Suzanne Morphew Part 2

26:19Investigators spoke to another couple, Laura and Andrew that the Morpheus knew through church. Suzanne had confided in Laura that she was taking classes to become an athletic trainer, because she felt it would give her a second chance at life. Andrew said Barry told him that he did not take a polygraph because he wouldn't pass it. And Lara says Barry called her in December 2020 and told her, quote, Suzanne's not dead. She's coming back. Investigators also tracked down that contact titled Tim Backhoe in Barry's Phone, the guy he was texting on the 9th. It was a man Barry was inquiring with about purchasing a backhoe attachment for the bobcat.

26:56During the time in between him having lunch with Suzanne and when he came back, he went to Tim's house to see this attachment, but decided not to buy it. Tim says that this attachment could be used to dig a deep hole in a short amount of time. By April 26, 2021, police say that over 1 ,400 tips have been called in, each one investigated, and none provided any other legitimate suspect other than Barry Morphew. So on May 4th, 2021, nearly one year since Suzanne was last seen, Judge Patrick Murphy of Colorado's 11th Judicial District signed an arrest affidavit for Barry Morphew. He was being charged with murder in the first degree, tampering with physical evidence, and attempting to influence a public servant.

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29:10Today is not the day for celebration, nor does it mark the end of this investigation. Rather, it is a next step in this very difficult, but very important journey as we seek justice for Suzanne and her family. My team read the 129-page affidavit, and most of the evidence and the interviews and outlines are the evidence you've heard so far in these episodes, but very little if any of this information was known to anyone but investigators before this affidavit was signed. The introduction to the affidavit reads in part, quote, Suzanne took clear, articulable steps in January 2020 in attempts to separate and divorce from her husband Barry.

29:49She told her family and close friends about her intentions, secretly recorded her notes of abuse in her phone, because Barry monitored it, confronted Barry in arguments that she secretly recorded with help from a friend, and finally sent him a text four days before she disappeared saying that she was done. Let's handle this civilly. Barry, however, initially represented to investigators from CBI, FBI, and CCSO that his marriage with Suzanne was perfect, and she had no intention of leaving him. Barry's statements about his actions on the days before and after Suzanne's disappearance have been proven to be false and misleading by this investigation.

30:28Barry knowingly destroyed evidence that his relationship with Suzanne was deteriorating, and that he was involved in her disappearance and homicide. On May 6, 2021, exactly one year after Suzanne sent him the text saying, I'm done, Barry Morphew made his first appearance in court with a public defender representing him. He reportedly didn't say anything other than yes sir to the judge when asked if he understood his charges. A protective order was also put in place so Barry could contact Mallory and Macy. And in a very strange turn of events, the next week Barry made headlines again, when court documents revealed that he was also accused of submitting a fraudulent vote for Donald Trump on Suzanne's behalf.

31:10This happened in October 2020 when he knew she was missing. The county clerk's office said that they received a suspicious mail-in ballot from Suzanne Morphew, but it lacked her signature, which is required by law. Barry Morphew, however, had signed it as a witness. When interviewed by the FBI in April, they asked him why. He said, quote, Just because I wanted Trump to win. I just thought, give him another vote. All these other guys are cheating. When told this was a crime, Barry replied that he didn't know you couldn't vote on your spouse's behalf. So, charges of felony forgery and misdemeanor ballot fraud were added to Barry's record.

31:47And they weren't the only ones, because on May 18th, Barry was also charged with possessing a short rifle, a weapon that is banned in Colorado, and tampering with a deceased human body. The public servants who he's accused of trying to influence were listed as well. They include Joseph Cahill, Derek Graham, Jonathan Grusing, and Alexander Walker, the chief investigator with the district attorney's office. Now, the affidavit was not public at this time, but media organizations were desperate to get their hands on it. According to the Associated Press on June 7, 2021, quote, A coalition of news media organizations, including the Associated Press, had petitioned the court for the release of the 130-page document arguing, in part, that the public has a presumptive right to know what led to Morphew's May 5 arrest.

32:37However, that same day, Judge Murphy declared that the affidavit would remain sealed until after the preliminary hearing. A hearing was held on July 26 prior to the start of the preliminary hearings. At this point, Berry had hired a high-profile defense attorney, Iris Eton. In what would be the first of many bumps in the road for the prosecution, the judge said that the defense was lacking access to some of the evidence they were supposed to have received in June. So let's go through the hearings. The first of four preliminary hearings was held on August 9th. In this hearing, Commander Alex Walker was questioned by District Attorney Linda Stanley and cross-examined by Defense Attorney Drew Nielsen.

