Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #51

[Boxer]

If by "meaningful" you mean submit unconditionally to amateur cross examination by a reporter whose employer's paramount interest is in attracting eyeballs, and to editing in which he had no role, of course he didn't do that. No one in his position - innocent or guilty - would do that unless they are bereft of sense. He apparently conditioned his interviews with at least some editorial control. He wanted to get his message out, and he succeeded in that. Whether he persuaded the audience is another matter...

By meaningful I mean doing something effective like making flyers and missing person pleas.
That's what we see from committed families.
Getting along with the law enforcement agencies is not required, Vanessa's family worked to find her in opposition to sloppy MPs and CID.
Getting along with the missing person isn't required either, like Madison B. of Wisconsin, her mother raised the roof to find her, to discover she was in fact running away.

MOO it is shocking that BMs only plea for his wife was on FB, a medium meant for the audience of his family and friends.
We know he will get into a fist fight over thinking an electricians crew is impeding his crew by running late, where is that fight for his wife?

 

[steeltowngirl]

If by "meaningful" you mean submit unconditionally to amateur cross examination by a reporter whose employer's paramount interest is in attracting eyeballs, and to editing in which he had no role, of course he didn't do that. No one in his position - innocent or guilty - would do that unless they are bereft of sense. He apparently conditioned his interviews with at least some editorial control. He wanted to get his message out, and he succeeded in that. Whether he persuaded the audience is another matter...

Why would he not just work with LE, and utilize their experience to get the message out in the best possible way?

 

[Boxer]

Why would he not just work with LE, and utilize their experience to get the message out in the best possible way?

MOO he was/is suspected and that is why he doesn't work with them, but that is no excuse not to conduct his own campaign.

 

[OldCop]

If by "meaningful" you mean submit unconditionally to amateur cross examination by a reporter whose employer's paramount interest is in attracting eyeballs, and to editing in which he had no role, of course he didn't do that. No one in his position - innocent or guilty - would do that unless they are bereft of sense. He apparently conditioned his interviews with at least some editorial control. He wanted to get his message out, and he succeeded in that. Whether he persuaded the audience is another matter...

I think that many people would shut down after a while if the tide began turning against them and they felt harassed, blamed, and falsely accused.
I think the problem most people have with BM is that right from the beginning he did nothing to convince us that he was desperate to find his missing wife. From the first days when his nephew, TN, was acting as the family spokesman, BM hid from view. He had TN refer to him as “the Husband”, not even giving his name. He never showed his face for a week, finally appearing in that pathetic FB video.
I know we don’t know how we’d react if our spouse went missing, but the people who hide from the get go are very few and far between. Even the guilty ones usually make some kind of attempt early on. I watched a Dateline on Sherri Papini last night, the woman who was allegedly kidnapped while jogging a couple of years ago. (She was released several weeks later, but no one has ever been arrested.). Her husband was out front pleading for his wife’s return, he participated in searches, he handed out flyers, even when LE was carefully scrutinizing him.
I know you don’t HAVE to do this, but if you really care, you’re going to be out there.
MOO

 

[Synergizer Bunny]

No matter how hard it is, the first thing that you want to do is be as open and transparent as possible in order to have police eliminate you and move on to looking outside of the inner circle.

I would do whatever was asked of me. I would hire a PI. I would contact any and all media sources to get my husband's face into the public awareness, which would in turn keep pressure on the police. I would offer a reward. There is nothing that I would not do to try and find him.

I would seek advice from people like Marc Klaas and Jennifer Kesse's parents. They have been through this and know what to do.

What I would not do is sell the house (unless I were hurting financially) or get rid of any of his possessions. I would remain hopeful that we could find him.

I might be frustrated if police or the public pointed the finger at me. However, if I had nothing to hide, I would not stop. I just pray that something like this never happens to anyone that I love.

In short, I would do the opposite of BM.

 

[Seattle1]

* DM states MG met BM in Broomfield which is not consistent with reports that BM left Broomfield before the crew arrived. Reader should consider the source...

Employee of Suzanne Morphew's husband DENIES they were having an affair after Colorado mom vanished | Daily Mail Online

PUBLISHED: 18:26 EST, 13 September 2020 | UPDATED: 14:55 EST, 27 October 2020

On May 9, the day before Suzanne went missing, Gentile was working on a riverside area near Salida with Barry, 52.

'He was acting really weird about the beach area,' she told Fox21 News. 'I was like: "Barry what's up?"

'He seemed stressed. He definitely seemed weird on Saturday.'

Gentile had agreed to work in that area for the entire day but said Barry dismissed her from the job early, at 11am.

[..]

'He said that he had to go make the wife happy – do some hiking or biking,' she said. 'And I found out, like, later that day that he was in town all day.'

Gentile said she heard Barry was out shopping by himself.

