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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, legal
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battle rages on in a
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court of law where we are finally hearing
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some a tiny bit of the evidence
0:22
against husband Barry Morphew
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in the disappearance of his gorgeous wife, Suzanne
0:27
Morphew, the mother of his two
0:29
daughters. We're learning all about
0:32
his visits to Ashley Madison.
0:34
You know, for married cheaters to go have
0:36
sex, celebrity jihad
0:40
sex sights. But
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where does the missing
0:45
mom fit into
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this scenario? And how
0:50
does a dark gun
0:53
factor in crime
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Stories? With Nancy Grace, I'm
1:10
learning more about Barry Moore few than
1:12
I ever wanted to know.
1:15
I mean, Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
1:17
Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation
1:19
and Serious one eleven. But
1:22
it's details like celebrity
1:24
jihad where allegedly
1:28
jihadests post pictures
1:30
of naked celebrities. I think I've got that
1:33
right. It could be completely bass ackwards,
1:36
a dark gun, a
1:38
fake job site amidst
1:41
Mother's Day celebration. I mean, how
1:45
are we going to prove a murder with
1:47
nobody? First
1:50
of all, you've got to hear what
1:52
is happening in the courtroom. Now, why
1:55
the state the prosecutors decided to have a preliminary
1:57
hearing. I don't know. That's
2:00
a legal conundrum. A preliminary
2:02
hearing is held, for instance,
2:04
when you need to have a case bound
2:07
over for trial. But
2:10
you could just go to the grand jury, a
2:13
secret grand jury, as they are all secret,
2:16
present one or two witnesses and
2:19
get a bill of indictment from murder. But
2:22
with a prelium, you put your witnesses
2:24
on parade and
2:26
the defense gets a dry
2:29
run on cross examination. It's
2:31
like playing poker and
2:34
just laying all your cards on the table. That's
2:37
a bad idea. That said,
2:40
what have we learned? Take a listen to
2:42
Mark Salinger nine
2:45
News Denver. We're hearing details
2:47
about the days, hours and minutes
2:49
leading up to May nine, twenty
2:52
twenty, which is the last day
2:54
that the FBI says that they knew
2:56
that Susanne Moorephew was still alive.
2:58
It's all focusing the Morphew home
3:01
just outside of Salida. Now. The
3:03
FBI investigator today testified
3:05
that Susanne Morphew was at home sunbathing
3:07
and sending pictures of herself to her boyfriend
3:10
while her husband, Barry, was out of the home.
3:12
That afternoon, when Barry came home,
3:14
Susanne stopped responding to his messages.
3:16
An investigator testified that he wrote in an affidavit
3:19
that he believed Barry was chasing Susanne
3:21
around the home when he returned. That's
3:23
based on cell phone GPS data. Defense
3:26
attorneys have said that that data may not be
3:28
accurate. The defense says
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the data may not be accurate.
3:33
Right, who am I going to believe Barry
3:36
Morphew and his paid hired
3:38
gun the defense lawyer or GPS
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data
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chasing her around the
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home with me
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an all star panel? Nicole Devoor
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hots Globe criminal defense attorney out of Houston,
3:54
former prosecutor and you can find
3:57
her at Houston Criminal Defense
3:59
dot com. Doctor Jory Krausen,
4:02
psychologist, faculty, Saint Leo
4:04
University, author of Operations.
4:08
Dan Corsentino joining US, former police
4:11
chief in Colorado, former sheriff
4:13
and serve at the US Homeland Security.
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You can find him at Dan Corsentino dot com.
