Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Missing Mom Suzanne Morphew Hunted With Dart Gun?

Episode Date: August 13, 2021

More details emerging in the case again the husband of missing mom Suzanne Morphew. At a pretrial hearing for Barry Morphew, investigators shared text messages with the court, showing that Suzanne Morphew told a friend she wanted out of her marriage — but didn’t believe her husband would let her go without a fight. Evidence presented at the hearing includes the last know proof of life for Suzanne Morphew and the fact that Barry Morphew visited the online site 'Ashley Madison,' a hook-up site for married people, and the site Celeb Jihad. During the first day of testimony, investigators reveal that Suzanne Morphew was involved in a two-year affair.Joining Nancy Grace today: Nicole Deborde Hochglaube [HOTCH-GLOBE] - Criminal Defense Lawyer (Houston TX), Former Prosecutor, Twitter: @debordelaw, HoustonCriminalDefense.com Dr. Jorey Krawczyn [KRAW-ZIN] - Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. - Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide” bw-institute.com Dan Corsentino - Former Police Chief (Fountain, Colorado), Former Sheriff, Served on US Homeland Security Senior Advisory Board, Private Investigator www.dancorsentino.com  Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics, Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" Spencer Coursen - Founder and President: Coursen Security Group www.CoursenSecurityGroup.com, Author: "The Safety Trap: A Security Expert’s Secrets For Staying Safe in a Dangerous World", www.TheSafetyTrap.com, Instagram: @s.coursen, Twitter: @SpencerCoursen Lauren Scharf - Reporter, FOX 21 News, @LaurenScharfTV, laurenscharf.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Legal battle rages on in a court of law where we are finally hearing some, a tiny bit of the evidence against husband Barry Morphew and the disappearance of his gorgeous wife, Suzanne Morphew, the mother of his two daughters. We're learning all about his visits to Ashley Madison, you know, for married cheaters to go have sex, celebrity, jihad, sex sites. But where does the missing mom fit in to this scenario? And how does a dark gun factor in? Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I'm learning more about Barry Morphew than I ever wanted to know. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.

Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Sirius XM 111. But it's details like celebrity jihad, where allegedly jihadists post pictures of naked celebrities. I think I've got that right. It could be completely bass-ackwards. A dart gun? A fake job site, a missed Mother's Day celebration. I mean, how are we going to prove murder with no body? First of all, you've got to hear what is happening in the courtroom. Now, why the state, the prosecutors decided to have a preliminary hearing? I don't know. That's a legal conundrum. A preliminary hearing is held, for instance, when you need to have a case bound over for trial.

But you could just go to the grand jury, a secret grand jury, as they are all secret, present one or two witnesses, and get a bill of indictment for murder. But with a prelim, you put your witnesses on parade, and the defense gets a dry run on cross-examination. It's like playing poker and just laying all your cards on the table. That's a bad idea. That said, what have we learned? Take a listen to Mark Salinger, Nine News, Denver. We're hearing details about the days, hours and minutes leading up to May 9th, 2020, which is the last day that the FBI says that

they knew that Suzanne Morphew was still alive. It's all focusing on the Morphew home just outside of Salida. Now, the FBI investigator today testified that Suzanne Morphew was at home sunbathing and sending pictures of herself to her boyfriend while her husband, Barry, was out of the home that afternoon. When Barry came home, Suzanne stopped responding to his messages. An investigator testified that he wrote in an affidavit that he believed Barry was chasing Suzanne around the home when he returned. That's based on cell phone GPS data. Defense attorneys have said that that data may not be accurate. The defense says the data may not be accurate. Right. Who am I going to believe? Barry Morphew and his paid hired gun, the defense lawyer or GPS data? Chasing her around the home. With me, an all-star panel, Nicole DeBoer, Hodge Globe, criminal defense attorney out of Houston, former prosecutor. And you can find her at HoustonCriminalDefense.com. Dr. Jory Crawson,

psychologist, faculty, St. Leo University, author of Operation SOS. Dan Corsentino joining us, former police chief in Colorado, former sheriff, and served with U.S. Homeland Security. You can find him at DanCorsentino.com. Death investigator, forensics expert, Joe Scott Morgan, professor of forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Lauren Scharf joining us has been

in the courtroom. Coincidentally, family members tell Lauren Scharf from Fox 21 News, you ruined our lives. I guess they think you've got Suzanne Morphew in your basement, Lauren Scharf. I don't think you're the one that ruined their lives. Ann Spencer Corson, founder, president, Corson Security Group at CorsonSecurityGroup.com and author of The Safety Trap.

