CO SUZANNE MORPHEW: Missing from Chaffee County, CO - 10 May 2020 - Age 49 *Found Deceased*

A Chaffee County woman is missing after a neighbor said she went out for a bike ride Sunday and never returned, sparking a search involving more than 100 emergency personnel.

The Chaffee County Communications Center received a report on Sunday at 5:46 p.m. regarding a missing woman in the area of County Road 225 and West Highway 50.


Anybody who has information on Morphew’s whereabouts is asked to call the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office at 719-539-2596 or Chaffee County Crime Stoppers at 719-539-2599.

Chaffee County woman missing since Sunday after neighbor said she went out for bike ride

A woman is missing after a neighbor said she went out for a bike ride Sunday and never returned, sparking a search involving more than 100 emergency personnel.

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SUZANNE MORPHEW is still #missing from Mayesville, CO. Her husband was arrested in 2021 for her murder!

A Chaffee County woman is still missing from Colorado after a neighbor said she went out for a bike ride Sunday and never returned in May of 2020.

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[Kimster]

I think it's really telling when her brother wants to search for her and her husband isn't doing a thing. I compare it to what's going on around here with Michael and how everybody is banding together to try to find him. I realize that people don't always get the same terrific group that we've had, but loved ones In all cases would still be trying to gather as many people as they can for searches.

 

[Whatsnext]

I think it's really telling when her brother wants to search for her and her husband isn't doing a thing. I compare it to what's going on around here with Michael and how everybody is banding together to try to find him. I realize that people don't always get the same terrific group that we've had, but loved ones In all cases would still be trying to gather as many people as they can for searches.

What I just don't understand is why her daughters are so quiet about this.

 

[GrandmaBear]

And they are from Indiana, making it even harder. Like it was before they found Gannon too being his mother Landon, and her family did not live there and had to travel to be there and search. And they all do. Yet there is Barry right there doing nothing nor is his family from what one can tell.

 

[GrandmaBear]

What I just don't understand is why her daughters are so quiet about this.

I think they were advised to be and know she is not a victim of abduction so no point in asking people to keep their eyes out or keep it in the news. Of course that is jmo. The alternative would be they don't care and I can't believe that so...? It is strange though isn't it for a case where LE has never ruled out abduction or anything at all?

They know where we don't the contacts with their mom and/or dad that week and how it came about, which daughter couldn't reach her, what was first said, how at least their beginning of finding out fits together... Who first got there...

Heartbreaking case but one that sure makes a person wonder what the facts are...

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

If what Suzanne's brother said is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, it probably applies to the girls as well:

“The investigators have asked us to stay reasonably quiet and we have,” he said.

And, like GrandmaBear said, I don't think LE believes there's a reason for them to plead to the public for information. They probably know in their hearts what happened too.

 

[Kimster]

If what Suzanne's brother said is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, it probably applies to the girls as well:

“The investigators have asked us to stay reasonably quiet and we have,” he said.

And, like GrandmaBear said, I don't think LE believes there's a reason for them to plead to the public for information. They probably know in their hearts what happened too.

That's what I've been thinking, too.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Suzanne Morphew’s husband left Denver hotel room reeking of chlorine, littered with insurance letters, co-worker claims

An exclusive report from the DailyMail.com on Wednesday says the husband of missing Colorado mom Suzanne Morphew spent the night before she vanished at a budget hotel in Denver – and left the room …

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Suzanne Morphew’s husband left Denver hotel room reeking of chlorine, littered with insurance letters, co-worker claims

An exclusive report from the DailyMail.com on Wednesday says the husband of missing Colorado mom Suzanne Morphew spent the night before she vanished at a budget hotel in Denver – and left the room reeking of chlorine, a co-worker claimed exclusively to DailyMail.com.


Jeff Puckett, 49, of Salida, Colorado, said he was ordered to Denver by Barry Morphew that morning but didn’t see him because he had already left ‘due to a family emergency’.

Speaking in an exclusive interview, Puckett told DailyMail.com: ‘I got there Sunday night and the room smelled like chlorine real bad.

‘It was his room and he’d taken a shower – his towels were all over the floor.’

A manager at the $92-a-night property confirmed to DailyMail.com that they do not use chlorine to clean guest rooms and have handed security footage from the weekend of May 9 to police.

Puckett also said he discovered a pile of mail in the room – including a letter about property insurance – and later turned it over to the FBI.

He said: ‘I found some mail in the hotel room. His mail was in there and I gave it to the FBI. I thought it was kind of odd to have it there.

‘Some of it was from an insurance company, like insuring your property, that kind of thing.’

