Suzanne Morphew Part 1

26:11Listen to me Barry interrupts her and she continues Listen to me. Listen to me I have lived for years being told how I should feel How I should act, how I should look, what I should drink, what I shouldn't drink, what I should put in my body, what I shouldn't put in my body. I fell into this. One really interesting part of this case for me was that early on, investigators couldn't figure out who this Jeff man was. So they began digging. They found that between May 8th and 9th, Suzanne's Facebook page added 23 people as friends. 20 of them were men, and 3 were named Jeff. but none were the Jeff from the recordings.

26:54This Facebook activity was considered abnormal for Suzanne, because she hadn't actually sent a friend request to anyone in the entire year of 2020 until May 8th. This is when her account sent out a mass amount at once. Some people she friended that day say they didn't know her very well, but they knew Barry. Many of them had not spoken to either of them since high school. After finding out Suzanne was missing, one of the men she friended on the 8th called the tip line to report it, saying he hadn't spoken to her in over 30 years, and found it very strange that she suddenly reached out. But as they were conducting these interviews and trying to find out who Jeff was so they could determine what piece of this puzzle he may have, investigators were also working on building a clearer timeline of Barry Morphew's movements leading up to Suzanne going missing.

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29:08It said, quote, I'm done. I could care less about what you've been up to for years. We just need to figure this out civilly. Barry responded, quote, I promise you are wrong about all the crazy thoughts about me. Only a fool would stray from an angel like you. When I'm dead, which won't be long, you guys will be taken care of. Barry sent Suzanne messages that afternoon that appeared to be threatening suicide. He used language like, quote, when I'm dead, going to see my savior, and this life on earth is a mere grain of sand compared to eternity. But here's the thing. These messages weren't actually on Barry's phone.

29:50They had to be recovered, because Barry had deleted them. In fact, he had deleted the entire history of all calls from Suzanne that week. When investigators asked him why, he claimed he didn't remember deleting them. but figured he wanted to free up space. Now, I think it's worth noting that in terms of space on his phone, he had 58 saved voicemails, and none of them were from Suzanne. But to be fair, we don't exactly know what the capacity of that phone was or what space he had left. But let's continue. On Saturday, May 9th, the day before Suzanne went missing, this day where Barry says that he and Suzanne had a great night, they cooked steaks, they had sex, they went to bed early.

30:37This is what we know. Around 11.15am, Suzanne received two messages about resetting her Facebook password. Now, we don't know if this was Suzanne or someone else really trying to change the password, or if her account had been flagged for suspicious activity after making so many friend requests the previous day. Barry's phone showed him arriving home just after this at 11.27am. At about 1.40pm, he started exchanging texts with a contact in his phone labeled Tim Backhoe. He left the house again around 1.50pm. At 2.26, he texted Suzanne that he was headed home. Then at 2.31, quote, did you leave?

31:19According to his phone and his truck, he arrived home again around 2.43, and at 2.47pm, his phone entered airplane mode, which it stayed in all day until 10.17pm that night when he powered it off. He turned it back on at 4.23am. Now, investigators noted that on the night of May 9th through May 10th, Barry's phone pinged in 210 locations. And I'm saying it like that because for context, this is opposed to the nights of May 1st through May 8th, when it only pinged in 0 to 2 locations during the same hours. So obviously, there was something very different about this time period. Data from Barry's truck shows that between 321 and 348 a.m., his truck was at the Morphew residence, but over 80 events occurred, many of them being the doors of the truck opening and closing.

32:18Now, I do want to say that when considering this data from Barry's truck, it's very important to note that it doesn't record all events involving the truck, and that its memory for certain functions automatically deletes itself after some time. So all that to say, just take that number with a grain of salt. Barry left his home around 5am on the morning of the 10th, and investigators know that he turned left on Highway 50, when he normally would have turned right to go to Broomfield, which as a reminder is where he told investigators he was headed for work that morning. Now he did end up eventually turning around and going to Broomfield, making one stop along the way at an RTD bus stop.