First of all, to you, Lauren Scharf, let's talk about the theory that Barry Morphew comes home. He finds his wife, Suzanne Morphew, now missing, body never found, sunbathing in the backyard. And suddenly his GPS shows them running around the house. What GPS? On what? On his cell phone. Explain. Yeah. So in the court, they showed multiple maps of where supposedly Barry Morphew's phone

pinged. And the defense was like, there's no way he could have been, you know, running through walls and going through and running at 45 miles per hour. You know, they said that his phone pinged all around the home. And I think this was really interesting. The FBI agent that took the stand, agent Johnny Grusing, he said that supposedly his theory is that he was chasing Suzanne around the home while she was conscious. And I think the conscious part is really important because they mentioned a cap to a tranquilizer dart that they found in the dryer. So that's not something that happens in everyday routine life. You find part of a

tranquilizer gun in your washer and dryer. Guys, take a listen to our friends at Fox 21. On May 9th, agent Grusing said Suzanne sent a picture of her son bathing to her lover, Jeff Libler, around 2 p.m. Her daughters were crying in the courtroom when they saw the last known photo of their mom alive. When Morphew arrived home, his phone was turned on airplane mode at 2.47 and wasn't turned back on until after 10 o'clock that night. On Mother's Day, Suzanne's phone pinged for the last time at 4.23 in the morning when Morphew had told investigators that Suzanne was asleep when he left for Broomfield at 5.

Let's talk about the whole airplane mode fact. To you, Dan Corsentino, former police chief in Colorado, you have to intentionally turn your phone onto airplane mode. That was not done by accident, Dan Corsentino. If the phone was in airplane mode, they would have to look at the operating system, the OS log, to see if it was in airplane mode, first of all, to make that connection. And this would disconnect your phone from the cellular carrier or have it turned off. Phones track when they're turned on and off, and if there is no log of him turning his phone off and the cell tower pings, we're no longer going. At this point in

time, the cell service would be able to determine if it was manually turned off by him. In this case, they're stating clearly that the OS log shows or the operating system log shows that it was manually put in airplane mode. Explain, Spencer Corson, do you agree or disagree? I agree with half. So yes, I think what he tried to do was turn his cell phone into airplane mode, thinking that it wouldn't be able to ping his location. But if the home had Wi-Fi, it would still be tracking the location of that phone. And even if he didn't realize that when they do the forensics on the phone, the internal GPS coordinates would identify his location. So even if it was on airplane mode and he was chasing her around the house,

the digital forensics would show that. So Nicole DeBoer, Hotch Globe, joining us. Criminal defense attorney in Houston, former prosecutor. Nicole, what is the state going to argue that this proves, turning the phone onto airplane mode? They are definitely going to be arguing that he was making an effort to conceal his behavior in every way, both his location and potentially who was around him or near him on that phone. And in an effort to conceal, certainly it looks like an effort to conceal guilt.

Guys, we were talking about multiple bombshells that have blown up in a court of law during this preliminary hearing, all in the search as to what happened to missing mom Suzanne Morphew. I can tell you right now, she's dead. Take a listen to our friend Jamie Leary at CBS4 Denver. Barry arrived home shortly after the photo was taken, and investigators say cell phone coordinates show him moving around sporadically outside the home. While Barry's defense has tried to poke holes in

