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

[Boxer]

Respectfully: Bobcat-Shmobcat!

Today’s disposal of choice for unwanted women is chopping the body into pieces and throwing them out like trash. Preferably into a dumpster or the like which is regularly emptied into a garbage dump at a distant location.
This is and will remain a “no body” case. The pursuit of physical evidence is a blind alley.
If BM did it, the case can only be solved by a meticulous (and brilliant) (and lucky) analysis of his alibi/timeline.
Poor SM’s remains will never be found.

ITA. MOO.
And the more time and space he had the more successful.

 

[swedeheart]

Warning Gruesome thought!!

I wonder if Chaffee County owns any kind of incinerators for disposing of dead animals, i.e maybe a dead moose hit by vehicle? Most towns do own some kind of incinerators for disposing of roadkill, dogs & cats from the pound, etc. Just a thought I’ve had.

Not a pleasant thought, but seldom any posts regarding a missing (presumed dead) person are pleasant.
All just MOO.

Hmm...this is a possibility. He could have gone to the incinerator under the guise of getting rid of the body of his elk roadkill. Or did he just chop its head off in the middle of the road and go on his merry way? I still believe that elk rack will come into play as some kind of cover for something.

Moo.

And Merry Christmas, Websleuth'ers! <3

 

[Dalgliesh]

RBBM
BM did not hesitate to publicly throw shade on LE for “ruining his life,” but I fail to see how what LE did has affected him at all. I’m not seeing that it ruined his life in the least. Maybe the “image” he likes to portray. Great guy, wonderful husband, do-gooder by giving jobs to the “ex-cons and meth heads” he hires, out of the goodness of his heart, naturally . Then he immediately throws them both under the bus when they speak to the press. Fires an employee he had counted on to get a crew together mere days before. Trust me, it wasn’t because she deserved to be fired. He fired her because she did the right thing and handed over her phone. She told everyone that she did everything LE asked of her EXCEPT take a LDT. Barry on the other hand tells everyone he took a LDT when he did not.

Within weeks of SM going “missing” he secured the guardianship to sell the IN home and anything else he chose, then moved forward to purchase the Longhorn property. Heck, he didn’t miss a beat! Accusing LE of “blaming” him gave him his excuse for not doing a whole lot of anything in regard to searching for SM except perhaps digging through a trash bin at the Poncha Market and scribbling baby blue bike helmet and bike clothing on a scrap of paper. Okay, maybe he handed out some flyers. Oh, and maybe he kept up that charade while all the well-meaning relatives and friends came from IN initially to help in the search. I wonder how much BM actually spent on that? Likely not what they took in with their “fundraiser”. Now, what AM did, THAT was a search effort and what does the wonderful, considerate and thankful BM do? He calls it a publicity stunt.” How utterly insulting!

LE never ruined his life. What was ruined was his ability to convince people of his innocence and he did that to himself. But otherwise, life has moved on for BM. SM’s inheritance is his alone now, and he appears to be enjoying having control over that. And his life moves on.........for now.

JMHO

We could also consider that LE didn't trust him - he was their suspect, and they had to follow rules in dealing with a suspect - and that could have made working together difficult.

 

[Dalgliesh]

Well, BM needs to join the club with every other spouse of a missing person. 70% of women who are murdered are killed by an intimate partner.

It's just part of life. If your partner goes missing, you will be a suspect (whether you are man or woman).

You will be investigated. A lot.

To not use the immense services also provided by LE (all the way up to the Federal level) because you're miffed about the reality that you, as a spouse, will be investigated is not even a service to you, the spouse. You have to expect it, because if you get all shifty and do what BM did, you just make yourself look..suspicious. To a lot of people, not just LE.

Lots of things in life are really, really hard. If your spouse goes missing, you will have to work with LE, even if you don't trust them.

"Doing it yourself" is always an option - but not one that I see any evidence that BM has taken.

