Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #50

[MassGuy]

Isn't this just a little far-fetched? This is a Kubota loader with a Land Pride post hole auger attachment........BM doesn't own either and the nearest dealer for them is Monte Vista Co-op Equipment which is 85 miles away. IMO

Kubota by Land Pride | Land Pride

It’s also a stock image, which I just realized.

 

[nyvictoria]

IMOO PP "landscaping" looks like a child with a Tonka truck likes moving rocks into piles. Like my three year old used to do. A pile of rocks, a line of rocks, trimmed with rocks...you get the picture.

Exactly! When I was young and a newly married homeowner, my best friend’s brother graduated from college with a degree in landscape architecture. He was very talented and helped all of us design various outdoor spaces at our homes. In contrast, BM is a guy who plays with equipment, trucks, dirt and some green stuff and nothing more.

 

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[Midwestmom2019]

He lived there for about 2 years, so there was time to design a stunning environment around the pompous house, IMO. Certainly he had some illegal (or even legal) workers on his hand for help, not to mention the machines/tools. IMO

One time I’m in his corner.
“Cobbler’s kids have no shoes.”

 

[Megnut]

Disturbing and depressing both.

JMO

 

[darring21]

Isn't this just a little far-fetched? This is a Kubota loader with a Land Pride post hole auger attachment........BM doesn't own either and the nearest dealer for them is Monte Vista Co-op Equipment which is 85 miles away. IMO

Kubota by Land Pride | Land Pride

Yes. His Bobcat has tires, not tracks. It is not well suited for difficult terrain because it will tip over on inclines unless you use the bucket. In my backyard, I used a Bobcat to move dirt and had to reverse out with the bucket on the low point to keep it from tipping over. My backyard is not steep, either. An auger is not great for digging in rocks and makes the Bobcat more unstable. His Bobcat is great for filling in dirt or gravel on relatively flat areas.

 

[K9Enzo]

It's true that you can't send a cadaver dog over a cliff, but smells waft upwards and, if the dogs had been led along the sides of the dropoffs in Monarch Pass, there's a good chance they would have smelled a body. But as everyone has pointed out, it's an impossibly large area to search.

They can repel with a handler but you usually see this with FEMA cert dogs in disaster areas, as an example. IMO

 

[Ontario Mom]

Isn't this just a little far-fetched? This is a Kubota loader with a Land Pride post hole auger attachment........BM doesn't own either and the nearest dealer for them is Monte Vista Co-op Equipment which is 85 miles away. IMO

Kubota by Land Pride | Land Pride

Well, CM does like to put riddles out there so possibly far-fetched, sure.

But, while we do not actually know whether BM owns either of these pieces of equipment, or has access to them, we do know he owns similar items (or could have access to them), and could have concealed SM in a similar way to what we're seeing in that pic. Loads of speculation of course, since we have nothing else to go on.

It's certainly not the first time it's come up in the nearly 7 months since she disappeared, so CM doesn't get to take the "far-fetched" credit for this one.

 

[Hoss569]

Tweet from Chris:

Is she buried? Certainly equipment is available.

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Having grown up about thirty minutes from the Salida area, and IMO; it would be tough to quickly auger a hole, bury something, fill it in and make it look like nothing happened. Unless its a construction site... There is very little "soil" above the valley floor and not much in the valley for that matter. Now in Broomfield ...

JMO

 

[Ontario Mom]

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[Puzzles8]

Tweet from Chris:

Is she buried? Certainly equipment is available.

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How complicated is it to change attachments on a bobcat?

Can it be done by just one person?
How long would it take?
Light and power requirements?

 

[Hoss569]

How complicated is it to change attachments on a bobcat?

Can it be done by just one person?
How long would it take?
Light and power requirements?

One person, about two minutes or less to change attachments.

Light and Power requirements? The skid loader has lights that would be sufficient to see well enough to change out the attachment. If there is power requirements, it is rather quick as in plugging in a min of 2 hydraulic hoses, but that can turn into a nightmare just as fast.

 

[swedeheart]

IMO, this was used. She's buried vertically. It's always been my suspicion for some weird reason. And he pre-dug a hole, then covered it with boulders. It's absolutely terrifying to see that machine in motion. (Just my own personal speculation based on not much, but ugh.)

 

[steeltowngirl]

It’s also a stock image, which I just realized.

The comments under the post were worth reading though.

 

[Knox]

One time I’m in his corner.
“Cobbler’s kids have no shoes.”

Good one

 

[steeltowngirl]

One time I’m in his corner.
“Cobbler’s kids have no shoes.”

Lol. Our version was “the shoemaker’s son goes barefoot.”

They say if you go to a salon with only two hairdressers, choose the one with the messier hair. She does the other stylist’s beautiful hair.

But something tells me that BM didn’t spend a lot of time working around his own home. Working elsewhere or plain old tomfoolery.

jmo

 

[Puzzles8]

One person, about two minutes or less to change attachments.

Light and Power requirements? The skid loader has lights that would be sufficient to see well enough to change out the attachment. If there is power requirements, it is rather quick as in plugging in a min of 2 hydraulic hoses, but that can turn into a nightmare just as fast.

What would be a possible nightmare scenario?

 

[Hoss569]

What would be a possible nightmare scenario?

The hydraulic connections can be tough if there under to much pressure, not lined up right, pop back out, dirty or just trying to hard, most of the time its quick, can also be messy. In simple terms its sliding a 'collar' back on the connector, pushing in the connection and then the collar snaps back retaining the connector and helping it seal. If that makes sense.

 

[Knox]

The hydraulic connections can be tough if there under to much pressure, not lined up right, pop back out, dirty or just trying to hard, most of the time its quick, can also be messy. In simple terms its sliding a 'collar' back on the connector, pushing in the connection and then the collar snaps back retaining the connector and helping it seal. If that makes sense.

Quick connect - not a bobcat, but demonstrates what Hoss is conveying.

 

[OldCop]

there are so many places & ways to kill someone in the great outdoors in Colorado. Why would BM go to all the trouble of killing her at home and then have to clean up the crime scene and dispose of a body when he could just go for a hike “to make the wife happy” and shove her off a cliff? Wouldn’t that steep drop off be enough to kill you?

RSBM. Also, RBBM. Good points, @Lilypad13, but I think there might be a couple of things at play here. 1) BM is too much of a coward to push his wife off a cliff. 2) He would have to take SM out in broad daylight on MD weekend to do the dirty deed. It was quite busy in the area that weekend as the weather was turning warmer and people sought to escape from Covid lockdowns. 3). There was a well publicized CO case where a husband tried to get away with murder by pushing his wife off a trail in Rocky Mountain NP. Investigators were able to prove that she was pushed rather than fell. BM might have been familiar with the case as there were a couple of specials on it. (Dateline and/or 48 Hours.). See Harold Henthorn. Also, see Steven Scharf, another man convicted of pushing his wife off a cliff. If BM is familiar with any of these cases, he might have realized that it is not easy to do this while making it look like an accident. While BM might have felt he could not look LE in the eye and convince them that his wife fell while she was with him, I do think he felt he was smart enough to stage the perfect scenario and have the perfect alibi, enough so that LE would never even consider him. Except he wasn’t. MOO