the accuracy of this, investigators believe that this came from Barry chasing Suzanne around the home while she was conscious just before killing her. The defense team argues that this is pure speculation and confirmed neighbors have heard no arguments around that time. That tranquilizer dark cap was discovered in Morphew's dryer later. On May 10th, the day Suzanne was reported missing, Mary Morphew went to work in Broomfield and made five garbage dumps before noon, telling investigators the only thing he can remember throwing away during those five garbage jumps is tranquilizer gun material. Wait a minute. Hold on. Lawrence Sharf. So he admits to police that he remembers throwing away

tranquilizer materials? Yeah, that was it. Out of the five trash runs that he made, that was the only thing that he could remember that he threw away. And, you know, he also, when he got back to the Morphew home that Mother's Day, he also told investigators that his truck was messy. So investigators obviously want to know exactly what he threw away. And they haven't revealed if they found that out or not yet in court. Neighbors hear no arguments around this time. Tranquilizer dart half discovered in Morphew's dryer later. I'm getting so many was found in the dryer. Oh, yeah.

Very well. And it actually had her leg and foot, an inadvertent photo by the dead body. And so now this guy leaves a tranquilizer dart half in his dryer. How can you explain that way and explain what they're talking about, Joe Scott Morgan? A tranquilizer dart half. Yeah, I'm kind of scratching my head over it as well, Nancy. You know, this is bear country where they live, and there are bear tranquilizers. In the dryer. Well, no, but I think that it's certainly something that if he had possession of,

maybe he forgot it. Maybe he put it in there in order to remove evidence like Jody did. You brought her up and thinking, you know, she thought that it was going to degrade the images that were on there. But back to the tranquilizer itself, if this was actually used on Suzanne, the type that would be used, they used to use a drug called ketamine. There's a newer drug now. The acronym is BAM. The words are very, very long. I won't go into it. But just suffice it to say, it's almost like a hypnotic, a pre-anesthesia kind of medication that they use to put down animals safely in order to convey them, to move them around. Like, for instance, if they're going to do surgery on an animal, like a big animal, like a bear, or you might use it in a zoo to tranquilize a tiger, that sort of thing, to take the tiger in to do surgery, pull teeth, that sort of thing.

So it would immobilize her. I think the key here is would she have had an awareness of what's going on? And how did he get his hands on this? If in fact, that's what we're talking about, and that's going to be key. Unfortunately, since we don't have her body, we can't test for toxicology, can we? Nancy, I know that Barry Morphew had like a deer farm back in Indiana. And I was told that he used the tranquilizer to safely, you know, either sell the deer or move the deer around. Well, Nancy, sorry.

What is it doing popping up in his dryer? Is that Spencer? It was ma'am. An interesting thing. If he's used to using tranquilizer darts on deer, where as soon as they're hit, their survival instinct is to just drop down to the ground and he was expecting that same um if he had that same expectation for for shooting his wife it takes about three to four minutes for that drug to take effect so she had been hit and then tried to get away from him and was running around the house. That may be exactly how that scenario played out.

To Dr. Jory Crawson, joining us, psychologist, professor, St. Leo University. Dr. Jory, he had said he shot, I think he said 85 squirrels in his backyard the day before. But that doesn't explain the dart gun because a tranquilizer dart is for a large mammal, not for a squirrel, much less 85. Wasn't it 85, Jackie? And it just reminds me, Dr. Jory, of the cult mom, Lori Vallow case, where her cult leader husband says that he shot, I think he said a possum or a raccoon and buried it in the family pet cemetery when actually what was buried there on that day were two children, JJ and Tyler. So I remember that case too.

So the fact that you might use a dark gun tranquilizer on your wife? No, you know, what really strikes me on this is he appears to be very organized on certain things. And we had talked about this previously about him, about the power and control. But, you know, that organizational flow that he demonstrates can become highly disorganized when that power and control, that rage kicks in. And just like, you know, we talked about if he shot her with that, now she's running around, you know, three or four minutes to get that into her system before she goes down. You know, that there goes at really hunting her down like an animal. Like an animal. I can just imagine Suzanne Morphew running through the home, and it was a big mansion they bought with her money from her family,

I think, Lauren Scharf. And she's running and then slowly drugged, goes slower and slower and slower. But there's more. Take a listen to Russell Haythorne, Denver 7. Telematics data from Barry's Ford truck also shows him opening and closing doors at odd hours the day before Suzanne disappeared and moving around his mountain property in the truck. Gruising also says they found a tranquilizer dark cap in the dryer of the Morphew's home.