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Death investigator, forensics expert Joe
4:21
Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville
4:23
State University. Author of Blood
4:25
Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Laurence
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Sharp joining US has been
4:30
in the courtroom. Coincidentally,
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family members tell Lauren Sharf from Fox
4:35
twenty one News, you ruined
4:38
our lives. I guess they think
4:40
you've got Suzanne Morphew and your
4:42
basement. Lauren Sharf, I don't think
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you're the one that ruined their lives. And Spencer
4:47
Courson, founder president of Course and Security Group
4:49
at Course in Security Group dot com and author
4:52
of The Safety Trap. First
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of all, to you, Lauren Sharff. Let's
4:57
talk about the theory that
4:59
Barry Morphu comes
5:01
home, he finds his wife Susanne
5:04
morph You now missing body, never found
5:06
subbathing in the backyard, and
5:09
suddenly his GPS shows
5:12
then running around the house. What
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GPS on? What on his cell
5:16
phone? Explain? Yeah,
5:19
So in the court they showed multiple
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maps of where supposedly
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Barry Morphu's phone pings,
5:26
and the defense was like, there's no way he
5:28
could have been, you know, running through
5:30
walls and going through and running
5:33
at forty five miles per hour. You
5:35
know. They said that his
5:37
phone pinged all around the home. And
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I think this was really interesting. The FBI
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agent that took the stand, agent Johnny
5:45
Grusing, he said that supposedly
5:47
his theory is that he was chasing
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sus Susann around the home while
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she was conscious. And I think the conscious
5:54
part is really important because they mentioned
5:57
a cap to a tranquilizer dart
6:00
that they found in the dryer. So
6:02
that's not something that happens in everyday
6:06
routine life you find part of a tranquilizer
6:08
gun in your washer and dryer. Guys,
6:11
take a listen to our friends at Fox twenty
6:13
one, I mean ninth Agent Grusing said
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Susanne sent a picture of her sunbathing
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to her lover, Jeff Libbler around two
6:19
pm. Her daughters were crying in
6:21
the courtroom when they saw the last known
6:23
photo of their mom alive. When
6:26
morph You arrived home, his phone was
6:28
turned on airplane mode at two
6:30
forty seven and wasn't turned back on until
6:32
after ten o'clock that night. On Mother's
6:35
Day, Susanne's phone paying for the last time
6:37
at four twenty three in the morning, when morph
6:39
You had told investigators that Susanne was
6:41
asleep when he left for Broomfield
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at five. Let's talk about the whole airplane
6:45
mode fact. To you,
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Dan Corcentina, Formerployees chief
6:50
in Colorado, you have to intentionally
6:55
turn your phone onto airplane
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mode, that was not done
7:00
by accident, Dan Corsentino. If
7:02
the phone was in airplane mode, they
7:05
would have to look at the operating system the WES
7:07
log to see if it was in airplane
7:09
mode first of all, to make that connection, and
7:12
this would disconnect your phone from the Sallier
7:14
terrier or have it turned
7:16
off. Phone's track when they're
7:18
turned on and off. And if
7:21
there is no log of him turning
7:23
his phone off and the cell power
7:25
pains where we're
7:28
no longer going at this point
7:30
in time the phone was going,
7:33
the cell service would be able to
7:35
determine if it was manually turned off
7:38
by him. In this case, they're
7:41
stating clearly that the
7:43
west log shows or the operating
7:45
system log shows that was manually
7:47
put in airplane mode. Explain Spencer
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Corson, do you agree or disagree?
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I agree with half
7:55
so yes. I think what he tried to
7:57
do was turn his cell phone into airplane
8:00
mode, thinking that it wouldn't be able to ping
8:02
his location. But if the home had
8:05
WiFi, it would still be tracking
8:07
the location of that phone. And
8:09
even if he didn't realize that, when they do
8:12
the forensics on the phone, the internal
8:14
GPS coordinates would would identify
8:17
his location. So even if it was
8:19
on airplane mode and he was chasing her around
8:21
the house, the digital
8:23
forensics would show up. So Nicole
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Deboard Hotschlube joining US Girl
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Defense turning in Houston. Former prosecutor
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Nicole, what is the state
8:33
going to argue that this
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proves turning the phone onto
8:38
airplane mode? They are definitely
8:40
going to be arguing that he was making an effort
8:42
to conceal his behavior in
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every way, both his location and
8:47
potentially who was around him
8:49
or near him on that phone, and in an
8:51
effort to conceal certainly it
8:54
looked like an effort to conceal guilt. Prime
9:08
Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
9:13
we were talking about multiple
9:15
bomb shales that have blown up
9:17
in a court of law during this preliminary
9:19
hearing. All in the search as
9:22
to what happened to missing
9:25
mom Suzanne Morphy, Well, I can tell you right
9:27
now she's dead. Take a listen
9:29
to our friend Jamie Leary
9:32
at CBS four Denver. Barry arrived
9:34
home shortly after the photo was taken. An
9:36
investigators say selfhone coordinates show him moving
9:39
around sporadically outside the home.
9:41
Well Barry's defense has tried to poke holes
9:43
in the accuracy of this. Investigators
9:46
this believed that this came from Barry
9:48
chasing Susanne around the home while
9:50
she was conscious, just before killing her. The
9:53
defense team argues that this is pure speculation
9:56
and confirmed neighbors have heard no arguments
9:58
around that time that tranquilizer
10:01
darkcap was discovered in Morphu's driver
10:03
late dryer. Later May
10:06
tenth, the day Suzanne was reported missing,
10:08
Mary Morphew went to work in Broomfield and made
10:11
five garbage dumps before noon, telling
10:13
investigators the only thing he can remember
10:15
throwing away during those five garbage jumps
10:18
is tranquilizer gun materials.
10:20
Wait a minute, hold on to Laurence
10:23
Sharff, So he admits to
10:25
police that he remembers
10:27
throwing away tranquilizer materials.
