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

edited by staff to add media link

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.

www.crimewatchers.net

 

[GrandmaBear]

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.” "

I am neither going to criticize nor support Stanley. You have to know the politics here and the staff she inherited and more as to what was going on and is here. They talk of it screwing Barry but what of the other side of it screwing Suzanne...

Anyhow, if you want to delve into it go for it but be sure to find the other side of the sh*t. For me, I don't have time to go down that road again.

I will say she was stupid not to keep her licensure and sh*t up when she knew better than anyone,the powers that "be" against her yet you give them ammo. Smh. The staff though? Inherited...

 

[GrandmaBear]

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

Oh I"m okay with it going to Saguache. Just to get rid of the judge alone. I don't know that it is any better but it sure can't be worse.

 

[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.

Only thing I have to add in answer is that the wonderful telematics or any other evidence don't show him anywhere near Moffat AFAIK.

 

[Tresir]

Just posting this article about the missing woman Edna Quintana, whose search turned up Suzanne's remains. Wondering if while we wait, we could look into this a little? Disappeared under strange circumstances in May this year. Suzanne's sister has asked for some publicity on this so here's the link.

Strange movements of missing woman whose search led to Suzanne Morphew's body

FAMILY members of a missing woman whose case led to the discovery of the remains of missing mom Suzanne Morphew have revealed the suspicious circumstances leading up to her disappearance – as…

www.the-sun.com

 

[Tresir]

I am neither going to criticize nor support Stanley. You have to know the politics here and the staff she inherited and more as to what was going on and is here. They talk of it screwing Barry but what of the other side of it screwing Suzanne...

Anyhow, if you want to delve into it go for it but be sure to find the other side of the sh*t. For me, I don't have time to go down that road again.

I will say she was stupid not to keep her licensure and sh*t up when she knew better than anyone,the powers that "be" against her yet you give them ammo. Smh. The staff though? Inherited...

What other side of it? Her office messed up 20 cases in the last 2 years including Morphew. End of story.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Only thing I have to add in answer is that the wonderful telematics or any other evidence don't show him anywhere near Moffat AFAIK.

Well no sh*t it has always been figured the times he monkeyed with the phone and telematics and windows of time he had are when he took her in SOME direction. That isn't anything new. What does almost every dumb criminal do when they actually bury the body about their phone? Leave it home, put it in airplane mode, etc. What does every dumb criminal do when they need to dispose fhe body, take another vehicle without the telematics, try to turn off the telematics, etc. No offense but this is nothing new, only now we know which direction and such a nice short clear line from home, back home, then up to alibi direction.

We also don't have one SHRED of info as to how long she has been there or if this was her first burial spot or place of "rest".

If she was found in Alaska or even Arizona, you'd have a point but this is in Barry's "back yard" so to speak. It by FAR does not remove him, it does the opposite.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Just posting this article about the missing woman Edna Quintana, whose search turned up Suzanne's remains. Wondering if while we wait, we could look into this a little? Disappeared under strange circumstances in May this year. Suzanne's sister has asked for some publicity on this so here's the link.

Strange movements of missing woman whose search led to Suzanne Morphew's body

FAMILY members of a missing woman whose case led to the discovery of the remains of missing mom Suzanne Morphew have revealed the suspicious circumstances leading up to her disappearance – as…

www.the-sun.com

I will read here on what you all find or say. I don't have time to even keep up with the cases here that I do. I have heard some details when I watched shows about SM's find, etc. From the bit heard and even not from it, I'd look close to her own family and circle first. As always. And in her case, I see absolutely no reason not to. Last sighting other than by family, partner, kids, friends? Etc...

 

[GrandmaBear]

What other side of it? Her office messed up 20 cases in the last 2 years including Morphew. End of story.

I said I am not defending nor supporting but you should at least know about the situation that was going on. Do you know of how they tried to put the D.A.'s office basically without an office and out of the courthouse? Do you know the politics that go on in courthouses here and when someone well not the norm beats an incumbent? You do realize they inherit his staff and all else right? And that other than those who may have detested him OR would just vote party lines, everyone in that system including staff worked with HIM.