A "feckless amateur" who 'hires' themselves to search for their suddenly missing wife, gone on Mothers' Day is rather like the person who hires themselves as their own lawyer.

Actually, the percentage of murdered women who are killed by an intimate partner (not necessarily a spouse) is fifty percent, according to the largest study to date. Still, I agree that the husband of a missing woman can expect to be interrogated intensively and extensively in connection with it. He says he was, and that he answered every question. LE says he cooperated. His statements are, in fact, evidence. You choose to disbelieve them, but you don't cite any evidence to support this.

 

[susiQ]

We could also consider that LE didn't trust him - he was their suspect, and they had to follow rules in dealing with a suspect - and that could have made working together difficult.

Very true. Many of us feel the same about him However, if BM is truly innocent, as he emphatically proclaims, it should not stop him from hounding LE day in and day out to direct their attention elsewhere. And if that doesn’t persuade LE to investigate other scenarios he should be engaging every news outlet in Colorado to get the word out that that his wife is missing and he desperately needs help in finding her. Has he done that? Nope!! Why? My guess is he doesn’t want his FACE and VOICE advertised in the media. And why not?? I’ll leave that to everyone’s imagination.

No matter how you slice it, there’s no good reason for him to have behaved in the way he has. It’s just not how innocent spouses act when their beloved goes “missing.” We suspect him, LE suspect him and for good reason. I can only imagine what LE know, and I hope and pray for Suzanne’s sake that we’ll know one day too when there’s an arrest. Only then will her sad story be told and justice come.

JMHO

 

[susiQ]

Actually, the percentage of murdered women who are killed by an intimate partner (not necessarily a spouse) is fifty percent, according to the largest study to date. Still, I agree that the husband of a missing woman can expect to be interrogated intensively and extensively in connection with it. He says he was, and that he answered every question. LE says he cooperated. His statements are, in fact, evidence. You choose to disbelieve them, but you don't cite any evidence to support this.

RBBM
Yes indeed! HE says he answered every question during his 3-30 hours of interviews. But did he answer them truthfully? He also said he took a LDT which appears to be an outright lie. Hmmm..... Oh, and then there’s that mechanical thing he did to his CAT Bob. Hmmm..... You know, he couldn’t remember the right time he did that cause he was SO distraught . And, apparently according to AM, something didn’t line up with his truck GPS. Hmmm..... I could go on and on but there would be a whack of “Hmmm’s.....”

LE did say he was “cooperating” and they hoped he would “continue to do so.” I recall something similar with Patrick Frazee. What else can LE say? He’s cooperating but we know he’s lying through his teeth because we have evidence to prove it? Not going to happen. I just love how this team is going about this case. What they don’t say, says it all.

All IMHO.

 

[Deleted member 102539]

My guess is he doesn’t want his FACE and VOICE advertised in the media. And why not?? I’ll leave that to everyone’s imagination.

^^ This. IMO

 

[MrsWatson]

Indeed, why is BM so circumspect about being or heard on camera? After, of course, his 27 second plea posted on FB, not exactly the most mainstream of media choices available these days.

I wonder how BM celebrated Christmas?

 

[10ofRods]

Actually, the percentage of murdered women who are killed by an intimate partner (not necessarily a spouse) is fifty percent, according to the largest study to date. Still, I agree that the husband of a missing woman can expect to be interrogated intensively and extensively in connection with it. He says he was, and that he answered every question. LE says he cooperated. His statements are, in fact, evidence. You choose to disbelieve them, but you don't cite any evidence to support this.

You'll have to help me out a bit. That isn't the "largest study" to date, but more to the point, it was looking at age and ethnic differences in homicide. A quote from your cited article:

<<
Across all racial/ethnic groups of women, over half of female homicides for which circumstances were known were IPV-related, with >90% of these women being killed by their current or former intimate partner.>>

In other words, the study aimed to find out how many women were murdered in a context that included known DV.

