Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #47

[charminglane]

I did a bit of research this morning.
Pondering whether meth labs smell like bleach.
In my brother's "lost years" he would rent hotel rooms to cook.
That was a long time ago. He is my recovery hero.

 

[LietKynes]

It wouldn't be up to BM to have no questions asked if a criminal act had occurred.
I remember another husband who last year had a missing wife under suspicious situations, also asked for his wife to be safely returned, no questions asked. That was the Barbara Thomas case. She has never been found.

Yep.
That man also brought out 'love notes' from his "missing" wife.
To show what a good husband he was.

Imo.

Since ole' BM is out and about in town-- at cafes and so forth in his tank tops ... I wish a reporter could just happen by him and ask a few questions.
Not that I think we'd get an honest reply--- just a video or audio to gage his reaction.
Or maybe he'd issue a statement another day, and tell us more about 'what happened' ???
MOO

 

[AmyH]

I've discounted the "bleach odor in the home" idea since, it just strikes me as awfully convenient that after we were informed the hotel room had a strong chlorine odor, then someone allegedly told AM the house did too. No mention of this ever, until the DM came out about the hotel, the wet towels, chlorine, etc. We really have no idea who the source is, about the home smelling like that so I can't really put much importance on it.

jmo

I agree about the source who mentioned the smell of bleach/chlorine in the home has not been confirmed (like many details in this disappearance). AM implied to Fox 21 that the house smelling of bleach/chlorine was secondhand information. BM did confirm the smell of chlorine in to hotel room to Fox 21. He said the hotel probably cleaned the rooms with it due to COVID. I'm not sure if I can link the article. I wish we knew if he had the bobcat when he left to Broomfield.

 

[Deleted member 102539]

How long until he sells the Longmont plot?

How long until he moves back to Indiana?

Or will there be a new state in the mix?

So many questions I have.

JMO

Let me guess: a new state rather than IN.

Re selling the Longhorn plot, the tax impact may be important.

 

[Tate123]

I did a bit of research this morning.
Pondering whether meth labs smell like bleach.
In my brother's "lost years" he would rent hotel rooms to cook.
That was a long time ago. He is my recovery hero.

My knowledge of meth labs comes only from the experts Walter and Jesse from "Breaking Bad" (I still miss it). Meth labs smell like ammonia if I recall.

 

[Fireflize]

I agree about the source who mentioned the smell of bleach/chlorine in the home has not been confirmed (like many details in this disappearance). AM implied to Fox 21 that the house smelling of bleach/chlorine was secondhand information. BM did confirm the smell of chlorine in to hotel room to Fox 21. He said the hotel probably cleaned the rooms with it due to COVID. I'm not sure if I can link the article. I wish we knew if he had the bobcat when he left to Broomfield.

AM stated that he was told that the home had a strong smell of bleach, secondhand, by an investigator.
I understand that to mean that he wanted to make clear that he, personally, did not enter the home and smell bleach. That he was told this by an investigator, lends credibility to the smell in the home. Moo

 

[Fireflize]

I agree about the source who mentioned the smell of bleach/chlorine in the home has not been confirmed (like many details in this disappearance). AM implied to Fox 21 that the house smelling of bleach/chlorine was secondhand information. BM did confirm the smell of chlorine in to hotel room to Fox 21. He said the hotel probably cleaned the rooms with it due to COVID. I'm not sure if I can link the article. I wish we knew if he had the bobcat when he left to Broomfield.

Exclusive: Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding the disappearance of wife, Suzanne | FOX21 News Colorado

For the first time, on record with FOX21 News, Barry Morphew has agreed to share his side of the story.

“Listen,” Barry said during a Thursday morning phonecall, “Jeff Puckett was in prison for nine years.”

Still, Barry confirmed he had hired Puckett for a project in Broomfield on Mother’s Day Weekend this year. They needed to fix a wall, Puckett said.

“I said listen, I need to do this job, I will pay you good money to come and help me,” Barry said of Puckett. “I gave him a job and an opportunity.”

It was not a last minute project, Barry explained, the job had been in the works for a month.

“That has nothing to do with Suzanne missing,” he said.

Puckett agreed to the work and traveled to Broomfield, where Barry had paid for a room. Puckett told FOX21 he walked inside and was immediately struck by a strong smell of chlorine.

“I mean, I’m not going to beat around the bush, it did,” he said. “I mean it smelled real strong. I’m like, damn, that’s just what I thought.”

Puckett also found signs that the room had been used in some capacity, and reasoned Barry had been inside at some point.

“The bed hadn’t been slept in or laid in or nothing, it was just kind of laid on or something,” Puckett said. “Maybe he got in, took a shower, and then that was it – just washed up and left.”

Puckett said he was told Barry had to leave for a family emergency that Sunday night, May 10.

<snip>

Barry said he left in a hurry, when he learned his wife was missing.

“I rushed home, left all my tools at the hotel called my workers and said, ‘I have a family emergency, you’re going to have to figure this out on your own,'” he said.

But Puckett said the crew couldn’t finish their work.

