A Colorado medical examiner has completed the autopsy of Suzanne Morphew, a mother of two who went missing in 2020 before her remains were found in October 2023.
Authorities announced last year that Morphew’s remains were located in the area. Moffat, Colorado, in Saguache County — about 45 miles south of her home in Maysville, Colorado, where the 49-year-old mother was reported missing on May 10, 2020.
Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) spokesperson Rob Low confirmed to Fox News Digital that the autopsy of Morphew’s remains “has been completed,” and that Chaffee County Coroner Jeff Graf “will be able to release the autopsy report on Monday.” Let’s hope for.”
Iris Ayton, an attorney representing Morphew’s husband, Barry Morphew, and his family, said in an October 2023 statement, “Morphew’s remains were not found anywhere near her home, the surrounding city or the county in which she lived ”
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“(His) remains were found in a shallow grave in a dry desert plain of sagebrush and natural grasses. Contrary to earlier allegations, his remains were not found in a rocky mountain area near his home, not in a location that ‘ Getting to the ‘hard spot,'” Eaton said at the time.
Autopsy results will likely reveal the cause and manner of Morphew’s death, bringing her family one step closer to answers about her mysterious disappearance and death, four years after she was killed while on a bike ride on Mother’s Day. Had disappeared.
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Authorities announced last week that Morphew’s remains were located in the area of Moffatt, Colorado, in Saguache County — about 45 miles south of her home in Maysville, Colorado, where she was reported missing on May 10, 2020. (Colorado Bureau of Investigation)
Morphew’s bicycle was found the same day in a ravine at the corner of Highway 50 and County Road 225 in Chaffee County, near his family’s Maysville home. Went missing. Barry said he was working in Broomfield, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, at the time.
When Barry was charged he was initially accused of murdering his wife with murder and tampering with physical evidence in connection with her disappearance and presumed death in 2021.
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Barry Morphew was previously accused of his wife’s murder before prosecutors dismissed charges against him in 2022. (Courtesy of Suzanne Morphew’s family)
A year later, prosecutors dropped charges against Barry and said they wanted more time to find his wife’s body. Just before Barry was put on trial, a judge accused 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley of procedural violations.
Barry’s legal team filed a case $15 million lawsuit Against prosecutors and investigators in 2023, accusing them of violating his constitutional rights.
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Suzanne Morphew’s remains were found in a ‘shallow grave’ in 2020, more than three years after she went missing. (Fox News)
Investigators never found any trace of blood near the Morphew home in Maysville or in their family vehicles. DNA foundHowever, on Suzanne Morphew’s glovebox. The partial profile investigators were able to obtain matched profiles developed in sexual assault cases from Chicago, Phoenix and Tempe, Arizona, CBI agent Joseph Cahill said during a hearing in 2021, The Denver Post reported. Barry’s DNA did not match that sample, his lawyers told KUSA-TV at the time.
Susan and Barry’s text messages What was revealed in June 2023 showed that they were having an affair just before her disappearance.
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Suzanne Morphew, 49, went missing on May 10 after leaving her Colorado home to go on a bike ride. (Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office)
Four days before her disappearance, Susan sent Barry a message saying she was “finished”. “I don’t care what you do and have done for years,” he wrote, adding that he needed to figure things out “in a civil manner.”
No other arrests have been made in the case. The charges against Barry Morphew were dismissed without prejudice, so prosecutors may still decide to pursue charges against him.
Authorities are asking anyone with information about the case to contact them at (719) 312-7530.