You weren't involved in this case during it and said you followed in the start then dropped plus I will guarantee you never watched sources that even touched on this stuff. And now you find an article.about what occurred because of a LOT of things.

Yes, she failed, screwed up but a lot of things played into some of it. Not defending yet again. BUT no it is not the end of story because here IS story and politics and you don't have the full story.

Maybe Edna should have her own thread by the way.

And Linda Stanley could as well so that it is all put out there.

We could also go into the sheriff and how HE has screwed up and done nothing on other missing cases and he's been there a LONG time.

For Linda start with Profiling Evil, even before that, and how the first two hosts (retired cops) were PUSHING for the election of Stanley during the SM case (THIS case) and getting the entire or most online community to do the same and giving REAL reason the incumbent DA had to GO.

They are by the way big time retired homicide detectives.

Anyhow I could sidetrack but it is not worth it, no time for it and it is a waste of my time as I've already known stuff you don't before now. It is irrelevant to me now other than how it shows the sh*t and politics that affect more than THIS case.

 

[Tresir]

Well no sh*t it has always been figured the times he monkeyed with the phone and telematics and windows of time he had are when he took her in SOME direction. That isn't anything new. What does almost every dumb criminal do when they actually bury the body about their phone? Leave it home, put it in airplane mode, etc. What does every dumb criminal do when they need to dispose fhe body, take another vehicle without the telematics, try to turn off the telematics, etc. No offense but this is nothing new, only now we know which direction and such a nice short clear line from home, back home, then up to alibi direction.

We also don't have one SHRED of info as to how long she has been there or if this was her first burial spot or place of "rest".

If she was found in Alaska or even Arizona, you'd have a point but this is in Barry's "back yard" so to speak. It by FAR does not remove him, it does the opposite.

There's no evidence he went South to Moffat that weekend. He went North to Denver area. His dumpster visits already showed that.

 

[Tresir]

I said I am not defending nor supporting but you should at least know about the situation that was going on. Do you know of how they tried to put the D.A.'s office basically without an office and out of the courthouse? Do you know the politics that go on in courthouses here and when someone well not the norm beats an incumbent? You do realize they inherit his staff and all else right? And that other than those who may have detested him OR would just vote party lines, everyone in that system including staff worked with HIM.

You weren't involved in this case during it and said you followed in the start then dropped plus I will guarantee you never watched sources that even touched on this stuff. And now you find an article.about what occurred because of a LOT of things.

Yes, she failed, screwed up but a lot of things played into some of it. Not defending yet again. BUT no it is not the end of story because here IS story and politics and you don't have the full story.

Maybe Edna should have her own thread by the way.

And Linda Stanley could as well so that it is all put out there.

We could also go into the sheriff and how HE has screwed up and done nothing on other missing cases and he's been there a LONG time.

For Linda start with Profiling Evil, even before that, and how the first two hosts (retired cops) were PUSHING for the election of Stanley during the SM case (THIS case) and getting the entire or most online community to do the same and giving REAL reason the incumbent DA had to GO.

They are by the way big time retired homicide detectives.

Anyhow I could sidetrack but it is not worth it, no time for it and it is a waste of my time as I've already known stuff you don't before now. It is irrelevant to me now other than how it shows the sh*t and politics that affect more than THIS case.

I wouldn't be interested in a thread for Stanley. But maybe one for Edna. I was trying to find out some more about the mystery boyfriend (supposedly last person to see her) but just drew a blank.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel files complaint against District Attorney Linda Stanley

The Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, housed within the Colorado Judicial Department, on Monday, filed a complaint with the Presiding Disciplinary Judge asking him to find that Linda Stanley, …

www.canoncitydailyrecord.com

By CARIE CANTERBURY | canterburyc@canoncitydailyrecord.com | Canon City Daily Record
PUBLISHED: October 31, 2023 at 12:48 p.m. | UPDATED: October 31, 2023 at 2:08 p.m.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday filed a complaint with the Presiding Disciplinary Judge asking him to find that Linda Stanley, the District Attorney for the 11th Judicial District, engaged in misconduct and that she be appropriately disciplined.