32:59Here he threw away some garbage from his truck. He arrived at the Holiday Inn in Broomfield around 8.15am. He then threw away two white trash bags. He left the hotel around 10.06 and went to a nearby McDonald's, where security cameras capture him again throwing away items in two separate McDonald's trash cans. and he was seen on camera pushing something further down into one of the trash cans. Next, he heads to a men's warehouse store, where he throws away some more items. He sits in the parking lot for about 40 minutes before returning to the Holiday Inn in a black t-shirt. Here, he changes at least his shirt and exits his room 20 minutes later in a white t-shirt.

33:44He then heads to the job site, where he stays for about 30 minutes. Then, he goes back to the Holiday Inn, and when he gets back, he throws away another white plastic bag and some black containers. Now, I know that is a lot, so if you didn't keep track, that's a total of five different locations where Barry threw away various items from his truck, which was obviously an immediate red flag to investigators. But let's keep going through the timeline. Stay with me. Barry enters his room at 12.42pm, and then nothing happens for about four and a half hours. This is when he gets that first phone call from Gene Ritter about Suzanne possibly being missing.

34:25But Barry just sits in his hotel room for about 45 minutes until 6.03pm. Then he brings some tools in from his truck and leaves them in the lobby. And he leaves the Holiday Inn's parking lot at 6.12pm. When investigators seized and searched Barry's F-350 after Suzanne's disappearance, they were shocked to find that it was pretty messy, despite all these stops to throw out garbage. When they searched Suzanne's Range Rover, they found her sunglasses, hydration pack that she always took on her bike rides, as well as her purse which held her ID and credit cards. This only further led investigators to believe that she did not go on a bike ride on May 10th.

35:06In fact, they note that there is no evidence that she left her home after 7.06pm on May 8th. There also aren't any witnesses that remember seeing her outside the home besides Barry. When searching Barry's phone, investigators found several deleted web searches that led them to believe Barry was at least considering cheating on Suzanne. Some of them included, quote, Older Man, Younger Woman Relationships, YouTube. Localsnapsext.com. find a cute girl near Salida, and a video called, quote, third base, my first hand job, dear teen diary, ninth grade, entry 14. Also in his deleted searches was, quote, I can't reset my Facebook password because I can't access the mobile number or email on my account.

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37:00Unfortunately, investigators never recovered Suzanne's cell phone, and it did not ping again after 4-23 on May 10th. But they were able to get some information from her iCloud account. They found a note backed up on her iCloud on May 8th, where she lists 50 grievances that she had with Barry. Now, I'm not going to go through them all, but I will go through the most chilling. Now, I have to assume that this first one is an abbreviation of physical. It reads P-H-Y-S abuse. The next one says, chase me around resort and threatened. Mental abuse while drinking, N-Y-E. Name calling. Said I only needed for money.

37:42Not safe alone with you. Can't be trusted. Oppressive. Took phone. Slam on brakes when angry. Gun. Threatened to jump out of car. Shame and guilt daily for not meeting expectations Verbal abuse Your lack of control over me equals insecurities Equals sick relationship And monkey app So let's dig in a little bit deeper to this. It's noted that monkey app refers to a dating app. The note about chasing her around the resort is from a trip to Mexico they took in late 2019. Suzanne told her friends that Barry took her phone to go through it. Another item on the list stated that Barry accused her of having a boyfriend on May 6th.

38:27Now, of course, there's no denying that they're looking at Barry. Barry interviewed with investigators again several times between May and July, and investigators noted that he changed his story quite a bit throughout the interviews. On May 13th, he sat down with CBI agent Joseph Cahill and Chafee County detective Robin Burgess. Here, he gave some background information on his family. They learn that Suzanne is technically unemployed, but does invoicing work for Barry's current business, Sunset Farms LLC. He says they have joint bank accounts, and a 501c3 called the Suzanne R. Morphew Hope Foundation.

39:07Barry says that on a normal day, Suzanne wakes up, has her coffee, reads her Bible, checks her emails, and rides her bike around the neighborhood. He recounts the weekend's events by telling investigators that on May 9th, he was working on a rock beach project. The last text he received from Suzanne came between 11am and noon, when she asked him to pick up some chemicals for their hot tub. He again tells the story about them grilling steaks and says that it was a good time. In fact, he says it was one of the best nights they'd had in a while, because Suzanne, quote, didn't have any chemicals in her.