So of the total homicides of women, slightly more than half of the homicides were in a situation where DV was known to have occurred - and in almost half the cases, some form of violence was recorded in legal documents in the month before the homicide. Which is interesting. Since Suzanne's family seems to believe (see Gene Moorman's obituary) that DV was involved here, it makes me curious whether LE also knew this.

At any rate, you cited the figure for "known DV before homicide," not total homicides.

That's a screen shot of the chart from your cited article. Of ALL homicides (including ones where there was no known domestic violence in advance of the homicide), the stat they provide is 79% of the total homicides (see Table 2).

This study was large, but not "the largest." It looks at 18 states, not the entire US. I do believe the FBI has papers that look at the total number for all 50 states (and I think the percentage is lower than 79% but either figure is astonishingly high from my point of view).

The 50% figure is women who were in the process of experiencing domestic violence or had experienced it within a month before their deaths.

However, 29% of women were killed by an intimate partner without any prior or ongoing domestic violence. Think KB. Or Robert Spangler's first wife.

imgur.com

Link to the chart, since first link didn't work. Over 50% of women killed by intimate partners had experienced recent DV; of women killed, 90% had experienced DV recently, 79% of all women entered into the study (due to having a DC with homicide listed) were killed by an IP.

 

[dmac55]

Colo. Mom Suzanne Morphew Vanished in May — and Community Wants to Keep Her on People's Minds.
Colo. Mom Suzanne Morphew Vanished in May — and Community Wants to Keep Her on People's Minds

 

[Dalgliesh]

RBBM
Yes indeed! HE says he answered every question during his 3-30 hours of interviews. But did he answer them truthfully? He also said he took a LDT which appears to be an outright lie. Hmmm..... Oh, and then there’s that mechanical thing he did to his CAT Bob. Hmmm..... You know, he couldn’t remember the right time he did that cause he was SO distraught . And, apparently according to AM, something didn’t line up with his truck GPS. Hmmm..... I could go on and on but there would be a whack of “Hmmm’s.....”

LE did say he was “cooperating” and they hoped he would “continue to do so.” I recall something similar with Patrick Frazee. What else can LE say? He’s cooperating but we know he’s lying through his teeth because we have evidence to prove it? Not going to happen. I just love how this team is going about this case. What they don’t say, says it all.

All IMHO.

Responding to the bolded sentence - I agree CCSO has been both diligent and disciplined. However, in part their silence results from the lessons learned from the Richard Jewell case and others in which LE leaked information in an effort to put pressure on a suspect, only to find that they had accused an innocent man. So, I don't make too much of it.

 

[Minordetails]

Here’s a snapshot of what Barry thinks...

 

[Warwick7]

You'll have to help me out a bit. That isn't the "largest study" to date, but more to the point, it was looking at age and ethnic differences in homicide. A quote from your cited article:

<<
Across all racial/ethnic groups of women, over half of female homicides for which circumstances were known were IPV-related, with >90% of these women being killed by their current or former intimate partner.>>

In other words, the study aimed to find out how many women were murdered in a context that included known DV.

So of the total homicides of women, slightly more than half of the homicides were in a situation where DV was known to have occurred - and in almost half the cases, some form of violence was recorded in legal documents in the month before the homicide. Which is interesting. Since Suzanne's family seems to believe (see Gene Moorman's obituary) that DV was involved here, it makes me curious whether LE also knew this.

At any rate, you cited the figure for "known DV before homicide," not total homicides.

That's a screen shot of the chart from your cited article. Of ALL homicides (including ones where there was no known domestic violence in advance of the homicide), the stat they provide is 79% of the total homicides (see Table 2).

This study was large, but not "the largest." It looks at 18 states, not the entire US. I do believe the FBI has papers that look at the total number for all 50 states (and I think the percentage is lower than 79% but either figure is astonishingly high from my point of view).

