Found Deceased CO - Suzanne Morphew, 49, did not return from bike ride, Chaffee County, 10 May 2020 #39

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NoSI said:
GK... i will drive toward house again in a bit and keep eye out for cameras etc.
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Thank you, @NoSI !

I apologize, I'm coming in late to the thread, but working to catch up on today's developments.

So glad you and others (@TKG, et. al) are there to help with the search efforts.

Looking forward to hearing and seeing your firsthand impressions and accounts!

Cameras are very much of interest.

JMO.
 
Puzzles8 said:
"Let me tell you what happened".....
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Barry actually said, "So let me show you what happened"...

I remember when I first watched that video when it came out I immediately heard that utterance and was amazed at the obvious slip since there would be no way Barry could "show" what happened if he wasn't the one to make it happen.

I just checked the video again and with Youtube closed captioning on it indicates he said "show."

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Are any of SM's other siblings there in CO right now, or is just AM?

I know there are a lot of Alexandria natives who made the trip out to search, but I'd like to think he has some family support there available to him right now.

He's shouldering a lot of weight right now, both physically and emotionally.

JMO.
 
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paul onions said:
Another member mentioned it, and it is mentioned in this article. Businesses near Suzanne Morphew's husband's hotel share CCTV | Daily Mail Online

other articles from Daily Mail have been linked in this case, so I thought they were approved. If not I will look for another source and correct as needed!
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Thank you for linking the article! Now I understand the connection. I had not seen that DM article before, I didn't know where that information was from. DM are approved. Though the DM's pictures are sometimes much more informative than the content of the DM's article itself!

It is really helpful to use the "Reply" feature on the post you are referring to. That way both your reply and the original post are together in your reply.

I apologize for the confusion.
 
Madeleine74 said:
Barry actually said, "So let me show you what happened"...

I remember when I first watched that video when it came out I immediately heard that utterance and was amazed at the obvious slip since there would be no way Barry could "show" what happened if he wasn't the one to make it happen.

I just checked the video again and with Youtube closed captioning on it indicates he said "show."

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Sorry, my bad.
 
oviedo said:
He’s certainly created quite the “look here - not there” scenario with all his actions- I think he acted alone but I do think he may have confided in someone close to him in veiled terms to solicit some advice on what to do - I feel he’s quite certain she won’t be found and this could be the one area he got right ...
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Hope not.
 
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oviedo said:
In my state your current spouse is next of kin and would control pick up of body/remains, Burial/ cremation - and this can be done over the phone with a credit card - just call the funeral home and provide the information and a credit card and proceed from there - we are Currently handling a probate and the decedent has no spouse but left a trust and the trustee presented the original trust to the funeral home and they arranged getting the body from coroner and cremation from there - didn’t have to provide proof of relationship either - Just that trust and their ID- I found that interesting - even under arrest I think the spouse would control but I don’t know CO law
JMO
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I am not a lawyer, but I believe in the absence of a will or other instructions, and the incapacity of the spouse, that responsibility in Colorado would always fall to an adult offspring who is living in Colorado. I don't think that a sibling residing in another state would have any chance of being appointed to make those decisions. IMO IANAL
 
oviedo said:
In my state your current spouse is next of kin and would control pick up of body/remains, Burial/ cremation - and this can be done over the phone with a credit card - just call the funeral home and provide the information and a credit card and proceed from there - we are Currently handling a probate and the decedent has no spouse but left a trust and the trustee presented the original trust to the funeral home and they arranged getting the body from coroner and cremation from there - didn’t have to provide proof of relationship either - Just that trust and their ID- I found that interesting - even under arrest I think the spouse would control but I don’t know CO law
JMO
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It appears that the first order goes to the decedent's personal representative or executor. If SM did not name BM (which I don't think she did), BM has no claim to her deceased body and a good chance SM can be shipped to Indiana as AM has indicated.

If SM has no Will, then BM is the default provided they are not legally separated -- which doesn't apply here.


