Barry Morphew extradited to Colorado to face murder charges in wife's 2020 disappearance
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Suzanne Morphew’s brother had harsh words for her husband, Barry, as his defense team plans to fight for a reduced bail amount.

Barry Morphew was re-indicted by a grand jury in Colorado on a murder charge in June, following a failed prosecution in 2021. Barry Morphew allegedly killed his wife, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew, who vanished on Mother’s Day in 2020. At the time, the Morphew’s lived near Salida, Colorado, where Suzanne Morphew was last seen alive.

A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. eastern time, where defense lawyers have previously said they’ll address the issue of bail. Barry Morphew is being held at the Alamosa County Jail on a $3 million cash bond. He faces charges of first-degree murder after deliberation.

On June 20, Barry Morphew was arrested near Phoenix, Arizona, by officers with the Arizona Department of Public safety. Public records indicate he was living inside a trailer park in Cave Creek, Arizona.

Barry Morphew

Barry Morphew’s booking picture on Monday at the Alamosa County Jail. (Alamosa County Sheriff’s Office)

Moorman wrote that he sometimes lays awake “many nights pondering the last few minutes of my sister Suzanne’s life.”

“Once struck by the BAM ladened dart it is hard to imagine the terror she felt as she tried to escape,” he wrote. “With every pounding heartbeat, the chemical quickened its pace into her system just like it had on so many deer her now psychopathic partner had shot. The screams, the tears, the pain were the outward expressions as her physical body began to separate from her spirit and soul.”

Colin McCallin, a Colorado-based lawyer and former deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Colorado, told Fox News Digital he would be surprised if Barry Morphew’s bail is reduced. 

“Truthfully, I would be very, very surprised if bail was granted at this case. First of all, bail was set pretty thoughtfully and deliberately by the original judge who took the case on at $3 million. And there usually has to be a demonstrative, substantial change in Barry Morphew’s circumstances for the judge to reconsider that initial ruling. I just don’t think we have that here,” McCallin said.

Though Suzanne Morphew went missing in 2020, agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation found her remains on Sept. 22, 2023. According to prosecutors, a 2024 autopsy report showed a deer tranquilizer called “BAM” was found in her bone marrow, which stands for the chemicals butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine.

Suzanne Morphew seen smiling in a picture

Suzanne Morphew, 49, went missing May 10 after leaving her Colorado home to go on a bike ride, her husband, Barry Morphew told authorities. In a phone interview with local media, Barry Morphew said authorities are trying to blame him for his wife’s disappearance after bungling the case.  (Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office)

Prosecutors said Suzanne Morphew’s remains were found “in and around a shallow clandestine grave” in Saguache County, Colorado, a “few hundred feet” off Highway 17.

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