39:42By chemicals, he says he means the drugs and alcohol he claimed Suzanne was taking. He said they intentionally put their phones away to spend time with one another. He also says that he had preloaded his truck for the trip to Bloomfield the next day, and says he didn't go back outside before he and Suzanne had sex and went to bed before 8pm. He then set his alarm for 4.30am. He tells investigators that he last saw Suzanne wearing short white shorts, and a white string-style shirt when they went to bed. As for the 10th, Barry gave a description of his travel route that did not include the left turn in the direction of where Suzanne's helmet was found.

40:22He also said he went straight to the Holiday Inn, not mentioning the trash run of the bus stop. He says he went to the hotel, rested, then went to the job site around 10am, went to a McDonald's to clean his windshield, then back to the hotel and back to the job site. He says he was at the job site when Gene Ritter called him. So he left the job site, dropped his tools off in the hotel lobby for his crew, then headed back to Salida. Now, when investigators asked him, he originally said that he and Suzanne had no marital problems at all, but eventually admitted that they did fight sometimes. He said Suzanne's alcohol and drug use led her to act hateful towards him and accuse him of trying to control her.

41:07He denied ever having any physical altercations with Suzanne and said he was not physically abusive. During this same interview, Barry listed a few people who he thought may be involved. One of them was a man named Cody Cox, who worked as a contractor for Barry's company. Barry claimed that Cox had threatened to kill him over being fired. He also pointed his finger at one of his neighbors, quote, cleaning lady and her boyfriend. Now, during this interview, Agent Cahill noticed scratches on Barry's upper left arm. When asked, Barry said that they were from a tree while hiking. Investigators also asked Barry to take a polygraph test, but he said he would not consent to something that was not reliable or admissible in court.

41:52After his interview, investigators noted that according to surveillance video, Barry was at the hotel, not the job site when Gene Ritter called him, and that he quickly switched from saying he had a perfect marriage to saying that he and Suzanne fought frequently due to her use of substances. So from here, police go to Barry's co-workers to try to learn more about him. They first interviewed Morgan Gentile, a contractor who Barry hired after she was fired from another company they both worked for. Morgan was with Barry for the Rock Beach project on May 9th and was a part of the Broomfield assignment, and she had a story to tell.

42:29Morgan says that Barry was supposed to pick her up and take her to the job site in Broomfield on Sunday evening at 5.30 p.m., not a.m. But she says that around 11.18 a.m., Barry called her and says she needed to bring an extra person to work on the wall. Morgan said she agreed to bring contractor Jeff Puckett and that Barry didn't provide an explanation as to why he went to Broomfield early and didn't pick her up like he said he would. She says that around 6.09pm, he called her to say he had a family emergency and was leaving Broomfield, but that he was leaving the tools she and Jeff would need in the hotel lobby.

43:05She says that around 7am on the 11th, Barry called her and said that Suzanne was missing, and he thought a mountain lion may have attacked her. Now, investigators actually go back and interview her a second time, and in this interview, she revealed even more. She says that Jeff ended up staying in the hotel room Barry left, And then when she opened the door, she smelled chlorine so strong it made her eyes water. Now, she did say that it did not smell like cleaning chemicals, but like chlorine from a swimming pool. She and Jeff found damp towels on the floor. And Jeff found what he called an insurance document belonging to Barry under one of the pillows.

43:44He threw it away because he didn't know what it was for. Now, Morgan also recounts that when Barry called her around 11.18 on the 10th, he sounded like he was hungover. but she knew that he wasn't because he didn't drink. She says she remembers thinking to herself that he must have had the worst night of his life the night before. And maybe most damning of all, she says that on May 9th, when they were finishing up this rock beach project, she made a comment to Barry, asking him if he knew that pigs could eat a whole human body in only two hours. She says Barry responded that he could, quote, bury a body, and it would never be found.

44:24Investigators also interviewed Cody Cox, the man that Barry said threatened him over being fired. When police interviewed Cox on the 14th, he said that the contractor, Jeff Puckett, that same one helping Morgan finish the Broomfield project, had started a rumor that Cox said that he wanted to fight Barry for firing him. Cox says that although he was not happy with being fired, he had never physically threatened Barry. He described Suzanne as a nice lady, saying she had brought cookies to his children. He denied having anything to do with her disappearance and was cleared. So they go back to Barry.

