(Deputy Brown Reporting)
Barry stated that the last time he saw his wife was at their residence at 5:00AM that morning, May 10, 2020, when he got up to leave for Denver for a landscaping job. Suzanne was still sleeping and Barry did not speak with her.
(Barry Interview – May 13th)
Barry stated he awoke to his alarm at 4:30AM. Barry explained that when he awoke, Suzanne was still asleep in the master bed. Barry stated he heard her snoring. Barry said he showered and left the house at about 5:00AM. Barry stated he last saw Suzanne wearing short white shorts and a white string-type shirt.26 (26 Barry changed his last sighting of Suzanne throughout 2020 and 2021 numerous times.)
(Barry Interview- June 2nd)
When Barry was asked of his last image of Suzanne, he initially replied that he did not see her on the morning of May 10th or remember a last image. SA Grusing walked Barry through his prior statements of seeing Suzanne and describing her clothing. Barry was asked multiple times what his last image of her was and he did not answer the question. Finally, to elicit some response, SA Grusing asked if he even remembered seeing a lump of covers in his bed before he left for Broomfield. Barry replied that he saw, “Probably just the lump, there. I, I, I, detail is, remember her breathing.”
(Barry Interview- June 3rd)
Barry stated that after dinner, Suzanne did the dishes and he went back into the garage, fixing the pin on the bobcat. Barry stated, “I think I recall seeing 4:15-ish, when I get up and knowing that hey, if I leave at five, I’ll get there at eight.” He added, “I probably got up took a shower, got my clothes on.”
Barry added that Suzanne was naked the last time he saw her, so he did not know what she was last wearing.
(Holly Wilson – November 5, 2020)
Barry was asked about the last thing he said to Suzanne. He replied, “I don’t even know. It was just a normal night. We just ate dinner together and just had a quiet evening like we (unintelligible-UI) do.”
(Holly Wilson – December 17, 2020- In downtown Salida, CO)
Holly said that Barry could never describe what his last image of Suzanne was to her.
Barry: “Well, I’ll tell you right now we had sex that night and she was naked when I went to sleep. So, she obviously got up and put her pajamas on and when I left in th-, the next morning she was laying right there in bed. I didn’t pull up the covers and look what she was wearing, if that’s what you’re asking me?”
(Discussion of Exhibit 6)
SA Grusing asked if the last thing Barry remembered about Suzanne was hearing her breathing.
Barry said, “No, last thing I heard her do was snoring.” He added, “Lightly snoring,” and SA Grusing asked if she was in bed. Barry said, “Yes.”
SA Grusing asked where Barry was when he heard her. He said, “I was going from the bathroom to the kitchen just ’cause I get ready in the bathroom.”
Barry was asked the last time he saw or heard Suzanne prior to that, and he said, “Just probably before we went to sleep. After we had sex.” SA Grusing asked what happened before that, and Barry said, “Before that we had dinner.” When asked where he sat, Barry said, “At the bar.”
Barry was asked what he ate and what she ate. He said, “Uh, we split a steak ’cause she never eats a full meal.”
When SA Grusing asked what else he or she ate, Barry said, “I don’t recall.”
(Barry Morphew Interview – April 22, 2021)
SA Grusing went back to the first paragraph on the audit and told Barry that investigators still don’t have from him the last time he saw Suzanne alive and asks Barry what time he would say. SA Grusing explained that investigators are looking for last proof of life because we have a difference of her breathing and then Barry seeing her. Barry said, “Yeah.”
SA Grusing asked when Barry would say he last saw her alive. Barry said, “Well, I would say five o’clock in the morning I seen her in the bed.”
SA Grusing asks Barry what he saw. Barry said, “I mean that’s, I don’t, I just see a lump there, because the light from the bathroom, the light in the rooms not on but bathroom right there lights up a little bit.”81
SA Grusing asks Barry what he sees. Barry said, “I don’t specifically see anything, but I know from peripheral vision walking in and out that she’s laying there- I just know she’s laying there. I’m not saying I looked directly at her … but she, but I specifically, one hundred percent, no doubt in my mind heard her snoring lightly when I left.”
SA Grusing asks if Suzanne normally snores lightly. Barry said, “Sometimes she does, it’s not all the time, but when she’s in a deep, deep sleep, yeah.”
SA Grusing clarifies that it is not an all-out snore, but a light snore.
Barry said, “Yeah, I mean, I mean she does it. I mean she’s done it her whole life, just not every night, but yeah it happens.”
SA Grusing asks about detail. Barry said, “I would say f-, five o’clock in the morning. Thereabouts when I walked out.”
SA Grusing clarifies again that Barry the last thing he hears is Suzanne lightly snoring.
Barry said, “Yep. And there- there is no doubt, one hundred percent that she was in that bed because of that. Like I said I don’t specifically ‘member looking directly at her, but I remember the snoring. One hundred percent, no doubt in my mind.”