A Colorado man, Barry Morphew, has been arrested and charged with his wife’s murder five years after she disappeared.
And two years after her body was found.
BREAKING: Barry Morphew is being indicted by new DA Anne Kelly.
Morphew’s wife, Suzanne, disappeared on Mother’s Day 2020 and Barry was charged with her murder. However, the case was dismissed in ’22 after DA Linda Stanley failed to turn over evidence properly. pic.twitter.com/ofeAKMXZeV— Josh Helmuth KRDO13 (@Jhelmuth) June 20, 2025
Grand jury indicts Barry Morphew for murder of wife, Suzanne Morphew https://t.co/DZadFrGxfH
— FOX31 Denver KDVR (@KDVR) June 20, 2025
KDVR television in Denver said Morphew was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder for the death of Suzanne, apparently in 2020. Her remains were found in Saguache County in 2023.
He was arrested in Arizona on Friday and the 12th Judicial District is working to have him extradited to Colorado, the report said.
He had been charged earlier, but that case was dismissed before her body was found.
In a statement, District Attorney Anne Kelly said, “Federal, State and local law enforcement have never stopped working toward justice for Suzanne. The Twelfth Judicial District Attorney’s Office stands in solidarity with Suzanne’s family and the citizens of Chaffee and Saguache Counties in pursuing the Grand Jury’s indictment.”:
Suzanne Morphew, 43, was reported missing on May 10, 2020, after she went for a bike ride and didn’t return.
Barry Morphew quickly was suspected and charged, but the case fell apart over claims a district attorney at the time had withheld information from the court.
Reports at the time confirmed the marriage was turbulent, with Suzanne reportedly having an affair and Barry facing claims he was an abuser.
Suzanne’s bike was found abandoned close to the family’s $1.5 million home but reports say police suspected it was staged.
The Daily Mail reported, “Barry told police he was out of town for a landscaping job three hours away in Broomfield, just outside of Denver. He had spent the night before her murder in a cheap hotel room that his coworker later found scattered with wet towels and stinking of chlorine.”
Her body was found later, and an autopsy concluded she died by murder after a cocktail of drugs used to tranquilize wildlife was found in her bones.