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.

www.thedenverchannel.com

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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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[GrandmaBear]

As far as I am concerned the AA and the experts have been completely discredited and that's why the prosecution withdrew the whole shebang. They have to begin again completely.

No, they don't. They do not need to start their investigation of her disappearance from day one. They do not need to wipe out all the interviews and lies of Barry nor anything else. They don't need to run DNA again on the bike seat, etc., all that has already been done. NOTHING the judge did means this all no longer is truth and exists so I really don't get how you think that? The experts were for trial and that's ALL he did and there has been no trial. Also I am pretty sure new filing, new slate, not to mention it may not even be Chaffee County OR this judge.

I'm not up enough on the expert thing and how it would work now and I admit it but I am pretty sure this would be brand new, not to mention the experts removed aren't the only experts in the world even if not so. It was simply made where it crippled the prosecution before trial.

I don't have time but things have been pointed out before about this judge LONG before this ever happened. I am not a fan, he handled LITTLE correctly AND witnesses had to get restraining orders DUE to his failure to see to it Barry was properly monitored. AND a lot more.

Regardless there is NOTHING invalid about what is in the AA and it seems you are simply playing semantics? Yeah, the case isn't active so the AA isn't I guess is what you mean. So what? The same facts will reappear in a refiling because they are relevant.

I guess in your way of thinking any court filing defense made or any statements made in them are invalid too? As are any decisions on such by the judge? As is any testimony in any court hearings that went on? Sorry but that's ridiculous and it isn't true. You can bet money Iris will use any transcript of any detective etc. she questioned in the old case and us it in any new one when questioning him and so forth.

Or in your mind is only the entire everything of the prosecution erased but all else stays magically in place and valid? LMAO. Barry's lies disappear for instance? Now that IS a fantasy. And it isn't so.

Sorry--maybe I am missing you but you have said it over and over and keep at the same thing and so I think that is how you are thinking? And it just ain't so.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

I am in a one bedroom small apt. and can't find my lunch cooler ANYWHERE. IT is ALWAYS on teh counter in the kitchen!! The ice pack is in the freezer so I know it isn't in the car...!

I am extremely stressed, about a LOT of things, I NEED this day off and not a work week ahead of me. BADLY.

I need help, I need a fricking assistant or something. I CANNOT take care of all the things I need to or keep things up.

Did you check to see if Fluffy drowned it?

 

[Cousin Dupree]

So you are saying that his defense never even read the AA? That's what you are definitely saying since it's in it plain as day

It wasn't in the AA apparently. That's why the judge got rid of the prosecution experts. I have already posted this at post 1494. Here it is again.

Attorneys claim investigators omitted crucial evidence in the case, including DNA evidence from an alleged sex offender, and engaged in “extreme and outrageous conduct.” "

"In the notice of claim filed by Morphew’s attorneys, they allege DNA evidence found in the glovebox of Suzanne’s car matches “the same profile as a single or multiple individuals across the country involved in sexual assault cases,” attorneys wrote in the letter.
Morphew’s attorneys contend after a year of having obtained the DNA evidence, Chafee County Deputy DA Jeff Lindsey followed up on an individual in Phoenix who appears to match the DNA profile found on Suzanne’s glovebox. But the Arizona individual refused to cooperate and retained a lawyer, according to the documents.
The DNA evidence was not brought up during a preliminary hearing and omitted from the affidavit for Morphew’s arrest, according to the legal papers filed by Morphew’s attorneys.
Attorneys provided other examples of alleged mishandling of the case. They claim the affidavit omits other evidence, including an alleged incident involving a tranquilizer dart.
On the afternoon of May 9, investigators allege in the affidavit, as Suzanne was messaging with Jeff Libler, the man with whom she had been having a multi-year affair, Morphew got back to their home and is thought by investigators to have used a tranquilizer dart to incapacitate Suzanne around 2:44 p.m.
Morphew’s attorneys claim when investigators discovered the dart rifle, it was inoperable and had not been used in a long time. They allege this information, and the DNA evidence allegedly found on the glovebox, was purposely omitted from the arrest affidavit."

