush, money. MG also implied that she was asked not to cooperate with LE or turn over her phone.

8:00 p.m.:
-BM was observed by an employee of the Poncha Market digging in a trash can. (The market had closed at 7:00 p.m.) Upon being questioned, BM states he is looking for a bike helmet.
-Shortly thereafter, BM taps on market window and when they let him in he stated that his wife was missing. When asked for a description he wrote a note on a crumbled receipt. The note said:

Baby Blue bike
helmet

Biking clothes

(No further description)


By Tuesday or Wednesday, CCSO has asked CBI and FBI for assistance.

 

[Sportn]

I actually think it was one of two different things, both of which involve him being spotted, and needing to come up with a plausible reason for being there:

He was disposing of evidence.

He made making sure that something he had previously disposed of, had in fact been removed (maybe Suzanne’s phone, or biking clothes he needed to get rid of to sell his narrative).

Just a thought -
It's conceivable that BM could have disposed of all evidence in multiple rural waste transfer stations in various counties, including SM. If those waste stations are along highways he was driving it would have only taken a few mins to pull over and dispose of anything he wanted to hide.
1. It would be quick
2. No one around in the early morning to see what he was doing
3. GPS tracking would look normal (maybe) except for brief stops
4. No need to drag a bobcat around and deal with the loading/unloading and tractor noise
5. Would eventually be hauled away to one or more landfills and buried under tons of other debris making discovery extremely difficult

 

[DizzyB]

I wonder why LS was on with NG when she was unable to continue coverage during AM's search. Also why did BM give an interview with a different lady reporter and a different news company?

Can anyone confirm when LS taped the NG segment? I read the transcript but am not following if this was recent or some time ago. I’m still confused about whether or not Lauren is currently commenting in any way on the case, or if this is old tape.

I think Barry needed to further his narrative and it was either a slap at Lauren or Lauren isn’t able to speak to him due to her own reasons.

 

[Gigi3]

Can anyone confirm when LS taped the NG segment? I read the transcript but am not following if this was recent or some time ago. I’m still confused about whether or not Lauren is currently commenting in any way on the case, or if this is old tape.

I think Barry needed to further his narrative and it was either a slap at Lauren or Lauren isn’t able to speak to him due to her own reasons.

I can’t confirm the date for certain, but I feel it must be fairly recent as there were clips from the recent interview with Dr. Phil and the profiling evil guys have not been on before as I can recall.

Another thought about MG- perhaps she thought BM was coming to pick her up that morning to finish the beach area where they abruptly stopped work the day before? Then she starts receiving texts about the Broomfield job. Makes sense to me. JMO.

 

[Megnut]

I think we've learned one thing.

Regarding the hotel room.

BM can make a bed.

Just not well.

We should cut him some slack.

Maybe it was the first time he ever had to make a bed.

JMO

 

[TxGidget]

I’m starting to think that the variation in MG’s “testimony” is because she has come clean with LE and is cooperating in order to reduce charges against her. I think she was more involved than we’ve been lead to believe. She’s the only one of this cast of characters that has up and moved out of the state. She’s also one person that was with BM Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. As far as I know, SM is the only other person that can say that (and Sunday is questionable for her).

ITA! Great post.

 

[justtrish]

I disagree with you. What's smart often has little to do with typical, human behavior.

His priorities are clear. Business is super important to him. You may think he's been searching behind the scenes but where are the large search parties he organized? Where are the search centers? Where are the fliers he has created? The countless interviews and please for someone to give us information?

But more than that, more than how this shows his priorities is what it said about whether, early on, he felt it likely she would walk through that door.

I know from personal experience that when a loved one is missing, hope doesn't die, even improbable hope, that quickly. You keep feeling they're going to walk through the door, or you'll get a call that it's all been a terrible mistake, or whatever.

But let's be clear - LE doesn't get a search warrant to excavate a third parties' property, damaging that property in the process, via a fishing expedition to "eliminate" possibilities. They need probable cause. And the probable cause necessary for something like that is arguably greater than what's necessary to search the victim's property.

And as to that, LE didn't search the victim and her husband's property not once, but twice, over a month apart, despite the fact that she supposedly disappeared while on a bike ride. That's more than just elimination, IMO. I could understand one search of a location for that purpose. Not two.

Would the search warrants for the house have to be because LE thinks Barry has something to do with it or could it simply be that is the last place she was known to be? Do they have to be specific as in looking for specific items or if someone is just missing can they be more general to say looking for evidence of a crime?