33:18They outlined Barry's initial response to his wife being missing on May 10th, 2020, and investigators finding her bicycle undamaged that evening. Drew Nielsen, one of Barry's attorneys, stated that although the couple had spats, they always made up. He also noted that Barry did not protest his home and truck being treated like a crime scene. Nielsen asked Walker if any of Suzanne's blood had been found in the home, including the bedroom with no sheets. Walker responded, no. Nielsen then asked if Suzanne's blood had been found at any point in the investigation, to which Nielsen also answered, no.

33:54Nielsen pointed out that even after extensive searches using a number of resources, law enforcement was unable to locate Suzanne's body to prove that she was dead. Nielsen also brought up the unidentified male DNA found in Suzanne's Range Rover, saying it partially matched an entry in CODIS, but no other information about it was given on this day. The details of Suzanne's affair with Jeff Libler were also discussed heavily on this day. Berry's lawyer said that Suzanne kept a lot of secrets, and didn't even tell her sister or best friend about her nearly two-year affair. They also bring up that in conversations between Jeff and Suzanne, she mentions that at one point they could move to Ecuador together, and she could teach language, theorizing that maybe this is where Suzanne went.

34:39In the second day of the preliminary hearing on August 10th, FBI agent Jonathan Grusing testified about the data collected from Barry's cell phone and his truck movements. He pointed out that according to the truck, the doors were opened and closed several times between 3.25am and 3.51am. although Barry says he didn't wake up until 5. He also said that around the same time, Barry's phone pinged near a location where Suzanne's bike was found. However, he did state that because of how poor the service was in the area, that was inconclusive. Grucing discussed Barry's five trash runs, and addressed that although Barry told his neighbor that he was at the job site when he called about Suzanne being missing around 5, surveillance video confirmed that he didn't leave his hotel room between 12.42 and 5.55pm.

35:28This is the picture that Grusing paints. On May 9th, Barry came home to find Suzanne sunbathing and talking to Jeff. He says Barry's phone pings indicate him running around the house, presumably chasing Suzanne. This is the same time that Barry's phone goes into airplane mode. Suzanne was still receiving new messages from Jeff while Barry's phone was moving rapidly around the house. When Drew Nielsen questioned Agent Grusing, he pointed out that neighbors did not report hearing any unusual noises. Gru Sing brought up the point that Barry Morphew spoke to law enforcement 23 times in 2020, but never made the claim that he was chasing and shooting chipmunks until earlier in 2021.

36:07Nielsen says that the pattern the prosecution claims Barry was moving with his phone would have had him moving through walls at an impossible speed. The prosecution also accused Barry of looking for another woman to date, saying that he had searched AshleyMadison.com and other sites. then deleted his web history. The defense then questioned Grusing on the things that he chose not to include in his testimony, like Barry visiting Salida Stove and Spa between 4.30 and 5pm on May 9th. The employee who interacted with him didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. There is also a receipt and surveillance to confirm that Barry made this stop to buy those hot tub chemicals.

36:45Grusing also said that Suzanne's phone had apparently tried to make an outgoing phone call at 2.53 a.m. on May 10th, shortly before Barry's truck doors opened. Drew Nielsen replied that maybe Suzanne was the one opening the truck doors. The third hearing was held on August 23rd, and this centered around the supposed needle sheath found in the dryer and the ammunition found on the Morpheus' bedroom floor. In the afternoon, testimony was presented that Barry asked investigators about receiving immunity in the case. They also discussed the location of Suzanne's bike helmet, and Barry's lawyer argued that the tire tracks from where the helmet was found didn't match Barry's F-350 or either of their Range Rovers.

37:26She also said that the DNA found inside the helmet did not match Barry. It was revealed that Barry's DNA was also not a match on the needle sheath cap. And if you recall from episode 1, they also discuss why Barry's room may have smelled like chlorine. The defense presented a letter from the manager of the Holiday Inn where Barry was staying, and apparently his room was directly above an indoor pool, which could account for the chlorine smell that his co-workers reported. But there's a caveat to this. They don't know if the pool was open or closed because of COVID restrictions. On day four, they discussed Barry's left turn on the morning of the 10th, placing him in the area where Suzanne's helmet was found.