10:30
Yeah, that was it. Out of the five trash
10:32
runs that he made, that
10:34
was the only thing that he could remember that
10:38
he threw away. And you
10:40
know, he also when he got
10:42
back to the morphe
10:44
home that Mother's Day, he
10:47
also told investigators that his truck
10:49
was messy. So investigators
10:52
obviously want to know exactly what he threw
10:54
away, and they haven't revealed
10:56
if they found that out or not yet in court,
10:59
neighbors hear no arguments
11:01
around this time. Tranquilizer
11:03
dart half discovered in
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Morphew's dryer. Later,
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I'm getting so many analogies in my mind.
11:12
I don't know if you remember, jos
11:14
Goot Morgan the Jodi Arias
11:17
case, where the
11:20
the digital camera that
11:22
Jody Arias had when she murdered
11:25
Travis Alexander was found
11:28
in the dryer. Oh yeah,
11:31
watch her and it actually had
11:33
her leg and foot an
11:36
inadvertent photo by
11:38
the dead body. And
11:40
so now this guy leaves a
11:43
tranquilizer dart half
11:46
in his dryer. How can
11:48
you explain that way and explain
11:50
what they're talking about, jo Scott Morgan a tranquilizer
11:54
dart half. Yeah,
11:57
that's I'm kind of scratching my head over it
11:59
is. Well, Nancy, you
12:02
know this is bare country where they
12:04
live, and there are bare
12:06
tranquilizers. Well
12:09
no, but I think that it's certainly
12:12
something that if he had possession of, maybe
12:15
he forgot it, maybe put it in there in
12:18
order to remove evidence, like Jody
12:20
did. You brought her up and thinking, you
12:22
know, she thought that it was going to degrade the images
12:26
that were on there. But back
12:28
to the tranquilizer itself. If this was
12:30
actually used on Suzanne,
12:33
the type that would be used, they used to use a
12:36
drug called ketamine. There's
12:38
a newer drug now. The acronym is
12:40
BAM. The word is very
12:42
The words are very, very long. I won't go into it, but
12:44
just suffice it to say it's almost like
12:46
a hypnotic, a pre anesthesia
12:50
kind of medication that they used to put
12:52
down animals safely in
12:55
order to convey them, to move them around, like,
12:58
for instance, if they're going to do surge on
13:00
an animal, like a big animal like a bear,
13:03
or you might use in a zoo to tranquilize
13:05
a tiger, that sort of thing,
13:07
to take the tiger in to do
13:10
surgery, pull teeth, that sort of thing, so
13:12
it would immobilize her. I think the key
13:14
here is would she have had
13:17
an awareness of what's going on?
13:20
And how did he get his hands on this?
13:22
If in fact that's what we're talking about,
13:25
and that's going to be key. Unfortunately,
13:27
since we don't have her body, we
13:30
can't test for toxicology anyway. Nancy,
13:33
I know that Barrymoreph you had
13:35
like a deer farm back in Indiana,
13:37
and I was told that he used a
13:39
tranquilizer to safely,
13:42
you know, either sell the deer
13:45
or move the deer around. Well,
13:47
well, what's it doing
13:49
popping up in his dryer? Is that spencer?
13:51
It was, ma'am. An interesting
13:53
thing if he's used to using tranquilizer
13:56
darts on deer, where as soon as their head
13:58
their survival instinct is to just drop
14:00
down to the ground, and he was expecting
14:03
that same If
14:05
he had that same expectation for shooting
14:08
his wife. It takes about three to four
14:10
minutes for that drug to take
14:12
effect. So she had been hit
14:14
and then tried to get away from him and was
14:17
running around the house. That may
14:19
be exactly how that scenario
14:22
played out. To doctor Jerry Crawlston joining
14:24
US psychologist Professor Saint
14:26
Leo University doctor
14:28
Jory he had
14:31
said he shot I think he said eighty
14:33
five squirrels in his backyard
14:36
the day before. But that
14:40
doesn't explain the dart gun
14:42
because a tranquilizer dart
14:45
is for a large mammal,
14:48
not for a squirrel, much less eighty
14:50
five. Wasn't it eighty five jackies?
14:53
Again? And it just reminds me Doctor
14:55
Jory of the cult Mom
14:57
Laurie Valle case where her lead
15:00
her husband says that
15:02
he shot I think he
15:04
said a possumur raccoon and
15:07
buried it and the family
15:09
pet cemetery, when actually what was buried
15:11
there all that day were
15:13
two children, Jj and Tyling. So
15:17
remember that case too. So you know
15:19
the fact that you might use a dark gun
15:21
tranquilizer on your wife. No,
15:23
you know, really strikes me on this is
15:26
he appears to be very organized
15:28
on certain things. And we had
15:30
talked about this previously about him about
15:32
the power and control, but you know that
15:35
organizational flow
15:37
that he demonstrates can become highly
15:39
disorganized when that power and control,
15:42
that rage kicks in. And just
15:44
like you know we talked about it, if he shot her with that,
15:46
Now she's running around, you know,
15:49
three or four minutes to get that into
15:51
her system before she goes down.