The complaint is based on multiple requests to the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel for investigation stemming from the Barry Morphew case in Chaffee County and the case involving the death of a baby in May in Fremont County.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Details at link. ~Summer

 

[Tresir]

Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel files complaint against District Attorney Linda Stanley

The Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, housed within the Colorado Judicial Department, on Monday, filed a complaint with the Presiding Disciplinary Judge asking him to find that Linda Stanley, …

www.canoncitydailyrecord.com

By CARIE CANTERBURY | canterburyc@canoncitydailyrecord.com | Canon City Daily Record
PUBLISHED: October 31, 2023 at 12:48 p.m. | UPDATED: October 31, 2023 at 2:08 p.m.

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday filed a complaint with the Presiding Disciplinary Judge asking him to find that Linda Stanley, the District Attorney for the 11th Judicial District, engaged in misconduct and that she be appropriately disciplined.

The complaint is based on multiple requests to the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel for investigation stemming from the Barry Morphew case in Chaffee County and the case involving the death of a baby in May in Fremont County.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Details at link. ~Summer

Well there you go. Thanks for the link Summer.

 

[Mel70]

Partial match means 1 out of the four DNA locations was matched. There is no such thing as a partial DNA match IMO. It is a match or it isn't.

This whole convo is beginning to remind me of the Abbott and Costello "Who's on first?" sketch.

Who’s on 2nd? I don’t know who’s on third. That is a classic. LMAOOOO.
I agree. This case drives me nuts. Well nutser.

 

[Mel70]

Excellent.

 

[Tresir]

Another article about Stanley. I think the subject should stay on this thread, as it was Morphew defence that initiated this, I believe.

Unfortunately I couldn't read all the previous link as it wanted sign up so I was able to access this one.

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/colorado-supreme-court-files-complaint-against-da-in-morphew-case

For some reason the above link now won't work for me so I am copying the link of the Google search, which has several articles available. Hope this link works.

DA Stanley news colorado - Google Search

 

[Tresir]

I said I am not defending nor supporting but you should at least know about the situation that was going on. Do you know of how they tried to put the D.A.'s office basically without an office and out of the courthouse? Do you know the politics that go on in courthouses here and when someone well not the norm beats an incumbent? You do realize they inherit his staff and all else right? And that other than those who may have detested him OR would just vote party lines, everyone in that system including staff worked with HIM.

You weren't involved in this case during it and said you followed in the start then dropped plus I will guarantee you never watched sources that even touched on this stuff. And now you find an article.about what occurred because of a LOT of things.

Yes, she failed, screwed up but a lot of things played into some of it. Not defending yet again. BUT no it is not the end of story because here IS story and politics and you don't have the full story.

Maybe Edna should have her own thread by the way.

And Linda Stanley could as well so that it is all put out there.

We could also go into the sheriff and how HE has screwed up and done nothing on other missing cases and he's been there a LONG time.

For Linda start with Profiling Evil, even before that, and how the first two hosts (retired cops) were PUSHING for the election of Stanley during the SM case (THIS case) and getting the entire or most online community to do the same and giving REAL reason the incumbent DA had to GO.

They are by the way big time retired homicide detectives.

Anyhow I could sidetrack but it is not worth it, no time for it and it is a waste of my time as I've already known stuff you don't before now. It is irrelevant to me now other than how it shows the sh*t and politics that affect more than THIS case.

Well it is not irrelevant now by the look of it. Part of the complaint is that she went on those programmes at all, from what I have just read.

What is irrelevant is whether I have been following the whole time or not.

 

[Tresir]

Some more info on the allegations against the DA.

MSN

I wonder when we will hear anything about the autopsy? It's been 6 weeks now.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Due to lack of time, I am just going to post a new one than try to find the right ones to reply to that I read yesterday.

For me the Stanley stuff is old news and even what they are continuing to try to do with it. I myself mentioned the shows she went on earlier in this thread and commented on he doing so. Again, not new.