38:08Investigators showed photographs of the scratches on Barry's arm that, quote, appeared to be caused by fingernails. However, perhaps the most intense moment was when Iris Eton called FBI agent Joseph Cahill to the stand. She wanted answers about the male DNA found on Suzanne's glove box. Eton stated that agent Cahill was listed as the CBI contact on letters sent to law enforcement agencies in Tempe, Phoenix, and Chicago, informing them that a partial match to the CODIS profile of a man accused of sexual assault in all three cities was retrieved from Suzanne's Range Rover. Cahill testified that he was not aware of the letters at the time that they were sent, but did become aware of them when the district attorney's office gave them to him later on.

38:54Cahill further testified that he did not follow up on the CODIS matches. He did, however, hear from a Chicago detective who said that he'd follow up on the match, but never checked back in to see if he actually had. Etan asked Cahill if a DNA match from CODIS should be followed up on as an investigative lead, and Cahill said yes. Ultimately, at the end of day four, the defense tried to poke holes in the prosecution's theory by bringing up the unidentified DNA matches on Suzanne's bike helmet and bike, as well as the DNA from her car that partially matched the CODIS profile of the sex offender, Barry's visit to the hot tub store, and the pings on Suzanne's phone after the time the prosecution says he killed her.

39:38Nearly every aspect of the evidence we've discussed so far was mentioned in these preliminary hearings, and it was truly four days of them just going back and forth, so I didn't cover every single thing mentioned in those hearings, but you get the point of how confrontational this whole thing was. Even after these four days of testimony, Judge Murphy postponed his decision as to whether or not Barry should stand trial. But on September 17th, Judge Murphy ruled that Barry Morphew would stand trial for Suzanne's murder.

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41:08That's how good leads the way. The prosecution requested a$10 million bond, but Judge Murphy reduced it to$500 ,000 cash only. Barry posted bail and was let out of jail on an ankle monitor. Less than two weeks later on September 29th, Barry's friend, Shoshona Dark, the one he was seen at the hotel with earlier that year, was arrested for trespassing on the Morpheus' former property, the house Suzanne went missing from. Now, this had already been sold to another family, and she was apparently caught on security cameras picking up a package from the front of the home. The new owner state that there was a clear no trespassing sign posted.

41:48In the end, Dark cooperated with police and was charged with second-degree criminal trespassing She was released on bond On October 7th, prosecutors filed a motion requesting stricter terms on Barry's bail saying that the ankle monitor he was wearing was sometimes undetectable because of poor service where he was staying Now, Barry was actually staying with his former neighbors, the Cushmans the same neighbors from Puma Path who he said came out of the house with a gun when Sheila and Suzanne said he was stalking them. Court documents state that Barry was renting a home near the courthouse, which was well within the reach of cell towers, but he refused to stay there.

42:28Now, like many cases, Suzanne's case saw many changes in leadership over the years. The first big change on the case came in October 2021, when a key prosecutor, the deputy district attorney, Jeff Lindsay, resigned. DA Linda Stanley assured the media that this wouldn't affect Suzanne's case negatively, and that she was going to hire four additional prosecutors, one of which would be specifically dedicated to the Morphew case. And as always, there's a lot going on at once. Documents filed the same week accused the prosecutors and law enforcement of intentionally withholding key evidence from the defense.

43:04This evidence, of course, is that DNA sample from Suzanne's car, that potential match to a serial sex offender. These documents stated that under New Colorado law, those involved could be tried civilly for defamation and false arrest. Berry's attorneys allege that the prosecution knew the identity as early as August 2nd, before the preliminary hearing. The document also alleges that they intentionally waited until Berry was ordered to go to trial, and thus, quote, conspired to commit a fraud upon the court by withholding exculpatory evidence. The prosecution countered that it wasn't addressed because it was only a partial profile, but Linda Stanley admitted in an official response that when the alert went out on June 2nd that the sample was a potential match to a serial sex offender, the forensics team did not do any work on it.

43:54Around this same time, the court issued protective orders against Barry for over 10 people. This includes all of Suzanne's siblings, two of Suzanne's closest friends, and one of Barry's employees. Berry was also asked to leave the Puma Path area while Gene and Martin Ritter installed a security fence. According to the prosecution, the Ritters are afraid of Berry. In a status hearing on October 9th, Judge Murphy was exasperated by how long the court had to spend hearing defense motions and called their tactic, quote, old and a bit broad. Still, Iris Etan maintained that there are, quote, outrageous discovery violations by prosecutors.

