RSBM
Some thoughts:
- 0:32 GD is a "part of" the CC volunteer FD. Does that mean he's actually a firefighter or does he work there in some other capacity? Just curious that she didn't actually call him a firefighter with the CCVFD, and that stood out to me.
- 0:40 GD says he was the first community member to see SM's bike - but - at 2:16 explaining how GD got involved, he told her that another volunteer firefighter called GD to tell him about a missing bike being found. Then GD heads toward the Morphew house where the bike was found close by. When he got to where the bike was, there were 2 deputies on scene.
First, if two deputies were already on scene with the bike, then no GD was not the first person to see it.
Second, why did the other volunteer firefighter call GD about the bike, and not BM?
That just seems really weird to me, unless he did call BM too and that was just left out of the story for some reason?
Third, many assumed it was BM that called GD and asked him to head to the house, while he (BM) was driving back from Broomfield.
According to GD, it was the other way around and he was the one who called BM, and then BM asked him if he was going.
- 1:36 GD says that for the first two weeks after SM went missing, him and about 300 people were out searching every day. Although a few of those original searches said it was more like 20-30 guys. Hmm.
- 2:44 when GD arrived at the bike scene and witnessed 2 CCSD on site attempting to bring the bike up the hill, GD is quoted as saying was a "giant no-no", and went on to explain basic crime scene processing protocol, to these two county sherrifs. Went on to relay how there were "a lot" of things the sheriff's office did like that, but chalked it up to them being a small town LE agency and don't see this kind of crime and don't know everything.
Wow.
Shows up and tells the police how to do their jobs, then accuses them of being ignorant small town cops. Okay.
In addition, why in the world would GD be so adamant that the bike was a "crime scene" and should be processed like one, when no one was supposed to have known yet, what happened to her? No one was supposed to have known anything at that point, accident, run off on purpose, kidnapped, whatever. Yet there's GD on scene, insisting it's processed as a crime scene.
That's also just too weird.
4:34 It was a nice surprise to learn he did talk with AM and offer some amount of help when he came out for the big 4 day search.
5:22 GD and BM are planning something (statement?). More info when one of them gets back from a trip? Unclear on that. LS comments it sounded to her like they were planning something for the 1 year anniversary of SM being missing but, that's still 4 months away.
jmo
Thanks for the breakdown,
@Ontario Mom. Couple of thoughts on your thoughts:
1) I am thinking that it may have been volunteer FF Tim Nelson who called George Davis. He was the one who spoke out because the FF’s were not allowed to participate in the official LE search.
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Morphew's colleagues from the Maysville Fire Station have also been attempting to help with the search, although one told DailyMail.com they have been warned off by police
Tim Nelson, 33, said: 'The Sheriff's office, they told us none of the fire guys are allowed up there.
'They can't keep us out of the forest so that's what some of the others have done – they set up their own
little search party.'
Nelson added: 'It's a bad deal you know. They aren't telling us anything. We got excluded from everything.
'George [Davis] put together a search team of friends – I was going to go but pretty much all our fire guys are on it so I decided to step away just in case we get something [a fire].
'Barry was very understanding from what I got from George. I know he's not allowed to go home. He's at a neighbor's. I guess they got him there until he's cleared or…'
Cops search a property in Colorado for evidence of mom-of-two missing since Mother's Day | Daily Mail Online
2). Since we don’t know how long after the bike was found that GD arrived on the scene, it is entirely possible that the bike was photographed and finger printed before he got there.
3). SM’s brother, AM, was actually part of the unofficial search teams starting on
Tuesday, 5/12. He flew in the night before. He stated that the group consisted of about six guys and they searched areas that had already been searched by LE.
4). A reporter posts that LE was going to search the base of Monarch Pass on
Tuesday which would be to the west of the 50 and 225 intersection.
Gregory Nieto
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100k Reward being offered to find Chaffee County’s Suzanne Morphew!
She went cycling on Sunday...and never came back.
Tuesday search centered on base of Colorado’s Monarch Pass.
Reward is for “her safe - return- no questions asked.”
5). On
Tuesday evening, BM was caught going through the trash at the Poncha Market. He said his wife was missing and he was looking for a bike helmet. As I said before, I find it odd that he was out wandering around in the near dark by himself 2 days after his wife went missing. Did he drop the helmet there on his way to Br
6). On Thursday, a personal item belonging to SM, (believed to be the bike helmet), was found off the road on the west side past the 50 and 225 intersection. This was after the area had been searched at least once by LE and at least once by private searchers. Not impossible, but if it was the helmet, it was large and a bright blue or teal color and would not have sunken into the brush or ground after only 4 days. In other words, it would be tough to miss.
7). It’s been said before, but why didn’t BM first call GD and ask him to go check on his wife instead of calling the 70 year old female neighbor?
Final thoughts: If GD, of the 10 years of LE experience, 400 tours of duty, and 300 searcher friends, couldn’t find a bright shiny bike helmet less than a half mile from the Morphew home, how did he expect to find SM herself in his 200 miles of searches? Asking for a friend.
What are the chances??
