Authorities say they are "close" to finding Suzanne Morphew's body but need to wait for snow to melt; charges against husband dismissed
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[This story originally aired on January 22, 2022. It was updated on April 30.] ANDREW MOORMAN [talking to searchers, CBS Denver news report]: We're gonna fan out and were gonna work that area very carefully, OK? ANDREW MOORMAN [to CBS Denver]: I hope to find her alive and at some point, you have to realize when somebody's been missing after so long, that the chances of that diminish dramatically. BARRY MORPHEW: Where are you from? BARRY MORPHEW [to Draper]: The first night there was a mountain lion that officers seen that walked by the car. So, we thought that maybe she got attacked by a lion. "He won't speak of divorce …" NEWS REPORT: Tonight, the husband of Suzanne Morphew is behind bars accused of killing her. … The Chaffee County Sheriff's Office says that Barry Morphew was arrested this morning. "It had become clear that Barry could not control Suzanne's insistence on leaving him and he resorted to something he has done his entire life — hunt and control Suzanne like he had hunted and controlled animals."
Nearly two years after Suzanne Morphew, a mother of two, disappeared on Mother's Day, authorities say they are "close to discovering the victim's body" but need to wait for snowpack to melt. Meanwhile, the judge dismissed murder charges against her husband Barry Morphew. TYSON DRAPER: I'm from Arizona. "I feel no peace when he's here …"
Investigators have followed bizarre clues—a chipmunk alibi, a tranquilizer gun, and a spy pen but lack direct evidence. BARRY MORPHEW: OK. "I wouldn't feel safe alone with him …"
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