Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #6

[Bridger]

I can’t help but think there’s something wrong with this story and there’s nothing to be found here.

Although I believe a person would have to be totally nuts to bury a body at a place associated with him, I know it’s happened in a Colombo episode, so never say never. But the searchers at the property are no longer looking for a body. They’re sifting for pieces of bone/sinew/whatever. Surely if something gruesome had been done to her body, those remains would have been sprinkled around the countryside hundreds of miles away, not mixed in with fill dirt where, just for instance, the concrete contractor could have seen or smelled something.

I’m very curious to see what evidence brought them here. It just makes no sense to me that a functioning member of society (as opposed to some sort of sociopathic lunatic) would have done it this way.

 

[Ontario Mom]

Well, I wouldn't want to live there speculating that there might be a body buried under a concrete slab. If they indeed find SM and remove her body and I am not there to see it, I probably could eventually put it out of my mind.

Pretty sure I'd think of her every time I looked at floor, or driveway, or whatever part of the slab that is they've opened up.
Nope, I don't think I'd ever be able to live there.

 

[happyday]

Does anyone know who gets stuck with the bill to fix the landscaping/foundation etc. that’s being destroyed? Looks expensive. Just curious!

 

[Rosiebones]

I wonder how this lady came to hire him, who referred him. I also wonder where he got the dirt to do the fill in, his own property? Maybe that is why they are looking so hard at it.

 

[bellesnwhistles]

Does anyone know who gets stuck with the bill to fix the landscaping/foundation etc. that’s being destroyed? Looks expensive. Just curious!

Insurance?

 

[FunkyMonkey]

I haven’t looked at all the pictures so forgive me if this is a stupid question but is it a finished house someone is living in or is it in the process of being built?

It looks to be new construction. IMO

 

[Rosiebones]

Insurance?

Yeah but, whose insurance?

 

[Inthedetails]

It seems odd to me BM was hired to do anything yet.
Late hubby used to work construction, and landscapers never did anything on site at this stage of the build.
It looks to me like the site was very recently leveled for the concrete foundation pour.
If memory serves, after the foundation is done framing lumber & tresses would be delivered next, drywall, siding, insulation, roofing, electricians, plumbers...
and a landscaper's part comes WAY after all of that.

Maybe they do things differently there.
Or maybe riverfront land is different?
I dunno, it just seems odd to me.

My guess is he was taking jobs other than just landscaping. Maybe he has the equipment to dig and pound so is hired to do that work as odd job, in addition to landscaping? IDK. Definitely is not a landscaping work....under concrete.

Doesn't seem like a job he himself would likely do though - seems like something you'd send an employee to do? I don't know, tbh.

jmo

 

[Hannah3105]

I can’t help but think there’s something wrong with this story and there’s nothing to be found here.

Although I believe a person would have to be totally nuts to bury a body at a place associated with him, I know it’s happened in a Colombo episode, so never say never. But the searchers at the property are no longer looking for a body. They’re sifting for pieces of bone/sinew/whatever. Surely if something gruesome had been done to her body, those remains would have been sprinkled around the countryside hundreds of miles away, not mixed in with fill dirt where, just for instance, the concrete contractor could have seen or smelled something.

I’m very curious to see what evidence brought them here. It just makes no sense to me that a functioning member of society (as opposed to some sort of sociopathic lunatic) would have done it this way.

But then someone capable of murder and concealment of a body probably wasn’t thinking straight in the first place. If they are stupid enough to believe that they can get away with murder, they’re stupid enough to be sloppy with their clean up and disposal. MOO

 

[Ontario Mom]

My opinion only--It looks like site prep work, like they had to bring the low end of the lot up to the level of the higher end to make room for that rather large structure. I don't know whether BM did the entire job, or if he just hauled in fill that the contractor put in place and compacted. It sounds to me like he just provide the material.

Okay that makes sense. I did locate the property on google street view, but it looks way different now.
خرائط ‪Google‬‏‏

 

[happyday]

Yeah but, whose insurance?