15:54
You know that there goes at Billy
15:57
hunting her dawn like an animal like
15:59
animal. I could just imagine
16:01
Susanne Morphy running through the home
16:04
and that was a big mansion they bought
16:06
with her money from her
16:08
family, I think Lauren Sharf, and
16:11
she's running and then slowly
16:14
drugged goes slower
16:16
and slower and slower. But there's more. Take a
16:18
listen to Russell Haythorne den Verse seven. Telematics
16:21
data from Barry's Ford truck also shows
16:23
him opening and closing doors at odd hours
16:26
the day before Suzanne disappeared,
16:28
and moving around his mountain property in
16:30
the truck. Rusing also says they found
16:32
a tranquilizer dart cap in the
16:35
dryer of the Morphuse home. The agent
16:37
wrote in the arrest affidavit that Barry
16:39
was most likely chasing Susanne around
16:41
while she was conscious, and that's why
16:43
Barry's phone pinged in different areas around
16:46
the house that evidence doesn't like. But
16:48
the defense poking holes in that theory
16:50
today in court, showing evidence that his movement
16:53
would have been impossible because the phone
16:55
would have had to move through walls and at
16:57
speeds up to forty two miles per hour
17:00
to get from one place to the next if the
17:02
cell records are correct. Mm.
17:05
I don't think the jury's going to buy that. You
17:07
know, I didn't know this, Lauren Sharff. Lauren
17:10
Sharff in the courtroom from the Get Guy joining
17:12
us in Flux twenty one, so
17:15
they could tell through what
17:17
manner that he was
17:20
opening and closing the doors to his
17:22
vehicle. Yeah, they had you
17:24
know, the GPS data from
17:26
his truck and that's what and
17:29
they explained it as far as if
17:31
you know, his break lights swent on, or
17:33
his door opening and closing,
17:35
as far as what movement he did
17:37
with the truck as well as like moving
17:40
it backwards and moving it forward, and
17:42
they gave it specific
17:44
time as when this happened.
17:47
You know, I didn't know that Spencer Courson, founder
17:50
president of Course and Security Group, that
17:53
when you open and close your doors
17:56
that's tracked. I mean I knew
17:59
that, you know, what is it called
18:01
um on Star systems
18:06
can tell where you are. It's already built
18:08
into your vehicle in newer cars, but
18:10
I didn't know that they could tell. Not that I
18:13
care whether you open or close your
18:15
doors or back up. It tracks
18:17
to that degree. Yeah, the diagnostics
18:20
on today's more modern vehicles
18:22
have a full battery of
18:26
insights and intel that sort of helped
18:29
the manufacturer to you
18:31
know, if so if you say, hey, you know the door off
18:33
the hinges, you know, and they can sell
18:35
well, no, you open this door one hundred
18:37
thousand times. That's why it fell off the hinges, so
18:39
it would kind of avoids the warranty um.
18:42
And it's just that's how your your car can
18:44
tell you, hey, that your back doors is not
18:46
closed all the way, or you know there's someone
18:48
in your If you put like a heavy you know,
18:50
back of groceries on the passenger seat, it'll tell
18:52
you that that chair needs a seatbelt. There's
18:55
a lot of things that are intended for
18:57
for our safety and our health, wealth and well
19:00
being. I can also be used
19:02
in an investigation such as this. Well,
19:05
it's almost like a black box in an airplane.
19:07
I mean very exactly, and
19:09
I mean you have a hard drive, so it's it's
19:12
recording that data and it's automatically
19:16
stored for historical
19:18
purposes. So you're absolutely right
19:21
that doubt is very similar in that I
19:23
hear you of Courcentina, but I no idea
19:26
that's somewhere my
19:29
price lord minivan, somebody
19:32
is keeping track of how many times I
19:34
opened the doors? You know what have at
19:36
it time
19:49
stories with Nancy Grace, guys
19:53
are talking about what's going down in a court
19:55
of law. In the disappearance of Susanne
19:57
more View, she didn't disappear. She's
20:00
dead, and we're learning about
20:02
a dart gun and the odd
20:04
movements of her husband around that time.
20:06
Can you imagine how powed another
20:08
technical legal term, he was. And he
20:11
gets home and finds her in the backyard
20:13
in a swimsuit, sunbathing and
20:15
sending pictures to her boyfriend. Look,
20:18
this woman had been trying to leave her husband
20:20
for a long time and he would
20:22
guilt tripper every time she
20:25
tried to leave. She says he was controlling.
