May 19, 2020 • 40 mins
It's been more than a week since 49-year-old cyclist Suzanne Morphew disappeared. She went for a bike ride on Mother's Day. Her neighbors called the county sheriff's office when she didn't come home. Morphew's husband, a volunteer firefighter, was out of town at the time of her disappearance.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Ashley Willcott - Judge and trial attorney, Anchor on Court TV
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta Ga.
- Cloyd Steiger - 36 years with Seattle Police Department, 22-year Homicide Detective & Author "Seattle's Forgotten Serial Killer-Gary Gene Grant" www.cloydsteiger.com
- Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics at Jacksonville State University & Author of "Blood Beneath My Feet"
- Nicole Partin - CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter
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a community the size of about one hundred and fifty people.
How does a mom go missing, seemingly vanishing off the
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face of the earth on a Sunday afternoon bike ride,
broad Delight. I'm talking about Suzanne Morphew Crime Stories with
Nancy Grace. I'm easy, Grace, this is crime stories. How
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did she go missing? And Jackie? Is this significant to
you that she goes missing on Mother's Day? Now, yes,
that Sunday is not different from every other Sunday, Accept
that you celebrate moms. I always find it very let
me say, curious when someone goes missing or is killed
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or Trasday befalls them on a particular holiday. It's kind
of a red flag you can't ignore. But let's go
to the source. Take a listen now to our friends
at CBS for Denver. Alan, Janette and she went biking
on Sunday. They're in the mountains about twenty miles west
of Salida, Trevor, and and then there was nothing from her.
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Tell us what you do know, Alan, I'm I'm willing
to confirm that the bike was found on Sunday evening.
The bike was found on Sunday evening, the night that
she disappeared. And for more information, on the bike for
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its condition. I would encourage you and everyone else to
contact the Chaffey County Sheriff's Department. Yeah, it has to
be disconcerting to know the bike has found. Sheriff has
said he does not believe that this was an animal,
and so all of Colorado has really ought to be
aware that there is a potential den Trevor, that she
might be somewhere well out of the county for all
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we know, which is why we need to make sure
that we're aware of the situation. Okay, something is hank
you right there. Okay, it doesn't take a j D
to figure that out. Did you hear that, Jackie? The
way the nephew and why is the nephew speaking? Where's
the husband? Where's the children? But the nephew is speaking,
and the way he said it, he said, I'm willing
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to confirm the bike has been found. I'm not suggesting
the nephew is in any way involved in Suzanne's disappearance.
He's out facing the cameras speaking, But that tells me
there's something unusual regarding the discovery of Susanne's bike. And
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he was very tight lived about it with me. An
All Star panel to help determine what's happening to analyze
the clues left behind. First of all, trial lawyer and
judge anchor at Court TV Ashley Wilcot at Ashley Wilcot
dot com. Doctor Angela Arnold, renowned psychiatrists joining us out
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of the Atlanta jurisdiction. Cloyd Steiger thirty six years Seattle
PD twenty two. That homicide, that's something, can't sneeze at that.
Author of Seattle's Forgotten serial Killer, Gary Jane Grant at
Cloyd Steiger dot com, Professor Forensics Jacksonville State University and
author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Death investigator
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Joseph Scott Morgan. But first to Crime online dot Com
investigative reporter Nicole Parton. I got a lot of questions
regarding this, but let's just start with the timeline. Mother's Day.
She goes for a bycride on Mother's Day. In the afternoon,
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she's reported missing by neighbors at six pm. I believe
husband is one hundred and fifty miles away in Denver
on Mother's Day. But hey, that's just three hours if
you're going sixty mph. Jane stop wants to go to
the bathroom. So Nicole parton with that in mind, tell
me what you know. Yes, Nancy, forty nine year old
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mom missing and apparently it's her next door neighbor that
alerts authorities. She sees her and knows that she's headed
out on the bike ride late in the afternoon. When
she doesn't return, the neighbor gets concerned and calls authority.
Now I've looked at her pictures. You have two beautiful
forty nine year old mother, very fit and in shape.
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It was not uncommon for her to go out for
a bike ride. Do you know that? Do you know
that to be a fact. We know that according to
the next door neighbor, they had seen her go out
for bike ride several times. Questions question next door neighbor
male or female? Female? Good to know because I'm wondering,
how does the next door neighbor know so much about
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this woman that there I was wondering if it was
a creepy stalker next door neighbor. But no, it's not.
I can tell you statistically it's not. If it's a woman,
how does a woman know that she left for the
bike ride and then no, by six o'clock she's not
where she's supposed to be. Maybe they were supposed to
have dinner together. Who knows, Maybe she called me. Do
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you know why the neighbor realized something was a miss
at six pm? The only thing we know is that
she told authorities that it was getting dark, it was
getting late, and she knew she should have been back by. Now,
can I tell you about an unconfirmed report? Nicole? We
have an unconfirmed report the daughter, she has two daughters. Correct,
call the neighbor and asked her to call Jack. You're
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saying she asked her to call the mom or asked
her to call police. So, in any event, you're correct
that it is the neighbor. I was wondering what prompted
the neighbor to realize that Suzanne was missing, and that
maybe a small detail, but we can all agree that
small details matter. Here. You pick it up from there, Sorry, Nicole,
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go ahead, no problem. So authorities are alerted and they
begin the search. As you said, husband is one hundred
and fifty the way out of town. They're being very
tight lipped. Her family is not speaking, except for the nephew.
Husband has lawyered up. He's been able to do several interviews. Wait. Wait, wait, wait,
what did you just say? The husband lawyered up? That's correct.
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What kind of lawyer? Do you know who the lawyer is?
I don't. I wasn't given that information. I just know
that the lawyers. I'd be curious to know if the
lawyer is a criminal defense lawyer. Just out of curiosity,
he lawyered up, you know, speaking of what you just said,
Ashley Wilcott, judge, trial lawyer, court deem me anchor. Ash
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I was wondering why it was the nephew out there
hitting the airwaves, but in the last hours the husband
has finally come forward and spoken. Jack. Can you play
what the husby just said? Oh, Susanne. If anyone is
out there, I can hear this that has you, Please
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do whatever it takes to bring you back. We love you,
we miss you. Your girls need you. No questions asked,
however much they want, I will do whatever it takes
to get you back. I love you, Okay, Ashley, I'm
just a JD all right. I only know how to
try cases. That that's it, and cook in the crop pot.
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The girls miss you. I'm trying to analyze every word,
and Ashley, I'm not saying the guys responsible. But I
am saying that that's where the investigation will always start.
Barn one with hobby lover, ex boyfriend living, that's where
we start, jump in Ash well exactly. And he didn't
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say I miss you, I'm worried, I'm concerned. And he
also made another statement that was fascinating to me, and
he said no questions asked. I felt like he was
blaming her, meaning he has information or knows more. That's
a really good point. I mean, maybe he's trying to say,
Lloyd Steiger, no questions asked, I won't go after you,
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just bring her home alive. Could be that, but Ash
is right, why would you say no questions asked? And
I don't want to parse words. I want to find
this woman. But what do you make of the circumstances
so far? Also, Lloyd, they're not telling us. And I've
tried to find out where the bike was found in
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relation to the home. And also we know that a
personal item was found that is hers about I think
about three hundred feet or so from the home. So
what's that item because that would indicate to me that's
where the attack took place. If she's on a bike
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and she's a veteran biker. Would she have dropped an
item by accident and not gone to get up? Where's
her cell phone? Was it activated? As she have fine
my iPhone app? And where the bike is? And the
condition of the bike. Because you heard the nephew say,
I'm willing to confirm the bike was found, but he
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sounded like he'd been instructing not to say anything else.
