Barry Morphew murder case: Husband made five “trash runs” on day wife went missing, FBI agent says

On the time Barry Morphew’s woman was reported missing, helium spent the greeting throwing distant items successful trash cans and ample trash bins astatine 5 locations adjacent Broomfield, hours distant from his Chaffee County home, a retired FBI cause testified Tuesday.

Morphew, 53, is accused of sidesplitting his wife, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew, who disappeared from the family’s location adjacent Maysville connected May 10, 2020. Her assemblage and immoderate of her idiosyncratic items person not been found, contempt an extended yearlong search. Authorities charged her hubby with execution successful May 2021.

On Tuesday, retired FBI cause Jonathan Grusing testified successful item astir information collected by Morphew’s motortruck and compartment telephone connected May 9 and 10, 2020. Barry Morphew near his Chaffee County location aboriginal successful the greeting connected May 10 and drove to Broomfield for a landscaping job, Grusing testified. That morning, Morphew appeared to marque 5 “trash runs” astatine assorted spots successful the Broomfield area, helium said.

In the archetypal run, Morphew stopped adjacent to a trash tin astatine an RTD autobus presumption for astir 90 seconds, and the rider and driver’s doors connected his motortruck opened, Grusing testified. He past went to a hotel, and earlier checking in, parked on the backmost adjacent to a trash can, wherever the motortruck doors again opened and closed. He past near the edifice and threw items distant astatine a McDonald’s restaurant, Grusing testified.

When confronted with a video showing that alleged “trash run,” astatine McDonald’s, Morphew astatine 1 constituent told investigators helium was astir apt throwing distant wrappers, and aboriginal said helium couldn’t retrieve what helium was throwing away, Grusing testified. After stopping astatine the restaurant, Morphew went to a trash bin adjacent a Men’s Warehouse store, and spent 40 minutes successful that parking lot, Grusing testified. Later that afternoon, Morphew placed a afloat trash bag, histrion planter and a camouflage overgarment successful a trash bin adjacent the hotel, Grusing said.

Grusing besides testified that idiosyncratic utilized Barry Morphew’s motortruck astatine 3:25 a.m. connected the time his woman went missing. The truck’s operator and rider doors opened astir that time, helium said. And astir 3:51 a.m., Morphew’s compartment telephone appeared to determination to the country wherever his wife’s abandoned bicycle was found, though Grusing testified that the information was inconclusive due to the fact that of the mediocre compartment sum successful the region. The past ping connected Suzanne Morphew’s compartment telephone was astatine 4:23 a.m., Grusing testified. Her telephone has not been found.

Morphew antecedently told investigators his woman was sleeping and helium did not aftermath her astir 5 a.m. erstwhile helium near to spell to Broomfield for the landscaping job. He besides said helium was astatine the occupation tract erstwhile his neighbour called him astatine 5:15 p.m. that time to archer him Suzanne was missing, but surveillance video shows helium was really successful his edifice country astatine that time, and spent precise small clip astatine the occupation tract that day, Grusing testified.

Testimony volition proceed Tuesday day successful the 2nd time of Morphew’s preliminary hearing, which is expected to past 4 days this month.

During the archetypal time of grounds Monday, witnesses revealed that Suzanne Morphew carried connected a astir two-year-long extramarital matter earlier she disappeared.

Two investigators connected the lawsuit testified that the Morphew’s matrimony was struggling, pointing to an statement they had astir wealth and Suzanne’s texted conversations with a adjacent friend, successful which she said she would not consciousness harmless unsocial with her hubby and made plans to question a divorce.