20:27
There's evidence of domestic abuse where
20:29
he would hit her in the head. I
20:31
guess she did want to leave him,
20:34
but now the evidence of him tracking her like
20:36
big game through the house with a tranquilizer
20:39
dart gun. Take a listen
20:41
to Jim Benneman, CBS Ford, Denver
20:43
investigators phone part of a tranquilizer
20:45
dart inside the house of a husband accused
20:48
of murdering his wife. That's one of the new revelations
20:50
today during a two day hearing
20:52
to determine if Barrymore if you should
20:55
stand trial in Chaffee County for the
20:57
murder of Susanne Morephew Susanne
20:59
Vanner on Mother's Day of last year. Her body
21:02
has yet to be found, but investigators
21:04
believe she has been killed
21:07
and Mark Salinger, now,
21:09
I hope you're sitting down for this, Mark Shalinger
21:11
joining us from nineties. The judge also
21:13
saw surveillance pictures of Barry and Broomfield
21:16
on May tenth, that day Susanne was reported
21:18
missing. Investigators say he stopped
21:20
at five trash cans in the area and
21:23
dropped items off, though they haven't said
21:25
if they know what he threw away. They
21:28
also say he changed clothing multiple times
21:30
that day and put some of the put some
21:32
of the films that
21:34
he put in the trash camps, and they
21:36
don't yet know exactly what was in
21:38
those trash camps. Prosecutors also said
21:41
today that while they don't have evidence
21:43
Barry was having an affair, cell phone data shows
21:45
Barry searched for quote cute girls
21:47
near Salida and was on the online affair
21:50
dating website Ashley Madison, Okay,
21:52
Laurence Sheriff, I bet when you went to journalism school,
21:55
ye had no idea you would be investigating
21:58
what's the name of it, jihad? What
22:01
celebrity gihad? Yeah,
22:03
I didn't know what that was. I had to look it up.
22:06
Well, I didn't know what it was until Barry
22:08
more Few go ahead and tell us what's the good
22:10
news? Well, I guess this is like
22:13
a porn site that you can
22:15
see like nude and and videos,
22:18
nude photos and video of celebrities
22:21
that Islamic extremists
22:23
take. And
22:26
then he also Ashley Madison, I
22:28
had heard it before. Did you just say,
22:30
uh, celebrity news that jihades
22:33
take. That's what
22:35
my understanding is. Yeah, it's a it's
22:37
a satirical celebrity gossip website
22:39
which is known for sharing leaked or
22:42
hacked private videos of celebrities.
22:44
You seem to know a lot about it, Spencer Courson, I
22:47
work with a lot of celebrities or a
22:49
lot of gehada or a lot of cradots
22:51
that poses jihadest posting celebrity
22:54
news. Okay, fine, but you see some
22:56
famous celebrities head stuck on
22:58
some naked body. I just imagining.
23:01
And no, I haven't been to the site yet,
23:03
but I do know a lot about Ashley Madison.
23:05
That website seems to crop up and a
23:08
lot of criminal cases. It's a
23:10
hookup site for married people, as
23:12
my understanding of Ashley Madison.
23:15
So now we're getting to the crux
23:17
of it. He is claiming
23:19
she's having an affair, and
23:22
now we're finding out he's doing searches for quote,
23:24
cute girls near Salida.
23:27
You know what if I found on
23:29
my husband David Lynch's search
23:33
history, which is way too boring for
23:35
me to go through. I've tried it once
23:37
and my eyes were bleeding. Cute
23:40
girls near me. Oh
23:43
no, you cannot tell me,
23:45
Lauren Sharf, this is not the
23:48
pot column, the cattle black.
23:50
This guy's sleeping with somebody. I
23:52
just don't know who. I mean, it
23:55
was definitely evident that you know it
23:57
was their marriage was crumbling, and
23:59
that you know he's sending somebody.
24:02
Lauren is the woman
24:05
video chatting him up in the jail.
24:08
I mean there's seven women I think,
24:11
video chatting very
24:13
more. Fhew behind bars,
24:16
Like what they're expecting him to come
24:18
out, dress up, shower
24:20
and shave and take him out to dinner. That's
24:22
not happenings Like the logical
24:24
firm is projection. So yeah, I
24:27
go along with you, Nancy, he's having
24:29
an affair assemble. Yeah, just
24:32
what about isn't there a woman that is now
24:34
video chatting him behind bars that he
24:36
was seeing and going to her home before
24:39
he was arrested. Yeah,
24:41
there, and what they're just what having a
24:43
prayer meeting? If I could
24:45
just jump in this is dan. The affair
24:48
doesn't necessarily have to be physically
24:51
in the same room. He's
24:54
having an affair that's taking place
24:56
obviously electronically digitally
24:59
through the media, and they're both communicating
25:01
and they're probably sharing intimate information.