(The judge's ) replacement imposed heavy sanctions against prosecutors for their “negligent, bordering on reckless” pattern of not turning over evidence to Morphew’s defense team.
Notably, they did not tell the defense that in addition to finding Suzanne’s driver’s license and credit cards and cycling accessories in her Range Rover, investigators also found male DNA on the glove compartment that partially matched samples from three unsolved sexual assaults in different states across the country — evidence that Barry’s attorneys said proved his innocence.
Barry was also ruled out as a contributor of DNA on the glove compartment and on Suzanne’s bike.
As punishment for those failures, the judge barred 12 of the prosecution’s 14 expert witnesses — in DNA, vehicle data and cellphone data analysis — from testifying during the jury trial — essentially excluding the timeline information that the prosecution said in a court filing was “critical” to their case.
Prosecutors moved to dismiss the charges against Barry but insisted in their motion that they were “close to finding” Suzanne’s body, which they believed was located in a “remote and mountainous region” under 5 feet of snow.
It would be more than a year before her remains were found, 40 miles south of the Morphews’ home — a location that defense lawyers noted never came up in any of the data that investigators had collected on Barry.

@Guess Who You can't argue against that. Did you read it? The judge is NOT happy with how the prosecution is treating the defense. He decided to completely gut their case for their shenanigans.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Their entire case is as valid as it ever was and they can choose to refile at any time they like and use all parts of it if they like. Nothing invalidates the facts and so on.

Honestly anyone who hasn't read all to date is just going to be further behind when they do file again as they'll have all the stuff already known and in the original plus updates, body found and so on. I just now am listening to transcripts of some of the hearings from the first time. Anyone can watch them a Plunder, she reads every word. And is doing it in parts so none are TOO long.

They can't use 14 of their 16 witness'. They're screwed right now. How they'll overcome that will be hard.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Did you check to see if Fluffy drowned it?

I went a full work day without it and it sucked. I looked high and low two days in a row and I was starting to think he drug it under the bed or something and then I find it. I can't figure out for the life of me why or how I put it where I did, back of a closet door on the knob other than cat food was in the closet and Snit was yelling for food and maybe I had it in my hands? I would NEVER put it there but as much as I'd like to blame Fluffy just don't think he hung it there. Or did he... Or could he...

 

[Tresir]

No, they don't. They do not need to start their investigation of her disappearance from day one. They do not need to wipe out all the interviews and lies of Barry nor anything else. They don't need to run DNA again on the bike seat, etc., all that has already been done. NOTHING the judge did means this all no longer is truth and exists so I really don't get how you think that? The experts were for trial and that's ALL he did and there has been no trial. Also I am pretty sure new filing, new slate, not to mention it may not even be Chaffee County OR this judge.

I'm not up enough on the expert thing and how it would work now and I admit it but I am pretty sure this would be brand new, not to mention the experts removed aren't the only experts in the world even if not so. It was simply made where it crippled the prosecution before trial.

I don't have time but things have been pointed out before about this judge LONG before this ever happened. I am not a fan, he handled LITTLE correctly AND witnesses had to get restraining orders DUE to his failure to see to it Barry was properly monitored. AND a lot more.

Regardless there is NOTHING invalid about what is in the AA and it seems you are simply playing semantics? Yeah, the case isn't active so the AA isn't I guess is what you mean. So what? The same facts will reappear in a refiling because they are relevant.

I guess in your way of thinking any court filing defense made or any statements made in them are invalid too? As are any decisions on such by the judge? As is any testimony in any court hearings that went on? Sorry but that's ridiculous and it isn't true. You can bet money Iris will use any transcript of any detective etc. she questioned in the old case and us it in any new one when questioning him and so forth.

Or in your mind is only the entire everything of the prosecution erased but all else stays magically in place and valid? LMAO. Barry's lies disappear for instance? Now that IS a fantasy. And it isn't so.

Sorry--maybe I am missing you but you have said it over and over and keep at the same thing and so I think that is how you are thinking? And it just ain't so.

You were both saying the car DNA was in the AA so I spent hours reading it. The majority was about interviews with BM and everything he said in those interviews. Plus the discovery of the spy pen which recorded convos with a mystery guy. That took them six months to track down that was JL. There was nothing in it about the car DNA with a connection to sexual assaults.

There was also nothing in it about the non working tranquilizer gun.

I don't know what they are going to have to do. It probably won't even be the same jurisdiction investigating it now or the same court and judge. At least we can agree on that.

 

[Tresir]

Tell me then how the defense became aware of it if it was not provided?

It was revealed at the probable cause preliminary hearing session.

From my post 1554

But at the eleventh hour, there was one more twist revealed for the first time publicly at a preliminary hearing to determine if there was enough evidence for probable cause.

Prosecutors admitted at a hearing held in the summer of 2021 that their own forensics team had uncovered DNA evidence that threatened to destroy their case against Barry. State technicians had found DNA on the glove compartment of Suzanne's car that partially matched an unknown male connected to three unsolved sexual assault cases in three different cities.