Why do you make mccloyd. Yeah, I think you know
when I heard that, no questions that same two that
were into Red flight for me? What do you mean
by that? I mean if my wife was missing or
something like that. First of all, I wouldn't lawyer up.
I mean, he has a right to get a lawyer,
but I wouldn't lawyer up. I'd be out there every
day in front of the news begging for help. I
wouldn't send a nephew out to be my spokesman. Uh,
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you know it sounds like, well, first of all, I'm
sure that this dament he made was parted with his
attorney before he made it. But you know, and what
was it? I don't know where was the bike found?
That's pretty important. You think they'd give you the area
the bike resound. Some people that area if they thought
something would know to look for the exactly crime stories
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with Nancy Grace. Guys, we're talking about the disappearance of
a mom, Susanne Morphew, beautiful mother of two girls. The
husband is one hundred and fifty miles away in Denver,
and I'd be all over that like a cheap suit.
What hotel is their surveillance video of the hotel, in
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the hotel of him going in his room, did he
come out of his room? What time? It's only three
hours away. And again I'm not saying he had anything
to do with this. I'm saying that's where you start
the investigation. And if anybody disagrees, jump in and explain why.
I want you to take a listen now to our
friends at crimealline dot com. This is Dave Mack. Listen.
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Susanne Morphew went missing from Maysville, Colorado. This small community
has a population under one hundred and thirty five according
to the two ten census, and average home prices are
around five hundred thousand dollars. Search efforts began when the
mom of two did not return after a bike ride
on Mother's Day. Reports say a neighbor called to report
more few missing. But we've also heard reports that it
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was one of Morphew's two daughters who asked the neighbor
to contact police when she could not reach her mother.
Morphew and her husband, Barry, moved from Indiana about two
years ago. She was a middle school teacher. He owned
landscaping companies. He's also a volunteer fireman while Susanne Moore
a few opened a nonprofit for children in need called
Hope Network Incorporated. I'm trying to just take in all
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that information. So he owned a landscaping company. That's just
opening up a plethora of possibilities, all the properties where
he has worked, all the people that work for him
and the landscaping companies. This woman did not leave of
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her own volition and stage her bike right now, it's
my understanding that police are not releasing any information regarding
the condition or the location of the bike, or what
the quote personal item is that they found. You know,
Nicole Parton, we got carried away and ran down a
rabbit hole. Go back to where you left off and
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tell me what you know, please sure, Nancy. So the
nextdoor neighbor calls authorities and they began this search, and
of course they reach out to the children and the husband,
and it says though she vanished in thin air, the
bike trail that supposedly she went is very safe. There
are people in the area who bike there as well,
who say there's never been an incident of anything happening.
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They don't believe that it had anything to do with
a wild animal attack. They're calling this very suspicious and
of course I'm missing the missing person case. They don't
know what happened. They're being tight lips. We don't know
if she had a cell phone with her, We don't
know what personal item was found right there near the home.
But we also know that, in addition to owning these
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landscaping companies, her husband has a net worth of close
to three million dollars. So could this have been something
to do with a ransom? Could this have been something
to do with kidnapping for money. There's so many different
areas that could be questioned. Well too, is that Joe
Scott jumping in Joseph Scott Morgan kidnapped for ransom? Where's
their answer that? Yeah, no, kidneys ns the one and
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we don't know about it. And police aren't saying anything.
That's something I'd be very interested. And I was just
taking a look at satellite image of the home and
it is, I don't know, by my standards, pretty impressive.
And this is in a very isolated area. But one
significant thing here. Their home sits just off of Highway fifty,
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which is like an old federal highway, and it's kind
of a main thoroughfare that runs down there. She would
have when she exited the home, she would have had
to have made a left heading back toward town on
this road on her bike. That item that they keep
referring to that they haven't specifically identified, was found about
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three tenths of a mile away from the home, on
the right hand side, the side of the road she
would have been riding on, and it's adjacent to the trail.
I think, so that's roughly five hundred yards if you
want to compute that this happened. If this happened right there, Nancy,
it happened almost immediately, like as soon as she turned
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out onto that road. That's significant. That means that somebody
may have been watching her. You know another thing that
you just sparked memory, Joe Scott, do you remember Dylan
and Shasta Grone, the two little children that were kidnapped
in Cordelone, Idaho, and the whole family was massacred and
they were taken. They were held repeatedly molested. The little boy,
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Dylan was raped over and over and over, and he
would be strangled to death or near death and then
resuscitated and then it would start over and over and over.
And they caught the perp because he took Shasta to
like seven to eleven and she was walking around behind him,
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and somebody recognized her photo after seeing her on TV.
We had been covering out like every night on HLN.
Long story short, he happened to be driving down the
interstate that perp and spite of the children playing in
an above ground pool. Totally unconnected. So you're telling me
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this is right off oh Highway fifty, correct, Yeah, also
Highway fifty. You know. One of the things that just
strikes me about this. I want to know more information
about this bicycle because I don't know where it was found.
Let's just say, for instance, just you know, indulge me
just for a second. Let's say that this person pulled
up alongside of her and nudged her off of the road.
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There's going to be significant damage, probably contact damage to
that bike. She would have more than likely if she'd
been bumped off of the bike and disabled in some way,
she would have injuries to her body, maybe a leg injury,
hip injury, maybe even a head injury. But they have
the bike, so I'm wondering if we've got transfer evidence
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like paint from a vehicle that has attached itself onto
the bike, you know, when these two things scrubbed together,
that's going to be significant. And also was the bike
actually run over, you know, and that that could go
to things like trace evidence relative to tires, did it
get caught beneath the vehicle? And it raises all kinds
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a myriad of questions from a forensics fandpoint of course
that what may have happened to her at that moment time?
And what was that personal item? Was it a set
of headphones? Was it a phone, was it a watch?
I don't know what it would have been. That would
have been a specific and this is a significant, a
specific tie back to her. They said it's her personal item,
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not somebody else's, but her, So it means it's got
an identifier. I can tell you one thing, the bike
was found at a different location I think than the
personal item, because the first thing we hear, well, actually
they wouldn't say anything about whether the bike was found
at the get go. They kept that a secret, and
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I wonder why. And based on what the nephew is saying,
how he was so mysterious about the bike's condition, That
tells me it's a huge evidentiary clue. But then later,
like forty eight hours later or more, we hear, oh, update,
a personal item has been found. That suggests do you
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agree or disagree Joe Scott that the personal item was
found in a different location than the bike or it
would have come out at the same time. Yeah, it could,
it could have been. Just let me kind of follow
this line of logic. If the bike was found in
a different location. Just y'all follow me just for a
second here. If she got knocked off and was subdued
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in some way, you know, bike's going to draw attention
if it's just laying out. I mean, we've all driven
down these these old US highways like this. They're pretty sizeable.