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Exclusive: Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding the disappearance of wife, Suzanne

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. — Nearly four months have passed since anyone has seen missing Chaffee County woman, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew. In an update published Thursday, Sheriff John Spezze ac…

www.fox21news.com

Exclusive: Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding the disappearance of wife, Suzanne

For the first time, on record with FOX21 News, Barry Morphew has agreed to share his side of the story in a one hour phone call with Lauren Scharf after speaking with her in person on Wednesday.

“Listen,” Barry said during a Thursday morning phonecall, “Jeff Puckett was in prison for nine years.”

Still, Barry confirmed he had hired Puckett for a project in Broomfield on Mother’s Day Weekend this year. They needed to fix a wall, Puckett said.

“I said listen, I need to do this job, I will pay you good money to come and help me,” Barry said of Puckett. “I gave him a job and an opportunity.”

It was not a last minute project, Barry explained, the job had been in the works for a month.

“That has nothing to do with Suzanne missing,” he said.

Puckett agreed to the work and traveled to Broomfield, where Barry had paid for a room. Puckett told FOX21 he walked inside and was immediately struck by a strong smell of chlorine.

“I mean, I’m not going to beat around the bush, it did,” he said. “I mean it smelled real strong. I’m like, damn, that’s just what I thought.”

Barry confirmed to FOX21 News he had been in that room, and had also noticed a strong smell.

“I did not go to the pool and I did not get chlorine,” he said. “I’m sure that they washed the rooms with that for the covid. I don’t know, but I [smelled] it too when I was in there.”

A hotel manager said the pool isn’t even open, due to coronavirus restrictions. That manager also said the hotel uses peroxide multi-purpose cleaner in its rooms.

“I did nothing wrong in the hotel,” Barry said. “There’s cameras all over the hotel, I did nothing wrong.”



Barry said he left in a hurry, when he learned his wife was missing.

“I rushed home, left all my tools at the hotel called my workers and said, ‘I have a family emergency, you’re going to have to figure this out on your own,'” he said.



The hotel isn’t the only location where the presence of a strong smell has been mentioned.

Suzanne’s older brother, Andrew Moorman, brought up something he’d heard, following a search of the Morphew family home.

“From what I understood secondhand, they said there was an overwhelming smell of bleach in the home,” he said.

That information had apparently been relayed to him by initial investigators.

“I’ve heard the FBI lie and I know that they can legally do that in their investigations,” Barry said. “But it just pains me to know that they are doing this to me and my family.”

Moorman said CBI agents brought up other concerns as well.

“They did ask us, ‘why can’t we find any coolers at the house?’ And I said, ‘well I have no idea. I don’t know how many they had to begin with,” he said. “But I assume, as a hunter and a guy that maybe camps, he would have a few, and they couldn’t find a single one.”

 

[GrandmaBear]

Wow. Not sure what to think about all of this.

The cooler question/remark stands out to me. Not anything we typically see or hear in most cases... And who does not own coolers? Seriously.

I would like to know if the "guy" BM points out was in prison how many years was someone who typically worked for him? Or was it unusual and a first in a long time for him to call him to work...?

If Puckett walked into the room or was allowed, it was apparently authorized or planned to share the room... I don't see a hotel giving a key/key card to a room without it pre-arranged or authorized...

The chlorine smell? That's interesting as well... Let's say someone already killed her and was cleaning things or self or something up in the motel room...?

I should note I have not watched the video yet, just read the posts...

 

[Kimster]

Exclusive: Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding the disappearance of wife, Suzanne

CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. — Nearly four months have passed since anyone has seen missing Chaffee County woman, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew. In an update published Thursday, Sheriff John Spezze ac…

www.fox21news.com

Exclusive: Barry Morphew responds to explosive claims regarding the disappearance of wife, Suzanne

For the first time, on record with FOX21 News, Barry Morphew has agreed to share his side of the story in a one hour phone call with Lauren Scharf after speaking with her in person on Wednesday.

“Listen,” Barry said during a Thursday morning phonecall, “Jeff Puckett was in prison for nine years.”

Still, Barry confirmed he had hired Puckett for a project in Broomfield on Mother’s Day Weekend this year. They needed to fix a wall, Puckett said.

“I said listen, I need to do this job, I will pay you good money to come and help me,” Barry said of Puckett. “I gave him a job and an opportunity.”

It was not a last minute project, Barry explained, the job had been in the works for a month.

“That has nothing to do with Suzanne missing,” he said.

Puckett agreed to the work and traveled to Broomfield, where Barry had paid for a room. Puckett told FOX21 he walked inside and was immediately struck by a strong smell of chlorine.