45:00This time he's interviewed by Agent Cahill and his partner for the case, Agent Derek Graham. This happened on May 21st. They were there to review Suzanne's victimology packet. Here, they once again found discrepancies in his story. Agents asked him if he set an alarm for 4.30 on Sunday morning, and this time he says he just woke up by himself without an alarm. They asked why he didn't pick up Morgan like he said he would, and he answered that it was because she smokes. They asked about the insurance documentation found in the hotel room, and he says it must have belonged to the guy who stayed in the room after him.

45:38Barry also said that the room probably smelled like chlorine because the hotel used it to clean for COVID. In this interview, Barry also discussed Suzanne's drug and alcohol use more, saying she abused antidepressants, and he begged her to stop taking pills because they made her mean and angry. He also said Suzanne's alcohol use increased when the girls left to go on their camping trip, because she didn't have to hide it from their youngest daughter. Barry said he didn't feel bad about leaving Suzanne on Mother's Day because he thought the girls were going to be home at lunchtime. When filling out this victimology questionnaire for Suzanne, Barry wrote sex as an answer for, quote, what would be the number one reason someone would want to make Suzanne disappear?

46:21When asked about this, he replied, quote, because my wife is beautiful, and that's my nightmare right now. Like if somebody's got her, and sexually abusing her right now as we speak. During the same interview, he said, quote,

46:42Other statements he made on this day include him saying he gave her$300 to$400 a week in spending money, and that she never had to go to an ATM, because Barry was the ATM. He also revealed that he did have the passcode to Suzanne's phone. Another discovery that investigators believe to be a key piece of evidence is a plastic cap or needle sheath that they found in the dryer of the Morphew home. This was along with the sheets that had been stripped off one of the daughter's beds. They theorized that maybe this came from a tranquilizer dart, and that Barry may have shot Suzanne with a tranquilizer before killing her.

47:19It's worth noting that he did do a lot of hunting, and did use tranquilizer darts to shoot deer and other animals. An officer took an empty new dart box, a hypodermic cover, a dart found in a box under a bench in the garage, and a new dart book from the home as evidence. In another brief interview with Agents Cahill and Graham, Barry told them that he had not used tranquilizer darts since moving to Colorado, but that he did use them in Indiana to shoot deer. Disney's Lilo and Stitch has finally landed on Disney+. Now you can watch the global phenomenon at home with your Ohana. Be good for one second.

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49:20Barry told Grusing that Suzanne would leave him, but would never leave their daughters. and he agreed that an animal attack or bike accident were both unlikely due to the way that her bike and helmet were found. Barry says he thinks Suzanne may have been abducted, and brings up a case of a woman being abducted in Salida in 1980 for comparison. Gruesing told Barry that that case looked like an intimate partner homicide. Barry did not object. Another discrepancy came when Gruesing asked Barry what his last mental image of Suzanne was. If you recall, I know this is a lot of information, but he had previously told investigators that he had last seen her wearing white shorts and a white string-style top.

50:02But now he told Grusing that he didn't see Suzanne on the morning of the 10th, and therefore had no last image of her. Grusing reminded Barry of his previous statements, and just trying to elicit some kind of response from him, asked if he at least remembered seeing a lump under the covers, anything indicating that Suzanne was in bed. Barry responded that he was sure he did see a lump under the covers, and he remembers that Suzanne was breathing. He once again reiterated that everything was fine with Suzanne on the 9th, quote, because there was no alcohol in her. And really, this is why they continue to interview people like this.

50:41They go back and they go back for more details. And that's exactly what happened. In another interview with Agents Cahill and Graham, Barry provided more context for the evening of May 9th. Now he says that when he got home, he and Suzanne went for a hike on the nearby Foos's trail. Then they sat at the lake for a while before going home to grill those steaks. He says they were probably gone for an hour and a half. Then they probably watched TV and that Suzanne was always on her computer. He says Suzanne made the potatoes while he made the steaks. And while she was doing the dishes, he went outside to change the pin on the bobcat.

51:18Now, of course, while they're interviewing Barry, they're interviewing a lot of people in the background, and they're getting mixed opinions about Barry. Some of his friends maintained that he would never do anything to hurt Suzanne, while others weren't so sure. A man named Brad told officers that they'd been good friends with Barry for over 20 years. He said Barry was, quote, hard-headed and strong-willed, big-time controlling over Suzanne. When asked what he thought happened, he said he was scared to say what he really thought, but that he did think Barry got pissed off and accidentally killed Suzanne.

