Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #52

[fcavanaugh]

DBM. Messed up quote.

 

[fcavanaugh]

Okay, I’ll bite except I don’t think it’s anybody but BM who disappeared SM.
Suspect 1]. The Stalker. He loves SM wants her for himself. Somehow he knows BM will be out of town on Sunday and that the girls are not around. Employee? Friend?
He goes to the home and she lets him in. He overcomes her so he can bring her out to his vehicle and take her away. On his way out with a struggling woman he decides to grab the bike so he can throw it over the side of the hill. He brings her to his lair where she has remained captive for the last nine months. On his way, a little farther down the road, he throws out her bike helmet to leave a trail for LE.
Suspect 2] The Intruder. He is going to rob the place. He breaks in even though there are cars and trucks at the home. He surprises SM. He rapes and kills her. Then he decides to take away her dead body and her bike.
Suspect 3]. The Stranger Abductor. He’s driving around the backroads near a busy trailhead and popular lake. He decides this would be a good place to abduct someone. He has his mind set on a cute young coed, but decides on a 49 year old woman on a bike instead. He spots her riding along the road section that is closest to the highway and the parking lot, (better chance of getting caught). He uses his vehicle to knock her off her bike and manages to do it without causing any damage. Or he jumps out, grabs her off her bike, and while she is struggling with him, he manages to throw the bike over the side of the hill. He throws her in his vehicle and drives off to kill her somewhere else. Just like The Intruder, he decides to throw her helmet out the window up the road to give LE a good clue to follow.

So, @fcavanaugh, even though I am trying very hard to look away from BM as the main POI, I am having an extremely difficult time coming up with a good scenario that completely ignores BM’s actions, attitude, and behavior while trying to fit another suspect into the pieces of the case that we do know. Sorry!

Thanks for your response @OldCop. No apology necessary, I agree with your conclusion, BBM above. .

The theories you proposed are intriguing, for a moment there, felt like I was reading the preface to a really good whodunnit story lol. A few thoughts on the theories- the bike and bike helmet do not fit or serve any purpose in a stalker/friend/employee, or intruder scenario, none whatsoever IMO, and intruders take tremendous risk breaking into a home in broad daylight, cars in the driveway etc., and don’t take dead bodies with them.
As for the stranger abductor who targets low risk victim SM while out for a bike ride in a low crime area, hits her with vehicle knocking her off her bike causing no damage, or jumps out grabs her, and while struggling with her manages to throw her bike down the ravine, take off her helmet and decides to drop the helmet up the road leaving a clue for LE, all of this going on on a section of road that is closest to the highway and parking lot? Without leaving a trace of evidence they were there, nor evidence of a struggle whatsoever?
Nah, I don’t think so.

Thanks again OldCop, I value and appreciate your insight.

All of the above IMHOO

#FindSuzanne
#BringSuzanneHome
#JusticeForSuzanne

 

[PaulaDC]

I trust trained canines in their pursuit of cadaver odors. Hence, I'm having difficulty reconciling SMs life ending at the family home after watching Day 4 of AMs organized search when the married couple who handle two trained dogs arrived from Missouri.

The canines were given full access to the exterior of the family home.

The first dog lingered but did not alert at a bush. The second dog ignored the bush. The cadaver dogs did not hit on anything surrounding the entire home including doorways.

Dogs' work begins at 23:43

I wonder why someone with cadaver dogs doesn't just rent the house through air b&b? Not that it would hold up in court but may give some good leads. moo

 

[kittythehare]

I wonder why someone with cadaver dogs doesn't just rent the house through air b&b? Not that it would hold up in court but may give some good leads. moo

It's probably unlikely she is buried there.
BUT, he did try selling the house quickly and I was thinking about that earlier and realised it would be difficult to process grief while away from the family home containing all her memories.

 

[DeDee]

I wonder why someone with cadaver dogs doesn't just rent the house through air b&b? Not that it would hold up in court but may give some good leads. moo

If a good snow for Monarch Mountain was in the forecast, and the price was right, my family would consider it because the place we usually stay in Crested Butte, during Mardi Gras break, has jacked their prices too high since they must skip a day of rental between renters due to covid rules.