It's not like some little country road that bike would
draw attention. That means that potentially there was a vehicle
big enough to accommodate that bike. Maybe they threw the
bike into the into the car and drove it to
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a different location so it wouldn't draw attention, and then
they hit it or sequestered it somewhere. And of course
she's missing, and that's significant. I do know that they
got out what are called swiftwater swiftwater searchers, which are
kind of like a dive team, but they're they're set
up to do whitewater searches. You know, the Arkansas River
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runs through this area. That is a serious river that
like canoers and rafters go down. We're in a very
rugged area of our country in this area, Nancy, and
so you're going to have a very complex areas that
kind of search for evidence here. And it takes a
keen eye. They're looking in these rivers for her for
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whatever reason, because they went to their trouble to bring
these people in crime stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, where
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is Suzanne Morphew who seemingly vanishes just boof disappears in
broad daylight. Take a listen to our friends at CBS
for Denver News. This is Alan Jannette. The hardest thing
She's a beloved member of her family and the sweetest
person that you've ever met, The nephew of forty nine
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year old Suzanne More, if you talking about what it's
like to go through the difficulty of a search that
started after when missing during a Sunday bike cry. Family
has said her husband, Barry, was out of town in Denver.
A friend called authorities when more Few didn't return. The
bike was found on Sunday, the day as she would missing.
The sheriff has not yet shared information on the bike,
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but has told CBS for the reason for her disappearances
probably not animals. Extensive searching in Chiefee County, about twenty
miles west of Salida, has not brought an answer on
what happened to More. A few guys, we're talking about
a gorgeous you know, mom, Suzanne Morephew, and I'm getting
more questions than answers right now. Once again we hear
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the nephew speaking out the bike found and announced separate
from the personal item, let's bring in the panel joining me.
Doctor Angela Arnold, psychiatrist in the Atlanta jurisdiction. Why the
nephew and now the husband? Several days later posts a
Facebook video. Interesting. Can't take questions on Facebook video? Go ahead,
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doctor Angela, It's very interesting. I'll tell you something to
to see a question that's burning inside of me. Why
did they Why did they move there two years ago?
I'm just wondering about that. And how how close is
the nephew to this woman? Well, you know, my mems
are very close to me because you know, they came
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along before I had my own children, so they were
like children to me. And my nephews and my niece
very close and have always considered them like my own children.
I do believe they came here for They came to
Colorado for early retirement. They you know, stashed away somehow
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three million bucks had a half a million dollar home
in a beautiful area in Colorado. Gorgeous area. By the way,
I hiked there many many times. Long story short, I
think that's why they were there. I asked the same question,
doctor Angela, Why move if you're happy and doing well
where you are. I'm just curious about the whole thing.
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Floyd Steiger with me, Ashley Willcot with me, Ashley to
you again, nobody's pointing the finger at the husband, but
being one hundred and fifty miles away. I mean, that's
nothing that's less than three hours away. I've just got
to figure out the timing here. And you have to
start with the husband first. No offense to him, Ash,
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Absolutely you do, because that's what you always do. Often
perpetrators are ones that we know are the person that
we lived with, that we're closest to. So one of
the things that I don't have yet that I would
like to have established is the timeline. Exactly what you said, Okay,
we've heard the husband with one hundred and fifty miles away,
but what time did he leave the house? Where did
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he go when he was one hundred and fifty miles away?
Do in fact they have like a GPS tracker from
his phone from his car to know if he stayed
one hundred and fifty miles away all day or not.
The timeline has not been established in terms of everything
I've seen in the coverage yet to know exactly who
was where when, which are very important pieces to start
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an investigation. And I'd like to know about her phone.
It's hard for me to believe you we'd leave it
behind even on a bike ride. I mean, I make
my children, you know, I go out with them, have
their phone with them, not to look at on the
bike ride, but to have with them. Let's take a
listen to w k WGN Craig and Nieto's Channel two.
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Day three of the search for forty nine year olds
Shusanne Morphew, the Chiefe County wife and mother, first reported
missing late Sunday afternoon. The search intensifying today along Highway
fifty at the base of Monarch Pass. Today, I've got
different types of searching dogs in the area. Gone back
over the same area again. Sunday afternoon, Morphew had set
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out for a bike ride along County Road to twenty
five and West Hiwe fifty. Chiefee County's sheriff says social
media is actually getting to places where search crews cannot
well over about one hundred and eighty thousand, well over
one hundred and eighty thousand people on Facebook, I thought
he's down south. Day four ends with promising news. We've
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brought on a lot of extra help to work on
this case, and we're just looking for anything we can
to try to find her. Now. I did ask us
for more of few. If he's interested in making a
public plea, he says at this point, it's simply too soon.
Too soon? What was he waiting on? Guys? Also, in
the public play he released on Facebook, taking no Questions,
he says, I'll I will do whatever it takes to
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get you back, Honey. I love you. I want you
back so bad. You know, people react to this kind
of situation differently. I remember when my husband, I don't
know if I told you this story, Joe Scott Morgan,
when he has to travel a lot with his business,
he always text or calls the minute he touches down,
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so I don't have to worry. And then when he
usually will text when he goes to supper, like hey,
I'm here, I'm having umji whatever. And then he old
text or call when he gets to a hotel and
he's safe, and I don't expect him to break into
his busy day to call me and have a big,
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long conversation. But he went to Florida and he texted
when he landed, and I was super busy at that bay,
so I saw the text. I was happy, and then
I didn't ever hear from him again, and I was
convinced that, you know, somebody in the parking lot and
hit him on the head, or he got to a
hotel room and had a heart attack. You do know,
Joe Scott. I made d who works with me, wake
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her up at one o'clock in the morning, and we
spend till six a m. Calling every hospital in hotel
in the area. I don't even remember what town it was.
I think it was winter Haven, Florida, until we found
d found his hotel and I tore. I tried to
be nice to start with, but finally I tore the
poor night clerk and you well, you know what until
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he went to the room with his cell phone turned
on and on the door, and you could hear David
come to the door and he said, your wife's gonna
call you on your hotel room. And he was fine.
He was just exhausted and fell asleep with his iPad
open and his cell phone sitting by him on the bed.
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So I mean, the moment I think he's missing, I
started trying to do everything I could. So what does
that mean It's too soon to ask the public for help? Yeah,
I don't know what it means. And back to your
first point there, I think that goes along. Obviously, our
reaction goes along with the nature of what we do
for a living. You know, I'm always terrified something's going
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to happen to my loved ones like this because of
all the stuff we cover. But to this point, I
tell you something else that's kind of curious for me. Uh.
You know, I'm just an old Southern boy. And you know,
you start Mother's Day right, okay, Mother's Day, and I'm thinking,
why why don't you watch you with your children on
that day? Uh? You know, maybe he's maybe his models
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and caught in Denver. I have no idea, but you know,
for me, I better be standing tall at the house
with my wife, the mother of my children, and we
better be maybe over at at my in law's house,
you know, visiting my mother in law or my mother.
But we're gonna be together as a family. Not so
much on Father's Day, but on Mother's Day. That that's
kind of it's kind of odd to me. And so
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that's one of the things that really kind of raises
a flag from me. And again, you know, we're not
accusing for me too, questions, don't we You know, when
you get married and you say I do you you
situate yourself and you better expect that you're the first
one cops come to when anything go sideways. And I
got to tell you something to doctor Angela Arnold, why
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is this. I don't give a fig about my birthday.
I love everybody else's but never have but Mother's Day.
I mean, that's my crowning achievement, that the twins Mother's Day.