“I mean, I’m not going to beat around the bush, it did,” he said. “I mean it smelled real strong. I’m like, damn, that’s just what I thought.”

Barry confirmed to FOX21 News he had been in that room, and had also noticed a strong smell.

“I did not go to the pool and I did not get chlorine,” he said. “I’m sure that they washed the rooms with that for the covid. I don’t know, but I [smelled] it too when I was in there.”

A hotel manager said the pool isn’t even open, due to coronavirus restrictions. That manager also said the hotel uses peroxide multi-purpose cleaner in its rooms.

“I did nothing wrong in the hotel,” Barry said. “There’s cameras all over the hotel, I did nothing wrong.”



Barry said he left in a hurry, when he learned his wife was missing.

“I rushed home, left all my tools at the hotel called my workers and said, ‘I have a family emergency, you’re going to have to figure this out on your own,'” he said.



The hotel isn’t the only location where the presence of a strong smell has been mentioned.

Suzanne’s older brother, Andrew Moorman, brought up something he’d heard, following a search of the Morphew family home.

“From what I understood secondhand, they said there was an overwhelming smell of bleach in the home,” he said.

That information had apparently been relayed to him by initial investigators.

“I’ve heard the FBI lie and I know that they can legally do that in their investigations,” Barry said. “But it just pains me to know that they are doing this to me and my family.”

Moorman said CBI agents brought up other concerns as well.

“They did ask us, ‘why can’t we find any coolers at the house?’ And I said, ‘well I have no idea. I don’t know how many they had to begin with,” he said. “But I assume, as a hunter and a guy that maybe camps, he would have a few, and they couldn’t find a single one.”

I would think that somebody that spent nine years in prison would be less apt to call law enforcement over anything.

 

[Kimster]

Wow. Not sure what to think about all of this.

The cooler question/remark stands out to me. Not anything we typically see or hear in most cases... And who does not own coolers? Seriously.

I would like to know if the "guy" BM points out was in prison how many years was someone who typically worked for him? Or was it unusual and a first in a long time for him to call him to work...?

If Puckett walked into the room or was allowed, it was apparently authorized or planned to share the room... I don't see a hotel giving a key/key card to a room without it pre-arranged or authorized...

The chlorine smell? That's interesting as well... Let's say someone already killed her and was cleaning things or self or something up in the motel room...?

I should note I have not watched the video yet, just read the posts...

My gym cleans down everything thoroughly multiple times through the day and I've never smelled chlorine.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I would think that somebody that spent nine years in prison would be less apt to call law enforcement over anything.

It almost sounds like he called this man "in" to help him... Does Barry not have a regular crew? We know they had other job sites...? It sends my mind a few places...

 

[GrandmaBear]

My gym cleans down everything thoroughly multiple times through the day and I've never smelled chlorine.

I agree. The smell of chlorine is vastly different than other cleaners, one can't mistake it even from some of which have chlorine in them.

The motel claims they did not use bleach and the pool was closed.

Suzanne's brother claims the home he heard also smelled strongly of chlorine.

So what does this mean if anything at all? People were cleaning surfaces with bleach big at that point in time if they could get it as any and all products were disappearing and were worried re Covid so it could all be nothing and it was being used to clean, and questioning had to determine if it was for that or something else.

Let's say it does relate to a crime, then we know it is generally for clean-up. Often of blood.

I would think if Suzanne went with to Denver (which would make more sense to me on Mother's Day, than leaving her home alone, a little trip for the two of them), we would know that and the motel would know it so she WAS NOT there, at least not alive. So why would the room smell of chlorine? Cleanup of items that needed to be cleaned or that held something... Is this where the cooler question comes from...?

Or I guess he could have been in someone's personal pool or hot tub and smelled of chlorine...

A work crew, a job, huge cooler brought into room would not be unusual imo. Believe me, I have known people who work out of town jobs... Packing a huge arse cooler would be standard. Up there by himself at first, no crew or so it sounds...

I don't know, maybe the chlorine and coolers mean nothing and they were just fishing with questions...

Any parties in question one would think though had to be caught on video at some point in travel at least, and vehicles as well...

I wonder how long this Denver "job" had been planned or if it was just spur of the moment and something mentioned to him once someone wanted done and then he suddenly calls this guy to help that needed money and suddenly decided to do it, etc... Assuming there was a real job that is...

I have a bit of a scenario in my head... However, I still feel I should not go too far since no one is under arrest and may not be guilty.

Just thoughts on this cool Monday...

 

[Guess Who]

My gym cleans down everything thoroughly multiple times through the day and I've never smelled chlorine.

