Barry Morphew expected to enter plea in wife’s killing years after her disappearance

Barry Morphew, accused of sidesplitting his woman Suzanne Morphew, is backmost successful tribunal Monday for the archetypal clip successful months, arsenic prosecutors and defence attorneys hole for the adjacent signifier of a lawsuit that began with her disappearance connected Mother’s Day 2020.

Morphew is expected to participate a plea successful an Alamosa County courtroom connected first-degree execution charges tied to his wife’s death.

Suzanne disappeared from the couple’s location successful Chaffee County connected May 10, 2020, prompting a monolithic hunt that initially turned up fewer answers.

Morphew was archetypal charged with her execution successful 2021, but those charges were dropped the pursuing twelvemonth aft prosecutors cited issues with the lawsuit and said they were adjacent to discovering caller grounds that could alteration its direction. His defence squad argued astatine the clip the lawsuit was dismissed due to the fact that prosecutors were improbable to triumph astatine trial.

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Barry Morphew leaves a Fremont County tribunal gathering successful Canon City, Colo., with his daughters, Macy, left, and Mallory, aft charges against him successful the presumed decease of his woman were dismissed Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)

After the charges were dropped, Morphew near Colorado and relocated to Cave Creek, Arizona — much than 600 miles from wherever Suzanne disappeared. While surviving there, helium kept a debased illustration and utilized aliases, including "Bruce" and "Lee Moore." Acquaintances aboriginal told Fox News Digital they were unaware of his transportation to the high-profile Colorado lawsuit until his re-arrest.

Suzanne’s remains were discovered successful September 2023 successful a shallow sedate successful the San Luis Valley, astir an hr southbound of the family’s home. An autopsy aboriginal ruled her decease a homicide.

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Libby Spruill said Barry Morphew flirted with him erstwhile they were astatine Harold's Cave Creek Corral successful 2024. (Libby Spruill)

According to tribunal records, a almighty carnal tranquilizer known arsenic BAM — a operation of butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine — was recovered successful Suzanne's bony marrow. Prosecutors said the beingness of a metabolized signifier of the cause indicates she was live agelong capable to process it, ruling retired accidental oregon biology contamination.

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The indictment alleges Morphew had entree to BAM done his enactment with cervid and was the lone backstage national successful the country known to person the cause astatine the clip of Suzanne’s disappearance. Investigators person besides pointed to grounds involving a tranquilizer dart firearm recovered successful the home, on with telephone and conveyance information they accidental contradict Morphew’s relationship of events.

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Barry Morphew was antecedently booked into the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office)

A Colorado expansive assemblage re-indicted Morphew successful June 2025. He was arrested successful Goodyear, Arizona, extradited to Colorado and aboriginal released connected enslaved successful September aft supporters helped station portion of his $3 cardinal bond. He remains nether location apprehension with an ankle monitor.

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Legal analysts said the defence is expected to absorption connected alternate fishy theories arsenic the lawsuit moves forward.

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Colin McCallin, a Colorado-based lawyer and erstwhile lawman territory attorney, antecedently told Fox News Digital helium expects Morphew’s ineligible squad to situation the prosecution’s communicative and effort to present grounds pointing to different imaginable fishy arsenic proceedings continue.

Fox News Digital’s Adam Sabes contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].