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<v Speaker 1>Well, it was a murder mystery that really gripped Colorado.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the murder of Suzanne Morpheu and it's where

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<v Speaker 1>we kick off True Crime Tuesday.

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<v Speaker 2>The story is true, sounds true, No, it sounds made up.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Barry and Shannon present True Crime.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is the case of a woman in Colorado

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<v Speaker 1>by the name of Suzanne Morphew who disappeared on Mother's Day.

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<v Speaker 1>It's always odd when that happens, right, and Lacy Peterson

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<v Speaker 1>disappear Christmas. Well, this woman disappears on Mother's Day twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 2>Also important to point out that that was deep, deep covid.

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<v Speaker 1>Right right to remember the whole lockdown was in effect,

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<v Speaker 1>certainly in April. I don't know how much Colorado played

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<v Speaker 1>by the rules, but yes, it is the time that

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about. This was a case that right away

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<v Speaker 1>drew the attention of true crime podcasters across the country.

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<v Speaker 3>Forty eight Hours picked up on it as well. It

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<v Speaker 3>was everywhere.

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<v Speaker 1>And now it's back in the news because a grand

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<v Speaker 1>jury has returned in an indictment charging Barry more Few

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<v Speaker 1>fifty seven years old with the first degree murder of

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<v Speaker 1>his wife, Suzanne. Now This is five years after the fact.

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<v Speaker 1>This was, in some people's opinions, a cold case, but

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<v Speaker 1>it seems like they were crossing t's and dotting eyes

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<v Speaker 1>against the husband this whole time. This is the second

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<v Speaker 1>time that Barry, the husband, has been charged in the

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<v Speaker 1>death of his wife.

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<v Speaker 3>They had to drop the charges.

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<v Speaker 1>In twenty twenty two without prejudice, meaning they could be refiled.

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<v Speaker 3>Essentially.

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<v Speaker 2>One of the other big keys is this time they

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<v Speaker 2>have her body, and they didn't have her body when

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<v Speaker 2>they first filed charges in twenty twenty two.

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<v Speaker 1>Now their community, this is in central Colorado. They say

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<v Speaker 1>it captivated the community of about twenty thousand people.

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<v Speaker 3>More than fourteen hundred tips.

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<v Speaker 1>More than seventy officers from the county Sheriff's office, the

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<v Speaker 1>Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and the FBI were involved. And

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<v Speaker 1>this a lot of work went into this one. You

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<v Speaker 1>can just see how extensive it was. I mean, just

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<v Speaker 1>the tips alone with a small town community like that,

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<v Speaker 1>had to.

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<v Speaker 3>Just be crazy to sift through. Where did it all start?

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<v Speaker 1>While Suzanne went missing, a neighbor reported her missing to

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<v Speaker 1>police at about five forty five on Mother's Day, May tenth,

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 2>The problem is that may have been a day or

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<v Speaker 2>two or more after she died, Barry told police. Barry,

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<v Speaker 2>the husband, told police that she was still asleep in

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<v Speaker 2>bed when he left their home near Salida, Colorado, at

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<v Speaker 2>about five in that morning five in that morning for

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<v Speaker 2>a work trip.

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<v Speaker 3>He checked into a hotel that night.

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<v Speaker 2>Investigator said, he spent very little time at the job

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<v Speaker 2>site during the day.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, according to the indictment. I actually read the indictment

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<v Speaker 1>over the weekend because a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>Of fun, A lot of fun time, you are, I know?

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<v Speaker 1>Anyway, according to the indictment, besides two brief visits to

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<v Speaker 1>the job site area, he wasn't there. Conversely, electronic evidence

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<v Speaker 1>cameras from the hotel he stayed in and just all

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<v Speaker 1>the cameras that now surround us in our everyday life,

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<v Speaker 1>showed him driving to various locations and discarding unknown items

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<v Speaker 1>in separate trash cans.

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<v Speaker 3>Ah, he's a heads up right.

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<v Speaker 1>I saw one of the still images from the hotel

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<v Speaker 1>hallway camera of him caring a bag of trash and

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<v Speaker 1>a pair of shoes, per the indictment. Barry Morphew deleted

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<v Speaker 1>a text chain on May sixth, so this was four

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<v Speaker 1>days before she was reported missing on that Mother's Day.