44:36The prosecution denied having hidden evidence from the defense. Now, Barry's friend, Shoshona Dark, was set to be a witness in the upcoming trial, but apparently her lawyer is a close and personal friend of Judge Patrick Murphy. Barry's defense team formally asked him to step down, and on December 30th, he did. Judge Murphy admitted that he had been a close friend of Dark's attorney for over 40 years, and that the attorney is the godfather of his niece. So, after the first of the year, Judge Ramsey Lama was assigned to the case. And let's just say he was not as patient with the prosecution as Judge Murphy was.

45:14His first act in the case was to order the prosecution to turn over all police reports and videos from their 20-month investigation into Suzanne's disappearance over to the defense team. In January, Agent Joseph Cahill, one of the primary investigators on the case, who conducted many interviews with Barry, left the CBI altogether. He had stepped down from the Morphew case in August. The Denver Gazette reported that he stepped down two days before CBI's internal affairs launched an investigation into him because his personal weapon went off inside his home while he was off duty. In late January hearings, Barry was granted permission to travel to see his daughters while out on bond, and more texts between Suzanne and Sheila were revealed, including one where Suzanne wrote, quote, he's not stable.

46:02It's guilt and desperate measures he's taking. A screenshot was retrieved from Suzanne's iCloud showing that she was learning to say romantic messages in Spanish, and Iris Etan was quick to remind prosecutors that Suzanne discussed running away to Ecuador. On February 1st, Judge Lama ruled that Barry's trial would be moved out of Chafee County and into Fremont County, because he said with the amount of pre-trial publicity the case had gotten, and Salida's small population, Berry couldn't receive a fair jury trial there. In a hearing on February 11th, Judge Lama ruled that he will not allow Sheila Oliver to testify about domestic violence between Berry and Suzanne.

46:43At this point, it seemed like things were on a downward slope for the prosecution, but things only got worse for them in March, because former investigator Joseph Cahill spoke out to say that he believed Barry's arrest was premature, and was the, quote, worst decision that could be made. Because of this, the defense motioned to have the case dismissed. The prosecution called this motion, quote, utter nonsense, and Linda Stanley said Cahill had already been discredited as an official, so his opinion didn't matter. Stanley also accused Cahill of being, quote, put out, because he was out of town when the arrest was made.

47:22It was revealed that Cahill said that there was a, quote, erosion in the framework of the case he and agent Derek Graham had built against Barry Morphew. On March 4th, it was reported by the Denver Gazette that law enforcement was now saying that there was probable cause to arrest Barry, but they disagreed with when Barry was arrested. An agent testified that agents Cahill and Graham asked him to investigate more before Barry was arrested, but he was arrested anyway. On April 8th, Judge Lama issued a 20-page order in which he criticized the prosecution for being, quote, sloppy and reckless, and declared that the prosecution's offenses were so brazen that he wasn't going to allow 14 of the state's 16 expert witnesses to testify.

48:08These witnesses included experts on cell phone records, DNA, and telematic vehicle data. And this truly seems like the final blow for the case, because on April 19, 2022, only nine days before the trial was set to begin, the state motioned to dismiss the charges without prejudice pending further investigation. Judge Lama granted the motion, and charges against Barry Morphew were dropped. He walked out of the courtroom a free man. Carol McKinley of the Denver Gazette reported, quote, the case was dismissed for lack of evidence by its own prosecution team, and the air was so tense in the courtroom a service dog whined as if to comfort people observing the proceedings.

48:54Now, of course, for the charges to be dropped without prejudice means that they can be refiled at a later date, if more evidence is obtained. The state said that the evidence they needed was Suzanne's body, and they claimed that they believed that they were close to finding it. They just needed to wait for the snow to melt so they could excavate a certain area. In the weeks following, the Morpheus address the public for the first time by appearing on Good Morning America. In the interview, Barry sits between his two daughters, holding each of their hands, and all three of them are in tears. In the interview, Macy says, quote, I just hope that Linda will step up to the plate and do everything she can to find our mom, because what they've done is not fair and we're never going to stop looking for our mom.

