This is one weird article
This is not going very well for the State.
Barry Morphew Files $15 million Civil Rights Lawsuit (heartoftherockiesradio.com)
Left to right: Macy, Barry, and Mallory Morphew on ABC’s Good Morning America (Image: ABC News)
Macy Morphew, Barry Morphew and Mallory Morphew speak to ABC News for an interview that aired on Good Morning America on May 15, 2023
The 11th Judicial District Attorney’s Office confirmed that authorities are still looking for the body of Suzanne Morphew so that her homicide case can be prosecutable either against her husband, Barry Morphew, or someone else.
Morphew previously was charged with his wife’s death after her disappearance from their home in May 2020, but his case was dismissed by the DA’s office without prejudice in April 2022, just days before it was set to go to trial.
During a hearing yesterday, District Court Judge Amanda Hunter denied Barry Morphew’s request to reconsider a previous ruling relating to public access to the information contained within the case alleging that Morphew killed his wife.
In her order, the judge stated that in a criminal case, court records are “presumed to be accessible to the public.”
Deputy District Attorney Mark Hurlbert also told the court during yesterday’s hearing, “She is in a very difficult spot, but we have not found her yet. We actually have more than a feeling, we have some specific investigative leads that the People are not going to get into at this point—but it is more than a feeling and the sheriff’s office is continuing to look for Ms. Morphew’s body.”
All 3 chemicals in Suzanne’s system are found in deer tranquilizers. See BAM. Others. I’m told her husband has used deer tranquilizers for decades.
Stanley said it was the right thing to do. “There are no jurisdictional issues in the 12th, so they will likely be pursuing any charges in the case,” said Stanley told The Denver Gazette by phone on Wednesday.
Suzanne Morphew’s autopsy report.
morphew-suzanne-no-23-1011.pdf (1.0 MB)
The charges were ultimately dropped because of comments 11th Judicial District Attorney Linda Stanley made during an interview with a local news outlet about the case that amounted to “outrageous government conduct,” the judge ruled.
“I’m going to be very blunt here. He [referring to Mr. Jacobs] has zero investment in this child. Zero,” the DA told KRDO in August. “He’s watching that baby so he can get laid. That’s it. And have a place to sleep.”
“I’m sorry to be that blunt, but honest to God, that’s what’s going on,” she added.
Federal judge dismisses malicious prosecution claims brought by Colorado man arrested for wife’s murder
The murder of Suzanne Morphew, who disappeared from her home in Maysville, Colorado, on Mother’s Day in 2020, remains unsolved.