The agent wrote in the arrest affidavit that Barry was most likely chasing Suzanne around while she was conscious. And that's why Barry's phone pinged in different areas around the house. That evidence doesn't lie. But the defense poking holes in that theory today in court showing evidence that his movement would have been impossible

because the phone would have had to move through walls and at speeds up to 42 miles per hour to get from one place to the next if the cell records are correct. Mm hmm. I don't think a jury is going to buy that. You know, I didn't know this, Lauren Scharf. Lauren Scharf in the courtroom from the get go joining us from Fox 21. So they could tell through what manner that he was opening and closing the doors to his vehicle? Yeah, they had, you know, the GPS data from his truck.

And that's what and they explained it as far as if, you know, his brake lights went on or his door opening, closing, as far as what movement he did with the truck, as well as like moving it backwards and moving it forward. And they gave a specific time as when this happened. You know, I didn't know that Spencer Corson, founder, president of Corson Security Group, that when you open and close your doors, that's tracked. I mean, I knew that, you know, what is it called? OnStar? Yeah, the OnStar systems. Can tell where you are. It's already built into your vehicle in newer cars. I didn't know that

they could tell, not that I care, whether you open or close your doors or back up. It tracks to that degree. Yeah, The diagnostics on today's more modern vehicles have a full battery of insights and intel that sort of help the manufacturer to, you know, so if you say, hey, you know, the door fell off the hinges, you know, and they can tell, well, no, you opened this door a hundred thousand times. That's why it fell off the hinges. So it would kind of voids the warranty. And it's just, well, no, you opened this door 100,000 times. That's why it fell off the hinges. So it kind of voids the warranty. And it's just that's how your car can tell you, hey, that your back door is not closed all the way. Or, you know, there's someone in your if you put like a heavy bag of groceries on the passenger seat, it'll tell you that that chair needs a seatbelt.

There's a lot of things that are intended for for our safety and our health,, and well-being, but can also be used in an investigation such as this. Well, it's almost like a black box in an airplane. I mean, very similar to me. And I mean, you have a hard drive, so it's recording that data, and it's automatically stored for historical purposes. So you're absolutely right. That is very similar. I hear you, of course, Santino, but I had no idea that somewhere my Chrysler minivan, somebody is keeping track of how many times I open the doors.

You know what? Have at it. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we're talking about what's going down in a court of law in the disappearance of Suzanne Morvey. She didn't disappear. She's dead. And we're learning about a dark gun and the odd movements of her husband around that time. Can you imagine how P.O.'d, another technical legal term, he was when he gets home and finds her in the backyard in a swimsuit, sunbathing and sending pictures to her boyfriend. Look, this woman had been trying to leave her husband for a long time,

and he would guilt trip her. Every time she tried to leave, she says he was controlling. There was evidence of domestic abuse where he would hit her in the head. I guess she did want to leave him, but now the evidence of him tracking her like big game through the house with a tranquilizer dart gun. Take a listen to Jim Bidiman, CBS4 Denver. Investigators found part of a tranquilizer dart inside the house of a husband accused of murdering his wife. That's one of the new

revelations today during a two-day hearing to determine if Barry Morphew should stand trial in Chafee County for the murder of Suzanne Morphew. Suzanne vanished on Mother's Day of last year. Her body has yet to be found, but investigators believe she has been killed. And from Mark Salinger. Now, I hope you're sitting down for this. Mark Salinger joining us from Nine Knees. The judge also saw surveillance pictures of Barry and Broomfield on May 10th, the day Suzanne was reported missing.