That's why is he one hundred and fifty miles away?
And I still don't understand this comment whatever he said
about no questions asked, no questions asked? What is going on?
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All these little nefarious things that people are saying. There's
so much underlying us. You don't leave your wife on
Mother's Day? I'm sorry. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, guys,
(30:53):
we are learning so much more about disappearing mom Suzanne.
We're learning, for instance, reports that her bike brakes were locked.
What does it mean bike breakes locked? Let's go to you,
(31:14):
Joseph Scott Morgan and Cloyd's Tiger. What does that mean
to you? Is that significant? Joseph jo Scott Morgan? If
it's true, well, yeah, and again that's that's kind of
a cryptic kind of way to describe that. I'm wondering
if maybe she didn't apply the brakes, you know, the
handbrakes that you have up on the handlebars, in such
a manner that it locked down at the moment time
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when maybe she was approached by a vehicle. Maybe there's
an independent way to lock the brakes on a vehicle
so that the tires don't spend. Remember these bikes that
people have, particularly in these areas, are very very expensive,
and so they have kind of fail saves on them
to prevent like tires from getting out a line and
this sort of thing. So maybe it's locked down to
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prevent that. That's something that we would need to explore more.
I'd like to know if it happened in a sudden moment,
like we say in forensic medicine and an acute moment,
or was it something that she had done independent or
maybe somebody locked them down so they wouldn't spin around
in a vehicle that the car that the vehicle was
being that the bicycle was being transported in to cloy
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Stiger or Tory six year Seattle, Pg. Twenty two. Homicide
questions mounting as Suzanne Moorephy remains missing now one week
cloy S Tiger, If you were there on that scene,
what would you be asking? What would you be doing? Well,
first of all, I would I would like actually said,
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I believe that Why was this her husband one hundred
and fifty miles away or wherever he was? What was
going on that he had to be there? This guy
sounds like a pretty well there. He was a business owner.
The acticles there on a Sunday on Mother's Day, and
then I, of course you want to look for you know,
I can have a lot of commercial surveillance video there,
but if you went by houses, there's a lot of prices. Wait, wait,
hold it, hold it, hold it Cloyd coronavirus. Who is
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going to travel out of town and hold up in
a hotel on Mother's Day during coronavirus? Yeah, that's another thing.
What's going on there? What's happening that makes this guy
be one hundred and fifty miles away? Maybe he was
one hundred and fifty miles away because he wanted to
be away when something happened that he'd set up with
somebody else. Those are questions I'd ask. Again, it's almost
always the husband doesn't mean he did in this case,
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but you have to be prudent and started. Yeah, you
have to and again, he is not a person of interest,
He is not a suspect. Nothing like that has been said.
We also know, as Joe Scott indicated earlier, the Chaffee
County Sheriff's office has been looking at white water. They're
doing fast water dive searches with a whole nother animal
of diving. But they've also asked neighbors to preserve surveillance video.
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And you know, when you got a house to Cole
parton Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter, that's a half
a million dollars or more, you know they're going to
be doubt totally was surveillance video. So they're asking neighbors
if they have any now catch this from May eight
to May twelve? Whoa why are they asking for video
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from May eight to May twelve? What about that Nicole? Oh?
Have you heard that? I had heard that. We don't
know why, but it would lead us to believe that
they want to see who's coming, who's going, what's happening
during all of those days? Are they watching the husband,
are they watching the home? Are they looking for maybe
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someone would come back to the home who had taken her.
There's so many possibilities but we do know that they
are checking with all of the neighbors, capturing that surveillance video,
capturing door to door witness accounts of anything that was
heard or said during that time frame. That makes me think, you,
Joseph Scott Morgan, they're looking at somebody else as well.
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Why are they looking at video for eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve leading up to her disappearance? Guy's tip line seven
one nine three one two seven five three zero repeat
seven one nine three one two seven five three zero.
There is a two hundred thousand dollars reward jump in
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Joe Scott. Hey, Look, Nancy, at this point in time,
we have nothing to go on in from our perspective.
Now the police will have more. But you have to
You have to turn over every rock. You have to
consider every possibility. And look, let's don't beat around the bush.
We've talked about people that you know with the husband,
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the next door neighbor. We're talking about people that are
in the intimate circle. Those are going to be people
they're gonna have firsthand knowledge. Well, if you're on videography
relative to the life of this woman, if you're filmed
in that area, then that means that you're part of
her life in some way. I want to know who's
coming going I know Chloyd Woods as a homicide investigator.
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I want to know who's going to have contact with her,
which is very important going back and forth. You know,
can we establish a tomline before she disappeared, when she
maybe was saying she was going to leave, and then
up to afterwards, and that goes to motives sometimes if
there's something that farious going on here, and I certainly
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believe there is, trying to figure out why they want
surveillance footage for a period of days leading up to
Susanne Morphew's disappearance when apparently she's spotted by an eyewitness
going for a bike ride Sunday afternoon Mother's Day while
her husband's out of town in Denver. Let's cut two,
cut six Chaffee County Sheriff's press conference. Take a listen
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to this. We've run foot searches using air support, canine support,
swift water support, and we've also utilized countless hours of
drone searches. We've used all over two hundred personnel and
over two thousand man hours have gone into this search,
but unfortunately, we haven't found Suzanne yet, and as I
stated before, that is our top priority. Yesterday afternoon, which
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is Thursday, in the area of County Road two twenty
five and Highway fifty, we did find items that we
believe were personal items of Suzanne, more few and that
launched a bigger search we had today, which included the
full closure of US Highway fifty on Monarch Pass. In
that search, we used today well over ninety searchers that
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are well trained individuals from both our local agencies as
well as the FBI and CBI. We searched over two
and a half miles using grid patterns. Unfortunately, we found
no other items in that area. FBI, local sheriff's and police,
and the CBI Colorado Bureau of Investigation. That is quite
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a search covering, I think, he said, twenty miles via grid.
Now take a listen to nine News Colorado News anchor
Kim Christiansen. Suzanne Morphew went for a bike ride on Sunday.
She never returned. The Chaffey County Sheriff's Office says an
item thought to belong to her was found just west
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of County Road two twenty five and Highway fifty. The
Sheriff's office would not say what that item was or
where it was found. More than fifty searchers were in
that area, and they closed Monarch Pass for several hours.
This morning, Our nine News anchor Gary Shapiro talked with
Morphew's uncle, our nephew rather about the search for his aunt.
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Are there any theories that you're working on? Yes, there are,
But I think it's best for the investigation and for
the family and for the progress that we that we
keep it close. We're making progress, and we are so
far from giving up, and we are going to find
her today. Oh gosh, that's sin if you speaking saying
(38:59):
we're going to find her today, I've got a question,
what do you make of that? To Cloyd Stey girl,
I want to go to ask you, Willcott, I haven't
talked to her at a moment, Ash. Why would they
not want to reveal a theory. Wouldn't they want the
public's help to further that theory. Sure they would, unless
it's going to interfere with the investigation. So at this
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point I have to tell you, knowing that we have State,
we have FBI, we have all these people involved, I
think that they have more information that they don't want
to tell the public. They don't want the public to
know the theory because they don't want the person who
is involved or know something to know that they're onto them.