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<v Speaker 1>He deleted a May sixth text chain with the wife,

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<v Speaker 1>though a screenshot of one message from her remained, and

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<v Speaker 1>it read I'm done. I could care less what you're

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<v Speaker 1>up to and have been for years. We just need

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<v Speaker 1>to figure this out civilly, So right there in writing,

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<v Speaker 1>it seems like this marriage is over and has been

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<v Speaker 1>over for quite some time.

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<v Speaker 3>Again.

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<v Speaker 2>She's reported missing on May tenth. On May ninth was

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<v Speaker 2>the last known communication, via a text message. About two

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<v Speaker 2>in the afternoon on May ninth, she sent a text

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<v Speaker 2>message to a guy out of state, to a guy

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<v Speaker 2>that she may have been having an affair with. A

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<v Speaker 2>Short time after that, Barry Morphew gets home and his

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<v Speaker 2>cell phone was turned off for the next eight hours.

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<v Speaker 3>Which is that's just unusual.

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<v Speaker 2>Regardless of who you are and how old you are,

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<v Speaker 2>if you have a cell phone, it's very unusual for

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<v Speaker 2>you to turn it off nowadays.

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<v Speaker 1>The neighbor called Barry around five pm on Mother's Day

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<v Speaker 1>told him that his daughters were concerned because they couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>reach Suzanne on her cell phone all day. He told

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<v Speaker 1>the neighbor to check the house look for her bike

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<v Speaker 1>because he knew she was going on a bike ride. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>when they couldn't find her or the bike, he told

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<v Speaker 1>the neighbor to call the sheriff at that point. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>that's odd to me. The daughters, by the way, are

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<v Speaker 1>adult daughters. And if they couldn't find mom, why wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>they call dad?

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<v Speaker 3>Why would they tell the neighbor.

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<v Speaker 1>Furthermore, the daughters couldn't reach Mom on her cell phone

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<v Speaker 1>when they sent her Happy Mother's Day texts. Who texts

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<v Speaker 1>them mother, Happy Mother's Day. That's a phone call you

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<v Speaker 1>have to make.

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<v Speaker 3>Isn't it. Mom is not going to be that's not

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<v Speaker 3>gonna be sufficient.

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<v Speaker 2>No, she's not gonna be.

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<v Speaker 3>Mom's gonna be pissed off if you send that text.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, they found the officers showed up, the home was locked.

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<v Speaker 2>Suzanne is gone, the bike is gone. They located the

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<v Speaker 2>bike about a half a mile less than a mile,

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<v Speaker 2>i should say, from the house, and the bike and

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<v Speaker 2>the helmet found just off of a highway.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll tell you how they put the case together, why

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<v Speaker 1>they couldn't put this case together right away, and more

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<v Speaker 1>details about what they think happened to Suzanne.

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<v Speaker 2>We are in the midst of true crime Tuesday, we're

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<v Speaker 2>telling you the case of Suzanne Morphew, who disappeared on

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<v Speaker 2>Mother's Day twenty twenty and was never seen again. Her husband,

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<v Speaker 2>you can imagine, was a person of interest pretty soon

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<v Speaker 2>into the disappearance. The public later learned that they were

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<v Speaker 2>having difficulty in their many marriage.

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<v Speaker 3>She may have.

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<v Speaker 2>Been having an affair with an old high school classmate.

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<v Speaker 2>There was something that had come out about that.

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<v Speaker 1>Seems like the marriage had been over for quite some time,

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<v Speaker 1>based on what her text messages to him were.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes.

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<v Speaker 2>So, about a year after she disappears, the husband, Barry,

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<v Speaker 2>is arrested and charged with murder, tampering with physical evidence,

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<v Speaker 2>attempting to influence a public servant in connection with the death,

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<v Speaker 2>et cetera. He pleaded not guilty. Charges were dropped without prejudice,

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<v Speaker 2>which means that they could refile them if they wanted to.

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<v Speaker 2>But again, they hadn't found her body. They just had

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of circumstantial evidence that was curious at best

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<v Speaker 2>about this guy's behavior.

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<v Speaker 1>Her body wasn't found until three years after she was

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<v Speaker 1>reported missing. Or remains were found in and around a

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<v Speaker 1>shallow grave about an hour south of her home. The

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<v Speaker 1>majority of her bones were recovered and were significantly bleached.