Investigators say he stopped at five trash cans in the area and dropped items off, though they haven't said if they know what he threw away. They also say he changed clothing multiple times that day and put some of the things that he put in the trash cans, and they don't yet know exactly what was in those trash cans. Prosecutors also said today that while they don't yet know exactly what was in those trash cans. Prosecutors also said today that while they don't have evidence Barry was having an affair, cell phone data shows Barry searched for, quote, cute girls near Salida and was on the online affair dating website Ashley Madison. Okay, Lauren Sheriff, I bet when you went to journalism school,

you had no idea you would be investigating. What's the name of it? Jihad what? Celebrity Jihad. Yeah. I didn't know what that was. I had to look it up. Well, I didn't know what it was until Barry Morphew. Go ahead and tell us.

What's the good news? Well, I guess this is like a porn site that you can see like nude and videos, nude photos and video of celebrities that Islamic extremists take. And then he also, Ashley Madison, I had heard it before. Did you just say celebrity nudes that jihadists take? That's what my understanding is. Yeah, it's a satirical celebrity gossip website, which is known for sharing leaked or hacked private videos of celebrities. You seem to know a lot about it, Spencer Corson.

I work with a lot of celebrities. Or a lot of jihadists or a lot of crackpots that pose as jihadists posting celebrity news. Okay, fine. But you see some famous celebrity's head stuck on some naked body. I'm just imagining. And no, I haven't been to the site yet. But I do know a lot about Ashley Madison.

That website seems to crop up in a lot of criminal cases. It's a hookup site for married people. It's my understanding of Ashley Madison. So now we're getting to the crux of it. He is claiming she's having an affair. And now we're finding out he's doing searches for quote, cute girls near Salida. You know what?

If I found on my husband, David Lynch's search history, which is way too boring for me to go through. I've tried it once and my eyes were bleeding. Cute girls near me. Oh no. You cannot tell me Lauren Scharf. This is not the pot calling the kettle black. This guy's sleeping with somebody. I just don't know who. I mean, it was definitely evident that, you know, it was their marriage was crumbling and that, you know. He's sleeping with somebody, Lauren.

Is it some woman video chatting him up in the jail? I mean, there's seven women, I think, video chatting Barry Morphew behind bars. Like what? They're expecting him to come out, dress up, shower and shave, and take him out to dinner? That's not happening. Psychological term is projection. So, yeah, I go along with you, Nancy.

He's having an affair or similar. Isn't there a woman that is now video chatting him behind bars that he was seeing and going to her home before he was arrested? Yeah, there is. And Yeah, they're it. And what, they're just what, having a prayer meeting? If I could just jump in, this is Dan. The affair doesn't necessarily have to be physically in the same room. He's having an affair that's taking place, obviously, electronically, digitally, through

the media, and they're both communicating and they're probably sharing intimate information. As you said, Nancy, that is the foundation for an affair that's going to grow into a physical situation. You know, I could twiddle my thumbs all day long and figure out or try to figure out what Barry Morphew is doing with various women. But what I don't care. That just gives me a little bit of motive, which I don't have to have to prove the case. That's the law. I need to get us out of the weeds and back into the middle of the road about the hard evidence. Take a listen to our friends at Fox 21. Our cut 86. An analyst testified that data from Morphew's truck showed the power was removed around 5 30 and the system was rebooted. The

analyst could not explain why Suzanne's cell phone pinged for the very last time just before 4 30 a.m. on May 10th. Morphew said she was asleep when he left around 5 a.m. for a job in Broomfield. Lauren Scharf, going for a job in Broomfield, A, it's my understanding there was no real job, but he was trying to put together a ragtag team of subcontractors that morning around 4 a.m. Also, isn't it true that he was spotted on video surveillance? This reminds me so much of the Connecticut missing mom of five, Jennifer Dulos. All they found of her is a big pool of blood in her garage and in her car and video of her husband and his lover dumping sunsets,

rags and so forth. And isn't it true that in Broomville where he says he's got a job going on, Barry Morphew is spotted stopping five or six times, throwing things away. Yeah. I mean, one of the stops, he had not just put one, like, he's not just like throwing it in the trash. He's pushing it down into the trash. In the photos, you can see he uses two hands to put it lower in the trash at one of the stops.