Barry Morphew and Jeff Libler were excluded from that DNA sample which meant there was a chance Suzanne had fallen into the hands of a sexual predator. "This DNA discovery is so significant," Gruber said. "All of a sudden, the seemingly implausible becomes more possible."

 

[GrandmaBear]

@Guess Who You can't argue against that. Did you read it? The judge is NOT happy with how the prosecution is treating the defense. He decided to completely gut their case for their shenanigans.

They can't use 14 of their 16 witness'. They're screwed right now. How they'll overcome that will be hard.

Do you know the politics of this case and of Chaffee? Do you know what else this judge has done and "believed"? By the way have you ever heard of a courthouse trying to move/moving the D.A.'s office out of it and leave them without office space or ability to operate? No infighting goes on in this county...

DO YOU know transcripts have come from hearings that are MISSING things? Yeah go trust them and the court reporters. It is KNOWN things are missing as people who attended tweeted things said in court and far more than one did and heard it and such things are NOT in the transcripts.

I'd give you both a few things to watch but I know neither would do it or watch two minutes and then have some reason it is wrong or you claim something with again not knowing of it.

This is old news being repeated a kazillion times every day. DNA, Jeff Libler, what the nasty judge did and citing DEFENSE claims.

Personally I think I hope this case ends up in the 12th Judicial District. However, I trust little in Colorado but the further south from Denver the better imo... Let Lie-ris (rhymes with virus) travel too and Barry pay her to do so. Alamosa, the San Luis Valley... MOFFAT.

This is a whole new chapter. You go right ahead and regurgitate the old stuff. Yes naughty judges and naughty defense atttys did many things and no, no politics at all were going on NOR any connections exist... Sarcasm.

I've been through all this stuff and know what I think of it. To each their own but you go ahead and talk of it together, I'm done with it. Questions are fine, I have no time but would help anyone or help them get up to speed, but not when giving a response and something to read or watch is ignored or where to look.

And then there are the sources that are brought who bought into every bit of the lie. A majority of media. YET I've said which ones did NOT and attended all like Lauren Scharf.

I am still behind on this thread, read I think two more pages of it last night but every bit of it were the same repetitive posts. So I went and watched something new on SM. Did you know her BODY was found??!!!! Yet her vehicle with the smidgen of transfer DNA wasn't with it oh MY. I suppose the killer went from her home to her burial site and then went back to their home and BM never saw the person AND parked it in the garage and so on. Sounds kind of like Barry could fit into that actually. Leave home, go back home hmmm.

Do you or T know that the phones were TOGETHER a number of times when BM texted, etc. her? Huh?

Anyhow later.

I don't care and mind anyone's opinions but am not hashing out things they are looking at one type of source for and won't even read others and even filing documents.

 

[Tresir]

I just answered this, seems like a duplicate post. But whatever, okay, I'll add to my answer. NOTHING makes the facts in the AA invalid. Nothing makes evidence in it invalid. Nothing makes interviews and lies magically disappear. NOTHING. Etc., etc., etc., etc. It is the same case it always was only now with a body and likely more evidence. The prosecution maintains all of the facts they have always had, they don't go poof and magically disappear.

You are beating a dead horse on this one. They may redo the AA, they may add to it and they may just copy it and add to it. That's up to them.

They are both post #1520. You answered it twice. Have to run out for a few hours and will catch up later.

 

[Tresir]

Do you know the politics of this case and of Chaffee? Do you know what else this judge has done and "believed"? By the way have you ever heard of a courthouse trying to move/moving the D.A.'s office out of it and leave them without office space or ability to operate? No infighting goes on in this county...

DO YOU know transcripts have come from hearings that are MISSING things? Yeah go trust them and the court reporters. It is KNOWN things are missing as people who attended tweeted things said in court and far more than one did and heard it and such things are NOT in the transcripts.

I'd give you both a few things to watch but I know neither would do it or watch two minutes and then have some reason it is wrong or you claim something with again not knowing of it.

This is old news being repeated a kazillion times every day. DNA, Jeff Libler, what the nasty judge did and citing DEFENSE claims.

Personally I think I hope this case ends up in the 12th Judicial District. However, I trust little in Colorado but the further south from Denver the better imo... Let Lie-ris (rhymes with virus) travel too and Barry pay her to do so. Alamosa, the San Luis Valley... MOFFAT.

This is a whole new chapter. You go right ahead and regurgitate the old stuff. Yes naughty judges and naughty defense atttys did many things and no, no politics at all were going on NOR any connections exist... Sarcasm.

