Tranquilizer Drugs Found in Suzanne Morphew's Bones — Barry Morphew Faces Murder Trial AGAIN
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Barry Morphew pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Monday in the death of his wife Suzanne Morphew, who disappeared Mother's Day 2020. This marks the second time he's faced these charges. The first case imploded in 2022 when DA Linda Stanley's office failed to meet discovery deadlines and withheld key evidence from the defense — including unknown male DNA found in Suzanne's vehicle. Stanley was later disbarred for misconduct. Suzanne's remains were found accidentally in September 2023 in a shallow grave near Moffat, Colorado. An autopsy revealed BAM — a tranquilizer used on large animals — in her bone marrow.
Prosecutors say Barry Morphew is the only private citizen in the region who had access to that drug, and he admitted using it weeks before Suzanne vanished. Court documents describe a troubled marriage: Suzanne texted Barry "I'm done" four days before disappearing, confided in friends about abuse, and had been secretly planning to leave him for a man she'd been seeing for two years. Barry maintains his innocence and says investigators have "tunnel vision." His attorney says this case will end the same way the first one did. Trial is set for October 2026. We cover the full timeline, the affair, the forensic evidence, and what prosecutors need to prove this time around.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.5 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:07.9 | Suzanne Morfew's bones may have told the story |
| 0:10.9 | prosecutors say her husband tried to bury. |
| 0:14.5 | When forensic investigators tested her remains in 2024, |
| 0:18.2 | they found something they weren't expecting. |
| 0:21.2 | A cocktail of drugs called Bam. |
| 0:28.6 | Uprophal, |
| 0:29.5 | aaphylene, |
| 0:34.6 | and a methadine. |
| 0:38.2 | It's a tranquilizer mixture used to sedate large animals, specifically deer. |
| 0:44.3 | And when investigators pulled the prescription records for that entire region of Colorado, |
| 0:49.4 | they found something kind of remarkable. |
| 0:52.4 | Between 2017 and 2020, according to the indictment, |
| 0:56.9 | only one private citizen living anywhere near where Suzanne lived or where her body was found |
| 1:03.9 | had ever purchased, bam. Barry Morphew, her husband, a man who had told investigators their marriage was the best. |
| 1:14.7 | The man who posted a cheerful video pleading for her safe return. |
| 1:18.1 | The man who, according to prosecutors, |
| 1:20.1 | admitted using that exact tranquilizer on a deer in their property |
| 1:24.1 | just one month before Suzanne vanished. |
| 1:27.8 | Looks a little suss, right? |
| 1:32.6 | On Monday, Barrymorefew stood in an Alamosa County courtroom and pled not guilty to first-degree murder. |
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