A Mother's Day Mystery: Suzanne Morphew Case Explained
The FOX True Crime Podcast
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4.7 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It was May 10th, 2020, Mother's Day. Most families would be celebrating with gifts, brunch, or flowers. |
| 0:10.7 | But for the Morphew family, the day was instead shrouded with tragedy. |
| 0:15.7 | Suzanne Morfew, a wife and mother of two teenage girls, was missing. |
| 0:21.5 | While on a supposed bike ride, Suzanne disappeared without a trace. |
| 0:26.5 | No warning, no goodbye text, and no body. |
| 0:30.9 | In a ravine near her Chafee Colorado home, only Suzanne's bike and helmet would be found |
| 0:36.8 | with no apparent signs of a crash. |
| 0:39.5 | From the mystery emerged a video of Barry Morphew pleading for information and the safe |
| 0:45.1 | return of his wife. Barry made himself more visible to the press offering money and theories |
| 0:51.5 | about what might have happened to Suzanne. |
| 0:58.8 | Though he first seemed a loving husband tortured by his wife's disappearance, |
| 1:04.2 | Barry Morphew would later become the figure suspected of her murder. |
| 1:08.6 | I'm Chandley Painter and this is the Fox True Crime podcast. As investigators dove into Suzanne Morfew's disappearance, they would soon discover that not everything was what it seemed. |
| 1:49.0 | The cracks in Suzanne and Barry's seemingly loving marriage began to show. |
| 1:54.2 | Only four days before she vanished, Suzanne had messaged her husband stating she was done |
| 2:00.0 | with their relationship. Investigators also learned that Suzanne had messaged her husband stating she was done with their relationship. |
| 2:01.6 | Investigators also learned that Suzanne had an affair, one lasting two years, with an old classmate from high school. |
| 2:14.6 | On May 5, 2021, almost a year after Suzanne's initial disappearance, Barry Morphew was arrested and charged with her murder. |
| 2:23.3 | Barry pleaded not guilty having the backing and support of his two daughters. |
| 2:29.3 | But Suzanne's body was not found, and without crucial evidence, the case against Barry Morphew was |
| 2:36.1 | subsequently dropped. That is until September of the following year when remains |
| 2:42.1 | were located and positively identified as Suzanne's. On June 20th, 20, 25, Barry Morphew was arrested and charged for the second time in his wife's |
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