And they still have to investigate more to really make
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certain that theory might be accurate. That's the only thing
I can guess in this case. Tipline seven one nine
three one two seven five three zero. We wait as
the search goes on Nancy Grace crime story, signing off
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How does a mom go missing, seemingly vanishing off the
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face of the earth on a Sunday afternoon bike ride,
broad Delight. I'm talking about Suzanne Morphew Crime Stories with
Nancy Grace. I'm easy, Grace, this is crime stories. How
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did she go missing? And Jackie? Is this significant to
you that she goes missing on Mother's Day? Now, yes,
that Sunday is not different from every other Sunday, Accept
that you celebrate moms. I always find it very let
me say, curious when someone goes missing or is killed
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or Trasday befalls them on a particular holiday. It's kind
of a red flag you can't ignore. But let's go
to the source. Take a listen now to our friends
at CBS for Denver. Alan, Janette and she went biking
on Sunday. They're in the mountains about twenty miles west
of Salida, Trevor, and and then there was nothing from her.
(03:03):
Tell us what you do know, Alan, I'm I'm willing
to confirm that the bike was found on Sunday evening.
The bike was found on Sunday evening, the night that
she disappeared. And for more information, on the bike for
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its condition. I would encourage you and everyone else to
contact the Chaffey County Sheriff's Department. Yeah, it has to
be disconcerting to know the bike has found. Sheriff has
said he does not believe that this was an animal,
and so all of Colorado has really ought to be
aware that there is a potential den Trevor, that she
might be somewhere well out of the county for all
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we know, which is why we need to make sure
that we're aware of the situation. Okay, something is hank
you right there. Okay, it doesn't take a j D
to figure that out. Did you hear that, Jackie? The
way the nephew and why is the nephew speaking? Where's
the husband? Where's the children? But the nephew is speaking,
and the way he said it, he said, I'm willing
(04:10):
to confirm the bike has been found. I'm not suggesting
the nephew is in any way involved in Suzanne's disappearance.
He's out facing the cameras speaking, But that tells me
there's something unusual regarding the discovery of Susanne's bike. And
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he was very tight lived about it with me. An
All Star panel to help determine what's happening to analyze
the clues left behind. First of all, trial lawyer and
judge anchor at Court TV Ashley Wilcot at Ashley Wilcot
dot com. Doctor Angela Arnold, renowned psychiatrists joining us out
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of the Atlanta jurisdiction. Cloyd Steiger thirty six years Seattle
PD twenty two. That homicide, that's something, can't sneeze at that.
Author of Seattle's Forgotten serial Killer, Gary Jane Grant at
Cloyd Steiger dot com, Professor Forensics Jacksonville State University and
author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Death investigator
(05:18):
Joseph Scott Morgan. But first to Crime online dot Com
investigative reporter Nicole Parton. I got a lot of questions
regarding this, but let's just start with the timeline. Mother's Day.
She goes for a bycride on Mother's Day. In the afternoon,
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she's reported missing by neighbors at six pm. I believe
husband is one hundred and fifty miles away in Denver
on Mother's Day. But hey, that's just three hours if
you're going sixty mph. Jane stop wants to go to
the bathroom. So Nicole parton with that in mind, tell
me what you know. Yes, Nancy, forty nine year old
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mom missing and apparently it's her next door neighbor that
alerts authorities. She sees her and knows that she's headed
out on the bike ride late in the afternoon. When
she doesn't return, the neighbor gets concerned and calls authority.
Now I've looked at her pictures. You have two beautiful
forty nine year old mother, very fit and in shape.
(06:23):
It was not uncommon for her to go out for
a bike ride. Do you know that? Do you know
that to be a fact. We know that according to
the next door neighbor, they had seen her go out
for bike ride several times. Questions question next door neighbor
male or female? Female? Good to know because I'm wondering,
how does the next door neighbor know so much about
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this woman that there I was wondering if it was
a creepy stalker next door neighbor. But no, it's not.
I can tell you statistically it's not. If it's a woman,
how does a woman know that she left for the
bike ride and then no, by six o'clock she's not
where she's supposed to be. Maybe they were supposed to
have dinner together. Who knows, Maybe she called me. Do
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you know why the neighbor realized something was a miss
at six pm? The only thing we know is that
she told authorities that it was getting dark, it was
getting late, and she knew she should have been back by. Now,
can I tell you about an unconfirmed report? Nicole? We
have an unconfirmed report the daughter, she has two daughters. Correct,
call the neighbor and asked her to call Jack. You're
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saying she asked her to call the mom or asked
her to call police. So, in any event, you're correct
that it is the neighbor. I was wondering what prompted
the neighbor to realize that Suzanne was missing, and that
maybe a small detail, but we can all agree that
small details matter. Here. You pick it up from there, Sorry, Nicole,
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go ahead, no problem. So authorities are alerted and they
begin the search. As you said, husband is one hundred
and fifty the way out of town. They're being very
tight lipped. Her family is not speaking, except for the nephew.
Husband has lawyered up. He's been able to do several interviews. Wait. Wait, wait, wait,
what did you just say? The husband lawyered up? That's correct.
(08:16):
What kind of lawyer? Do you know who the lawyer is?
I don't. I wasn't given that information. I just know
that the lawyers. I'd be curious to know if the
lawyer is a criminal defense lawyer. Just out of curiosity,
he lawyered up, you know, speaking of what you just said,
Ashley Wilcott, judge, trial lawyer, court deem me anchor. Ash
(08:39):
I was wondering why it was the nephew out there
hitting the airwaves, but in the last hours the husband
has finally come forward and spoken. Jack. Can you play
what the husby just said? Oh, Susanne. If anyone is
out there, I can hear this that has you, Please
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do whatever it takes to bring you back. We love you,
we miss you. Your girls need you. No questions asked,
however much they want, I will do whatever it takes
to get you back. I love you, Okay, Ashley, I'm
just a JD all right. I only know how to
try cases. That that's it, and cook in the crop pot.
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The girls miss you. I'm trying to analyze every word,
and Ashley, I'm not saying the guys responsible. But I
am saying that that's where the investigation will always start.
Barn one with hobby lover, ex boyfriend living, that's where
we start, jump in Ash well exactly. And he didn't
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say I miss you, I'm worried, I'm concerned. And he
also made another statement that was fascinating to me, and
he said no questions asked. I felt like he was
blaming her, meaning he has information or knows more. That's
a really good point. I mean, maybe he's trying to say,
Lloyd Steiger, no questions asked, I won't go after you,
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just bring her home alive. Could be that, but Ash
is right, why would you say no questions asked? And
I don't want to parse words. I want to find
this woman. But what do you make of the circumstances
so far? Also, Lloyd, they're not telling us. And I've
tried to find out where the bike was found in
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relation to the home. And also we know that a
personal item was found that is hers about I think
about three hundred feet or so from the home. So
what's that item because that would indicate to me that's
where the attack took place. If she's on a bike
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and she's a veteran biker. Would she have dropped an
item by accident and not gone to get up? Where's
her cell phone? Was it activated? As she have fine
my iPhone app? And where the bike is? And the
condition of the bike. Because you heard the nephew say,
I'm willing to confirm the bike was found, but he
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sounded like he'd been instructing not to say anything else.
Why do you make mccloyd. Yeah, I think you know
when I heard that, no questions that same two that
were into Red flight for me? What do you mean
by that? I mean if my wife was missing or
something like that. First of all, I wouldn't lawyer up.
