Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #21

[susiQ]

We were TOLD Suzanne was an avid cyclist... we were TOLD she bikes on Sundays before church... by a source who had a bike story to peddle....

What if Suzanne hadn't actually ridden her bike IN MONTHS?

Guess what can happen to a bike, left unattended thru winter. FLAT TIRES. Looking at it, you might not notice. Riding it you would. You wouldn't make it 2000 feet. Or 2. Throw in a wheel lock and you have an unridable bike in a ravine.

That bike could well be the biggest clue in the evidence locker, both for HOW it got there (where it was found) and WHY!

All my own speculation

AND, that is precisely WHY BM had to throw shade on LE mishandling the bike, letting people drive up there and what not. Not only was LE on to him, he realized himself he screwed up the staging!! So now he’s probably in PF mode, chanting to himself, “no body, no crime.” I’ve got NEWS for HIM

 

[Love Never Fails]

Aren't you guys & gals thankful LE sprung into action right away that night of May 10 and started a 2-prong approach in looking for SM as well as looking at the house for signs of her or signs of her disappearing? Imagine if they had taken the missing person report and sat on it for a day or 2.

Granted, some people don't like when LE gets going fast and looks askance at the family and/or friends and doesn't automatically believe whatever scenarios they're told.

Good for LE for following their process.

IMO

Always!

 

[MassGuy]

AND, that is precisely WHY BM had to throw shade on LE mishandling the bike, letting people drive up there and what not. Not only was LE on to him, he realized himself he screwed up the staging!! So now he’s probably in PF mode, chanting to himself, “no body, no crime.” I’ve got NEWS for HIM

Yes. The bike would have been planted to draw attention away from him. It was absolutely vital that law enforcement buy what he was selling.

So when law enforcement came to the conclusion that there was no bike ride, BM would have been both angry and terrified.

His only option was to basically criticize law enforcement for mishandling the bike, and being stupid by not being thrown off by it.

No bike ride = very bad news for BM.

 

[Hatfield]

hmm how's this for a scenario - girls try to get a hold of mom starting on may 8 and by the 10th become so worried they reach out to ________________ - (neighbor? Dad? either is plausible) - neighbor is contacted and neighbor checks for "bike" - or car or whatever based on what neighbor was told by ____________. Neighbor checks their own video (I have done this myself) and sees something odd - then calls 911 and says- Mom is missing, and there is something on my cameras you should see. We saw this in Watts - Frazee, Dulos - I think it is possible, no? Remember, 911 call has not been released. wonder why?
JMO

JMO
That is possible.

For the blanks I think all 3 parties were involved in communication before and after the 911 call.

He had to get word from someone in order to know to come home so I do think he was involved in the communications either before, during, or after or all three times.

 

[Love Never Fails]

Aren't you guys & gals thankful LE sprung into action right away that night of May 10 and started a 2-prong approach in looking for SM as well as looking at the house for signs of her or signs of her disappearing? Imagine if they had taken the missing person report and sat on it for a day or 2.

Granted, some people don't like when LE gets going fast and looks askance at the family and/or friends and doesn't automatically believe whatever scenarios they're told.

Good for LE for following their process.

IMO

Always!

 

[Love Never Fails]

Interesting. I went on Google Maps back in May and looked for bike shops. TD mentions interviewing Absolute Bikes and Sub-Culture Cyclery, but in my search last May and again today Suzanne's missing person poster was not on the main web site or on their Facebook pages. However, the third bike shop in Salida, Salida Bike Company, had Suzanne's poster on their FB page on 11 May. The very next day and they were only one of the 3 bike shops to do anything publicly that I could find in relation to Suzanne. Was Salida Bike Company, who put Suzanne's poster on their web page on that Monday, the shop that did not want to speak TD? Maybe it is just a coincidence but maybe Salida Bike Company was Suzanne's go-to shop? We won't know though because TD didn't speak to them.

One tire in 2 years? My initial reaction is that isn't much for an avid cyclist. I bought 3 tires for one bike alone last year. But then I thought I only bought one in a bike shop. I bought the other 2 online because none of the shops carried what I wanted. Suzanne may have done the same.

She has her work done by someone named Scott or Scot? Took me all of about a minute, but there is a Scot's Bicycle Service and the owner retired last year from Absolute Bikes. If this is the same guy how did TD miss this? His address, phone number and email are on the web page.
Salida, Colorado

I would think it would be easy to find Scott. Whoever he is. That didn’t wash for me. AnD the third bike company wouldn’t speak to TD so yes, maybe they are cooperating with LE only.

 

[Megnut]

Bike Shop #3 could have information pertinent to the case, and good reason not to share anything publicly. Bike Shops #1 and #2 only had anecdotal information to share, relatively inconsequential and therefore no need or incentive to remain silent.

Those who are silent in this case IMO are following LE's example by protecting what they know, all in the interest of justice. They're trusting LE. IMO

JMO JMO JMO

 

[Seattle1]

Assuming the answer is TN who has admin privileges of the FB page, this might be a question to submit to LaurenS and see if she can find out why TN is no longer updating or administering that page. It's come up a bunch of times in these threads, so it's an issue that has a lot of interest and much concern.