It'd also be an opp to chat with the locals. However, I do believe BM watches his trail cams studiously and that's an area of interest for me. I wonder if he also secreted cameras inside their home which is a creepy thought.

 

[swedeheart]

If a good snow for Monarch Mountain was in the forecast, and the price was right, my family would consider it because the place we usually stay in Crested Butte, during Mardi Gras break, has jacked their prices too high since they must skip a day of rental between renters due to covid rules.

It'd also be an opp to chat with the locals. However, I do believe BM watches his trail cams studiously and that's an area of interest for me. I wonder if he also secreted cameras inside their home which is a creepy thought.

Me, too @DeDee If I was stateside, and it wasn't Covid times, I'd be seriously considering renting the house for my whole family during the Christmas holidays next season. We had started travelling during Christmas, instead of doing gifts, and Colorado is next on our list. I'm really into a little adventure to Salida (regardless if the case is solved by then).

Agree with you about the trail cams, too. I'd bet those cams were put up bc he knew he was about to move out of the area (or already had moved), and he wanted to keep an eye on Youtubers and other searchers who got too close. On the one hand, he has every right to keep an eye on his property, but when you add the fact that his wife went missing, and he was the last to see her, it adds a creep factor to it.

Here's a little video about how beautiful it is there, for anyone interested.

Off topic: @DeDee I'm with you on getting the heck outta dodge during MG. It's not so "magical" when you live there and have to get to work during that time. Lol. Right now though, I'd do anything to be able to get to Nola!

@OldCop and @fcavanaugh great posts! I wish we had some Websleuths gold to share, bc you both would have gotten mine!

 

[Orgona]

To me the first stumbling block -after all this time- is still the hastily thrown together alibi which is a non-alibi.

BM ordered no materials to complete the work, didn’t left behind the necessary tools either to complete it.

Not only that, but around 4 or 5 am Sunday BM hastily ordered MG to assemble a crew to that non-work work. Last minute on a Mother’s Day Sunday early morning non the less, for a work he didn’t even had permission to do that day. He did some prep work -on a day it wasn’t permitted- for unknown hours, which MG guessed it would have taken a half an hour to do. But still he was gone since early morning from Salida until the evening.

I can’t see any other explanation for this than he needed an alibi and needed it suddenly.

The possibility of hiring a hit men to do away with SM I can discount for all the above.

Wouldn’t the NR1 reason to hire a hitmen be for someone to place the person at an other place at the same time when the murder occurred? Such a non-alibi thrown together at a last minute doesn’t seem like someone planned it in advance. It seems like panic football to me.

IMO

 

[K9Enzo]

I wonder why someone with cadaver dogs doesn't just rent the house through air b&b? Not that it would hold up in court but may give some good leads. moo

Teams that get actual call outs from LE, based on their proven reputations & dog reliability don’t operate like this, at all. Those that are not requested by LE, reach out to heart stricken families, inject themselves into an investigation and show up on a YouTube show, in sunglasses, for an interview do, as an example. IMO

 

[Deleted member 102539]

To me the first stumbling block -after all this time- is still the hastily thrown together alibi which is a non-alibi.

BM ordered no materials to complete the work, didn’t left behind the necessary tools either to complete it.

Not only that, but around 4 or 5 am Sunday BM hastily ordered MG to assemble a crew to that non-work work. Last minute on a Mother’s Day Sunday early morning non the less, for a work he didn’t even had permission to do that day. He did some prep work -on a day it wasn’t permitted- for unknown hours, which MG guessed it would have taken a half an hour to do. But still he was gone since early morning from Salida until the evening.

I can’t see any other explanation for this than he needed an alibi and needed it suddenly.

The possibility of hiring a hit men to do away with SM I can discount for all the above.

Wouldn’t the NR1 reason to hire a hitmen be for someone to place the person at an other place at the same time when the murder occurred? Such a non-alibi thrown together at a last minute doesn’t seem like someone planned it in advance. It seems like panic football to me.

IMO

If a hitman would tell us, how they are creating the "event" and would tell us, if they would give an information to the client and what information exactly!! For example: You (the client) have to care for an alibi for Sunday, 10th of May. It will happen around that time ....
I would plead for a hitman, but I'm thinking about, if he knew the hitman or not.