The following day, May 10, Gentile was surprised to suddenly get a call from Barry asking her to work on a project in Broomfield, 150 miles away, with him.

They had talked about doing it in April, and then May, and then suddenly he made his decision.

'Last minute he changed everything,' she said.

'In fact, he called me that Sunday – Mother's Day – and was really frantic, really didn't sound like himself.

'I hung up the phone and I thought he just had the worst night of his life.'

She then drove up to the Broomfield site with another contractor, Jeff Puckett, and met Barry there.*

 

[Seattle1]

Former employee of Suzanne Morphew hubby “WE DID NOT HAVE AN AFFAIR!”

September 15, 2020

[..]

The day before, Gentile said, she had worked on a construction site close to Maysville — reportedly the same site that investigators searched for three days in late May, without finding any evidence connected to Suzanne’s disappearance. In the interview with Fox 21 News, Gentile referred to the construction area as a “beach site,” as the property is on a riverfront.

“Barry had worked on the beach site Friday evening,” which was May 8, Gentile told the news station. “Saturday, he had asked me to clean it up and rake it out, because we were going to bring it out to level – so it would be a beach sand and not muck.”

“He was acting really weird about [the beach area], I was like Barry what’s up,” Gentile said. “He seemed stressed. He definitely seemed weird on Saturday.”

Gentile also said that she expected the work to take a full day, but that Barry dismissed her before noon, saying he was going to spend time with his wife.

“He said that he had to go make the wife happy – do some hiking or biking,” she said. “And I found out, like, later that day that he was in town all day.”

By “in town,” Gentile appears to mean Salida, the Chaffee County seat, which neighbors Maysville.

Gentile told Fox 21 News that on Sunday, May 10, Barry called her to get a crew together for the Bloomfield job, which had already been pushed back at least twice. Gentile said in the interview that she had expected only she and Barry would be working that job of building a retaining wall.

“Barry said that he had been up there all day, like getting the job ready for us,” Gentile said of a phone call she had with Barry late Sunday, when he said he was leaving Bloomfield due to a family emergency.

 

[waldojabba]

When we discussed the Friday theory way back, I've never left that yet. I don't see any proof of any sandwich outing and we have no idea what caused the friends concern. I don't even see anyone proving SM was physically sighted. I still say when BM said he wanted to make his wife happy that was his way of showing her as alive. Jmoo

100% - It was the start of building his narrative

 

[Seattle1]

Sept 9, 2020

Fox21/LS 7 minute recap of the investigation -- BM confirms details in his own words...

 

[Ontario Mom]

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[Hair of the Dog]

The Broomfield job was originally completed by a crew of 2, was slated to be repaired by a crew of 2 and then suddenly required a crew of 4 (including Barry). The repair was due to mistakes made by Barry's crew so presumably Barry's company was going to bear the cost of repairs. Suddenly he went from paying one crew member (MG), to paying three crew members (MG, JP and CC?) for a job that was not billable.

MOO

 

[CemeteryHunter12]

Your posts have brought a few thoughts to mind. I am more and more inclined to agree with your Friday night theory. If we consider the possibility that the BFF was fooled into thinking she was conversing with SM when it was actually BM, all Saturday, is there anything else that doesn't fit with a Friday night murder theory?

I can think of two reasons why the Bobcat wasn't parked on the trailer.

One would be if the trailer had been needed for some other purpose.

Another would be if the last use of the Bobcat was there at the property itself.

Which brings me to something else that's been bugging me. If the yellow tape being tied to the Bobcat isn't intended to protect any evidence on the Bobcat itself (in which case I assume the tape would have gone AROUND the Bobcat without touching it), then what WAS the tape protecting?

It appears to be blocking the upper part of the path from the house/patio down toward the creek. So I wonder, is there anything unusual about that path? Did they find some of the rocks disturbed or recently replaced?

Presumably they didn't find SM buried there or we would know that, but perhaps there is something else of significance relating to that path?

If not, what was the purpose of that zig-zagged yellow tape?

MOO

Your post reminded me of something...wasn't it mentioned somewhere that there was an invoice for trees?

 

[CemeteryHunter12]

DBM

 

[Auntie Cipation]

Your post reminded me of something...wasn't it mentioned somewhere that there was an invoice for trees?

Yes, I remember that!

Mention of it kinda got lost when there was a focus on some little saplings with a rock cairn, and it turned out that was on a vacant parcel near Puma Path house but not belonging to BM/SM.

We never did learn, I don't think, whether the little trees seen in the photo appeared to be planted there or were growing there on their own.

And then I don't recall hearing again about the receipt for trees.

Was it for a job? Was it for Puma Path house?

IIRC the owner of that vacant parcel doesn't live in the area. I think someone else could plant a few trees or otherwise mess around on that vacant land and probably not attract any attention, and even if the owner visited they might never notice a few more saplings.