25:04
As you said, Nancy, that is
25:07
the foundation for an
25:09
affair that's going to grow into a physical
25:11
situation. You know, I could
25:14
twiddle my phones all day long and figure out or
25:16
try to figure out what Barried Morpheu was doing
25:18
with various women. But what I
25:20
don't care. That just gives me a little bit
25:22
of motive which I don't have to have to
25:25
prove the case. That's the law. I
25:27
need to get us out of the weeds
25:31
and back into the middle of the road about
25:34
the hard evidence. Take a listen
25:36
to our friends at Fox twenty one
25:39
our cut eighty six. An analyst testified
25:41
that data from Morphew Struck show the
25:43
power was removed around five thirty
25:46
and the system was rebooted. The analyst
25:48
could not explain why Suzanne's cell
25:50
phone paying for the very last time,
25:52
just before thirty am
25:55
on May tenth. Morphy said she was
25:57
asleep when he left around five am
25:59
for a job in Broomfield. Lauren
26:01
Sharf going for
26:03
a job in Broomfield A. It's my understanding
26:06
there was no real job, and he was trying to
26:08
put together a ragtag team of subcontractors
26:11
that morning around four am.
26:14
Also, isn't it true that he was spotted
26:16
on video surveillance? This reminds me so
26:19
much of the Connecticut missing
26:22
mom of five Jennifer Dulos.
26:25
All they found of her is a
26:27
big pool of blood in her garage and
26:29
in her car, and video
26:32
of her husband and his lover dumping
26:36
such as rags and so forth. And
26:38
isn't it true that in Broomville, where
26:40
he says he's got a job going on, Barry
26:43
Morephew has spotted stopping
26:46
five or six times throwing things
26:49
away. Yeah,
26:51
I mean one of the stops he had to not just
26:53
put one like through. He's not
26:55
just like throwing it in the trash. He's
26:57
pushing it down into the trash.
27:00
In the photos you can see he uses two
27:02
hands to put it lower in the trash.
27:05
At one of the stops and he's he's
27:07
going to like men's warehouse dumpster
27:10
and McDonald's dumpster, and you
27:12
know an RTD bus stop dumpster
27:15
or trash trash site
27:17
as well, and then as well as his hotel
27:19
dumpster multiple times too. And
27:22
you know it's and you know, they
27:24
asked him what were these what did you throw away?
27:26
What? You know, what are in those trash bags?
27:29
And he the only thing he could remember was
27:31
the tranquilizer material that
27:33
he threw away. Nicole deboord
27:35
hots Globe, criminal defense
27:37
attorney in Houston, former prosecutor
27:40
Houston Criminal Defense dot Com. Nicole,
27:43
you and I would have a field day with that.
27:46
First of all, I would get plenty
27:48
of women on the jury because
27:51
you know, anybody in their right mind,
27:53
especially at this time of COVID, it's
27:56
not going to go to a public trash
27:59
can, put something
28:01
in it and then put your hands and squish
28:03
it down, just cram it down.
28:06
You're gonna put your hands and a
28:08
public trash cans
28:10
like one of the subsided green dumpsters
28:13
behind McDonald's. Oh no,
28:16
that's not going to happen. You
28:18
know, trying to get rid of evidence,
28:21
it's absolutely absurd. In his explanation
28:24
all of these things, the tranquiliser
28:27
piece in the in the dryer, uh,
28:29
you know, the power coming off on the phone. You
28:32
know, he thinks he's clever, but he is
28:34
not as clever as he thinks. And now you
28:36
know, this excuse that he's making for what
28:38
he might have been throwing away is just you
28:41
know, it's sort of an empty and hollow h
28:44
You know, he's trying to he's trying to come up with a reason why
28:46
he was out and about throwing out trash in public
28:48
trash cans. And I just cannot imagine
28:50
that any jury is going to buy this crime
29:05
stories with Nancy Grace, Nicole
29:08
Debord, Hodge Club. You've tried a lot of cases. There's
29:11
the old saying, I think this goes
29:13
all the way back to Nixon, But I'm not sure. It's
29:15
not the crime, it's the cover up. The
29:18
point here is we're getting more
29:20
evidence about a cover up then
29:23
we do. Then we have about where
29:25
is Susanne Morpheu's body.
29:27
But the cover up braves
29:30
the crime, Nicole, it
29:32
really does. I mean, this is going to be an interesting
29:34
case too as it moves forward ultimately in front
29:37
of a jury, because I'll be curious
29:39
to see whether this guy decides to testify.