 

[OldCop]

If a good snow for Monarch Mountain was in the forecast, and the price was right, my family would consider it because the place we usually stay in Crested Butte, during Mardi Gras break, has jacked their prices too high since they must skip a day of rental between renters due to covid rules.

It'd also be an opp to chat with the locals. However, I do believe BM watches his trail cams studiously and that's an area of interest for me. I wonder if he also secreted cameras inside their home which is a creepy thought.

RBBM

 

[kittythehare]

If a good snow for Monarch Mountain was in the forecast, and the price was right, my family would consider it because the place we usually stay in Crested Butte, during Mardi Gras break, has jacked their prices too high since they must skip a day of rental between renters due to covid rules.

It'd also be an opp to chat with the locals. However, I do believe BM watches his trail cams studiously and that's an area of interest for me. I wonder if he also secreted cameras inside their home which is a creepy thought.

you would need to budget for several trail cameras to fix on his while you would be there I imagine!!
He would have to agree to switch his off. A promise he would be unlikely to keep.
I'd be very interested in finding out exactly where each and every one of his cameras is fixed, I'd imagine if she's there he would fix one on her location or very close...that's the one he would be worried about..

 

[OldCop]

If a hitman would tell us, how they are creating the "event" and would tell us, if they would give an information to the client and what information exactly!! For example: You (the client) have to care for an alibi for Sunday, 10th of May. It will happen around that time ....
I would plead for a hitman, but I'm thinking about, if he knew the hitman or not.

Maybe BM was reading ads in the local paper, (or the dark web), on Saturday afternoon when he went home to make his wife happy, and this one caught his eye:
Hitman Services. Last minute opening! Due to a client backing out of our contract, we have a last minute opening for a hit in the early morning hours of May 10th. You must be able to get out of town by 5:00 a.m. and have a solid alibi. If interested, give us a call at 1-800-Get-Gone.

 

[Orgona]

Maybe BM was reading ads in the local paper, (or the dark web), on Saturday afternoon when he went home to make his wife happy, and this one caught his eye:
Hitman Services. Last minute opening! Due to a client backing out of our contract, we have a last minute opening for a hit in the early morning hours of May 10th. You must be able to get out of town by 5:00 a.m. and have a solid alibi. If interested, give us a call at 1-800-Get-Gone.

Too funny.

 

[OldCop]

Me, too @DeDee If I was stateside, and it wasn't Covid times, I'd be seriously considering renting the house for my whole family during the Christmas holidays next season. We had started travelling during Christmas, instead of doing gifts, and Colorado is next on our list. I'm really into a little adventure to Salida (regardless if the case is solved by then).

Agree with you about the trail cams, too. I'd bet those cams were put up bc he knew he was about to move out of the area (or already had moved), and he wanted to keep an eye on Youtubers and other searchers who got too close. On the one hand, he has every right to keep an eye on his property, but when you add the fact that his wife went missing, and he was the last to see her, it adds a creep factor to it.

Here's a little video about how beautiful it is there, for anyone interested.

Off topic: @DeDee I'm with you on getting the heck outta dodge during MG. It's not so "magical" when you live there and have to get to work during that time. Lol. Right now though, I'd do anything to be able to get to Nola!

@OldCop and @fcavanaugh great posts! I wish we had some Websleuths gold to share, bc you both would have gotten mine!

Thanks for that video, @swedeheart. What a neat town. It really makes you want to visit the area.

 

[Megnut]

What if the sound at the jobsite in Salida was someone moving a trailer from a diesel truck to a work beater truck and loading a Bobcat or Bobcat attachment?

What if those same sounds occurred at about 3 am, only in reverse and unheard? If a certain diesel truck, with a data recorder, was parked in one location, like the Salida jobsite, from 11:30 pm to 3 am, the diesel owner probably wasn't anywhere near bed in Maysville, and may have successfully gone off grid for 3 1/2 hours. In a "borrowed" vehicle....

To return at 3, unload a Bobcat or attachment, swap a trailer back onto his own truck and drive past MG's and on to Broomfield, with his own or a borrowed Bobcat.