I mean, he has a right to get a lawyer,
but I wouldn't lawyer up. I'd be out there every
day in front of the news begging for help. I
wouldn't send a nephew out to be my spokesman. Uh,
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you know it sounds like, well, first of all, I'm
sure that this dament he made was parted with his
attorney before he made it. But you know, and what
was it? I don't know where was the bike found?
That's pretty important. You think they'd give you the area
the bike resound. Some people that area if they thought
something would know to look for the exactly crime stories
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with Nancy Grace. Guys, we're talking about the disappearance of
a mom, Susanne Morphew, beautiful mother of two girls. The
husband is one hundred and fifty miles away in Denver,
and I'd be all over that like a cheap suit.
What hotel is their surveillance video of the hotel, in
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the hotel of him going in his room, did he
come out of his room? What time? It's only three
hours away. And again I'm not saying he had anything
to do with this. I'm saying that's where you start
the investigation. And if anybody disagrees, jump in and explain why.
I want you to take a listen now to our
friends at crimealline dot com. This is Dave Mack. Listen.
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Susanne Morphew went missing from Maysville, Colorado. This small community
has a population under one hundred and thirty five according
to the two ten census, and average home prices are
around five hundred thousand dollars. Search efforts began when the
mom of two did not return after a bike ride
on Mother's Day. Reports say a neighbor called to report
more few missing. But we've also heard reports that it
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was one of Morphew's two daughters who asked the neighbor
to contact police when she could not reach her mother.
Morphew and her husband, Barry, moved from Indiana about two
years ago. She was a middle school teacher. He owned
landscaping companies. He's also a volunteer fireman while Susanne Moore
a few opened a nonprofit for children in need called
Hope Network Incorporated. I'm trying to just take in all
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that information. So he owned a landscaping company. That's just
opening up a plethora of possibilities, all the properties where
he has worked, all the people that work for him
and the landscaping companies. This woman did not leave of
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her own volition and stage her bike right now, it's
my understanding that police are not releasing any information regarding
the condition or the location of the bike, or what
the quote personal item is that they found. You know,
Nicole Parton, we got carried away and ran down a
rabbit hole. Go back to where you left off and
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tell me what you know, please sure, Nancy. So the
nextdoor neighbor calls authorities and they began this search, and
of course they reach out to the children and the husband,
and it says though she vanished in thin air, the
bike trail that supposedly she went is very safe. There
are people in the area who bike there as well,
who say there's never been an incident of anything happening.
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They don't believe that it had anything to do with
a wild animal attack. They're calling this very suspicious and
of course I'm missing the missing person case. They don't
know what happened. They're being tight lips. We don't know
if she had a cell phone with her, We don't
know what personal item was found right there near the home.
But we also know that, in addition to owning these
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landscaping companies, her husband has a net worth of close
to three million dollars. So could this have been something
to do with a ransom? Could this have been something
to do with kidnapping for money. There's so many different
areas that could be questioned. Well too, is that Joe
Scott jumping in Joseph Scott Morgan kidnapped for ransom? Where's
their answer that? Yeah, no, kidneys ns the one and
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we don't know about it. And police aren't saying anything.
That's something I'd be very interested. And I was just
taking a look at satellite image of the home and
it is, I don't know, by my standards, pretty impressive.
And this is in a very isolated area. But one
significant thing here. Their home sits just off of Highway fifty,
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which is like an old federal highway, and it's kind
of a main thoroughfare that runs down there. She would
have when she exited the home, she would have had
to have made a left heading back toward town on
this road on her bike. That item that they keep
referring to that they haven't specifically identified, was found about
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three tenths of a mile away from the home, on
the right hand side, the side of the road she
would have been riding on, and it's adjacent to the trail.
I think, so that's roughly five hundred yards if you
want to compute that this happened. If this happened right there, Nancy,
it happened almost immediately, like as soon as she turned
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out onto that road. That's significant. That means that somebody
may have been watching her. You know another thing that
you just sparked memory, Joe Scott, do you remember Dylan
and Shasta Grone, the two little children that were kidnapped
in Cordelone, Idaho, and the whole family was massacred and
they were taken. They were held repeatedly molested. The little boy,
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Dylan was raped over and over and over, and he
would be strangled to death or near death and then
resuscitated and then it would start over and over and over.
And they caught the perp because he took Shasta to
like seven to eleven and she was walking around behind him,
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and somebody recognized her photo after seeing her on TV.
We had been covering out like every night on HLN.
Long story short, he happened to be driving down the
interstate that perp and spite of the children playing in
an above ground pool. Totally unconnected. So you're telling me
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this is right off oh Highway fifty, correct, Yeah, also
Highway fifty. You know. One of the things that just
strikes me about this. I want to know more information
about this bicycle because I don't know where it was found.
Let's just say, for instance, just you know, indulge me
just for a second. Let's say that this person pulled
up alongside of her and nudged her off of the road.
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There's going to be significant damage, probably contact damage to
that bike. She would have more than likely if she'd
been bumped off of the bike and disabled in some way,
she would have injuries to her body, maybe a leg injury,
hip injury, maybe even a head injury. But they have
the bike, so I'm wondering if we've got transfer evidence
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like paint from a vehicle that has attached itself onto
the bike, you know, when these two things scrubbed together,
that's going to be significant. And also was the bike
actually run over, you know, and that that could go
to things like trace evidence relative to tires, did it
get caught beneath the vehicle? And it raises all kinds
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a myriad of questions from a forensics fandpoint of course
that what may have happened to her at that moment time?
And what was that personal item? Was it a set
of headphones? Was it a phone, was it a watch?
I don't know what it would have been. That would
have been a specific and this is a significant, a
specific tie back to her. They said it's her personal item,
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not somebody else's, but her, So it means it's got
an identifier. I can tell you one thing, the bike
was found at a different location I think than the
personal item, because the first thing we hear, well, actually
they wouldn't say anything about whether the bike was found
at the get go. They kept that a secret, and
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I wonder why. And based on what the nephew is saying,
how he was so mysterious about the bike's condition, That
tells me it's a huge evidentiary clue. But then later,
like forty eight hours later or more, we hear, oh, update,
a personal item has been found. That suggests do you
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agree or disagree Joe Scott that the personal item was
found in a different location than the bike or it
would have come out at the same time. Yeah, it could,
it could have been. Just let me kind of follow
this line of logic. If the bike was found in
a different location. Just y'all follow me just for a
second here. If she got knocked off and was subdued
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in some way, you know, bike's going to draw attention
if it's just laying out. I mean, we've all driven
down these these old US highways like this. They're pretty sizeable.
It's not like some little country road that bike would
draw attention. That means that potentially there was a vehicle
big enough to accommodate that bike. Maybe they threw the
bike into the into the car and drove it to
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a different location so it wouldn't draw attention, and then
they hit it or sequestered it somewhere. And of course
she's missing, and that's significant. I do know that they
got out what are called swiftwater swiftwater searchers, which are
kind of like a dive team, but they're they're set
up to do whitewater searches. You know, the Arkansas River
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runs through this area. That is a serious river that
like canoers and rafters go down. We're in a very
rugged area of our country in this area, Nancy, and
so you're going to have a very complex areas that
kind of search for evidence here. And it takes a
keen eye. They're looking in these rivers for her for
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whatever reason, because they went to their trouble to bring
these people in crime stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, where
(21:33):
is Suzanne Morphew who seemingly vanishes just boof disappears in
broad daylight. Take a listen to our friends at CBS
for Denver News. This is Alan Jannette. The hardest thing
She's a beloved member of her family and the sweetest
person that you've ever met, The nephew of forty nine
(21:53):
year old Suzanne More, if you talking about what it's
like to go through the difficulty of a search that
started after when missing during a Sunday bike cry. Family
has said her husband, Barry, was out of town in Denver.