49:38She is referring to Linda Stanley, of course. Etan also appeared on GMA and said, quote, prosecutors need to be held responsible and they need to pay for the damage they've caused Barry, which is frankly nearly irreparable because it is hard for anybody to believe that Barry is not who they claim he was. And this wasn't a hollow threat because on May 7th, Etan announced that she was asking the state to launch an investigation into Linda Stanley and into some of her staff, saying, quote, I've never seen prosecutorial misconduct this egregious in my entire career. She says that the state's claims that no leads led anywhere other than Barry were false and instead says that they intentionally didn't follow up on leads that didn't point to Barry.

50:24She says they never explored the area of the Arkansas River where a dog tracked Suzanne sent to and says that investigators found a half cup of coffee on the counter of the Morphew home, along with a bowl of cat food waiting to be put in a dish. She argues that Barry doesn't drink coffee and never feeds their cat. Now, whether it was from this report or by coincidence, Linda Stanley's law license was temporarily revoked on June 1st, 2022, officially because she failed to complete legal training that was required of her. The Office of Attorney Regulations Council said that Stanley refused to complete her required hours of continuing legal education in 2019, 2020, and 2021, despite receiving reminders to do so.

51:10However, they did say that her license could be reinstated once the hours were completed, which is what happened shortly after. As for the forgery charge Barry was facing, he pled guilty to felony forgery. As a part of the plea, he didn't receive any jail time. Instead, he paid a$600 fine and was given supervised probation for one year. Now, as a side note, I do think it's kind of funny that on that forged ballot, Barry actually voted for Linda Stanley for district attorney on Suzanne's behalf. Now, besides a few failed attempts by Barry to get his chipmunk gun back, everything related to Suzanne's case was pretty quiet in the media until March of this year.

51:52That's when the Denver Gazette reported that Linda Stanley was facing more trouble with the Colorado Supreme Court's Attorney Regulation Council. Two additional complaints were filed about Suzanne's case. One complaint is from a man who participated in searches for Suzanne. He reported Stanley for a lack of professionalism and said, My concerns were further realized when D.A. Stanley failed to provide formal interviews with actual news organizations while holding online interviews about this murder case. with amateur YouTube crime channels. He's referring to Linda going on the YouTube channel Profiling Evil in April 2021.

52:31Our reporter Brooke watched her interview with host Mike King and noted that it was an overall casual interview. She laughed about how Barry was shorter than her and even introduced her husband to the host during the interview. In it, Stanley made sure to reaffirm numerous times that she wasn't doing anything wrong by being on the show. She said, quote,

53:16The second complaint filed against Stanley came from Fremont County Sheriff Alan Cooper, who claimed Stanley's prosecutors lied in court about his deputies, saying that they were not sharing evidence with them. Cooper says it became so bad that he would hand carry evidence to the judge himself, just so he would know the sheriff's office was not withholding documents. Barry's attorney Iris Etan filed another formal complaint against Stanley in April of this year, 2023. She says the prosecution team had tunnel vision when it came to Barry. And Stanley fought back, saying, quote

53:58Now,

54:04later this year, the Attorney Regulation Council themselves released a complaint about Stanley They accuse her of launching a domestic violence investigation into Judge Ramsey-Lama After she received unfavorable rulings in the Morphew case They also rebuke her for text she sent to Mike King of Profiling Evil. That section of the complaint reads, quote, On May 15th, 2021, when Mike King of Profiling Evil texted Stanley, asking her for more information about the short rifle Barry Morphew allegedly used to kill Suzanne Morphew, as had been identified in the complaint, Stanley replied, Um, I will see what I can do.

54:41Only because it's you, Mike. When King texted Stanley and asked her if perhaps Mr. Morphew strangled Suzanne in the hot tub, Stanley replied, We know it wasn't bloody. The hot tub was drained, with crust around the drain areas, indicating it had not been used in a long time. But keep on spinning ideas in your brain. When King texted Stanley and asked her about Suzanne Morphew's car keys, Stanley replied, We think she always left her purse in the car. In June 2021, when King texted Stanley to comment about a new video on Barry Morphew, Stanley replied, I'm great, thanks, we got him, no worries.