JMO but if LE asked, "Sir, the data from your truck shows you weren't at home but your truck was parked for nearly four hours in Salida. Can you explain that to us?

"I remember now. I had to do a mechanical thing..."

I'd sure love to know what vehicles and equipment were regularly left overnight in Salida. All too handy.

JMO

 

[Orgona]

If a hitman would tell us, how they are creating the "event" and would tell us, if they would give an information to the client and what information exactly!! For example: You (the client) have to care for an alibi for Sunday, 10th of May. It will happen around that time ....
I would plead for a hitman, but I'm thinking about, if he knew the hitman or not.

Do you mean if somebody else sent a hitman to hurt him that way? In that case BM wouldn’t need to throw a non-alibi together because his wife just would have disappeared or died and BM could just have called 911. No fake work needed.

Or you mean he had a middle man who forgot to tell him when this would happen? That would kill the reason for hiring a hitman, which would be to make sure one is placed elsewhere when the hit is executed.

 

[OldCop]

What if the sound at the jobsite in Salida was someone moving a trailer from a diesel truck to a work beater truck and loading a Bobcat or Bobcat attachment?

What if those same sounds occurred at about 3 am, only in reverse and unheard? If a certain diesel truck, with a data recorder, was parked in one location, like the Salida jobsite, from 11:30 pm to 3 am, the diesel owner probably wasn't anywhere near bed in Maysville, and may have successfully gone off grid for 3 1/2 hours. In a "borrowed" vehicle....

To return at 3, unload a Bobcat or attachment, swap a trailer back onto his own truck and drive past MG's and on to Broomfield, with his own or a borrowed Bobcat.

JMO but if LE asked, "Sir, the data from your truck shows you weren't at home but your truck was parked for nearly four hours in Salida. Can you explain that to us?

"I remember now. I had to do a mechanical thing..."

I'd sure love to know what vehicles and equipment were regularly left overnight in Salida. All too handy.

JMO

When BM drove back home to Puma Path from Broomfield on the 10th, he would have to go right through the middle of the searchers to reach his home unless he came in the back road from the RV Park/campground. LE were probably clustered in the area where the bike was found at that point. Most spouses in this situation would pull up right there, jump out, and go directly to LE. They would introduce themselves and ask for an update.
I have often wondered what vehicle BM arrived home in, did he have a trailer attached, and if so, was the Bobcat on it? If not, why not? A Bobcat would be needed at the Broomfield job and BM should have taken it there on Sunday.

 

[Megnut]

When BM drove back home to Puma Path from Broomfield on the 10th, he would have to go right through the middle of the searchers to reach his home unless he came in the back road from the RV Park/campground. LE were probably clustered in the area where the bike was found at that point. Most spouses in this situation would pull up right there, jump out, and go directly to LE. They would introduce themselves and ask for an update.
I have often wondered what vehicle BM arrived home in, did he have a trailer attached, and if so, was the Bobcat on it? If not, why not? A Bobcat would be needed at the Broomfield job and BM should have taken it there on Sunday.

If I had to guess, I'd say HIS Bobcat stayed in place at PP overnight, exactly where we see it in later photos, with tape attached. I think he off-loaded an empty trailer that evening, before LE locked PP down.

JMO

 

[TIGER0822]

"Entitled" is such a good word for him I think... he wanted her assets

I think #1. I can’t imagine her leaving her daughters. It’s not a hit man IMO either Bc there would of been traces of the hire .
Moo

I highly doubt it was a hit man, but if it was, the video tape offering a $100,000 reward may have been a coded message.

 

[susiQ]

It's probably unlikely she is buried there.
BUT, he did try selling the house quickly and I was thinking about that earlier and realised it would be difficult to process grief while away from the family home containing all her memories.

That’s the thing, isn’t it? Within months he puts the house up for sale. A place that should carry his last “loving”memories of the woman he called “the love of my life.” I’m guessing the memories of what happened there aren’t all that good and are exactly what BM is desperately trying to forget. He needs to put as much distance as possible between him and what happened to SM.

His every action and every word betray him. MOO