IMO

TN's last post was May 16 and officially went dark to Media on May 17 -- the date that BM's plea video was uploaded to the fb page.

Reporter L Scharff previously explained during her fb live that TN provided very specific instructions to reporters for how media could contact him, and he just stopped responding, period.

Numerous reporters including LS tried reaching TN on Sunday ++ to no avail after BM's video came out. LS said she tried all angles to follow-up and the only person she could reach that was willing to talk to her was BM (and TN's) Uncle Bob --the elderly man on oxygen. MOO

 

[Birmingplumb]

Would L.E. be obligated or required by law to share factual damaging evidence with the minor or adult children of a suspect while still putting together a case in order to "protect " the safety of the children who are/were living with suspect parent and may not "know"?

 

[GordianKnot]

I just watched TD’s interview with the Profiling Evil guys.

One of them mentions how probable it is that there are a lot of security cameras in the area around the house, as there are high value rental properties.

TD chimed in that he and Lauren Sharf had seen several signs mentioning security cameras in the area. He also reiterated that he believes the bike was planted.

This got me thinking.

There had to be something huge that focused law enforcement’s investigation early on. I think there’s a good chance that BM was caught either on video, or via an eyewitness, dumping that bike.

Either he was actually captured doing it, or the bike was seen in the back of his pickup.

BBM:

See, that right there is why you get paid the big bucks.

I'm actually a huge fan of this theory.
It fits well with the (few) publicly known facts.

In particular, it makes some sense of LE asking people in the area to save any security footage between May 8th - May 12th in case LE asks for it later on. If LE already have one or more critical pieces of video evidence to hand, i.e., footage of BM's truck driving in the area on Saturday night/Sunday morning with her bike in the back, they may not necessarily need more, at least until they determine whether he went anywhere else after dumping the bike.

The more I think about it, I really think they have video evidence proving the bike didn't end up in that location because SM was pedaling it down the road on Mother's Day.

Nice work!
I'm going to put you in for a raise.

JMO.

 

[Minordetails]

In his latest interview with Profiling Evil, TD states that his gut is telling him that the bike was staged. That’s telling, coming from someone who has interviewed BM and really has no reasons to be bias.

 

[JnRyan]

and the pandemic began in earnest on the East Coast around mid-March, so you had all those church dates???? When? Interesting wording in retrospect, I do wonder what she means as the two events are years apart....

Perhaps when the gym was finally shut down Suzanne needed a new workout routine (makes sense) and took up riding the bike that was there at the house (I've had the same temptation) But that would lead me to think "riding before church" was a throw away line...more planted Barry script.

I had wondered about that myself. When the pandemic hit here it seemed like everyone wanted to take up cycling. We've got 3 bike shops in my town. One had to close due to depleted inventory and consolidated employees and remaining inventory to their other location in a town 25 miles away. The 2nd quit taking repairs in mid May because they were overloaded and sold all but 3-4 high end bikes (25-40 bikes sold). You can hardly walk in the 3rd shop because almost the entire store is taken up with bikes awaiting work. All of the bike shops in the surrounding cities are appointment only for repairs and out of most of their bikes. On my daily rides, my first 2 miles are through residential neighborhoods and I see 3-4 times more people riding bikes going out and coming back in one ride than I used to see in that same area in a week.

That Suzanne might have been new to cycling? Yeah, she may have just taken it up when moving to CO. But with the pandemic she may have just stepped up her riding recently, too.

 

[Error505]

Yes, and spurred the quick call to the CBI and FBI. When crimes like this go unsolved, it seems that mistakes are made by law enforcement early on.

Inexperience and a lack of resources can doom a case.

There’s no overstating how great a decision it was to reach out for help in those early hours.

The fact CBI and FBI were brought on board so quickly by local Police department speaks VOLUMES! This is not the average “wife/mother missing case”!
There are adults who go missing everyday in this country and FBI and state bureaus are not involved with the searches. Buckle up! MOO this is not going to end well for any one! Prayers for SM’s recovery.

 

[MassGuy]

BBM:

See, that right there is why you get paid the big bucks.

I'm actually a huge fan of this theory.
It fits well with the (few) publicly known facts.

In particular, it makes some sense of LE asking people in the area to save any security footage between May 8th - May 12th in case LE asks for it later on. If LE already have one or more critical pieces of video evidence to hand, i.e., footage of BM's truck driving in the area on Saturday night/Sunday morning with her bike in the back, they may not necessarily need more, at least until they determine whether he went anywhere else after dumping the bike.

The more I think about it, I really think they have video evidence proving the bike didn't end up in that location because SM was pedaling it down the road on Mother's Day.

Nice work!
I'm going to put you in for a raise.

JMO.

Think about this too. If any part of that road is in the range of security cameras, then his vehicle just has to have been captured coming and going.

I think there’s going to be video of that truck at odd hours (late at night), around the time of Suzanne’s disappearance.