“We had nothing to work with,” he said. And he described what would have been necessary in order to complete that particular job.

“Once you build [the wall] up, you run a layer block, some dirt, get [it] inspected, then you keep continuing until the next level – and there was nothing like that to work with,” Puckett said. “That kind of pissed me off, so I come on back.”

<snip>

“I did nothing wrong in the hotel,” Barry said. “There’s cameras all over the hotel, I did nothing wrong.”

The hotel isn’t the only location where the presence of a strong smell has been mentioned.

Suzanne’s older brother, Andrew Moorman, brought up something he’d heard, following a search of the Morphew family home.

“From what I understood secondhand, they said there was an overwhelming smell of bleach in the home,” he said.

That information had apparently been relayed to him by initial investigators.

“I’ve heard the FBI lie and I know that they can legally do that in their investigations,” Barry said. “But it just pains me to know that they are doing this to me and my family.”

Moorman said CBI agents brought up other concerns as well.

“They did ask us, ‘why can’t we find any coolers at the house?’ And I said, ‘well I have no idea. I don’t know how many they had to begin with,” he said. “But I assume, as a hunter and a guy that maybe camps, he would have a few, and they couldn’t find a single one.”

 

[tinkerbella]

My knowledge of meth labs comes only from the experts Walter and Jesse from "Breaking Bad" (I still miss it). Meth labs smell like ammonia if I recall.

Yes, they do. To me, it smells a lot like cat urine. There was a house in my town that burned down due to a meth lab exploding. When you walked by it prior to it burning, it smelled like a bunch of cats were spraying around the house. JMO

 

[Fireflize]

Remember Charlie Brown's little friend, Pigpen, who had a cloud of dirt that followed him everywhere?

On Mother's Day, BM seems to have had a cloud of clorine following him.
Moo

 

[kkdj]

Yep.
That man also brought out 'love notes' from his "missing" wife.
To show what a good husband he was.

Imo.

Since ole' BM is out and about in town-- at cafes and so forth in his tank tops ... I wish a reporter could just happen by him and ask a few questions.
Not that I think we'd get an honest reply--- just a video or audio to gage his reaction.
Or maybe he'd issue a statement another day, and tell us more about 'what happened' ???
MOO

I believe with that other case, the BT case there was also money involved. I mean, they had some money too.
Interestingly enough (to me) the couple drove together into a nearby neighboring state, where she disappeared. So there are jurisdictional issues with that one. I wonder if we'll find something to suggest that here in this case. I mean, they have been going to Indiana a bit and so has Barry.
Is that an easy drive from CO to Indiana? Just wondering.

 

[lonetraveler]

I agree about the source who mentioned the smell of bleach/chlorine in the home has not been confirmed (like many details in this disappearance). AM implied to Fox 21 that the house smelling of bleach/chlorine was secondhand information. BM did confirm the smell of chlorine in to hotel room to Fox 21. He said the hotel probably cleaned the rooms with it due to COVID. I'm not sure if I can link the article. I wish we knew if he had the bobcat when he left to Broomfield.

YES! I'm so interested in if he arrived with the Bobcat. That would explain the motor noise the lady heard. It appears that he just doesn't want LE to take a good look at the Bobcat. He just tows it around.

 

[Ontario Mom]

AM stated that he was told that the home had a strong smell of bleach, secondhand, by an investigator.
I understand that to mean that he wanted to make clear that he, personally, did not enter the home and smell bleach. That he was told this by an investigator, lends credibility to the smell in the home. Moo

I had to go find the quote (I think he originally made this statement on a video interview but now I can't find it) :

"From what I understood secondhand, they said there was an overwhelming smell of bleach in the home,” he said. That information had apparently been relayed to him by initial investigators." ‘That has nothing to do with Suzanne missing’; Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding disappearance of wife | FOX31 Denver

The information would seem credible to me, if an actual investigator was quoted as saying it. (I've seen it stated elsewhere in MSM that AM was told, that an initial investigator made this statement - not that the investigator told him, AM, directly).

But it seems a bit fishy that we didn't hear a word about it until after the hotel room was reported to have smelled like chlorine. It's interesting that the neighbor lady never said a word about it in her interview. She certainly would have had to smell it if she went inside the home as has been reported. Who knows, maybe LE told her not to mention that? But then, why would they turn around and tell AM the house had a strong odor of bleach, if they'd told the neighbor to keep that to herself? There's just so much about this case that doesn't add up.

jmo

 

[oviedo]

Yep.
That man also brought out 'love notes' from his "missing" wife.
To show what a good husband he was.

Imo.

Since ole' BM is out and about in town-- at cafes and so forth in his tank tops ... I wish a reporter could just happen by him and ask a few questions.
Not that I think we'd get an honest reply--- just a video or audio to gage his reaction.
Or maybe he'd issue a statement another day, and tell us more about 'what happened' ???
MOO

Bringing your post over replying to the media thread

Saving this great and informative post & link. ^^^^
Interesting about the coolers, esp. if Suzanne's FB page has a photo of them.
Imo.