In your opinion, what type of evidence would be needed in order to get a search warrant for that other location? I thought I read the owner gave permission and they still needed the search warrant. Would a judge need less evidence/proof to give a warrant if the owner of the property gives permission?

I'm puzzled as to why Barry would even contact Suzanne's dad first, as Indiana Code § 29-3-6-1(a)(4)(A) specifically states that notice of the guardianship petition & hearing must be given to:

The alleged incapacitated person, the alleged incapacitated person's spouse, and the alleged incapacitated person's adult children, or if none, the alleged incapacitated person's parents.

Per the General Assembly's wording, it would seem that giving notice to the adult Morphew daughter is required per the statute. Notice to Suzanne's parent(s) would only be necessary if there were no adult children.

I can imagine that perhaps Barry contacted the Moormans first prior to hiring counsel. Barry may have thought, erroneously, that he had to contact Suzanne's living parent first. Barry's attorney would've corrected his belief & advised him that his adult daughter was the person who needed to be given notice.

I thought maybe Barry thought it was the right thing to do and was sparing his daughter from that discussion. This seems to be more business with him needing it for the sale of a home in Indiana that was already in the works to be sold, so maybe he just wanted to handle the business part thinking of it as something that needed done and GM is a business guy as well so he would get that. Keeping the girls from having to have that talk. I try to look at it from all angles and if Barry is innocent here, then what other reason would there be? He wanted to spare his girls more pain, would be my guess.

 

[Megnut]

It gives me great hope in charges that LE has truck data. Imagine that moment when, BM claiming he slept at home and left at 5am, was confronted by LE with data showing his truck was at MG's at 4am.

That makes TWO people who had to explain for that.

Very curious to learn the known movements of that truck from dark-thirty to 4 am, and again from 4 am until 6 pm or 9 pm.

IMO it's just a matter of time....

JMO

 

[jakat]

100% agree. Last year, when my little sister was killed, I was going nonstop for a week. Everything was thrown on me to handle because my mother could not function, plus dealing with the tragedy with her young boys. I would certainly hate for someone to judge me on my appearance that week.

I can’t fathom what her brother must be going through, and I definitely can not judge him on his appearance. What I can say about him is that I think he’s a brave soul that has taken on a monumental task of trying to find his sister.
JMO.

I'm so sorry about your sister Gigi.

 

[EggSalad]

I can’t confirm the date for certain, but I feel it must be fairly recent as there were clips from the recent interview with Dr. Phil and the profiling evil guys have not been on before as I can recall.

Another thought about MG- perhaps she thought BM was coming to pick her up that morning to finish the beach area where they abruptly stopped work the day before? Then she starts receiving texts about the Broomfield job. Makes sense to me. JMO.

Perhaps but picking up MG at 4am to work at a local job site? They’d arrive to the site and have about 1.5 hours until the sun even started to rise. And I doubt neighbors would be thrilled by construction noise in a residential area before 6am right as the sun came up on a Sunday.

 

[swedeheart]

It feels a little bit like a pre-explanation as to why any neighbors might have seen his truck at her apartment at 4am and why she would have been fully dressed outside at that time.

What's also interesting is that BM is also telling tales about this particular time-frame. Why lie about an hour's difference? Why say you left your wife at 5am, when it was 4am?

Then, we have MG claiming that BM was texting her at 4 am to get the crew together, but now saying that she thinks he had actually showed up to her house before the texting started, making that 3am-something.

Why are 2 people misremembering (lying) about this particular few hours?

You have the Facebook messages at 12 midnight, and BM and MG in contact with each other by 4am, so I wonder if this is the 3.5-4 hour window AM has been talking about.


JMO.

 

[EggSalad]

What's also interesting is that BM is also telling tales about this particular time-frame. Why lie about an hour's difference? Why say you left your wife at 5am, when it was 4am?

Then, we have MG claiming that BM was texting her at 4 am to get the crew together, but now saying that she thinks he had actually showed up to her house before the texting started, making that 3am-something.

Why are 2 people misremembering (lying) about this particular few hours?

You have the Facebook messages at 12 midnight, and BM and MG in contact with each other by 4am, so I wonder if this is the 3.5-4 hour window AM has been talking about.


JMO.

To take it a step further, and this is just pure MOO speculation:

What if MG was with BM during those hours but both had their phones turned off. They discussed the Sunday alibi plan in person, and then at 4am BM drops MG off at her apartment. They both then turn their phones back on, and BM starts texting her about the Broomfield project and the alibi story creation begins.