29:41
Sometimes people who think they can come up with
29:43
an explanation for everything really
29:45
want to get their story out there in front of a jury.
29:48
And I wonder if this individual
29:50
will decide that he too wants to tell his story.
29:52
I don't think they'll buy it, but it can all
29:55
early. Pray Nicole Debord
29:57
Hodge Club that he does take the stand. Hey,
29:59
Lauren, who told you in the
30:01
courtroom that you had ruined their lives
30:04
one of very sisters? How
30:07
did you ruin their life? Good
30:09
question? I don't know. I
30:12
was just trying to, you know, report
30:14
on Suzanne and her disappearance,
30:17
and I don't know how I ruined
30:19
their life, you know. Also, apparently
30:22
the adult daughters will once adult.
30:25
One is I think just coming out of high school. They
30:27
both are signing with the dad, right yeah.
30:31
I mean throughout the you know, court hearing,
30:33
you can see the daughters, you know, obviously
30:36
visibly upset, but in between breaks,
30:38
they're very turns around and
30:40
you know it says I love you. He pulls his mass
30:42
down and says I love you, and the girls you
30:45
know say I miss you and love you and
30:47
you know, you're my best friend and things
30:49
like that, and they're you know, praying for
30:52
him, and so they're definitely uh,
30:54
you know, well, you know what I just did. Something
30:56
really was really wrong. I rolled
30:58
my eyes, all my eyes because I don't
31:01
believe. I
31:03
roll my eyes because I feel that he, Barry Morphy,
31:05
is manipulating his daughters, and
31:09
I also feel
31:11
really bad for them. Doctor
31:14
Jerry Cross, and I've tried
31:16
a lot of cases, and adult children
31:20
typically will side with the living
31:22
parent, even when the parents accused of
31:24
murder, because I don't think that
31:26
they can emotionally accept
31:28
what has happened. So I don't want to make
31:30
light of what these girls are
31:33
going through because they've lost their mother
31:35
and now their dad's on trial for he is going
31:37
to be on trial for her murder. Yeah.
31:40
And to add to that victimization that
31:42
the fathers using for the manipulation,
31:45
is she even having an affair for
31:47
two years and
31:50
so you know he's a victim of that. And I think
31:52
one of the daughters, even when
31:54
she found out about it just recently
31:57
or something, you know, that really impacted her.
31:59
Guys, I'm wanting
32:01
to take in a listen to our cut seventy
32:03
five, Tyler, it's our
32:06
friends at Fox twenty
32:08
one. The affair was allegedly for a
32:10
year and a half, something Susanne kept
32:13
from everyone, even her best friend, Sheila Oliver.
32:15
Text messages between the two friends show
32:17
Susanne expressing concerns about
32:19
her marriage with Barry and how it affected
32:22
her health. A text message reads, he
32:24
looks for any reason to run. It can
32:26
be small, and he blows up and takes off.
32:28
I believe there's still another I
32:30
can't win with him. He's too good
32:32
at the manipulation. I feel stuck.
32:35
I can't let my health decline again. Susanne
32:37
was in remission for the second time when
32:39
she disappeared, Lauren Sharf
32:42
joining me Fox twenty one News.
32:44
You can find her at Lauren Sharff TV.
32:48
Lauren, what was her ailment?
32:51
She had leukemia should
32:53
a cancer, and this is the second
32:55
time she's had it. She had it in college
32:58
as well, and Barry morephew, he
33:00
helped her through that. You know, his
33:02
sister or Susanne's sister told
33:04
me, you know, Barry would carry her from
33:07
a place to place or whatever in college
33:09
and helped her with that. And then she also
33:12
got it I believe right before
33:15
they moved to Colorado the
33:17
second time. More of an insight
33:19
into their marriage, take a listen to our
33:21
cut seventy seven, Jamie Leary, CBS
33:24
four. Prosecutors have painted a picture of a
33:26
man who desperately did not want
33:28
to lose his wife just before her
33:30
disappearance, so Susanne sent Barrymorephe,
33:32
her husband, a text indicating that she
33:34
was done. He responded with the text indicating
33:37
suicide, saying he wouldn't be around for much
33:39
longer and that he was going to see his
33:41
savior. Susanne and Barrymorephy
33:43
met and fell in love when they were just seventeen. And we
33:46
learned on day one of this here and that
33:48
Susanne was looking for an opportunity to leave
33:50
and had been having an affair for the last two
33:52
years. Her last correspondence
33:54
with anyone was with a man. She was having that
33:56
affair with Jeff Libbler, investigator
33:59
sannet Ay ninth. They exchanged
34:01
fifty nine messages and consider
34:03
a selfie she sent him while sunbathing outside
34:06
her home her last proof of life.
