Grand jury indicts Suzanne Morphew's husband for murder in her death

[ad_1] A grand jury in Colorado has returned an indictment in opposition to Barry Morphew, charging him with the homicide of his spouse, Suzanne Morphew, officers introduced Friday.

Suzanne Morphew went lacking on a motorbike trip on Mom's Day in Could 2020. Her stays have been discovered greater than three years later whereas investigators have been looking in an unrelated case. Her demise was subsequently dominated a murder.

Her husband, Barry Morphew, was charged along with her homicide in 2021, however these fees have been dropped in April 2022 simply earlier than a trial was supposed to start.

The grand jury returned the indictment in opposition to Morphew on Wednesday. He was taken into custody in Arizona and will likely be extradited to the San Luis Valley to face fees, based on the Twelfth Judicial District Lawyer’s Workplace.

Suzanne Morphew is seen on this undated photograph launched by Chaffee County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Chaffee County Sheriff’s Workplace

“Federal, State and native legislation enforcement have by no means stopped working towards justice for Suzanne," Twelfth Judicial District Lawyer Anne Kelly mentioned in an announcement on Friday. “The Twelfth Judicial District Lawyer’s Workplace stands in solidarity with Suzanne’s household and the residents of Chaffee and Saguache Counties in pursuing the Grand Jury’s indictment.”

Suzanne Morphew's physique was present in September 2023 close to the city of Moffat, about 90 minutes south of the place she lived.

Her demise was decided to have been attributable to murder "by undetermined means within the setting of butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine intoxication," based on the post-mortem.

Barry Morphew has denied any involvement in his spouse's demise.

He and his daughters spoke to ABC Information in Could 2023 after they filed a lawsuit in opposition to prosecutors, saying he was wrongfully charged.

A mug shot of Barry Morphew, launched by the Chaffee County Sheriff's Workplace on Could 5, 2021.

Chaffee County Sheriff's Workplace

"They have tunnel imaginative and prescient and so they checked out one individual and so they've acquired an excessive amount of satisfaction to say they're unsuitable and look some place else," he mentioned on the time. "I haven't got something to fret about. I've finished nothing unsuitable."