Barry Morphew indicted in murder of wife Suzanne Morphew more than 3 years after original charges dropped

Suzanne Morphew Chaffee County Sheriff s Office Barry Morphew is once again charged with killing his wife A Colorado grand jury indicted the -year-old on one count of first-degree murder in the death of his wife Suzanne Morphew the th Judicial District Attorney s Office communicated Friday Morphew was arrested in Arizona on Friday and prosecutors will seek to extradite him to the San Luis Valley the district attorney s office revealed Suzanne Morphew disappeared from the family s Chaffee County home on May Her body was discovered in September in a shallow grave near Moffat Agents determined she died with a mix of animal tranquilizers in her body Barry Morphew was initially charged with Suzanne Morphew s murder in before her body was unveiled All charges against him were dropped in after prosecutors mishandled the episode and were sanctioned for discovery violations Federal state and local law enforcement have never stopped working toward justice for Suzanne th Judicial District Attorney Anne Kelly explained in a report The th Judicial District Attorney s Office stands in solidarity with Suzanne s family and the citizens of Chaffee and Saguache counties in pursuing the grand jury s indictment In the first situation against Barry Morphew prosecutors argued that he killed his wife on May after discovering her nearly two-year extramarital affair then disposed of her body and staged a bike crash before leaving for work in Broomfield early the next day Barry Morphew has maintained he left Suzanne sleeping in bed The couple s two daughters were out of town at the time The last time investigators can prove Suzanne Morphew was alive was just after p m on May when she sent a selfie to her paramour from the couple s home Barry Morphew put his phone into airplane mode at p m that day and Suzanne never responded to messages from her paramour sent at and p m court filings and testimony have shown After Suzanne disappeared investigators located a tranquilizer dart gun empty darts and a dart package that included a capped needle typically used for injecting tranquilizer chemicals into the darts according to prior court testimony They also revealed a cap used to cover such needles in the clothes dryer at the house Barry Morphew stated investigators that he regularly used animal tranquilizers and darts and sometimes shot tranquilizer darts around their Colorado home Much of the prior occurrence focused on Morphew s movements and actions on the evening of May and the morning of May before his wife was informed missing The driver and guest doors on Morphew s truck were opened at a m May prior testimony revealed And at about a m on May Morphew s cellphone appeared to move to the area where his wife s abandoned bicycle was discovered although the statistics was inconclusive because of the poor cell coverage in the region The last ping on Suzanne Morphew s cellphone was at a m May testimony revealed The initial preliminary hearing did not include evidence to show Barry Morphew drove south toward Moffat where his wife s body was eventually unveiled Prosecutors in the first situation wrongly theorized her body had been dumped in a mountainous region near the Morphew family home Related Articles Here s what Barry Morphew informed investigators about his tranquilizer gun Suzanne Morphew died by homicide with cocktail of animal tranquilizers in her system coroner rules Barry Morphew seeks million in lawsuit over his arrest prosecution for missing wife s murder DA drops murder charges against Barry Morphew after judge blocks the majority of prosecution s expert observers Barry Morphew murder situation Husband made five trash runs on day wife went missing FBI agent says Barry Morphew murder circumstance Wife had extramarital affair before disappearance Around a m on May Barry Morphew drove to a Front Range landscaping job and disposed of items in trash cans and dumpsters at five different spots near Broomfield testimony in the first matter revealed He later communicated investigators he couldn t remember what he was throwing away and reported it might have been wrappers A neighbor eventually stated Suzanne Morphew as missing on the afternoon of May prompting a massive search effort Bureaucrats detected Suzanne s mountain bike in rough terrain at the bottom of a steep ditch of County Road and detected her helmet about miles away a limited days later but it did not appear she had crashed Suzanne Morphew stated a friend before she died that she would not feel safe alone with her husband and described a circumstance in which Barry Morphew pushed her into a closet and put a gun to his own head asking if that was what she required She reported that friend she was contemplating a divorce but that Barry was begging for another chance This is a emerging story that will be updated Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day