Post it or don't, I don't care, I can scroll and roll. It won't be part of her case going forward and it certainly does not change the evidence and facts relating to the case which for me is what the thread is about.

In the Delphi case, a few remarks about a chair can also be scrolled and rolled past. I but responded to those who first got it out. I typically don't emoji in case threads ever unless frowny face or smile and that's just using the keyboard. Yes, it is a case thread but this I would hope isn't JT which is what I like about it. It was just a short interlude amongst a mess of a case psheesh.

Anyhow back to Stanley which I am tired of talking of and so will just let it go from hereon out, as I said I don't lean hard in any direction. I won't cry if someone comes down on her nor cry if someone supports her and compliments her, I simply know there is a lot more behind it all than is reported. And reasons for the efforts beyond just the ones they appear to be or they say they are. I've said it and I stand by it. The most I will do from hereon if I comment to it at all will be to say it isn't the full story so newcomers don't think it is. I have no skin in the game where Stanley is concerned but I do detest one sided hunting stories for lack of a better way of putting it.

i too wait for news on Suzanne but how long has it been on Maureen Brainerd-Barnes? Where was she even sent and what capabilities do "their" or those labs and pathologists have? SM I mean. It also depends on things found with her or near here and what kind of evidence it is and where it gets sent. We waited FOUR MONTHS for an autopsy result we were told could take up to SIX and that was a known offender case and in a fair world with fair MEs you wait in in line like everyone else for your turn. Coroner actually. A TOP NOTCH one. It might b different with a federal case I don't know or if say a city something happens in has their own in their big city that is "theirs" that can do such specialized work, I think some big city in TX has their own for instance forensic lab, big one, but not even sure that one does it all. Dallas maybe? Houston? I forget.

 

[Tresir]

Due to lack of time, I am just going to post a new one than try to find the right ones to reply to that I read yesterday.

For me the Stanley stuff is old news and even what they are continuing to try to do with it. I myself mentioned the shows she went on earlier in this thread and commented on he doing so. Again, not new.

Post it or don't, I don't care, I can scroll and roll. It won't be part of her case going forward and it certainly does not change the evidence and facts relating to the case which for me is what the thread is about.

In the Delphi case, a few remarks about a chair can also be scrolled and rolled past. I but responded to those who first got it out. I typically don't emoji in case threads ever unless frowny face or smile and that's just using the keyboard. Yes, it is a case thread but this I would hope isn't JT which is what I like about it. It was just a short interlude amongst a mess of a case psheesh.

Anyhow back to Stanley which I am tired of talking of and so will just let it go from hereon out, as I said I don't lean hard in any direction. I won't cry if someone comes down on her nor cry if someone supports her and compliments her, I simply know there is a lot more behind it all than is reported. And reasons for the efforts beyond just the ones they appear to be or they say they are. I've said it and I stand by it. The most I will do from hereon if I comment to it at all will be to say it isn't the full story so newcomers don't think it is. I have no skin in the game where Stanley is concerned but I do detest one sided hunting stories for lack of a better way of putting it.

i too wait for news on Suzanne but how long has it been on Maureen Brainerd-Barnes? Where was she even sent and what capabilities do "their" or those labs and pathologists have? SM I mean. It also depends on things found with her or near here and what kind of evidence it is and where it gets sent. We waited FOUR MONTHS for an autopsy result we were told could take up to SIX and that was a known offender case and in a fair world with fair MEs you wait in in line like everyone else for your turn. Coroner actually. A TOP NOTCH one. It might b different with a federal case I don't know or if say a city something happens in has their own in their big city that is "theirs" that can do such specialized work, I think some big city in TX has their own for instance forensic lab, big one, but not even sure that one does it all. Dallas maybe? Houston? I forget.

It is El Paso county doing the autopsy and they have over 100 dead bodies from a morgue that they are dealing with ATM. Hopefully it shouldn't be too much longer.

 

[Tresir]

Judge speaks out.

Former Morphew case judge wants prosecutor disbarred after retaliation attempt

The former judge in the Suzanne Morphew case is speaking out for the first time about what went on behind the scenes in the first-degree murder case of Barry Morphew.

gazette.com