And he's he's going to like men's warehouse dumpster and McDonald's dumpster and, you know, an RTD bus stop dumpster or trash trash site as well. And then as well as his hotel dumpster multiple times, too. And, you know, they asked him, what were these, what did you throw away? What are in those trash bags? And the only thing he could remember was the tranquilizer material that he threw away. Nicole DeBoer Hotchglobe, criminal defense attorney in Houston, former prosecutor, HoustonCriminalDefense.com. Nicole, you and I would have a field day with that.

First of all, I would get plenty of women on the jury. Because you know anybody in their right mind, especially at this time of COVID, is not going to go to a public trash can, put something in it it and then put your hands and squish it down. Just cram it down. You're going to put your hands in a public trash can? Like one of those big green dumpsters behind McDonald's? Oh no, that's not going to happen. You know he's trying to get rid of evidence. It's absolutely absurd. And his explanation, all of these things, the tranquilizer piece in the dryer,

the power coming off on the phone, he thinks he's clever, but he is not as clever as he thinks. And now this excuse that he's making for what he might've been throwing away is just, you know, it's sort of an empty and hollow, you know, he's trying to, he's trying to come up with a reason why he was out and about throwing out trash in public trash cans. And I just cannot imagine that any jury is going to buy this. crime stories with nancy grace nicole deborah hodge club you've tried a lot of cases uh there's the old saying i think this goes all the way back to nixon but i'm not sure

it's not the crime it's the cover-up the point here is we're getting more evidence about a cover up than we do, than we have about where is Suzanne Morphew's body. But the cover up proves the crime. Nicole? It really does. I mean, this is going to be an interesting case, too, as it moves forward ultimately in front of a jury, because I'll be curious to see whether this guy decides to testify. Sometimes people think they can come up with an explanation for everything

really want to get their story out there in front of a jury and I wonder if this individual will decide that he too wants to tell his story. I don't think they'll buy it. But we can all only pray, Nicole DeBoer-Hodgecloak, that he does take the stand. Hey, Lauren Scharf, who told you in the courtroom that you had ruined their lives?

One of Barry's sisters. How did you ruin their life? Good question. I don't know. I was just trying to, you know, report on Suzanne and her disappearance, and I don't know how I ruined their life. You know, also, apparently, the adult daughters, well, one's adult, one is, I think, just coming out of high school. They both are siding with the dad, right? Yeah, I mean, throughout the,

you know, court hearing, you can see the daughters, you know, obviously visibly upset, but in between breaks, they're very turns around and you know says I love you he pulls his mask down and says I love you and the girls you know say I miss you and love you and you know you're my best friend and things like that and they're you know praying for him and so they're definitely uh you know well you know what I just did something really was really wrong I roll my eyes I roll my eyes. I rolled my eyes. I rolled my eyes because I don't believe. I rolled my eyes because I feel that he, Barry Murphy, is manipulating his daughters. And I also feel really bad for them, Dr. Jory Croson.

I've tried a lot of cases, and adult children typically will side with the living parent, even when the parent's accused of murder, because I don't think that they can emotionally accept what has happened. So I don't want to make light of what these girls are going through, because they've lost their mother, and now their dad is going to be on trial for her murder. Yeah, and to add to that victimization that the father is using for the manipulation is she's been having an affair for two years. And so, you know, he's a victim of that. And I think one of the daughters, even when she found out about it just recently or something, you know, that really impacted her guys um i want you to take a listen to our cut 75 tyler it's our friends at fox 21 the affair was allegedly for a year and a half something suzanne kept from everyone even her best friend sheila oliver text

messages between the two friends show Suzanne expressing concerns about her marriage with Barry and how it affected her health. A text message reads, he looks for any reason to run. It can be small and he blows up and takes off. I believe there's still another. I can't win with him. He's too good at the manipulation. I feel stuck. I can't let my health decline again. Suzanne was in remission for the second time when she disappeared. Lauren Scharf joining me, Fox 21 News. You can find her at Lauren Scharf TV. Lauren, what was her ailment?