I've been through all this stuff and know what I think of it. To each their own but you go ahead and talk of it together, I'm done with it. Questions are fine, I have no time but would help anyone or help them get up to speed, but not when giving a response and something to read or watch is ignored or where to look.

And then there are the sources that are brought who bought into every bit of the lie. A majority of media. YET I've said which ones did NOT and attended all like Lauren Scharf.

I am still behind on this thread, read I think two more pages of it last night but every bit of it were the same repetitive posts. So I went and watched something new on SM. Did you know her BODY was found??!!!! Yet her vehicle with the smidgen of transfer DNA wasn't with it oh MY. I suppose the killer went from her home to her burial site and then went back to their home and BM never saw the person AND parked it in the garage and so on. Sounds kind of like Barry could fit into that actually. Leave home, go back home hmmm.

Do you or T know that the phones were TOGETHER a number of times when BM texted, etc. her? Huh?

Anyhow later.

I don't care and mind anyone's opinions but am not hashing out things they are looking at one type of source for and won't even read others and even filing documents.

I think you should stop berating those of us who are asking questions. You and Guess Who were wrong about the car DNA being in the AA. I had to read all 132 pages to find that out and I certainly don't have time to read it again. So if you can provide a link for what you are claiming that would be good. Eg links for the times you are claiming. I don't mind spending hours checking things you both say but we all have other stuff to do.

Their phones would be together for some of the time wouldn't they? It's not unusual to text each other when in the same property or location.

I was saying I didn't want to read an old AA but you both said it was still valid, but now you are having a go about regurgitating old stuff. You can't have it both ways.

 

[GrandmaBear]

You were both saying the car DNA was in the AA so I spent hours reading it. The majority was about interviews with BM and everything he said in those interviews. Plus the discovery of the spy pen which recorded convos with a mystery guy. That took them six months to track down that was JL. There was nothing in it about the car DNA with a connection to sexual assaults.

There was also nothing in it about the non working tranquilizer gun.

I don't know what they are going to have to do. It probably won't even be the same jurisdiction investigating it now or the same court and judge. At least we can agree on that.

I said throughout that I am not fresh on the AA. And can't say whether you are right or wrong. I KNOW and recall they had things they could not exclude one daughter from or so my hazy memory seems to recall and I am pretty sure the bike seat was put to rest. Other than that I would have to refresh. I said NO such thing.

I DID say prosec. did track JL down and it took time and they did look at him and as you say here, see now you know that. It wasn't easy to determine who it was. And they did not ignore that lead.

The nonworking tranq gun means nothing to me so I doubt I have even talked of it because it is not even on my radar for many reasons. First, that's assuming it is the only and the one. Second, that is a theory based on finding the cap, not sure if she was tranqd or not. but MOST of all, Barry admits to commonly tranquing animals and illegal activity, refresh me now that you have read it as I am fuzzy, wasn't he taking their horns, etc.? Yeah I really believe with a cap found and his statements that the nonworking gun was THE gun or the only. Not.

AT least you NOW have read the AA. And at least that can be discussed. And that is even old news and not up on all and current times and transcripts out recently and omissions in them, the find of her body and more.

I do see however you are talking different jurisdiction and judge so I am guessing you have also been on something more current than what you have been looking at/posting.

No other comments however about the AA or BM's lies? And it isn't all him, it is phone evidence and telematics and more.

I will also give and offer this, they have (and maybe have done) more to do on all of that in putting it all in an easier to follow, cohesive overlay and format because it shows a lot just can't be true and they need to make sure each detective etc. who has worked on one part or another all know it all, each and every part. There are people out there who have put every single thing together and charted and overlaid and ONLY the things known to be true OR said by Barry (not true) and that cell, GPS and other things show otherwise.

I am still behind in here and will remain so today, not sure if I am where I was at or on a refresh hit something out of the order I was following to catch up.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Also where did reading it leave you on Barry? And on Libler (who is nonissue imo)? You do adjust some thoughts I'd hope on reading other facts? My meter goes up and down as a case goes on if something gives me reason to as I find out more. I add, I subtract, etc. as to what is believable and what is not and why.

 

[GrandmaBear]

It was revealed at the probable cause preliminary hearing session.

From my post 1554

But at the eleventh hour, there was one more twist revealed for the first time publicly at a preliminary hearing to determine if there was enough evidence for probable cause.

Prosecutors admitted at a hearing held in the summer of 2021 that their own forensics team had uncovered DNA evidence that threatened to destroy their case against Barry. State technicians had found DNA on the glove compartment of Suzanne's car that partially matched an unknown male connected to three unsolved sexual assault cases in three different cities.