34:08
You know to Lauren Sharf, tell
34:10
me what's happening in the court run. How
34:13
are the daughters in the family all taking
34:15
this. That first day
34:17
of the preliminary hearing, when the whole affair
34:20
came out, they everyone, you
34:22
know, the Morphew family were crying.
34:25
I mean when they saw the last known
34:28
photo of Suzanne. The girls were
34:31
one girl was leaning on her
34:33
legs, you know, her hair
34:36
covering over her face, just in tears.
34:39
And I mean the two girls are supporting
34:41
one of another. They're holding each other's
34:43
hands, rubbing each other's backs, passing
34:47
tissues to one another. It
34:49
was definitely emotional, emotional
34:51
day. So why don't you take a listen to our cut
34:54
eighty seven our friends at Fox twenty
34:56
one. The state mentioned multiple
34:59
dating web site that they claim
35:02
Verry Morphew search and not include
35:05
Ashley Madison, as well as Celebji
35:08
Hot. When this was brought up, Morphew
35:10
was visibly upset, and he even sat
35:12
up in his seat in court. An
35:14
investigator spoke with a friend of
35:16
the family who recorded morephe accusing
35:19
Susanne of sleeping with a man in a basement,
35:21
and Morphew allegedly said he would shoot
35:23
off his balls and he would shoot
35:26
and shove them down his throat if
35:28
he found the guy his defense made
35:30
it clear that there was only one search
35:32
of find a Q Girl in Salida, and
35:34
they questioned the state's knowledge of whether
35:36
they knew for certain it was Morphew who
35:39
was searching those dating websites.
35:41
Wait a minute, Lauren Sharp, are they actually
35:43
going to try to tell me that it was
35:45
Suzanne Morphew looking
35:48
up celebjahad to
35:50
look at nude women. Yeah,
35:53
I mean the defense was just saying, how
35:55
do you know for certain that it was Barry
35:57
Morphew who was searching these sites? Now,
36:00
I want to circle back to the hard evidence,
36:02
whether he's having an affair or not having
36:04
an affair, And the hard evidence right
36:06
now are his movements, the
36:10
dart gun, and the fake alibi
36:14
that he created the morning Suzanne
36:16
disappeared. I'm not sure that
36:19
that's when she really disappeared,
36:22
but he's left behind quite
36:24
a digital path a
36:26
mile wide. Lauren
36:28
Shar Fox twenty one News reporter,
36:30
all the story from the very very beginning. Tell
36:33
me about his manufactured alibi.
36:36
It all started when Suzanne first went
36:38
missing. He told somebody
36:41
that he had gone for continuing
36:43
volunteer firefighter education
36:46
at some out of town seminar on
36:48
mother's day, a day that he
36:51
knew his two girls would also
36:53
be gone. That pen
36:55
didn't pan out, And then it
36:58
turned out he had put together
37:00
a crew that morning,
37:03
the morning she's reported missing, around
37:05
four am, to go to another
37:07
town to build a wall,
37:10
like a retainer wall. And it wasn't
37:13
a real job. Yeah, So the whole
37:15
thing about the you know, firefighter
37:17
training that was that
37:19
didn't happen because there was no firefighter training
37:21
in the middle of COVID. And then you
37:23
know, when he went to the Broomfield
37:26
and worked on this wall, retaining
37:29
wall, I spook with multiple of
37:31
the employees that he had called kind
37:33
of last minute to work on that job. And
37:35
then I also found out that you
37:37
in the city of Broomfield, you cannot work
37:40
on a holiday or Sunday, and
37:42
Mother's Day fell on a Sunday
37:44
and found out that you can't work.
37:47
He knew that the company he was doing
37:49
this job knew that, and
37:52
the job was to fix a retaining
37:55
wall that he and his crew had
37:57
messed up a year prior in
37:59
October of twenty nineteen, and
38:02
in court, the investigators
38:04
found out through the GPS tracking of
38:06
his truck that he only was
38:08
at that retaining wall for about ten
38:10
to fifteen minutes, and his crew
38:12
had told me that it looked
38:15
like he had only been done about like
38:17
ten to fifteen minutes of work. And
38:19
meanwhile he's in his hotel room for
38:22
five hours, and he's
38:24
shown on surveillance camera
38:28
leaving and coming from his hotel room
38:30
the time stamps, and every
38:33
single time he's leaving and coming, he is,
38:35
you know, trashing his hand, and he has
38:37
different clothes on from every
38:40
time he comes and goes from the hotel room
38:42
in Broomfield. We wait as
38:44
justice unfalls. Nancy
38:46
Grace CROM's story, signing off Goodbye
38:48
friend,
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