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Missing Mom Suzanne Morphew Hunted With Dart Gun?

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Missing Mom Suzanne Morphew Hunted With Dart Gun?

Missing Mom Suzanne Morphew Hunted With Dart Gun?

Missing Mom Suzanne Morphew Hunted With Dart Gun?

Missing Mom Suzanne Morphew Hunted With Dart Gun?

Friday, 13th August 2021
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0:05

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, legal

0:14

battle rages on in a

0:16

court of law where we are finally hearing

0:19

some a tiny bit of the evidence

0:22

against husband Barry Morphew

0:24

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

0:43

where does the missing

0:45

mom fit into

0:48

this scenario? And how

0:50

does a dark gun

0:53

factor in crime

1:01

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

3:31

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

3:41

data

3:44

chasing her around the

3:48

home with me

3:50

an all star panel? Nicole Devoor

3:52

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.

4:15

You can find him at Dan Corsentino dot com.

4:18

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

4:28

Sharp joining US has been

4:30

in the courtroom. Coincidentally,

4:33

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

4:44

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

4:54

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

5:14

GPS on? What on his cell

5:16

phone? Explain? Yeah,

5:19

So in the court they showed multiple

5:21

maps of where supposedly

5:24

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

5:40

I think this was really interesting. The FBI

5:42

agent that took the stand, agent Johnny

5:45

Grusing, he said that supposedly

5:47

his theory is that he was chasing

5:49

sus Susann around the home while

5:52

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

6:15

Susanne sent a picture of her sunbathing

6:17

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

6:43

at five. Let's talk about the whole airplane

6:45

mode fact. To you,

6:48

Dan Corcentina, Formerployees chief

6:50

in Colorado, you have to intentionally

6:55

turn your phone onto airplane

6:57

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

7:50

Corson, do you agree or disagree?

7:53

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

8:25

Deboard Hotschlube joining US Girl

8:28

Defense turning in Houston. Former prosecutor

8:31

Nicole, what is the state

8:33

going to argue that this

8:35

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

8:44

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

11:05

Morphew's dryer. Later,

11:09

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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