Barry Morphew and Jeff Libler were excluded from that DNA sample which meant there was a chance Suzanne had fallen into the hands of a sexual predator. "This DNA discovery is so significant," Gruber said. "All of a sudden, the seemingly implausible becomes more possible."

Why do I think I am out of order from where I was catching up here on this thread? Tired as heck of having no time. Grumble.

I have more to say on this and can only hope I get back to it.

One thing I will say is Barry was arrested in May and this was summer and it is being provided. Not like some YEAR later.

BUT I need time to talk to what is said here.

I'd also point out here we go again, the DNA was not a full match to the actual predator but is being talked of as if it is.

On an entirely different note, I forgot about Barry asking about immunity... Ran into it earlier. You know of that one right?

 

[Tresir]

I said throughout that I am not fresh on the AA. And can't say whether you are right or wrong. I KNOW and recall they had things they could not exclude one daughter from or so my hazy memory seems to recall and I am pretty sure the bike seat was put to rest. Other than that I would have to refresh. I said NO such thing.

I DID say prosec. did track JL down and it took time and they did look at him and as you say here, see now you know that. It wasn't easy to determine who it was. And they did not ignore that lead.

The nonworking tranq gun means nothing to me so I doubt I have even talked of it because it is not even on my radar for many reasons. First, that's assuming it is the only and the one. Second, that is a theory based on finding the cap, not sure if she was tranqd or not. but MOST of all, Barry admits to commonly tranquing animals and illegal activity, refresh me now that you have read it as I am fuzzy, wasn't he taking their horns, etc.? Yeah I really believe with a cap found and his statements that the nonworking gun was THE gun or the only. Not.

AT least you NOW have read the AA. And at least that can be discussed. And that is even old news and not up on all and current times and transcripts out recently and omissions in them, the find of her body and more.

I do see however you are talking different jurisdiction and judge so I am guessing you have also been on something more current than what you have been looking at/posting.

No other comments however about the AA or BM's lies? And it isn't all him, it is phone evidence and telematics and more.

I will also give and offer this, they have (and maybe have done) more to do on all of that in putting it all in an easier to follow, cohesive overlay and format because it shows a lot just can't be true and they need to make sure each detective etc. who has worked on one part or another all know it all, each and every part. There are people out there who have put every single thing together and charted and overlaid and ONLY the things known to be true OR said by Barry (not true) and that cell, GPS and other things show otherwise.

I am still behind in here and will remain so today, not sure if I am where I was at or on a refresh hit something out of the order I was following to catch up.

This AA is two and a half years old now and we now know there were omissions. Apparently JL was cleared with a Michigan store receipt for the day she died so presumanly that was Saturday. BM says she was in bed and snoring when he left Sunday morning so JL will need a Sunday Michigan store receipt as well. He did a few things that a guilty man would do. Eg. Deleted everything and got rid of his phone. Did not contact LE at all. They only knew he existed because they found the spy pen but that didn't identify him. It took them 6 months to track him down. He did then give them his DNA. There are no interviews in the AA like there are with BM. There are no interviews with anyone else in there except BM. I don't know if they did interviews and they just weren't needed as evidence or what.
Clearly BM was there number one suspect from day 1, but he didn't lawyer up or did he? He appeared to fully cooperate with them on everything. These are my impressions from what I have seen and read.

Now that Suzanne has been found, I am really not sure how this leaves the investigation. Eg. If they have nothing tying BM to Moffat, what will they do? All this time they have been hinting they knew where she was. Were they bluffing in the hope that BM would try and move her body or something?

It now all depends on the autopsy.

Ooh, one thing I learnt about her car by reading the AA and also looking at the police body cam, her vehicle had her purse, credit cards, money, and other stuff in it. Also, the two guys who met the police at the house already had the garage door up and open and the car is right there in view. So did those two (I think they were relatives of SM) have keys to the house and garage? This bodycam was in daylight and was before BM got home.

 

[GrandmaBear]

This AA is two and a half years old now and we now know there were omissions. Apparently JL was cleared with a Michigan store receipt for the day she died so presumanly that was Saturday. BM says she was in bed and snoring when he left Sunday morning so JL will need a Sunday Michigan store receipt as well. He did a few things that a guilty man would do. Eg. Deleted everything and got rid of his phone. Did not contact LE at all. They only knew he existed because they found the spy pen but that didn't identify him. It took them 6 months to track him down. He did then give them his DNA. There are no interviews in the AA like there are with BM. There are no interviews with anyone else in there except BM. I don't know if they did interviews and they just weren't needed as evidence or what.
Clearly BM was there number one suspect from day 1, but he didn't lawyer up or did he? He appeared to fully cooperate with them on everything. These are my impressions from what I have seen and read.