 

[DetectiveFoyleWannabe]

I did a bit of research this morning.
Pondering whether meth labs smell like bleach.
In my brother's "lost years" he would rent hotel rooms to cook.
That was a long time ago. He is my recovery hero.

they might but I really don't think BM was cooking up Meth in a hotel room on Mothers Day.

 

[yurintroubl]

Remember Charlie Brown's little friend, Pigpen, who had a cloud of dirt that followed him everywhere?

On Mother's Day, BM seems to have had a cloud of clorine following him.
Moo

Here comes an out-of-the-box thought I just had....

Perhaps he concocted some chlorine gas to subdue her/knock her out. May be how he got her out of the house without any sign of struggle. Firemen have gas masks as part of their gear so he would be unaffected. Could be a second round was needed and that's why the hotel smelled as well... and it wasn't BM who was laying on the bed for a bit. This could be easily determined on hotel security video... which begs the question - Did Barry take an ice chest into the room at some point? Seeing one on security video that has since disappeared would be damning. Also could've had her locked in a container with the towels and just needed to refresh them or rinse them out after he was done doing something off-site.

100% spitballing conjecture... but, hey...


ETA:

It's not unheard of... and according to this article - Firefighters handled an incident fairly recently.

 

[LietKynes]

Here comes an out-of-the-box thought I just had....

Perhaps he concocted some chlorine gas to subdue her/knock her out. May be how he got her out of the house without any sign of struggle. Firemen have gas masks as part of their gear so he would be unaffected. Could be a second round was needed and that's why the hotel smelled as well... and it wasn't BM who was laying on the bed for a bit. This could be easily determined on hotel security video... which begs the question - Did Barry take an ice chest into the room at some point? Seeing one on security video that has since disappeared would be damning. Also could've had her locked in a container with the towels and just needed to refresh them or rinse them out after he was done doing something off-site.

100% spitballing conjecture... but, hey...


ETA:

It's not unheard of... and according to this article - Firefighters handled an incident fairly recently.

bbm
Good point !
Great post.
Nice avatar.

 

[10ofRods]

I had to go find the quote (I think he originally made this statement on a video interview but now I can't find it) :

"From what I understood secondhand, they said there was an overwhelming smell of bleach in the home,” he said. That information had apparently been relayed to him by initial investigators." ‘That has nothing to do with Suzanne missing’; Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding disappearance of wife | FOX31 Denver

The information would seem credible to me, if an actual investigator was quoted as saying it. (I've seen it stated elsewhere in MSM that AM was told, that an initial investigator made this statement - not that the investigator told him, AM, directly).

But it seems a bit fishy that we didn't hear a word about it until after the hotel room was reported to have smelled like chlorine. It's interesting that the neighbor lady never said a word about it in her interview. She certainly would have had to smell it if she went inside the home as has been reported. Who knows, maybe LE told her not to mention that? But then, why would they turn around and tell AM the house had a strong odor of bleach, if they'd told the neighbor to keep that to herself? There's just so much about this case that doesn't add up.

jmo

I'll bet that the neighbor lady is a possible witness, and that she's been politely asked not to say any more than she already has.

The two sources seem quite distinct. Are you thinking that AM (who seems to come second in terms of speaking about bleach smells) is making it up, based on having heard what MG said? Or that AM confused what the investigator told - perhaps thinking the bleach smell was in the house, when he was actually told it was in the hotel?

Why is it fishy? We hadn't heard a lot from AM, had we? Perhaps he felt liberated to speak more openly, now that someone else had talked?

<modsnip>

My own experience is that a sympathetic listener (perhaps AM in this case) may evoke a response from an investigator - whose reasons for speaking while telling someone else to keep things on the downlow may be very good ones. In this case, they need to keep witnesses out of the limelight (many reasons). But that doesn't mean they don't want to assist AM in understanding what happened to his sister. Perhaps that investigator has now been disciplined - we don't know.

 

[JosieMae]

“No questions asked” still strikes me as so tone deaf and uncaring

Sounds like a line from a bad movie.

 

[JosieMae]

Would SM’s killer, if given the opportunity to go back in time, do it again? Maybe just clean a few things up?

Is the killer today happy with outcome?

Just wondering?

If, in fact, "the husband" did this, he's gotta have deep regrets. Mainly because his life has become a living hell. Picture the gut-check every time the door bell or phone rings. A routine traffic stop will likely result in loosing control of one's bowels.

The sadness and fear on his kids' faces.

The stuff of nightmares.

 

[LietKynes]

If, in fact, "the husband" did this, he's gotta have deep regrets. Mainly because his life has become a living hell. Picture the gut-check every time the door bell or phone rings. A routine traffic stop will likely result in loosing control of one's bowels.

The look on his kids' faces.

The stuff of nightmares.

Ita.
That makes his frenzied financial activity very telling, even more than his seeming lack of urgency to find his wife, and his posturing outside on his property as concerned people volunteered their time and resources to help find Suzanne !!!
B/c , imo not one dime of his crowd funding went to the volunteers to help search for his wife.
MOO
Eta: It's as if BM knows his time as a free bird might be limited.
Just saying.