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

[Warwick7]

It is reported she cannot remember whether it was Friday or Saturday night when she heard sounds unfortunately.

I was always under the impression that it was the 9th.

"A woman who lives in the area where Colorado mother Suzanne Morphew went missing said she heard a prolonged, loud noise at a property connected to Suzanne’s husband the day before she was reported missing.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Suzanne Morphew of Maysville was reported missing on May 10th, Mother’s Day, after her daughters could not reach their mother..."

Colorado woman woken from sleep by loud noises, sounds of ‘running’ at construction site that was focus of Suzanne Morphew search — the night before she went missing: Report

 

[K9Enzo]

I don’t know.... a neighbor by the worksite, then BM’s employee (MG), both hearing a noise at night (machinery & his truck running) that suddenly stops or is gone when they go to look, sounds a bit unbelievable to me when I really think about it. IMO

 

[Warwick7]

I don’t know.... a neighbor by the worksite, then BM’s employee (MG), both hearing a noise at night (machinery & his truck running) that suddenly stops or is gone when they go to look, sounds a bit unbelievable to me when I really think about it. IMO

Oh I don't know, Patrick Frazee was bludgeoning someone to death, and at Walmart, and at a bank, and at a Thanksgiving dinner..... All in a few hours...

 

[K9Enzo]

Oh I don't know, Patrick Frazee was bludgeoning someone to death, and at Walmart, and at a bank, and at a Thanksgiving dinner..... All in a few hours...

I think it’s possible the news of SM disappearance freaked them out and they started to overthink noises/events. Again, they suddenly stop when they go to look? IMO

 

[10ofRods]

I don’t know.... a neighbor by the worksite, then BM’s employee (MG), both hearing a noise at night (machinery & his truck running) that suddenly stops or is gone when they go to look, sounds a bit unbelievable to me when I really think about it. IMO

Really? People are so highly adrenalized during a crime event, it sounds quite typical. In fact, I've been struck over the years by the number of perps who are caught within a couple of days of their crime who then proceed to fall asleep in the patrol car or in the jail cell or the interrogating room, having not slept at all since the crime.

This isn't just true of crimes. Women in labor, unable to sleep for 2-3 days, can be almost manic in their attempts to do things (although they usually demand someone else do the driving!)

My SiL has a job where he's often called out in the middle of the night and then works for up to 36 hours without sleep (and it's a safety related job, he's the safety manager for an industry that involves flammable liquids). He seems completely normal the whole time, and then goes right back to his usual 5 hours a night of sleep.

Doctors work 24 hour shifts and then do clinical hours before going home. Residents and interns work longer shifts than that. Nurses commute 1-2 hours, work 12, then commute 1-2 hours home here in SoCal.

For a really terrible story about crime, sleeplessness and long distance trucking, read that book on Jesperson. (Actually - probably don't read it, it's nightmare-inducing).

I think it’s possible the news of SM disappearance freaked them out and they started to overthink noises/events. Again, they suddenly stop when they go to look? IMO

I agree with your first sentence, for sure.

But, whether the machinery noise was crime-related or just...some careless construction worker trying to fiddle with machinery, a normal person would stop the noise if they saw a porch light go on or a house light go on - because noise complaints are real. And neighborly relations are important. If crime related, obviously the machine-user would try to evade detection.

Every once in a while, a loud car (either music or more often muffler) stops in front of our house and the instant I look out the window, they'll take off. At night, merely switching on the porch light makes them leave. I always assume they're up to no good.

I wish the guys with leaf blowers would shut them off when I go outside.

 

[Warwick7]

Yes, there’s no way a woman who has hearing problems could hear someone running. I think the context is clearly a piece of machinery and not a person.

I'm not that certain yet.
Crime on Line stated "she had been hearing all of this noise for quite a while,”

Then Crime on Line said the interview suggests that Branson also believes she may have heard a person.

It is the word also that caught my attention.

Also means: in addition to....moo

 

[Warwick7]

I think it’s possible the news of SM disappearance freaked them out and they started to overthink noises/events. Again, they suddenly stop when they go to look? IMO

MOO is I'm not going to attribute thoughts and feelings to a witness when that information is not in msm. And I'm not going to discredit her account because someone else might think its far fetched.