Now that Suzanne has been found, I am really not sure how this leaves the investigation. Eg. If they have nothing tying BM to Moffat, what will they do? All this time they have been hinting they knew where she was. Were they bluffing in the hope that BM would try and move her body or something?

It now all depends on the autopsy.

Ooh, one thing I learnt about her car by reading the AA and also looking at the police body cam, her vehicle had her purse, credit cards, money, and other stuff in it. Also, the two guys who met the police at the house already had the garage door up and open and the car is right there in view. So did those two (I think they were relatives of SM) have keys to the house and garage? This bodycam was in daylight and was before BM got home.

I don't think JL flew or drove from MI to CO Sunday or any day but okay. You can hang onto it but I think you know he isn't worth wasting more time on, he is simply a yellow bellied cheating husband who couldn't stand up or come forward for SM when this all happened as he was worried more about his life, his wife, his kids, what he would lose and his reputation, etc. IF and when they came knocking. Honestly it is a no brainer with him. I don't think much of him for taking the coward's way but that is what he did. I'd like to think he was thinking about the hurt to his children and family as I'm sure there were photos and like remarks about his wife or marriage and more and maybe even children but no, he was worried about how they would know what he'd done AND said, etc

You can hang onto him if you'd like but imo it is a waste of time and energy and just clouds things that are clear. Cops likely did cross the Ts and dot the Is and after all they found him but whatever. There are also some who believe she was killed Friday by Barry for real reasons and so JL would have to have that date covered as well. I'm sure he has/they do and I don't need to hear it to be fairly certain of that. I am done talking of JL as any suspect but you are more than welcome to continue of course. That is LONG off any radar of mine and I'm not going to keep going there as it is. And why would he need a MI store receipt if for instance 100 people saw him at church? And if for instance Friday he was seen at work and there is proof of that? They mention Saturday not just because it is when they think Suzanne was killed but likely because they don't have to mention Friday or Sunday again because they probably aren't in question, his presence is known most likely. Let's remember Sunday was Mother's Day for probably almost all mothers but SM whose children and hub gave a sh*t. JL was likely with his wife and his daughters and saw his own mother, etc. AND you mention nothing of them determining where his texts were coming from to Suzanne those days, did you miss that part? Who texted SM a Happy Mother's Day? His wife??? A CHILD of his covering for dad?? Sorry but you are so out there on this that either you just feel the need to stick with it or are a very clueless type lacking common sense and I KNOW better than that.

It has already been said the AA does not need to contain the entire case NOR does a preliminary hearing, etc., etc.

I don't disagree with all in your post but don't have time right now to talk about the rest. Story of my life. Re Barry moving body, garage door up, etc.

 

[Tresir]

I don't think JL flew or drove from MI to CO Sunday or any day but okay. You can hang onto it but I think you know he isn't worth wasting more time on, he is simply a yellow bellied cheating husband who couldn't stand up or come forward for SM when this all happened as he was worried more about his life, his wife, his kids, what he would lose and his reputation, etc. IF and when they came knocking. Honestly it is a no brainer with him. I don't think much of him for taking the coward's way but that is what he did. I'd like to think he was thinking about the hurt to his children and family as I'm sure there were photos and like remarks about his wife or marriage and more and maybe even children but no, he was worried about how they would know what he'd done AND said, etc

You can hang onto him if you'd like but imo it is a waste of time and energy and just clouds things that are clear. Cops likely did cross the Ts and dot the Is and after all they found him but whatever. There are also some who believe she was killed Friday by Barry for real reasons and so JL would have to have that date covered as well. I'm sure he has/they do and I don't need to hear it to be fairly certain of that. I am done talking of JL as any suspect but you are more than welcome to continue of course. That is LONG off any radar of mine and I'm not going to keep going there as it is. And why would he need a MI store receipt if for instance 100 people saw him at church? And if for instance Friday he was seen at work and there is proof of that? They mention Saturday not just because it is when they think Suzanne was killed but likely because they don't have to mention Friday or Sunday again because they probably aren't in question, his presence is known most likely. Let's remember Sunday was Mother's Day for probably almost all mothers but SM whose children and hub gave a sh*t. JL was likely with his wife and his daughters and saw his own mother, etc. AND you mention nothing of them determining where his texts were coming from to Suzanne those days, did you miss that part? Who texted SM a Happy Mother's Day? His wife??? A CHILD of his covering for dad?? Sorry but you are so out there on this that either you just feel the need to stick with it or are a very clueless type lacking common sense and I KNOW better than that.

