How The Barry Morphew Case Collapsed In 2022, And Why Is He Charged Again in 2025
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In April 2022, just nine days before his murder trial was set to begin, all charges against Barry Morphew were dismissed. The man once accused of killing his wife, Suzanne Morphew, walked out of a Colorado courthouse without a single charge left standing. But why?
This episode breaks down exactly how one of Colorado’s most high-profile murder cases fell apart — from inside the system itself.
The reason wasn’t new evidence. It wasn’t a confession. It wasn’t an alibi. It was the prosecution’s own mistakes: withheld DNA reports, missed deadlines, failed discovery disclosures, and a judge who issued devastating sanctions. Fourteen of sixteen expert witnesses were tossed out due to discovery violations. That included the state’s DNA analysts, digital forensics specialists, and vehicle data experts — the backbone of the case. Without them, the trial collapsed before it even started.
We unpack every piece:
• Why DNA from an unknown male was kept from the defense
• How missing emails and undocumented meetings violated court orders
• What Judge Lama said about the prosecution’s “reckless disregard” for the rules
• And why the state dismissed the case “without prejudice,” meaning Barry Morphew could be recharged — and now, in 2025, he has been.
This video is a full breakdown of what went wrong, how the system failed, and why prosecutors were forced to walk away from a case they once called solid.
No theories. No hype. Just facts, records, and a legal unraveling you need to hear to believe.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:04.0 | So one thing to lose a case at trial. |
| 0:07.0 | It is another thing to lose it before it even starts. |
| 0:11.0 | Because your own team fumbled the ball so hard that the referee calls the whole game off. |
| 0:18.0 | That's more or less what happened to prosecutors in the Barry Morfew case. |
| 0:23.6 | In April of 2022, just nine days before jury selection, |
| 0:26.8 | all charges against Barry were dropped. |
| 0:29.6 | Not because he was cleared, not because someone else confessed, |
| 0:32.8 | not because new evidence came to life, |
| 0:35.2 | but because prosecution failed to follow the rules so badly, |
| 0:40.0 | in fact, that a judge barred most of their key witnesses from ever setting foot in the |
| 0:46.8 | courtroom in that supposed trial. That got called off. This is a podcast, and we're going to |
| 0:53.7 | break down why that trial, why the initial |
| 0:57.1 | one was called off. What does it say about the case? What does it say about the case going forward |
| 1:03.4 | now that new charges have been brought against very morphium? In the comments, let me know your |
| 1:10.3 | thoughts on this case. |
| 1:11.4 | Is this something where they got the solid evidence now, |
| 1:15.6 | and now they can take him out because they have the body, |
| 1:20.3 | the toxology shows that that bam chemical combination |
| 1:25.1 | is something that only Barry had access to. |
| 1:30.7 | And does that make him the killer? |
| 1:33.7 | Or is this a case of someone being pushed into a corner, someone being framed, |
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