 

[TxGidget]

Interesting. I went on Google Maps back in May and looked for bike shops. TD mentions interviewing Absolute Bikes and Sub-Culture Cyclery, but in my search last May and again today Suzanne's missing person poster was not on the main web site or on their Facebook pages. However, the third bike shop in Salida, Salida Bike Company, had Suzanne's poster on their FB page on 11 May. The very next day and they were only one of the 3 bike shops to do anything publicly that I could find in relation to Suzanne. Was Salida Bike Company, who put Suzanne's poster on their web page on that Monday, the shop that did not want to speak TD? Maybe it is just a coincidence but maybe Salida Bike Company was Suzanne's go-to shop? We won't know though because TD didn't speak to them.

One tire in 2 years? My initial reaction is that isn't much for an avid cyclist. I bought 3 tires for one bike alone last year. But then I thought I only bought one in a bike shop. I bought the other 2 online because none of the shops carried what I wanted. Suzanne may have done the same.

She has her work done by someone named Scott or Scot? Took me all of about a minute, but there is a Scot's Bicycle Service and the owner retired last year from Absolute Bikes. If this is the same guy how did TD miss this? His address, phone number and email are on the web page.
Salida, Colorado

Yep. His garage/shop is about a mile up the road from the slab dig site.

 

[lamlawindy]

Would L.E. be obligated or required by law to share factual damaging evidence with the minor or adult children of a suspect while still putting together a case in order to "protect " the safety of the children who are/were living with suspect parent and may not "know"?

Probably not. With respect to the minor, there may be an obligation to alert children's protective services (CPS) or it's equivalent under a mandatory reporting law but no obligation to share evidence with the child. With respect to an adult child, I do not believe the police have a duty to inform him/her.

Indeed -- in general -- the police have no legal duty to any individual person; their obligation is to maintain order. For example, if police don't respond quickly enough & one is injured by a burglar, one cannot sue the police and claim that the police breached a duty to a homeowner to respond to a 911 call.

 

[al66pine]

SM's Bike Shop?

...One tire in 2 years? My initial reaction is that isn't much for an avid cyclist. I bought 3 tires for one bike alone last year. But then I thought I only bought one in a bike shop. I bought the other 2 online because none of the shops carried what I wanted. Suzanne may have done the same.
She has her work done by someone named Scott or Scot? Took me all of about a minute, but there is a Scot's Bicycle Service and the owner retired last year from Absolute Bikes. If this is the same guy how did TD miss this? His address, phone number and email are on the web page.
Salida, Colorado

@JnRyan Thx for your post. sbm bbm Re ^ BBM, I don't know, because I did not rely on the vid's CC's for spelling, I just azz-umed it was Scott & only a first name. Excellent catch on that - Scot. Seem like the right person/place for Lauren S or for TD to check, maybe email him/her? Seems like he's likely to know about her current bike & detail.

{"ETA: Thinking a bit further, maybe not drop a line after all. I think we all want the right person(s) held to account/convicted for SM disappearance and getting info spread among gen public & soc media is not the best way. I hope if LE has tied the bike to her disappearance, they've already been in touch w bike shops.}}

 

[GordianKnot]

TN's last post was May 16 and officially went dark to Media on May 17 -- the date that BM's plea video was uploaded to the fb page.

Reporter L Scharff previously explained during her fb live that TN provided very specific instructions to reporters for how media could contact him, and he just stopped responding, period.

Numerous reporters including LS tried reaching TN on Sunday ++ to no avail after BM's video came out. LS said she tried all angles to follow-up and the only person she could reach that was willing to talk to her was BM (and TN's) Uncle Bob --the elderly man on oxygen. MOO

It's interesting as on outsider to observe how tightly the two camps, i.e., LE and #TeamBarry, have both closed ranks.

It's almost like they're silently sizing each other up, as one would an opponent.

Watching the wordless actions of both, it strikes me that LE and BM don't appear to be working together toward a common goal.

LE's goal is to find Suzanne.

What's BM's goal, one wonders?

JMO.

 

[susiQ]

In his latest interview with Profiling Evil, TD states that his gut is telling him that the bike was staged. That’s telling, coming from someone who has interviewed BM and really has no reasons to be bias.

And there’s really only ONE person who would benefit from staging the bike, the guy who put it there in the first place and then planted that story in everyone’s mind to divert attention from himself. She got dragged up by a cat, accident and got in the river, and abducted “right here.” Poppycock!!! In his minuscule mind HE‘S INNOCENT then, right?? WRONG! He Desperately needed everyone to “buy” his tale. Unfortunately, LE didn’t from day one and neither do many of us. Tick tock!

 

[JnRyan]

I would think it would be easy to find Scott. Whoever he is. That didn’t wash for me. AnD the third bike company wouldn’t speak to TD so yes, maybe they are cooperating with LE only.

I did find it interesting that Absolute Bikes said they think she is taking her bike to someone named Scott, but they don't know his last name or his address. Then you go to the Scots Bicycle Service on his home page he states that he worked for Absolute Bikes as mechanic from 1999 to January 2019. Maybe it is a new person at the shop. Maybe Scots Bicycle Service was not the same Scott or Scot that worked out of his place. After all, Salida is a big metropolitan area and there are probably a lot of Scott's or Scot's that work on bikes. Mr. Draper's investigative journalism skills are not impressing me.