 

[Warwick7]

Really? People are so highly adrenalized during a crime event, it sounds quite typical. In fact, I've been struck over the years by the number of perps who are caught within a couple of days of their crime who then proceed to fall asleep in the patrol car or in the jail cell or the interrogating room, having not slept at all since the crime.

This isn't just true of crimes. Women in labor, unable to sleep for 2-3 days, can be almost manic in their attempts to do things (although they usually demand someone else do the driving!)

My SiL has a job where he's often called out in the middle of the night and then works for up to 36 hours without sleep (and it's a safety related job, he's the safety manager for an industry that involves flammable liquids). He seems completely normal the whole time, and then goes right back to his usual 5 hours a night of sleep.

Doctors work 24 hour shifts and then do clinical hours before going home. Residents and interns work longer shifts than that. Nurses commute 1-2 hours, work 12, then commute 1-2 hours home here in SoCal.

For a really terrible story about crime, sleeplessness and long distance trucking, read that book on Jesperson. (Actually - probably don't read it, it's nightmare-inducing).



I agree with your first sentence, for sure.

But, whether the machinery noise was crime-related or just...some careless construction worker trying to fiddle with machinery, a normal person would stop the noise if they saw a porch light go on or a house light go on - because noise complaints are real. And neighborly relations are important. If crime related, obviously the machine-user would try to evade detection.

Every once in a while, a loud car (either music or more often muffler) stops in front of our house and the instant I look out the window, they'll take off. At night, merely switching on the porch light makes them leave. I always assume they're up to no good.

I wish the guys with leaf blowers would shut them off when I go outside.

Bam!

 

[Auntie Cipation]

I'm not that certain yet.
Crime on Line stated "she had been hearing all of this noise for quite a while,”

Then Crime on Line said the interview suggests that Branson also believes she may have heard a person.

It is the word also that caught my attention.

Also means: in addition to....moo

I'm not at all certain but I maybe recall some reference to her hearing a person that night, after she was awakened and attuned to noise outside. Maybe she heard someone talking to someone else? But not "a person running". IMO "running" was only in reference to machinery noise.

 

[Warwick7]

I'm not at all certain but I maybe recall some reference to her hearing a person that night, after she was awakened and attuned to noise outside. Maybe she heard someone talking to someone else? But not "a person running". IMO "running" was only in reference to machinery noise.

Now that you mention it I remember this too. But for the life of me I would not know where to find this interview.

 

[MassGuy]

I'm not that certain yet.
Crime on Line stated "she had been hearing all of this noise for quite a while,”

Then Crime on Line said the interview suggests that Branson also believes she may have heard a person.

It is the word also that caught my attention.

Also means: in addition to....moo

Crime Online didn’t do any original reporting there. They merely cited that local media report and added some of their own language.

Crime Online reporter EK read that article, and I believe interpreted it wrong.

 

[GordianKnot]

Crime Online didn’t do any original reporting there. They merely cited that local media report and added some of their own language.

BBM:

Right. Crime Online didn't interview that lady.

My own take on it is that the Crime Online reporter misinterpreted the statement they read and drew an incorrect conclusion, i.e., that the woman also reported hearing a person.

It's extremely unlikely that a hoh person is going to pick up the sound of someone running outside on a neighboring property.

JMO.

 

[Warwick7]

BBM:

Right. Crime Online didn't interview that lady.

My own take on it is that the Crime Online reporter misinterpreted the statement they read and drew an incorrect conclusion, i.e., that the woman also reported hearing a person.

It's extremely unlikely that a hoh person is going to pick up the sound of someone running outside on a neighboring property.

JMO.

Man! Here I thought I was onto something! Lol!
Maybe Ill have that glass of wine now...lol!

 

[Dalgliesh]

It is reported she cannot remember whether it was Friday or Saturday night when she heard sounds unfortunately.

This has appeared here before but I have not seen any MSM report to this effect. Please post if you know where it is. THANKS!

