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48 Hours

The Vanishing of Suzanne Morphew

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.97K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After a mother of two vanishes on Mother’s Day, bizarre clues emerge — a chipmunk alibi, a tranquilizer gun and a spy pen. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

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0:00.0

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When something like this happens, when somebody goes missing, you want answers. But this case is incredibly unique when you started to dig a little bit deeper.

1:22.0

Nothing is what it seems.

1:26.0

Suzanne Morphew went missing on Mother's Day in May of 2020. And from there on out, it became a nationwide search for her.

1:34.0

Suzanne Morphew left for a bike ride and she never came back.

1:38.0

She has two beautiful daughters. The family looks to be perfect from the outside. Every picture you saw of them, they're smiling, they're laughing, they're looking like they love each other.

1:48.0

She grew up in Indiana. She came to Colorado and she began to mountain bike.

1:53.0

We see pictures of a beautiful woman, an active physically fit woman, taking advantage of the mountains.

2:02.0

Barry Morphew was a business owner. He was an avid hunter and a man's man.

2:11.0

On May 9th, Barry was very happy because there had been some marital tension but not on May 9th.

2:19.0

All you have to go on is what Barry says occurred.

2:22.0

That's right. Barry says they had a nice dinner together. They even made love and then they went to sleep and she was still sleeping the next morning when he left for work.

2:32.0

So the next day, Mother's Day, the daughters are out on a camping trip. That strike people is odd.

2:39.0

Family had told investigators that it was odd that their daughters would not be with their mom.

2:46.0

She didn't have anything else to do and all of a sudden her daughters and her husband are both gone.

2:54.0

Barry Morphew said he texted his wife Suzanne to wish her a happy Mother's Day.

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