The 50% figure is women who were in the process of experiencing domestic violence or had experienced it within a month before their deaths.

However, 29% of women were killed by an intimate partner without any prior or ongoing domestic violence. Think KB. Or Robert Spangler's first wife.

imgur.com

Link to the chart, since first link didn't work. Over 50% of women killed by intimate partners had experienced recent DV; of women killed, 90% had experienced DV recently, 79% of all women entered into the study (due to having a DC with homicide listed) were killed by an IP.

Excellent post!!!!

 

[crhedBngr]

Responding to the bolded sentence - I agree CCSO has been both diligent and disciplined. However, in part their silence results from the lessons learned from the Richard Jewell case and others in which LE leaked information in an effort to put pressure on a suspect, only to find that they had accused an innocent man. So, I don't make too much of it.

How do you know CCSO's silence results from the lessons learned from the Richard Jewell case and other cases?

Source, please.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Indeed, why is BM so circumspect about being or heard on camera? After, of course, his 27 second plea posted on FB, not exactly the most mainstream of media choices available these days.

I wonder how BM celebrated Christmas?

I've had the impression from the beginning that he doesn't want to be recognized.
When this case first hit the media, John Schmitz back in Indiana recognized him right away, and had plenty to say about BM's violent tendencies. It did make me wonder if there are others who have similar experiences. I'm sure if there are, LE is well aware of it by now.

jmo

 

[Boxer]

I've had the impression from the beginning that he doesn't want to be recognized.
When this case first hit the media, John Schmitz back in Indiana recognized him right away, and had plenty to say about BM's violent tendencies. It did make me wonder if there are others who have similar experiences. I'm sure if there are, LE is well aware of it by now.

jmo

ITA.

 

[Spartygirl]

Folks,

please clue me in on how to get right to the latest post on this or any thread. Thank you.

I click "watch thread"
Then when I log in next time, I click "new posts", then click on whatever thread I want to read, and it takes me right to where I left off.

 

[nyvictoria]

We know BM had the neighbor call to report Suzanne missing. One explanation for BM not calling is that he was several hours away at a job site, while the neighbor was there in town. OK that’s plausible. So, did BM keep in touch with LE to find out what was going on as he was driving back to Salida? Was he anxious to know if they had started searching? Where they were searching? Did he ask if they had any leads? Did he offer any? Did he want to give LE every bit of info he could think of to help find his missing wife?

Early on, IIRC, Sheriff Spezze said that BM had cooperated and added, “We hope he continues to cooperate.” That statement really stuck with me. There should have been no need for that qualifier. IMO their first interaction, they picked up on indications from BM that he was going to be anything but fully cooperative.

 

[kittythehare]

new short article on People today on the efforts local people are making on her behalf.

n the meantime, Leewaye keeps doing what she can to keep Morphew in the forefront of locals' minds.

“We have a big picture here at the salon,” she says. “It’s 11' x 20' as soon as you walk in the door.

“I think one of the reasons we are doing so much is because Suzanne was such a sweet, amazing person,” she says. “Why is this happening to her? We need to keep an awareness out there.
Colo. Mom Suzanne Morphew Vanished in May — and Community Wants to Keep Her on People's Minds

 

[LietKynes]

We know BM had the neighbor call to report Suzanne missing. One explanation for BM not calling is that he was several hours away at a job site, while the neighbor was there in town. OK that’s plausible. So, did BM keep in touch with LE to find out what was going on as he was driving back to Salida? Was he anxious to know if they had started searching? Where they were searching? Did he ask if they had any leads? Did he offer any? Did he want to give LE every bit of info he could think of to help find his missing wife?

Early on, IIRC, Sheriff Spezze said that BM had cooperated and added, “We hope he continues to cooperate.” That statement really stuck with me. There should have been no need for that qualifier. IMO their first interaction, they picked up on indications from BM that he was going to be anything but fully cooperative.

bbm
Agreed.