Universal Citation: CO Rev Stat § 15-19-106 (2017)

(1) Subject to section 15-19-105 (2), the right to control disposition of the last remains or ceremonial arrangements of a decedent vests in and devolves upon the following persons, at the time of the decedent's death, in the following order:

(a) The decedent if acting through a declaration pursuant to section 15-19-104, subject to the provisions of section 15-19-104 (3)(a)(II);

(b) (I) Either the appointed personal representative or special administrator of the decedent's estate if such person has been appointed; or

(II) The nominee for appointment as personal representative under the decedent's will if a personal representative or special administrator has not been appointed;

(c) The surviving spouse of the decedent, if not legally separated from the decedent;

(c.5) A person with the right to direct the disposition of the decedent's last remains in a designated beneficiary agreement made pursuant to article 22 of this title;

(d) A majority of the surviving adult children of the decedent;

(e) A majority of the surviving parents or legal guardians of the decedent, who shall act in writing;

(f) A majority of the surviving adult siblings of the decedent;

(g) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2006, p. 900, 5, effective August 7, 2006.)

(h) Any person who is willing to assume legal and financial responsibility for the final disposition of the decedent's last remains.

(2) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2006, p. 900, § 5, effective August 7, 2006.)

(3) Disputes among the persons listed under subsection (1) of this section shall be resolved by the probate court. A third party shall not be liable for refusing to accept the decedent's remains or dispose of the decedent's remains until the party receives a court order or other reasonable confirmation that the dispute has been resolved or settled.

(4) (a) If the person with the right to control disposition is unable or unwilling to make such disposition, or if the person's whereabouts cannot be reasonably ascertained, then that person's rights shall terminate and pass to the following, in the following order:

(I) The rest of the persons in the class with the same degree of relationship granting the same priority of control over the disposition pursuant to subsection (1) of this section;

(II) The next class of persons in the order listed in subsection (1) of this section if no one with the same degree of relationship granting the same priority of control over the disposition of this section exists or possesses the right of final disposition pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.

(b) (I) The person with the right to control disposition shall be presumed to be unable or unwilling to provide for such disposition, or the person's whereabouts shall be presumed unknown, if the person has failed to make or appoint another person to make final arrangements for the disposition of the decedent within five days after receiving notice of the decedent's death or within ten days after the decedent's death, whichever is earlier.

(II) Any member or veteran of the armed forces of the United States or of an organization supporting members or veterans of the armed forces of the United States shall have the right to access the human remains and records thereof in order to identify the remains if no person with the right of final disposition has provided for final disposition for at least one hundred eighty days after death. If the remains are those of a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, the person who possesses the remains shall make arrangements for the remains to be transferred to the closest United States military cemetery. This subparagraph (II) shall not be construed to authorize the exhumation of dead human bodies nor the possession of dead human bodies by any person seeking to identify the identity of the remains.

(c) If a person is unable or unwilling to make a disposition under this subsection (4), such person shall not be counted as a member of the class with the same degree of relationship granting the same priority of control over the disposition pursuant to subsection (1) of this section when determining the number that makes a majority of such class.

(5) If the persons enumerated in subsection (1) of this section are not willing or able to provide for the final disposition of a decedent's remains, or if the persons' whereabouts cannot be reasonably ascertained, then the public administrator responsible for the decedent's estate or the person who controls indigent burials in the county in which the death occurred shall make arrangements for the final disposition of the decedent's remains.

(6) A third party who provides for the final disposition of a decedent's remains upon authorization from a person who claimed to have the right to control the final disposition shall be immune from civil liability and administrative discipline.

2017 Colorado Revised Statutes :: Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries :: Human Bodies After Death :: Article 19 - Treatment of Human Bodies After Death :: Part 1 - Disposition of Last Remains :: § 15-19-106. Right to dispose of remains
 
oviedo said:
He’s certainly created quite the “look here - not there” scenario with all his actions- I think he acted alone but I do think he may have confided in someone close to him in veiled terms to solicit some advice on what to do - I feel he’s quite certain she won’t be found and this could be the one area he got right ...
IMO
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IMO, more and more, I feel anything he got right on, was by luck.

JMO, MOO
 
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