 

[Janeumayer]

This has appeared here before but I have not seen any MSM report to this effect. Please post if you know where it is. THANKS!

It was in the original video interview with Lauren. She clearly said she could not recall which night it occurred. Then that suddenly changed to the night before SM disappeared when it was regurgitated by other news outlets. The video is in the Media Thread.

 

[Momofthreeboys]

It was in the original video interview with Lauren. She clearly said she could not recall which night it occurred. Then that suddenly changed to the night before SM disappeared when it was regurgitated by other news outlets. The video is in the Media Thread.

Thanks, I had thought it was Lauren who reported that. Someone also talked to her son I think who if memory serves repeated that she was unsure which night. If I find that one I will cite.

 

[Janeumayer]

Thanks, I had thought it was Lauren who reported that. Someone also talked to her son I think who if memory serves repeated that she was unsure which night. If I find that one I will cite.

Found it. Here it is:
CO - CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 , MEDIA,MAPS,TIMELINE *NO DISCUSSION*

 

[dmac55]

Crime Online didn’t do any original reporting there. They merely cited that local media report and added some of their own language.

Crime Online reporter EK read that article, and I believe interpreted it wrong.

I agree

Following are both the original article that was referenced in the Crime Online article, regarding an interview with the lady who heard machinery running at night, and the Crime Online article for comparison

Original article:
“At the very first I thought it was a truck or something maybe parked in my driveway or something, but no, it kept running and coming from the same direction over there, and I had been hearing all of this noise for quite a while,” she said.

“I thought it sounded like one of them running and I sat up in bed and said, ‘it is one of them, what’s going on, this time of night? That’s ridiculous.’ And I thought maybe they had orders to move it or something, so I laid there listening and it kept going and going and going for about a half an hour. And I finally got up to check and, as I opened the back door, it stopped. So I thought, maybe they are just moving something or whatever, and so I did not go out and investigate.”

Neighbors want answers 2 months into Suzanne Morphew’s disappearance | FOX31 Denver
Neighbors want answers 2 months into Suzanne Morphew’s disappearance | FOX31 Denver


Crime Online article:
"The interview suggests that Branson also believes she may have heard a person."

Colorado woman woken from sleep by loud noises, sounds of ‘running’ at construction site that was focus of Suzanne Morphew search — the night before she went missing: Report – Crime Online
Colorado woman woken from sleep by loud noises, sounds of ‘running’ at construction site that was focus of Suzanne Morphew search — the night before she went missing: Report

 

[Puzzles8]

Do bobcats usually run on diesel? Any idea whether Barry's truck is diesel?

The sound of a diesel engine is at a very low pitch (correct term?). You are more aware of feeling the low pitched rumble rather than hear it if you have hearing loss at the low end of the scale. Think about the sensation of a train rumble, the rumble of a large jet, etc.

That was my first thought when MG thought BM's truck was idling outside her apartment, she felt the rumble.

 

[nyvictoria]

I recently watched the Netflix series of Unsolved Mysteries, and Patrice’s case made me think about SUZANNE.

Patrice Endres was missing for 20 months (iirc) before her remains were found, quite by chance. Two men working on a church addition noticed some buzzards circling in the woods behind the church building. They went to see why the birds were there, and found a dead deer.

But one man noticed something on the ground behind the other man, and that something turned out to be Patrice’s skull.

I think SUZANNE will be found this way, by a hiker, a hunter, a logger, someone doing something else who comes upon her remains.

Holly Bobo was found by ginseng hunters. Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions, killed ten years apart by the same man (okay, allegedly, as he hasn’t gone to trial yet), were found by a mushroom hunter several months after Jessica went missing.

Many others have been found in the same way. So I’m prayerful the universe will one day reveal SUZANNE’s remains.

I hope you’re right but I’m beginning to think it’s not likely. If Suzanne was abducted by a random stranger for whatever nefarious reason and then quickly discarded, I’d say there’s a good chance her remains would eventually be found. However, if she was made to disappear by the person most of us feel is responsible, I’m afraid she’s buried deep and there’s little chance that a hunter, logger, hiker or explorer will stumble upon her remains. I hope I’m wrong.