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

[GordianKnot]

JMO but I just can't fathom what MG could bring to the table that would make it worth disclosing that you have just committed a heinous act. BM is a big, strong guy with familiarity and access to digging equipment.

I am starting to think maybe he wasn't as aware as one might expect, of the data his vehicle was collecting about his travels.

IMO the only people I have ever known where "friends" drive by in the wee hours of the am to see if they are up, usually involves the use or acquisition of "stimulants".

MOO

BBM:

That, or a 1-800-BOOTY-CALL.

Just sayin'.

JMO.

 

[PaulaDC]

I'm sorry for my double posts, I'm in the twilight zone today. No internet or phone service.

 

[LietKynes]

I agree. I could see a scenario where BM calls/texts MG and he says she need to meet him at the job site ASAP and the next thing MG knows, she’s knee deep in a husband kills wife murder and cover up.

If someone called/texted me at 4am and I wasn't due to be on the job until at least 6 or 7am I'd be annoyed.
Not to mention if a person has any young children who do you get at that hour and on the spur of the moment to babysit ?
It makes no sense that BM would just pull up to the building, text or call her, and then drive away.
What actually happened, MG ?

No matter how loyal one may be to family or an employer-- very few want to be involved in covering up someone else's dark deeds.
Imo.

 

[TxGidget]

My opinion. No link. Should have stated that but it can be researched. Remember when the Puma address went missing off Google then reappeared as her charity?

The Puma house is still in SM & BM’s name on the county appraisal district rolls. There wasn’t a change in ownership.

 

[Sillybilly]

Ridiculing another member's opinion/theory and making snarky comments or personally attacking them will earn members a very long or permanent WS vacation.

If you can't post respectfully toward one another, you won't be allowed to continue posting here.

 

[Knox]

The Puma house is still in SM & BM’s name on the county appraisal district rolls. There wasn’t a change in ownership.

Yeah, I wondered if people are confusing the address listed for the charity as "ownership or an asset"?

 

[Warwick7]

So Andy's older brother recieved actual messages from Suzanne's FB rather than friend requests? That's what it sounds like he's saying.

Yep! I would love to read those.

 

[Warwick7]

He might have put some mail in the trash can.

But he could have burned them. My opinion is that it would be something that couldn't be burned.

 

[Hatfield]

Yeah, I wondered if people are confusing the address listed for the charity as "ownership or an asset"?

Im wondering that too because I have seen the Puma Path address listed as a recent update for 2 or 3 of the LLCs.

I have only a limited understanding of what an LLC is and I am wondering why there are at least 3 of them from what I have seen.

My question is
Is that unusual to be tied to 3 different LLCs or is that common?

 

[PaulaDC]

If someone called/texted me at 4am and I wasn't due to be on the job until at least 6 or 7am I'd be annoyed.
Not to mention if a person has any young children who do you get at that hour and on the spur of the moment to babysit ?
It makes no sense that BM would just pull up to the building, text or call her, and then drive away.
What actually happened, MG ?

No matter how loyal one may be to family or an employer-- very few want to be involved in covering up someone else's dark deeds.
Imo.

Maybe they arrived back at her place at 4a.m. hence her need to mention his truck coming/leaving. Then went their own ways. moo

 

[lonetraveler]

I was leaning that way early on, and I’m still open to it now.

As time goes on though, and we see more and more financial wheeling and dealing, I think this is more likely related to one thing.

Money.

Money, definitely, but I can see BM having a woman handy to help inflate his enormous ego.

 

[LietKynes]

Maybe they arrived back at her place at 4a.m. hence her need to mention his truck coming/leaving. Then went their own ways. moo

Good point ! ^^^

Might be nothing at all... but it feels like more people know of BM's whereabouts and actions, than they are saying.
MOO

 

[MsBetsy]

Yep! I would love to read those.

Actually someone replied to my post and said that it was an error. He apparently corrected himself to say that they were friend requests and that that someone "friended" several of Andy's friends but there were no actual messages.

So, if these people accepted the requests, that would explain why AM described her as having "friended" several people. I guess.

 

[gitana1]

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.

Thank you so much.

All this time I thought the site that was excavated was in Broomfield. I don’t know why I made that mistake.

That makes the “she’s long gone from here” (or whatever BM said about where he thought Suzanne was), even more telling.

 

[gitana1]

Whatever happened to the cctv? Was it collected or not? I seemed to recall it wasn’t. That LE or CBI came by but didn’t collect it.

ETA Found the answer: They did not!!!

CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #34
FOX21 News has confirmed the Sheriff’s Office asked people in Salida to save any video surveillance they may have captured between May 8 and May 12. However, a manager at Poncha Market said they did collect video surveillance, but law enforcement didn’t stop by their shop in time.

“We don’t have the video anymore because it deleted after two weeks – so we don’t have that, but I did talk with CBI, though, about the story,” Manager Tiffany Butala said.

That is why the Sheriff's office asked people to SAVE video.... (so it would NOT be deleted ) ...smh

CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #34
When we were finally able to discuss "the Note" that BM left at Poncha Springs Market after it was published by MSM (Fox21), there were questions about whether or not BM was captured on surveillance at the market.

I posed those questions to LS and shared her response here (thread #27?).

LS provided that BM was on store surveillance, and the surveillance was not in police custody because although the store manager reported the information to LE, they did not follow-up after two weeks and the surveillance was recycled.

I believe the store manager confirmed this information in last night's Fox21 report.

In other words, I believe the store manager contacted LE prior to their public request for videos for the period May 8 - 12, they were aware of the video and did not respond.

MOO

I’m going to assume that three, separate LE agencies had a huge, boatload of evidence already and footage they needed, thus they didn’t pick that up from the store.

 

[Fireflize]

But he could have burned them. My opinion is that it would be something that couldn't be burned.

Smart

 

[MadTing]

I'm very much on the fence regarding MG being involved, I just don't see her volunteering information such as the room stinking of bleach, Barry acting super strange on the job site and sounding like he had the worst night of his life on the phone etc. Surely if she is involved it would be in her best interest to downplay everything and not make any incriminating or damming statements towards Barry who she would clearly not want to get caught if she were involved. Surely she would be saying things like he sounded perfectly normal on the phone and seemed his usual self etc . The only time i could see somebody offering damming information like this would be if they were offered some sort of plea deal.

 

[MsBetsy]

I'm starting to think this as well. MOO.

MG and BM may have been seen at the beach site when they were there on Saturday, before leaving at 11:00 am.

 

[darring21]

Im wondering that too because I have seen the Puma Path address listed as a recent update for 2 or 3 of the LLCs.

I have only a limited understanding of what an LLC is and I am wondering why there are at least 3 of them from what I have seen.

My question is
Is that unusual to be tied to 3 different LLCs or is that common?

Pretty common for a business owner and especially someone who may have real estate investments. Basically, every piece of real estate can be put into a separate LLC to shield oneself from liability and asset seizure.

 

[DetectiveFoyleWannabe]

I'm very much on the fence regarding MG being involved, I just don't see her volunteering information such as the room stinking of bleach, Barry acting super strange on the job site and sounding like he had the worst night of his life on the phone etc. Surely if she is involved it would be in her best interest to downplay everything and not make any incriminating or damming statements towards Barry who she would clearly not want to get caught if she were involved. Surely she would be saying things like he sounded perfectly normal on the phone and seemed his usual self etc . The only time i could see somebody offering damming information like this would be if they were offered some sort of plea deal.

good point. She's a hard one to figure out.