51:53He said Barry could never be wrong and would never admit to what he did. Brad also commented that Barry was great with a skid steer and could have easily buried her. Another friend, Kurt, said that he knew Barry since childhood and was close to both Barry and Suzanne. When first asked, he said that he didn't think Barry was capable of killing Suzanne. But by the end of the interview, he turned to an officer and said, quote, I think he killed her. A man named John called Suzanne's tip line to report that he worked on a landscaping project with Barry in Indiana in 2017, and he'd gotten into a physical altercation initiated by Barry.

52:35He says he remembers, quote, Evil in Barry's eyes. and said that what he heard about Suzanne didn't sound good based on what he knew about Barry. A man named Ted said that he and Barry would raise deer in Indiana to sell their horns and that Barry would slit his throat if he knew Ted was talking to the FBI about him. Another man, Matt, told police that he had purchased Barry's business in Indiana for$400 ,000 when it was really worth about$20 ,000. He felt that Barry had deceived him. Another of Barry's acquaintances from Indiana, George, said Barry was involved in a lot of shady business deals, and that working with him was like making a deal with the devil.

53:16When asked what he thought about Suzanne's disappearance, George answered that Barry was, quote, guilty for sure. He also called Barry a good liar, and said he would, quote, tell you something you know damn well is not true. And we go back to Barry. When Agents Cahill and Graham interviewed Barry on June 17th, they asked if anything had been a first for Suzanne leading up to her disappearance. Basically, was there any change in her activity? Was anything new in their lives? Barry said that she started taking THC and CBD edibles and oils about a month, quote, before she left. He gave them a phone number of a man named Tim, who he said he was buying the THC and CBD from.

53:59Barry also said Suzanne was, quote, buying drugs off the street. And whoever was selling her drugs needed to be looked into as a suspect. Now, I think it's very worth noting that by this time that Suzanne and Barry got to Colorado, marijuana had been legal for quite some time. So there really would have been no need for Suzanne to buy drugs off the street. But police did track down this man who they call CBD Tim in documents. He says he met Suzanne at a farmer's market in 2018. She told him about her cancer relapsing, and said she wanted to try some non-traditional treatment methods to buy herself some time.

54:38He says Suzanne and Barry purchased hemp oil from him four times over the last two years. And once, Barry had initiated the purchase himself by calling and saying Suzanne's cancer had returned, and she, quote, needed more oil. Tim is confused in all this. He says to him it doesn't seem like there was any conflict between Barry and Suzanne over Suzanne's use of the oil, and he didn't think that she was using it in secret. On June 25th, Barry interviews again. This time he tries to place blame on Suzanne's family, saying that the Mormons were involved in marijuana, and that they may have had something to do with her disappearance.

55:16He called Suzanne's sister Melinda wicked, and said that Suzanne's brother David was, quote, smart enough to do something like this. In that same interview, he tells agents that he suspects Suzanne may have been having an affair with Kurt, that same Kurt who has been Barry's friend since childhood, who admitted that he thought Barry killed Suzanne. Barry says that he never looked at Suzanne's phone, because he didn't want to betray her trust. He said Suzanne, however, went through his phone all the time. And again, he makes another, in my opinion, odd comment about sex. He says sex is a motive for someone to have taken her, saying that Suzanne had the body of a 30-year-old, and, quote,

56:03And finally, on July 8th, Agents Cahill and Graham sat Barry down for their lengthiest interview yet. Barry was asked if he threw anything away at the hotel, to which he responded, quote, He stated twice that he didn't take anything into the hotel with him besides his backpack. The agents asked him about the trash in his truck, and Barry said it was just wrappers and bottles that accumulated over the week. He says he threw those things away when he went to a gas station to grab a granola bar. He also said that he might have thrown away some old boots that were in the back of his truck. The agents report that they told him multiple times that he threw away more than just boots, and he said, quote, If there's clothes in my truck, there's probably just old clothes that I threw away.