It has already been said the AA does not need to contain the entire case NOR does a preliminary hearing, etc., etc.

I don't disagree with all in your post but don't have time right now to talk about the rest. Story of my life. Re Barry moving body, garage door up, etc.

I just think a store receipt is not really an alibi. His wife could have provided the receipt. I am just being devil's advocate and they did take his DNA and check the car for both his DNA and BM's so he must have been a suspect at one time for them to do that.

If nothing ties BM to Moffat what will LE do?

 

[Tresir]

Just came across this April 2023 article that is just a litany of errors regarding the DA Linda Stanley. I did not realise this case was just one of many problems with her office.

Colorado judge sanctions Fremont County District Attorney Linda Stanley for repeatedly violating court procedures

A recent spate of more than a dozen botched cases included allegations of assault, murder and child abuse.

www.cpr.org

"A Southern Colorado judge has thrown out first-degree murder charges in an active case in Fremont County to penalize a “pattern and practice” of discovery violations by 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley and her staff.

District Judge Kaitlin Turner cited 20 other mishandled cases from the past two years in her decision last week, arguing that Stanley’s staff had repeatedly failed to meet deadlines for providing the court with documents and evidence required by state and federal law.

The recent spate of botched cases, according to Turner, included allegations of assault, murder and child abuse, which have also resulted in sanctions against Stanley. In justifying her latest penalty, Turner concluded the DA had made similar violations of discovery rules in her case involving Joseph Tippet, who was arrested in Cañon City on Jan. 7 on suspicion of shooting his sleeping father in the back of the head.

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She reduced Tippet’s first-degree murder charge to a lesser, second-degree charge as punishment against the DA’s office.

“The DA’s pattern of neglect reveals an urgent and serious need for the DA to modify its discovery practices,” Turner wrote.

In one of the cases cited in Turner’s order, Stanley’s office failed to disclose important medical records in their possession during criminal proceedings in 2021. As a result, the judge sanctioned Stanley and blocked testimony about alleged injuries, leading the DA’s office to dismiss its case.

In another, Stanley withheld evidence that proved a defendant's innocence for over four months. The DA disclosed the evidence just six days before a trial was scheduled to begin, which resulted in a dismissal of the case.

Tippet’s case also suffered from mishandling, according to the order.

During initial court proceedings after Tippet’s arrest in January, the DA’s office missed an initial deadline for submitting discovery documents. Multiple deputy district attorneys juggled appearances for the case, sometimes arriving late and unprepared.

“You have to do your job,” the presiding judge told a deputy district attorney during a hearing on March 22, according to the order. “You simply have to do it and there is a pattern of this office not doing it.”

“Well, we’re doing the best we can,” the DDA said.
The DDA argued that Stanley’s office had provided taped confessions from Tippet “only 19 days late.”

Despite that, a public defender for Tippet concluded that it was impossible to provide a defense for Tippet given the lag in delivery of all discovery evidence for the case. Judge Turner agreed and ordered the sanctions. "

" “The onus for staffing and training issues should not be borne by the defendant,” Turner said. The counsel’s investigation was triggered by several complaints from defense attorneys, including representation for Barry Morphew, the husband of Suzanne Morphew, the 49-year-old Chaffee County resident who went missing in 2020.

Barry Morphew faced first-degree murder charges for her disappearance and was set to go to trial. Iris Eytan, Morphew’s defense attorney, filed a motion for sanctions ahead of the trial due to discovery violations, which was granted.

DA Stanley’s office dismissed the case shortly after in April 2022. A new trial has not been scheduled.

Eytan has also filed a new complaint against Stanley and other prosecutors involved in the Morphew case.

“Thirty percent of all exonerations in the country are a result of prosecutor misconduct,” Eytan said in an email. “It’s an epidemic, and prosecutors rarely get sanctioned or disciplined. I want them disciplined.” "

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Just came across this April 2023 article that is just a litany of errors regarding the DA Linda Stanley. I did not realise this case was just one of many problems with her office.