MOO

 

[LietKynes]

If by "meaningful" you mean submit unconditionally to amateur cross examination by a reporter whose employer's paramount interest is in attracting eyeballs, and to editing in which he had no role, of course he didn't do that. No one in his position - innocent or guilty - would do that unless they are bereft of sense. He apparently conditioned his interviews with at least some editorial control. He wanted to get his message out, and he succeeded in that. Whether he persuaded the audience is another matter...

bbm
I will have to say that I found the reporter, LS, to have conducted herself in a professional manner and not in an amateur fashion.
Imo.

She is one of the few people to try to raise awareness for Suzanne.
She didn't ask BM to submit unconditionally to her request for an interview off camera and without BM's face/voice being used; but rather his spoken word to LS and relayed to the public in order to find Suzanne or answers.

I have to wonder why a person doesn't seem to want his voice or appearance shown ?
Would the wrong person recognize his voice or face ?
BM knows his heartfelt and earnest 25 second plea has been viewed by the public.
So what was it ?

If your spouse is missing and possibly kidnapped (one of BM's many scenarios) --why would you care what people thought about you ?
MOO

 

[LietKynes]

By meaningful I mean doing something effective like making flyers and missing person pleas.
That's what we see from committed families.
Getting along with the law enforcement agencies is not required, Vanessa's family worked to find her in opposition to sloppy MPs and CID.
Getting along with the missing person isn't required either, like Madison B. of Wisconsin, her mother raised the roof to find her, to discover she was in fact running away.

MOO it is shocking that BMs only plea for his wife was on FB, a medium meant for the audience of his family and friends.
We know he will get into a fist fight over thinking an electricians crew is impeding his crew by running late, where is that fight for his wife?

bbm
Sad but true.

 

[swedeheart]

I’m not convinced of the Friday night theory. That would be close to 48 hrs of SM being missing before any one caught on. The girls could have tried calling Mom at any time on Saturday, which would have been a huge risk for BM. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if the girls communicated with Mom sometime Saturday. AM says SM’s phone went dead at 8:00pm on Saturday. That would have been extremely stressful for BM to have had her phone pinging and dinging all day Saturday, and not necessarily being able to respond.

Who and where did the idea, that ‘SM was last seen later than first thought’ originate from?

Well, it is possible the girls were only texting with Suzanne to stay in touch, while on their trip, and BM was responding to them as her. Don't we assume that's what he probably did on Saturday with the wedding friend? I still think thats what prompted the panic by Sunday afternoon. I think the girls were also getting worried, and told the neighbor to call the police.

 

[swedeheart]

Yes, I remember that!

Mention of it kinda got lost when there was a focus on some little saplings with a rock cairn, and it turned out that was on a vacant parcel near Puma Path house but not belonging to BM/SM.

We never did learn, I don't think, whether the little trees seen in the photo appeared to be planted there or were growing there on their own.

And then I don't recall hearing again about the receipt for trees.

Was it for a job? Was it for Puma Path house?


IIRC the owner of that vacant parcel doesn't live in the area. I think someone else could plant a few trees or otherwise mess around on that vacant land and probably not attract any attention, and even if the owner visited they might never notice a few more saplings.

MOO

Yep, remember he also built them a "beach" for free, so why not a few saplings? So thoughtful! I definitely think there is more to that story.

Moo.

 

[susiQ]

bbm
I will have to say that I found the reporter, LS, to have conducted herself in a professional manner and not in an amateur fashion.
Imo.

She is one of the few people to try to raise awareness for Suzanne.
She didn't ask BM to submit unconditionally to her request for an interview off camera and without BM's face/voice being used; but rather his spoken word to LS and relayed to the public in order to find Suzanne or answers.

I have to wonder why a person doesn't seem to want his voice or appearance shown ?
Would the wrong person recognize his voice or face ?
BM knows his heartfelt and earnest 25 second plea has been viewed by the public.
So what was it ?

If your spouse is missing and possibly kidnapped (one of BM's many scenarios) --why would you care what people thought about you ?
MOO

RBBM
Very good questions! But I have to correct you on one thing. That pathetic plea was actually 26 seconds long.
And, if that wasn’t bad enough, when Lauren Scharf asked BM what Suzanne’s last words to him were, he “could not...would not answer.” My fear is her last words may have echoed those of another beautiful woman, KB, “Please stop.” :*(
MOO

 

[LietKynes]

RBBM
Very good questions! But I have to correct you on one thing. That pathetic plea was actually 26 seconds long.
And, if that wasn’t bad enough, when Lauren Scharf asked BM what Suzanne’s last words to him were, he “could not...would not answer.” My fear is her last words may have echoed those of another beautiful woman, KB, “Please stop.” :*(
MOO

bbm
Sadly, I agree.