56:51Barry once again told the story of what he and Suzanne did on the 9th, telling agents that when he came home, he and Suzanne sat outside in the sun and hiked foozes. He says that when they got back, Suzanne read while he tinkered with things in the garage, then they grilled a steak. He says they cooked a single steak and split it, but ate off separate plates. And the agents say, we only found one plate in the dishwasher. Barry responds that he must have hand-washed his plate. Again, he's just contradicting himself here. When the agents brought up the lack of activity on Suzanne's phone after Barry arrived at home around 2.45, Barry said that since the girls were out of state, Suzanne most definitely would have left her phone on.

57:31And again, this contradicts him saying that they put their phones away to enjoy the night together. They also asked Barry why he took a shower before he left home and then again when he reached the hotel, and he said that showers relax him. They also told him that he changed shirts twice after arriving at the hotel, to which he said, quote, I change shirts all the time. Barry told agents that when Gene Ritter called him to let him know that she couldn't find Suzanne, he was at the job site and packed up his tools and then took them back to the hotel. But these agents told him that we know that you were at the hotel when you received that phone call and Barry didn't refute their claims.

58:11They asked when was the last time Suzanne threatened to leave you and Barry said he didn't know and that he didn't recall Suzanne ever saying she was going to leave him. They asked if Suzanne had told him she was, quote, done. And he said, quote,

58:29After this interview, another search warrant was issued for their home. While it was reported that bags of evidence were removed, according to documents, nothing really came of this. Also according to documents, Berry initiated a title change for Suzanne's Range Rover on July 13th, 2020, and sold it on July 16th. just two months after Suzanne was last seen. And Barry had also withdrawn all the money from the Suzanne R. Morphew Hope Foundation bank account, which was about$6 ,000. Now this is a big case, and all these interviews do matter. But of course, at the same time, Suzanne has a family that's grieving her.

59:09And by September, Suzanne's brother Andy was tired of waiting on police to find her. At a vigil for Suzanne held in Indiana, Andy took the opportunity to begin recruiting people for a search. His goal was to bring a thousand people to Colorado. He told the media, quote, We were quiet for a while because the investigators asked that of us, but it's time now to rally the troops and go west to find her. Andy did a great job. He ended up gathering about 400 people to participate in a five-day search. This was an all-out, all-terrain search. Andy brought a flat-bottom boat and two kayaks and encouraged people to bring their four-wheelers, their dirt bikes, anything they could use to search these rugged areas.

59:54They combed fields, hiked mountain trails, and climbed steep and dangerous slopes in a search for any sign of Suzanne. Now, Chaffee County Sheriff John Speezy made a statement that deputies could not officially take part in this search because of liability concerns, but that they would be on standby in case the search yielded any evidence. But Andy told the Denver Gazette that he believed law enforcement had stopped physically searching for Suzanne, saying, quote,

1:00:25Now, Barry was noticeably absent from this search. Andy also told the media that he believed his sister was the victim of foul play and that she was mentally abused and not in control of her marriage. According to Andy and several articles from various sources, when the search teams tried to search the Morfew property, Barry came out of the house with a gun over his shoulder and asked them to leave. However, it is worth mentioning that the next day he did allow searchers to look on the property. Andy told KOAA News, I think everybody probably knows what happened. I'm literally just there to search.

1:01:06I need to find her, need to bring her home, give her a proper burial, and closure for my family. And that's my point. I'm not about finding somebody guilty or trying to inflict punishment on anyone. That's not my job. That's law enforcement's job. During the searches, canines showed interest in three areas. The first was a site along the Arkansas River, but investigators found no connection to Suzanne in this area. The dogs also showed interest in a property near the Morfew home and in an unincorporated area of Chafee County. These areas were excavated and nothing was found. After Andy's search concluded, rumors circulated that Suzanne's body had been recovered, but the sheriff's office confirmed that she had not been located.

1:01:57A quote suspicious item was also located during the search, but investigators did not reveal what it was or if it had any connection to Suzanne. After Andy went back to Indiana, no real leads were generated for several months. According to reporting by the Denver Gazette and their affiliated publication Out There Colorado, several sets of human remains were found in the fall of 2020 that many hoped would be Suzanne's but were found to have no connection to her. But in November, investigators got the break they'd been looking for. They finally identified the man Suzanne was having an affair with as Jeff Libler.

1:02:40Come back next week for part two, where I discuss Jeff, the eventual charges brought against Barry, and where the case is today. But as always, thank you, I love you, and I'll talk to you next time.

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