She had leukemia, cancer. And this is the second time she's had it. She had it in college as well. And Barry Morphew, he helped her through that. You know, his sister or Suzanne's sister told me, you know, Barry would carry her from a place to place or whatever in college and helped her with that. And then she also got it, I believe, right before they moved to Colorado the second time. More of an insight into their marriage.

Take a listen to our cut 77, Jamie Leary, CBS 4. Prosecutors have painted a picture of a man who desperately did not want to lose his wife. Just before her disappearance, though, Suzanne sent Barry Morphew, her husband, a text indicating that she was done. He responded with a text indicating suicide, saying he wouldn't be around for much longer and that he was going to see his savior. Suzanne and Barry Morphew met and fell in love when they were just 17. And we learned on day one of this hearing that Suzanne was looking for an opportunity to leave and had been having an affair for the last two years. Her last correspondence with anyone was with the man she was having that affair with, Jeff Libler. Investigators say on May 9th, they exchanged 59 messages and consider a selfie she sent him while sunbathing outside her

home, her last proof of life. You know, to Lauren Scharf, tell me what's happening in the courtroom. How are the daughters and the family all taking this? That first day of the preliminary hearing, when the whole affair came out, they, everyone, you know, the Morphew family were crying. I mean, when they saw the last known photo of Suzanne, the girls were, one girl was leaning on her legs, you know, her hair covering over her face, just in tears. And I mean, the two girls are supporting one another. They're holding each other's hands, rubbing each other's backs, passing tissues to one another. It was definitely an emotional, emotional day.

Guys, I want you to take a listen to our cut 87, our fans at Fox 21. The state mentioned multiple dating websites that they claim Barry Morphew searched, and that include Ashley Madison as well as Celeb Jihad. When this was brought up, Morphew was visibly upset, and he even sat up in his seat in court. An investigator spoke with a friend of the family who recorded Morphew accusing Suzanne of sleeping

with a man in a basement and Morphew allegedly said he would shoot off his balls and he would shoot and shove them down his throat if he found the guy. His defense made it clear that there was only one search of find a cute girl in Salida and they questioned the state's knowledge of whether they knew for certain it was Morphew who was searching those dating websites. Wait a minute. Lauren Sharp, are they actually going to try to tell me that it was Suzanne Morphew looking up celeb jihad to look at nude women? Yeah, I mean, the defense was just saying, how do you know for certain that it was Barry Morphew who was searching these sites? Yeah, I want to circle back to the hard evidence, whether he's having an affair or not having an affair. And the hard evidence right now are his movements, the dart gun, and the fake alibi that he created the morning Suzanne disappeared.

I'm not sure that that's when she really disappeared, but he's left behind quite a digital path, a mile wide. Lauren Scharf, Fox 21 news reporter, on the story from the very, very beginning. Tell me about his manufactured alibi. It all started when Suzanne first went missing. He told somebody that he had gone for continuing volunteer firefighter education at some out-of-town seminar on Mother's Day, a day that he knew his two girls would also be gone. That didn't pan out. And then it turned out he had put together a crew that morning, the morning she's reported missing around 4 a.m. to go to another town to build a wall, like a retainer wall, and it wasn't a real job. Yeah, so the whole thing about the firefighter training,

that didn't happen because there was no firefighter training, that was, that didn't happen because there was no firefighter training in the middle of COVID. And then, you know, when he went to Broomfield and worked on this wall, retaining wall, I spoke with multiple of the employees that he had called kind of last minute to work on that job. And then I also found out that in the city of Broomfield, you cannot work on a holiday or 2019. And in court, the investigators found out through the GPS tracking of his truck that he only was at that retaining wall for about 10 to 15 minutes. And his crew had told me that it looked like he had only been done about like 10 to 15 minutes of work. And meanwhile, he's in his

hotel room for five hours. And he's shown on surveillance camera, leaving and coming from his hotel room, the timestamp. And every single time he's leaving and coming, he has, you know, trash in his hand, and he has different clothes on from every time he comes and goes from the hotel room in Broomfield. We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Grace Kromstory signing off. Goodbye, friend. You're listening to an iHeart Podcast.