They probably use a peroxide or alcohol based product.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Others may have already watched this but in the event it hasn't been watched or linked, I am doing so. Long but good. I am behind on podcasts, these guys and Linda have several I have not caught up with. A few tidbits I did not know either, I had seen in comments around but did not know where the info came from... Like her texting her gf the night before Mother's Day and a bit more, including how they put this together...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Another I had not seen. Shorter. Worth watching. This one is just a few weeks old if anyone has not seen it.

Tidbits in here too. So the brother was told the girls couldn't reach mom, called dad, dad tried mom and called as well, then he called neighbor to go check. Neighbor says both vehicles in garage and no one there. Barry sends her back to see if bike is there. She finds it isn't and this is where he figures she is on a bike ride. And there is more... This Denver job, etc... Her poor family and her poor dad. I hope those girls call grandpa or have by now.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Of note also in the above, paraphrasing, the brother was asked by LE why he and the family I believe did not think Barry could have done this (again I am paraphrasing) and the brother went on to LE about the reasons including Barry telling them he had passed a polygraph, stress test, etc.... LE told him this was NOT true and this is one of the things that started to change their opinion... It goes to show you LE keeping family informed can make some difference--or sharing some facts or they can be under the wrong impression...

 

[Kimster]

Of note also in the above, paraphrasing, the brother was asked by LE why he and the family I believe did not think Barry could have done this (again I am paraphrasing) and the brother went on to LE about the reasons including Barry telling them he had passed a polygraph, stress test, etc.... LE told him this was NOT true and this is one of the things that started to change their opinion... It goes to show you LE keeping family informed can make some difference--or sharing some facts or they can be under the wrong impression...

Yeah that is certainly not a good sign. I can imagine why a family can't believe it when someone's been married that long. You've been to all the family functions with them and all that sort of thing and you just can't imagine. I know I couldn't.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Yeah that is certainly not a good sign. I can imagine why a family can't believe it when someone's been married that long. You've been to all the family functions with them and all that sort of thing and you just can't imagine. I know I couldn't.

My guess is she kept a lot to herself to avoid worrying her family and probably especially her aging parents and that helped portray him/them as a couple without issues, or as much as she could anyhow... I am guilty of doing that in my life and then try to get anyone to believe you at first when you hit that point you just can't take it any longer, as Suzanne may have, where you are done covering for the spouse... It shows in her family being sure at first he did not have anything to do with this, although her brother was seeing things, like not understanding how Barry could not see that bike was obviously placed there... He did what Suzanne probably did a lot of and gave him the benefit of the doubt thinking he was in shock or more centered on abduction or the mountain lion thought, etc. (another thing he mentioned)...

This is what happens to good people, they give the benefit of the doubt and I bet Barry is even surprised her family is opening their eyes to him... AND starting to speak out, albeit it still in a careful manner but in no way are they showing they believe in him any longer...

This is all just my opinion but it looks so classic and BM seems to me to be a classic type I don't think I need to go into, although most of even that type don't end up with missing wives...

ETA: And she probably was the glue too that kept it together for the children's sake... I know so many women that stuck out bad marriages only until the children were finally grown and then the hub was like what??? You are leaving?? Why? When they put them through hec* through those years...

 

[Kimster]

My guess is she kept a lot to herself to avoid worrying her family and probably especially her aging parents and that helped portray him/them as a couple without issues, or as much as she could anyhow... I am guilty of doing that in my life and then try to get anyone to believe you at first when you hit that point you just can't take it any longer, as Suzanne may have, where you are done covering for the spouse... It shows in her family being sure at first he did not have anything to do with this, although her brother was seeing things, like not understanding how Barry could not see that bike was obviously placed there... He did what Suzanne probably did a lot of and gave him the benefit of the doubt thinking he was in shock or more centered on abduction or the mountain lion thought, etc. (another thing he mentioned)...

This is what happens to good people, they give the benefit of the doubt and I bet Barry is even surprised her family is opening their eyes to him... AND starting to speak out, albeit it still in a careful manner but in no way are they showing they believe in him any longer...

This is all just my opinion but it looks so classic and BM seems to me to be a classic type I don't think I need to go into, although most of even that type don't end up with missing wives...

ETA: And she probably was the glue too that kept it together for the children's sake... I know so many women that stuck out bad marriages only until the children were finally grown and then the hub was like what??? You are leaving?? Why? When they put them through hec* through those years...

Yes I agree with everything you've posted. In fact, she may be get have getting ready to leave and that's why she's gone now. The most dangerous time for a woman is when they're getting ready to leave.