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A man from Colorado suspected of having killed his wife was charged on Friday for the second time of first degree murder in his death in 2020, the office of the two councils of the prosecutor of the judicial district said in a statement.
Barry Morphew was previously billed With first degree murder, among other accusations, in May 2021 in the murder of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, who was seen for the last time on mothers in 2020. These accusations were abandoned without prejudice – which means that accusations could be deposited on a later date – in April 2022, while prosecutors ended to find the remains of women.
The officials placed Morphe in detention on Friday in Arizona, said the district prosecutor’s office, but the office is working to extradite the man in the San Luis valley in Colorado.
He was not immediately clear if Morphew was detained in prison or he had obtained a legal representation.
Iris Eytan, the lawyer who represented Morphew in the previous accusations, did not immediately respond to a request for comments. It was not immediately clear if it still represents it.
Suzanne Morphew was seen for the last time on May 10, 2020, near County Road 225 and West Highway 50 in Maysville, about 100 miles west of Colorado Springs. She was a bicycle ride at the time.
Suzanne Morphew, 49 years old, was missing in her home of Chaffee County on the same day. In addition, that day, his mountain bike and his helmet were discovered on the side of a county road in Salida, Colorado, near the family’s home.
Her husband had repeatedly denied his involvement in his death and pleaded not guilty to the first accusations.
A week before Morphew was tried from the initial accusation of first -degree murder in the disappearance of his wife, the prosecutors rejected the accusations because they said that they had focused on an area where they thought there was, but the weather in the region prohibited those responsible for recovery, slowing down the case.
Suzanne Morphew’s The remains were finally discovered in September 2023said officials at the time. They were found during an unrelated search near Moffat in the county of Saguache.
An April 2024 The autopsy determined that she died by homicidewhich reported that drugs normally used as animal tranquilizers have been found in its system.
Suzanne Morphew “died due to homicide by unpertified means within the framework of Butorphanol, Azaperone and the intoxication of Médétomidine,” said the Coroner’s report of the County of El Paso, obtained by NBC News at the time.
“Medicines are marketed as an injectable chemical asset composed for fauna providing analgesia, sedation and pharmacologically reversible immobilization”, according to the report.
Prosecutors said they thought Morphe had used a tranquilizer pistol in the murder of his wife. They also said he was the only one Reason to kill Suzanne MorphewBecause she had an affair, believed that her husband had one too, and intended to file a divorce request.
A few days before her disappearance, Suzanne Morphew sent a text to her husband that their relationship was “finished”, according to the initial arrest affidavit of 2021.
“Keep that civilly,” she said, according to the Affidavit.
“It had become clear that Barry could not control the insistence of Suzanne to leave him, and he used something he did all his life – chasing and controlling Suzanne as if he had driven and controlled animals,” said the Affidavit.
Morphew also deposited a Pursuit of $ 15 million against The authorities who accused him of killing his wife in May 2023. At the time, the couple’s girls spoke to support their father.
The district prosecutor’s office in the Friday statement said that the investigation into the death of Suzanne Morphew was underway.
“Federal, state and local police have never stopped working towards justice for Suzanne,” said the Anne Kelly judicial district.