Colorado judge sanctions Fremont County District Attorney Linda Stanley for repeatedly violating court procedures

A recent spate of more than a dozen botched cases included allegations of assault, murder and child abuse.

www.cpr.org

"A Southern Colorado judge has thrown out first-degree murder charges in an active case in Fremont County to penalize a “pattern and practice” of discovery violations by 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley and her staff.
District Judge Kaitlin Turner cited 20 other mishandled cases from the past two years in her decision last week, arguing that Stanley’s staff had repeatedly failed to meet deadlines for providing the court with documents and evidence required by state and federal law.
The recent spate of botched cases, according to Turner, included allegations of assault, murder and child abuse, which have also resulted in sanctions against Stanley. In justifying her latest penalty, Turner concluded the DA had made similar violations of discovery rules in her case involving Joseph Tippet, who was [COLOR=var(--brand-color)]arrested in Cañon City on Jan. 7Judge reduces murder charge against Cañon City man because of discovery violations with District Attorney’s Office on suspicion of shooting his sleeping father in the back of the head. [/COLOR]

Courtesy of 11th Judicial District Office

Fremont District Attorney Linda Stanley​

She reduced Tippet’s first-degree murder charge to a lesser, second-degree charge as punishment against the DA’s office.
“The DA’s pattern of neglect reveals an urgent and serious need for the DA to modify its discovery practices,” Turner wrote.
In one of the cases cited in Turner’s order, Stanley’s office failed to disclose important medical records in their possession during criminal proceedings in 2021. As a result, the judge sanctioned Stanley and blocked testimony about alleged injuries, leading the DA’s office to dismiss its case.
In another, Stanley withheld evidence that proved a defendant's innocence for over four months. The DA disclosed the evidence just six days before a trial was scheduled to begin, which resulted in a dismissal of the case.
Tippet’s case also suffered from mishandling, according to the order.
During initial court proceedings after Tippet’s arrest in January, the DA’s office missed an initial deadline for submitting discovery documents. Multiple deputy district attorneys juggled appearances for the case, sometimes arriving late and unprepared.
“You have to do your job,” the presiding judge told a deputy district attorney during a hearing on March 22, according to the order. “You simply have to do it and there is a pattern of this office not doing it.”
“Well, we’re doing the best we can,” the DDA said.
The DDA argued that Stanley’s office had provided taped confessions from Tippet “only 19 days late.”
Despite that, a public defender for Tippet concluded that it was impossible to provide a defense for Tippet given the lag in delivery of all discovery evidence for the case. Judge Turner agreed and ordered the sanctions. "

" “The onus for staffing and training issues should not be borne by the defendant,” Turner said. The counsel’s investigation was triggered by several complaints from defense attorneys, including representation for Barry Morphew, the husband of [COLOR=var(--brand-color)]Suzanne Morphewhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/us/colorado-missing-woman-trnd/index.html, the 49-year-old Chaffee County resident who went missing in 2020. [/COLOR]
Barry Morphew faced first-degree murder charges for her disappearance and was set to go to trial. Iris Eytan, Morphew’s defense attorney, filed a motion for sanctions ahead of the trial due to discovery violations, which was granted.
DA Stanley’s office dismissed the case shortly after in April 2022. A new trial has not been scheduled.
Eytan has also filed a new complaint against Stanley and other prosecutors involved in the Morphew case.
“Thirty percent of all exonerations in the country are a result of prosecutor misconduct,” Eytan said in an email. “It’s an epidemic, and prosecutors rarely get sanctioned or disciplined. I want them disciplined.” "

Well, anyone want to stand up for this office and say that they provided all discovery on time?

 

[Tresir]

Well, anyone want to stand up for this office and say that they provided all discovery on time?

LOL it's a sh!tshow. I hope it does move to Saguache county.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I just think a store receipt is not really an alibi. His wife could have provided the receipt. I am just being devil's advocate and they did take his DNA and check the car for both his DNA and BM's so he must have been a suspect at one time for them to do that.

If nothing ties BM to Moffat what will LE do?

I don't know. If the hair in LISK doesn't match Rex, his wife or his stuffed orangutan what will they do on Barnes? I think the will still charge on her, that's what I think. That is all taking some time and so will this.

Barry probably wasn't in Deadwood Colorado either than they can tie him to and that is IF they can't, BIG IF, had she been found there, so what? He could have been anywhere in the windows of time he had, and with airplane mode, monkeying with GPS, etc. They STILL have the same case they ALWAYS had (which by the way we know far from all of) and now they have a body. The Gone Girl scenario he and Iris tried to play is over. She wasn't found in ALASKA but in their "back yard" a stone's throw from their residence.

Honestly, I think we are going to find Barry is not unfamiliar with Moffat any more than he would be with Broomfield, Denver, Gunnison, Salida and so on. His work and travel has not escaped you has it? His looking at and for properties? His hunting of CO for years? Even prior to moving there? This was well under an hour's radius from his home which is in nowhereland. I think without any placement that is damning. Not like she was found ten hours or a state at way. In fact it fits PERFECTLY in the line of travel and time allotments he had.