A friend called authorities when more Few didn't return. The
bike was found on Sunday, the day as she would missing.
The sheriff has not yet shared information on the bike,
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but has told CBS for the reason for her disappearances
probably not animals. Extensive searching in Chiefee County, about twenty
miles west of Salida, has not brought an answer on
what happened to More. A few guys, we're talking about
a gorgeous you know, mom, Suzanne Morephew, and I'm getting
more questions than answers right now. Once again we hear
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the nephew speaking out the bike found and announced separate
from the personal item, let's bring in the panel joining me.
Doctor Angela Arnold, psychiatrist in the Atlanta jurisdiction. Why the
nephew and now the husband? Several days later posts a
Facebook video. Interesting. Can't take questions on Facebook video? Go ahead,
(23:02):
doctor Angela, It's very interesting. I'll tell you something to
to see a question that's burning inside of me. Why
did they Why did they move there two years ago?
I'm just wondering about that. And how how close is
the nephew to this woman? Well, you know, my mems
are very close to me because you know, they came
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along before I had my own children, so they were
like children to me. And my nephews and my niece
very close and have always considered them like my own children.
I do believe they came here for They came to
Colorado for early retirement. They you know, stashed away somehow
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three million bucks had a half a million dollar home
in a beautiful area in Colorado. Gorgeous area. By the way,
I hiked there many many times. Long story short, I
think that's why they were there. I asked the same question,
doctor Angela, Why move if you're happy and doing well
where you are. I'm just curious about the whole thing.
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Floyd Steiger with me, Ashley Willcot with me, Ashley to
you again, nobody's pointing the finger at the husband, but
being one hundred and fifty miles away. I mean, that's
nothing that's less than three hours away. I've just got
to figure out the timing here. And you have to
start with the husband first. No offense to him, Ash,
(24:29):
Absolutely you do, because that's what you always do. Often
perpetrators are ones that we know are the person that
we lived with, that we're closest to. So one of
the things that I don't have yet that I would
like to have established is the timeline. Exactly what you said, Okay,
we've heard the husband with one hundred and fifty miles away,
but what time did he leave the house? Where did
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he go when he was one hundred and fifty miles away?
Do in fact they have like a GPS tracker from
his phone from his car to know if he stayed
one hundred and fifty miles away all day or not.
The timeline has not been established in terms of everything
I've seen in the coverage yet to know exactly who
was where when, which are very important pieces to start
(25:11):
an investigation. And I'd like to know about her phone.
It's hard for me to believe you we'd leave it
behind even on a bike ride. I mean, I make
my children, you know, I go out with them, have
their phone with them, not to look at on the
bike ride, but to have with them. Let's take a
listen to w k WGN Craig and Nieto's Channel two.
(25:35):
Day three of the search for forty nine year olds
Shusanne Morphew, the Chiefe County wife and mother, first reported
missing late Sunday afternoon. The search intensifying today along Highway
fifty at the base of Monarch Pass. Today, I've got
different types of searching dogs in the area. Gone back
over the same area again. Sunday afternoon, Morphew had set
(25:57):
out for a bike ride along County Road to twenty
five and West Hiwe fifty. Chiefee County's sheriff says social
media is actually getting to places where search crews cannot
well over about one hundred and eighty thousand, well over
one hundred and eighty thousand people on Facebook, I thought
he's down south. Day four ends with promising news. We've
(26:19):
brought on a lot of extra help to work on
this case, and we're just looking for anything we can
to try to find her. Now. I did ask us
for more of few. If he's interested in making a
public plea, he says at this point, it's simply too soon.
Too soon? What was he waiting on? Guys? Also, in
the public play he released on Facebook, taking no Questions,
he says, I'll I will do whatever it takes to
(26:41):
get you back, Honey. I love you. I want you
back so bad. You know, people react to this kind
of situation differently. I remember when my husband, I don't
know if I told you this story, Joe Scott Morgan,
when he has to travel a lot with his business,
he always text or calls the minute he touches down,
(27:02):
so I don't have to worry. And then when he
usually will text when he goes to supper, like hey,
I'm here, I'm having umji whatever. And then he old
text or call when he gets to a hotel and
he's safe, and I don't expect him to break into
his busy day to call me and have a big,
(27:25):
long conversation. But he went to Florida and he texted
when he landed, and I was super busy at that bay,
so I saw the text. I was happy, and then
I didn't ever hear from him again, and I was
convinced that, you know, somebody in the parking lot and
hit him on the head, or he got to a
hotel room and had a heart attack. You do know,
Joe Scott. I made d who works with me, wake
(27:48):
her up at one o'clock in the morning, and we
spend till six a m. Calling every hospital in hotel
in the area. I don't even remember what town it was.
I think it was winter Haven, Florida, until we found
d found his hotel and I tore. I tried to
be nice to start with, but finally I tore the
poor night clerk and you well, you know what until
(28:12):
he went to the room with his cell phone turned
on and on the door, and you could hear David
come to the door and he said, your wife's gonna
call you on your hotel room. And he was fine.
He was just exhausted and fell asleep with his iPad
open and his cell phone sitting by him on the bed.
(28:36):
So I mean, the moment I think he's missing, I
started trying to do everything I could. So what does
that mean It's too soon to ask the public for help? Yeah,
I don't know what it means. And back to your
first point there, I think that goes along. Obviously, our
reaction goes along with the nature of what we do
for a living. You know, I'm always terrified something's going
(28:58):
to happen to my loved ones like this because of
all the stuff we cover. But to this point, I
tell you something else that's kind of curious for me. Uh.
You know, I'm just an old Southern boy. And you know,
you start Mother's Day right, okay, Mother's Day, and I'm thinking,
why why don't you watch you with your children on
that day? Uh? You know, maybe he's maybe his models
(29:20):
and caught in Denver. I have no idea, but you know,
for me, I better be standing tall at the house
with my wife, the mother of my children, and we
better be maybe over at at my in law's house,
you know, visiting my mother in law or my mother.
But we're gonna be together as a family. Not so
much on Father's Day, but on Mother's Day. That that's
kind of it's kind of odd to me. And so
(29:43):
that's one of the things that really kind of raises
a flag from me. And again, you know, we're not
accusing for me too, questions, don't we You know, when
you get married and you say I do you you
situate yourself and you better expect that you're the first
one cops come to when anything go sideways. And I
got to tell you something to doctor Angela Arnold, why
(30:03):
is this. I don't give a fig about my birthday.
I love everybody else's but never have but Mother's Day.
I mean, that's my crowning achievement, that the twins Mother's Day.
That's why is he one hundred and fifty miles away?
And I still don't understand this comment whatever he said
about no questions asked, no questions asked? What is going on?
(30:27):
All these little nefarious things that people are saying. There's
so much underlying us. You don't leave your wife on
Mother's Day? I'm sorry. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, guys,
(30:53):
we are learning so much more about disappearing mom Suzanne.
We're learning, for instance, reports that her bike brakes were locked.