Yeah that’s why I was wondering. If the homeowners had to file a claim & pay a deductible, that sucks for them. But then who else would pay? I just don’t know.

 

[Tate123]

The property owner had only known BM for 3 weeks according to this.

The owner of the property told CBS4’s Rick Sallinger that he has known Barry Morphew for three weeks. The river front property was undergoing improvement. Concrete was laid over the dirt.
Finding Suzanne Morphew: Investigators Search Husband's Job Site Near Salida

When you look up the actual address of the property they are searching, google maps shows a house and another structure on it. From the current photos in the DM I don't see a house...just cement.

 

[oviedo]

I'll trust a voice or video call as proof of life....but not a text message or email.

jmo

ITA as far as we know we have no idea her last date seen
JMO

 

[Rosiebones]

Maybe. someone in his circle of friends, firefighters or church friend, is a general contractor and he did the job through that friend. Endless possibilities.

 

[rainbug]

Or perhaps it’s a home under construction i.e. completely unoccupied, with the owners visiting the site as and when required to meet with contractors etc? MOO

could potentially be a second home - *lots* of them in that area (I used to live just a bit west of there).

 

[Lilypad13]

IMO sifting implies to me they're not expecting to locate a full intact body. Sorry to be gruesome but that's what it looks like to me.

< no barnyard animal noises, I'm not cattle>

That’s what I’m thinking too...they are looking for small objects that will get caught in the sifters. That helicopter footage of the dig sites is incredible. It gives us a much better idea of what they have already dug up and how much more concrete there still is intact. But it looked like multiple grave-like holes were dug up on in the dirt embankment that were not under concrete. The areas are so spread out it makes me wonder if they are finding “evidence” and it is just all spread out? Perhaps testing has begun on something already found. The helicopter footage made me think of the aerial helicopter or drone footage of the M’s house...remember that small area that had yellow tape? Not really surrounding an area but it was in a sort of zig zag line through a walkway area by the driveway. Anyway just purely speculating but what if something was burned in that area? That’s so morbid I know but it just feels like they aren’t searching for an intact normal size body in those sifters. Unless maybe they are looking for a weapon? Anyway it’s good to be back. I’m trying to be careful what I say. What is MOO? My own opinion?? I keep thinking of a cow when I see that. Lol

 

[dixiegirl1035]

At first I also did not think they were digging under the navy tent and using it as an evidence/sorting/sifting station, but I realize now there is absolutely a cut out, so I think there has to be reason for that.

Also, its possible that the perp knows a lot about ground penetrating radar, x-ray equipment etc. so they possibly obscured any evidence to make it harder to locate? moo!

I watched a show in the past two weeks (Forensic Files II?) and the perp knew about ground penetrating radar when he buried the body, so he put the body in vertically vs. horizontally. And this was a lonnnnnnng time back.

 

[Inthedetails]

I can’t help but think there’s something wrong with this story and there’s nothing to be found here.

Although I believe a person would have to be totally nuts to bury a body at a place associated with him, I know it’s happened in a Colombo episode, so never say never. But the searchers at the property are no longer looking for a body. They’re sifting for pieces of bone/sinew/whatever. Surely if something gruesome had been done to her body, those remains would have been sprinkled around the countryside hundreds of miles away, not mixed in with fill dirt where, just for instance, the concrete contractor could have seen or smelled something.

I’m very curious to see what evidence brought them here. It just makes no sense to me that a functioning member of society (as opposed to some sort of sociopathic lunatic) would have done it this way.

The photos I saw of the people doing the sifting had FBI shirts. I doubt the FBI is going to put that effort into a search without being at least reasonably sure.

Of course, it's possible they won't find anything.

Welcome to WS.

jmo

 

[KrisCo16]

Yeah but, whose insurance?

I’m guessing the homeowner. Here’s a different story out of Colorado that might provide some insight: Police Owe Nothing To Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says

 

[Dre]

its not so far-fetched... this landscaper hid 8 men at multiple of his jobsites, just saying...
Bruce McArthur: Canadian landscaper who hid victims' body parts in plant pots admits murdering eight men