55:21In May, Barry filed a$15 million federal civil rights lawsuit against Linda Stanley and her prosecutors. Law enforcement officers including Sheriff John Speezy, and several current and former investigators with the CBI and FBI. The suit alleges that Barry was wrongfully arrested and jailed for a crime he did not commit. The same week the suit was announced, Suzanne's nephew Chris Moorman told the Denver Gazette that he was tired of this legal limbo, and he said none of this has anything to do with finding Suzanne. For the same article, the Gazette spoke to Sheriff Speezy, who said the investigation was open, but by CBI guidelines, if a case went unsolved for more than three years, it's a cold case.

56:07And that's where the case stood, but not for long. On September 22, 2023, investigators conducted a search of Sawatch County, Colorado, but they weren't looking for Suzanne. They were combing an area of Moffat, Colorado in search of clues on the whereabouts of another missing woman, Edna Quintana. Now, I won't go too far into Edna's case, but she was last seen on May 3rd, 2023, walking around Sewatch County. She was 56 at the time of her disappearance. As of this recording, she has not been found and her case remains unsolved. But like we see in so many cases, in their search for Edna, they found someone else.

56:48Investigators uncovered human remains in a shallow grave. On September 27th, they were confirmed to be Suzanne Renee Morphew by her dental records and cancer port. There were 1 ,235 days between when Suzanne was last confirmed to be alive and when her remains were positively identified. This episode is brought to you by 20th Century Studios upcoming comedy, Ella McKay. From Academy Award winning writer-director James L. Brooks, Emma Mackey plays Ella McKay, an idealistic young woman who juggles family and work in a story about the people you love and how to survive them. Featuring an all-star cast, including Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Loudon, Kumail Nanjiani, Iowa Debrey, Julie Kavner, with Albert Brooks and Woody Harrelson.

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58:07So let's talk about where Suzanne was found. Moffat is part of Sawatch County, and is about 36 miles south of the Morpheus' former home in Maysville. According to Tom Perrin, the Sawatch County coroner, the bones were found in a remote area, which he describes as a desert field of sagebrush and natural grasses. He said it appeared that Suzanne had been buried in a shallow grave before her remains were scattered. Suzanne's sister Melinda told the Denver Gazette, This is a miracle. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Colorado is a vast and rugged place, and we have prayed that God would put light on where she is.

58:47It's a day of great sadness, but a day of celebration. So, what happens now? After the case against Barry was dismissed, investigators in Chafee County said that their number one priority was to find Suzanne's body. They believed they knew where her remains were, which of course ended up not being the case. Charges can be brought against Barry again, but only if investigators can tie him to the body or discover other relevant evidence. Iris Etan and other sources close to the investigation were quick to confirm that GPS data from Barry's truck and tracking evidence from his cell phone do not show that he was in Sawatch County at the time.

59:30However, it is worth noting that it was previously determined that Barry's truck does not record each and every event that occurs, and there are many hours on the evening of May 9th and early morning of May 10th in which Barry is unaccounted for, because his phone was in airplane mode. There were two Range Rovers at the Morphew house that day, and telematic data from those vehicles has not been made public. Of course, we can't forget about that male DNA found on the glove box of Suzanne's car. It is a partial match to the perpetrator of three sexual assault cases. It's also worth noting that the partial samples of male DNA found on Suzanne's bicycle seat, handlebars, and helmet is still unidentified.

1:00:11So what happened to Suzanne? How was she killed? Was she killed in Swatch County or just buried there? Although finding Suzanne's body adds a lot of new questions and layers to this case, it might just be what the case needs to get a fresh start. Now her case will be investigated by Sowatch County Sheriff's Department, not Chaffee County. Sowatcha County Sheriff Dan Warwick told the Denver Gazette, quote, It will become a joint effort between every investigative agency which has any interest in the case. I don't know that this is starting over, but I can say that we are getting fresh eyes on the case.

1:00:50The Sowatch County Sheriff's Department is notably smaller than Chaffee County, having only 8 or 9 employees, but Warwick says this will not prevent him from finding answers in Suzanne's case. He said, quote, I don't give a damn what it takes, I'll make it happen. Whatever it takes, we'll make it work. Which brings me right to our call to action. Please share Suzanne's case. It's far from over, and there are so many unanswered questions that could lead to finding answers for her loved ones. There is always hope.

1:01:27As a reminder, Suzanne Morphew was last known to be alive at her home in Maysville, Colorado on May 9, 2020. Her remains were located in Moffitt, Colorado in 2023. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is asking anyone with information about Suzanne's disappearance to email cdpssuzannemorphewtipline at state.co.us or call the tip line at 719-312-7530. But as always, thank you, I love you, and I'll talk to you next time.