What does it mean bike breakes locked? Let's go to you,
(31:14):
Joseph Scott Morgan and Cloyd's Tiger. What does that mean
to you? Is that significant? Joseph jo Scott Morgan? If
it's true, well, yeah, and again that's that's kind of
a cryptic kind of way to describe that. I'm wondering
if maybe she didn't apply the brakes, you know, the
handbrakes that you have up on the handlebars, in such
a manner that it locked down at the moment time
(31:38):
when maybe she was approached by a vehicle. Maybe there's
an independent way to lock the brakes on a vehicle
so that the tires don't spend. Remember these bikes that
people have, particularly in these areas, are very very expensive,
and so they have kind of fail saves on them
to prevent like tires from getting out a line and
this sort of thing. So maybe it's locked down to
(31:58):
prevent that. That's something that we would need to explore more.
I'd like to know if it happened in a sudden moment,
like we say in forensic medicine and an acute moment,
or was it something that she had done independent or
maybe somebody locked them down so they wouldn't spin around
in a vehicle that the car that the vehicle was
being that the bicycle was being transported in to cloy
(32:20):
Stiger or Tory six year Seattle, Pg. Twenty two. Homicide
questions mounting as Suzanne Moorephy remains missing now one week
cloy S Tiger, If you were there on that scene,
what would you be asking? What would you be doing? Well,
first of all, I would I would like actually said,
(32:41):
I believe that Why was this her husband one hundred
and fifty miles away or wherever he was? What was
going on that he had to be there? This guy
sounds like a pretty well there. He was a business owner.
The acticles there on a Sunday on Mother's Day, and
then I, of course you want to look for you know,
I can have a lot of commercial surveillance video there,
but if you went by houses, there's a lot of prices. Wait, wait,
hold it, hold it, hold it Cloyd coronavirus. Who is
(33:04):
going to travel out of town and hold up in
a hotel on Mother's Day during coronavirus? Yeah, that's another thing.
What's going on there? What's happening that makes this guy
be one hundred and fifty miles away? Maybe he was
one hundred and fifty miles away because he wanted to
be away when something happened that he'd set up with
somebody else. Those are questions I'd ask. Again, it's almost
always the husband doesn't mean he did in this case,
(33:27):
but you have to be prudent and started. Yeah, you
have to and again, he is not a person of interest,
He is not a suspect. Nothing like that has been said.
We also know, as Joe Scott indicated earlier, the Chaffee
County Sheriff's office has been looking at white water. They're
doing fast water dive searches with a whole nother animal
of diving. But they've also asked neighbors to preserve surveillance video.
(33:52):
And you know, when you got a house to Cole
parton Crime Online dot Com investigative reporter, that's a half
a million dollars or more, you know they're going to
be doubt totally was surveillance video. So they're asking neighbors
if they have any now catch this from May eight
to May twelve? Whoa why are they asking for video
(34:16):
from May eight to May twelve? What about that Nicole? Oh?
Have you heard that? I had heard that. We don't
know why, but it would lead us to believe that
they want to see who's coming, who's going, what's happening
during all of those days? Are they watching the husband,
are they watching the home? Are they looking for maybe
(34:36):
someone would come back to the home who had taken her.
There's so many possibilities but we do know that they
are checking with all of the neighbors, capturing that surveillance video,
capturing door to door witness accounts of anything that was
heard or said during that time frame. That makes me think, you,
Joseph Scott Morgan, they're looking at somebody else as well.
(34:58):
Why are they looking at video for eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve leading up to her disappearance? Guy's tip line seven
one nine three one two seven five three zero repeat
seven one nine three one two seven five three zero.
There is a two hundred thousand dollars reward jump in
(35:21):
Joe Scott. Hey, Look, Nancy, at this point in time,
we have nothing to go on in from our perspective.
Now the police will have more. But you have to
You have to turn over every rock. You have to
consider every possibility. And look, let's don't beat around the bush.
We've talked about people that you know with the husband,
(35:41):
the next door neighbor. We're talking about people that are
in the intimate circle. Those are going to be people
they're gonna have firsthand knowledge. Well, if you're on videography
relative to the life of this woman, if you're filmed
in that area, then that means that you're part of
her life in some way. I want to know who's
coming going I know Chloyd Woods as a homicide investigator.
(36:03):
I want to know who's going to have contact with her,
which is very important going back and forth. You know,
can we establish a tomline before she disappeared, when she
maybe was saying she was going to leave, and then
up to afterwards, and that goes to motives sometimes if
there's something that farious going on here, and I certainly
(36:24):
believe there is, trying to figure out why they want
surveillance footage for a period of days leading up to
Susanne Morphew's disappearance when apparently she's spotted by an eyewitness
going for a bike ride Sunday afternoon Mother's Day while
her husband's out of town in Denver. Let's cut two,
cut six Chaffee County Sheriff's press conference. Take a listen
(36:48):
to this. We've run foot searches using air support, canine support,
swift water support, and we've also utilized countless hours of
drone searches. We've used all over two hundred personnel and
over two thousand man hours have gone into this search,
but unfortunately, we haven't found Suzanne yet, and as I
stated before, that is our top priority. Yesterday afternoon, which
(37:12):
is Thursday, in the area of County Road two twenty
five and Highway fifty, we did find items that we
believe were personal items of Suzanne, more few and that
launched a bigger search we had today, which included the
full closure of US Highway fifty on Monarch Pass. In
that search, we used today well over ninety searchers that
(37:35):
are well trained individuals from both our local agencies as
well as the FBI and CBI. We searched over two
and a half miles using grid patterns. Unfortunately, we found
no other items in that area. FBI, local sheriff's and police,
and the CBI Colorado Bureau of Investigation. That is quite
(37:57):
a search covering, I think, he said, twenty miles via grid.
Now take a listen to nine News Colorado News anchor
Kim Christiansen. Suzanne Morphew went for a bike ride on Sunday.
She never returned. The Chaffey County Sheriff's Office says an
item thought to belong to her was found just west
(38:18):
of County Road two twenty five and Highway fifty. The
Sheriff's office would not say what that item was or
where it was found. More than fifty searchers were in
that area, and they closed Monarch Pass for several hours.
This morning, Our nine News anchor Gary Shapiro talked with
Morphew's uncle, our nephew rather about the search for his aunt.
(38:39):
Are there any theories that you're working on? Yes, there are,
But I think it's best for the investigation and for
the family and for the progress that we that we
keep it close. We're making progress, and we are so
far from giving up, and we are going to find
her today. Oh gosh, that's sin if you speaking saying
(38:59):
we're going to find her today, I've got a question,
what do you make of that? To Cloyd Stey girl,
I want to go to ask you, Willcott, I haven't
talked to her at a moment, Ash. Why would they
not want to reveal a theory. Wouldn't they want the
public's help to further that theory. Sure they would, unless
it's going to interfere with the investigation. So at this
(39:21):
point I have to tell you, knowing that we have State,
we have FBI, we have all these people involved, I
think that they have more information that they don't want
to tell the public. They don't want the public to
know the theory because they don't want the person who
is involved or know something to know that they're onto them.
And they still have to investigate more to really make
(39:42):
certain that theory might be accurate. That's the only thing
I can guess in this case. Tipline seven one nine
three one two seven five three zero. We wait as
the search goes on Nancy Grace crime story, signing off
goodbye friend,
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