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<v Speaker 1>They also recovered a cancer port and items of clothing,

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<v Speaker 1>including biking clothes she was known to wear, but they

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<v Speaker 1>said that it was unlikely her body decomposed at that

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<v Speaker 1>site and that the decomposition was inconsistent with her wearing

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<v Speaker 1>the bike clothing at the time, so she was dumped

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<v Speaker 1>there with the bike clothing, which is consistent with the story.

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<v Speaker 1>He told authorities that he knew she was going out

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<v Speaker 1>for a bike ride when she was missing. They also

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<v Speaker 1>found things in her body, a chemical mixture known as BAM.

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<v Speaker 1>What is that well, that is animal tranquilizer.

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<v Speaker 2>Buttorphenol as a parent, as a parne and medetta to medine.

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<v Speaker 1>Turns out the husband, Barry, used BAM all the time

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<v Speaker 1>to sedate and transport deer on his farm in Andiana

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<v Speaker 1>prior to moving to Colorado. He used BAM in Colorado

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<v Speaker 1>as recently as the month before she disappeared to tranquilize

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<v Speaker 1>a deer in the breezeway of his home. No other

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<v Speaker 1>private citizens or private businesses in any of the surrounding

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<v Speaker 1>counties had purchased BAM from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty.

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<v Speaker 3>Now when that came through, When whoever.

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<v Speaker 1>Did the deep dive of the data and went through

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<v Speaker 1>all of the receipts or lack thereof of Bam, what

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<v Speaker 1>a moment. He was the sole person who had access

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<v Speaker 1>to Bam in the area when she went missing and

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<v Speaker 1>her body turns turns up pumped full of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Which again, this doesn't a put the murder weapon in

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<v Speaker 2>his hands or be connect him directly to her disappearance.

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<v Speaker 2>But you can make a very very strong circumstantial case.

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<v Speaker 3>It's still evidence. It puts the murder weapon in his hands.

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<v Speaker 3>In my summation, Well.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, but how yet it puts the he's the

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<v Speaker 1>only person that had access to the weapon that killed

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<v Speaker 1>her in the state.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, okay, I'll go with that, your honor. I

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<v Speaker 2>retract my previous question. This guy has an attorney named

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<v Speaker 2>iris A Ten who defended him in the first trial,

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<v Speaker 2>and she says of Barry, not only is he a

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<v Speaker 2>loving father, but he was a loving husband. I've handled

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<v Speaker 2>thousands of cases that I've never seen prosecutors mishandle a

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<v Speaker 2>case so recklessly. The case was fumbled so terribly. Three

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<v Speaker 2>prosecutors were penalized after Barry's case was rightly dismissed. I

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<v Speaker 2>dedicated the second half of my career to ensure that

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<v Speaker 2>what happened to Barry doesn't happen to another In this

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<v Speaker 2>in person saying that.

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<v Speaker 1>Bothers me the most is there is a picture of

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<v Speaker 1>him and his adult daughters. They're adult daughters, young adults,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're leaving a court hearing. I'm assuming when the

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<v Speaker 1>charges were dismissed without prejudice the first time, and they

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<v Speaker 1>are done up, made up to a t, they are

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<v Speaker 1>glamed out, they are smiling with their father walking away

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<v Speaker 1>from the courthouse, And there is nothing in any of

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<v Speaker 1>the things I read that they came out and said,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I loved my mom. Whoever killed my mom?

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<v Speaker 1>It seems like they there was some sort of weird

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<v Speaker 1>relationship there with them just texting their mother on Mother's Day,

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<v Speaker 1>and it seems like the daughters were in.

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<v Speaker 3>Freaking cahoots on this one.

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<v Speaker 2>Isn't it.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>I thought that as well, not necessarily because the text

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<v Speaker 2>message on Mother's Day. But that's a good point. But

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<v Speaker 2>I would find it really hard to with all of

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<v Speaker 2>the circumstantial evidence that was originally brought up against this guy,

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<v Speaker 2>that you, as a daughter wouldn't have questions. Yeah, you

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<v Speaker 2>wouldn't have a whole series of questions for your own

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<v Speaker 2>father about that.

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<v Speaker 1>Also, then well, if it's not him, then who And

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<v Speaker 1>you don't sleep till you find out who killed your mom.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I think we're gonna hear more about that. Okay, excellent,

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<v Speaker 3>all right, we'll see you tomorrow.