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1:02:47Thank you.

1:03:30Welcome to the Secret After Show. I don't do a lot of two-parters. This is a very, very difficult case in its own, you know, unique way. and there's no denying getting choked up um it hits really close for home to me and I am extremely thankful to have had Brooke's help in this episode. The goal is to present the facts without my opinion as much as possible and I think the best thing I can say about this case in terms of my personal opinion is that I'm just sending love to Suzanne's daughters and I really hope that they can get some concrete answers very, very soon about their mom. I will also say, please, whatever you think about this case, whether you think Barry is innocent or guilty, whatever you think happened to Suzanne, please don't go after her daughters.

1:04:42At the very least, let's just acknowledge that Suzanne probably wouldn't have liked that. On to other personal, gosh, like I said, this episode really did hit close to home, and there's no denying that. There are just so many things in there, but moving on to what's going on in my life, you guys may have seen that on Twitter, I dropped a little hint about Voices for Justice Media, which is something you guys hear every week in the credits to my show, and that is because I have been in the process of launching a network, a podcast network, for quite some time, and I am so excited to announce what that is coming soon.

1:05:29But right now I can tell you that the first new podcast on Voices for Justice Media Network will be coming to you in early 2024. I am very busy, but everything is very exciting, and there will be a lot more to come in the coming weeks. I can't spoil it, y 'all. I gotta wait. I gotta wait. and you will hear about it, I promise. I can't wait to share it with you guys. It is not only just a podcast, but hopefully, how do I say this without giving it away? Hopefully something larger for true crime, something that offers a unique perspective and something a little bit different that hasn't really been done before.

1:06:18So yeah, I'm very excited about that. I think that it's going to be fantastic and just offer a different perspective in the true crime community that isn't often heard or honestly sometimes respected. So yeah, I can't wait. It's been fantastic and lots more to come. Before I totally give it away, let's move on to our segment of hope. This week's segment of hope comes from 69 News, WFMZ-TV, and the title reads, Berks DA, Arrest Made in Cold Case Homicide of Cynthia Baver. So yes, I am here to talk about another solve. Reading directly from the article, it says, quote, I believe it's Reading, me quote, I believe it's Reading.

1:07:08It says Reading, Pennsylvania, but I believe it's Redding, similar to California. Redding, Pennsylvania, authorities in Berks County held a press conference Friday to announce an arrest in the cold case homicide of a Redding woman that has gone unsolved for over two decades. Berks County District Attorney John Adams was joined by members of the Redding Police Department and the victim's family to announce that the murder of Cynthia Baver has been solved. And why pick this for the segment of hope beyond it just being solved is this part right here. And I could cry. It's so emotional. It's been emotional a few weeks covering this case.

1:07:46So just bear with me. Oh my gosh. And can you hear my laptop going into overdrive? I could cook waffles on it right now. But essentially, this case was reopened at the urging of her dad, who's in his 90s. They reopened the case in 2021. So let's talk about what happened. The article reads, 46-year-old Baber was found unconscious inside her home in Redding, California in April of 2001. It appeared that she suffered fractures to her forehead and stab wounds, and that there were ligature marks on her neck. Her death was ruled a homicide. They were able to recover apparently a bunch of blood at the scene that was not hers, and there was no match at that time in 2001.

1:08:33And this led to 62-year-old Timothy Bernard, who admitted that he was from Virginia and lived next door to Baver at the time of her murder. Now, he says that he actually heard noises through the walls of her home and knocked on her first floor window to complain about the noises, but just went back into his home. But again, his blood was a direct match to the blood found at the scene, and he is charged with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, burglary, and related offenses. But yeah, that is our segment of hope. Again, gosh, I'm so emotional today. It's just, I mean, it's just the coolest show of hope for families to not give up.

1:09:17I mean, obviously, 2001 is a year I'm very familiar with. I know exactly how long that feels and how long that is. And I mean, I just want to say if you're a family out there, don't be afraid to keep pushing. Of course, try to do it in the most polite and business way that you can just to keep that relationship good with police. That's my advice. But look what can happen when you push. You know, you get a case reopened after so many years. they throw some DNA into a database. Of course, it's not that simple, but there is always hope. With that being said, thank you, I love you, and I'll talk to you next time.