The missing piece in all of that is BM’s truck and the associated GPS data. If BM was truly off the grid for those hours, it would point to something like picking up MG in the old Range Rover, they both go to dispose of evidence and the body, then back to Puma Path to clean up the home and Range Rover. Then BM switches to driving the truck, drops MG off, and heads to Broomfield.

 

[RoseRage]

I wonder why LS was on with NG when she was unable to continue coverage during AM's search. Also why did BM give an interview with a different lady reporter and a different news company?

I’ve been wondering the same thing...

 

[Knox]

Can anyone confirm when LS taped the NG segment? I read the transcript but am not following if this was recent or some time ago. I’m still confused about whether or not Lauren is currently commenting in any way on the case, or if this is old tape.

I think Barry needed to further his narrative and it was either a slap at Lauren or Lauren isn’t able to speak to him due to her own reasons.

Yes I found that confusing as well. I thought she was off this case whatever the cause?

 

[Knox]

#SUZANNEMORPHEW #BARRYMORPHEW
Vinnie and Ashleigh on Barry Morphew putting the house up for sale.

 

[Dave F.]

I've never really found out whether Salida homes are built on bedrock. If homes in Salida don't have basements because blasting rock is cost prohibitive, is building restricted to either crawl space or slab construction? Perhaps GPR was ineffective at the Salida dig because the slab was formed over bedrock. Maybe @Dave F. could clarify.

First, to answer the geology part of the question:
The Rocky Mountains are a series of batholiths......huge bubbles of magma that rose from the earth's molten core eons ago. In general, mineable minerals occur at the edges, or between two adjacent batholiths. The fact that there has been so much mining activity in SM's immediate neighborhood, coupled with the altitude, tend to support a theory that the surface is mostly solid granite or feldspar. The soil that can be shoveled, even in the river bottoms of the canyon, is probably less than eighteen inches deep. SM's house was built on a hump of land that protrudes out of the bottomland. AM referred to it as "a mountain", but I believe the more proper term might be "mini-hogback ridge". With that eighth grade geology lesson complete, it is safe to say that SM's house is built "slab on grade". If there is a "crawl space" it is likely to be a very confined space under a raised floor area reserved for utilities access. The water source is a well, which probably uses a submersible pump but requires a pressure tank, electrical and hydraulic controls, and a water heater to be placed indoors. I believe SM's house is also partially heated by in-slab hot water radiant heating. This requires it's own pump, control system and distribution manifold.
So does SM's house have a basement? No
Does SM's house have a crawl space? Yes, it could. probably a small one.
Is SM's house built on a slab on bedrock? Yes, it appears to be.

The genealogy of the beach house in Salida is different. First, it's in a broad valley. The bedrock is most likely deeper than a basement would be dug. It's also on the river bank. The soil is permeated with rounded rocks and boulders that have washed down from higher up, over the eons. It kind of has the consistency of steel ball bearings suspended in modeling clay. If you read the assessor's reports, all of the houses along that riverfront stretch of CR 105 were originally mobile homes, which sit above grade and do not require either a foundation or a slab. That house and garage were designed to "float". That huge digger was used to scrape out the top layer of soil and rocks to make a wide slot for the very large concrete footings, then the ground inside the footings was scraped of it topmost soil and compacted using a compressed air powered tamper. Insulating ground mat was laid everywhere, and in-slab hot water radiant heat tubes were laid throughout. An extensive grid of interlocked reinforcing rod (rebar) was added to stiffen the slab strcuture, before the concrete was poured.
IMO

 

[Synergizer Bunny]

It feels a little bit like a pre-explanation as to why any neighbors might have seen his truck at her apartment at 4am and why she would have been fully dressed outside at that time.

What if it were security cameras at MG's apartment? That would be something MG couldn't dispute.

There has to be a major reason for MG to move. She must know something crucial. I wonder if LE helped relocate her.

 

[Dave F.]

Yes I found that confusing as well. I thought she was off this case whatever the cause?

LS was still on this story two days ago. Looks to me like she just skipped AM's search and vigil, for reasons that she has not disclosed. IMO

Missing woman Suzanne Morphew’s house for sale in Chaffee County | FOX21 News Colorado

 

[rainbowshummingbird]

What if it were security cameras at MG's apartment? That would be something MG couldn't dispute.

There has to be a major reason for MG to move. She must know something crucial. I wonder if LE helped relocate her.

With MG stating that she moved to ND and that she’s scared of Barry, I wonder why she revealed her new location.