Colorado dad charged with murdering wife found her texts with lover, prosecutors say

Messages recorded on a spy pen purchased by the woman to catch her husband either in an affair or a rage are revealed in a Colorado courtroom.

Suzanne Morphew, 49, was exchanging texts and audio messages with an alleged lover before she vanished last year, prosecutors said Monday. They allege that her husband, 53-year-old Barry Morphew, discovered the communications and killed her in a rage. Barry Morphew has maintained his innocence throughout countless unsuccessful searches for Suzanne Morphew and issued a $100,000 reward for her return. In a home video, he theorized that she may have been abducted. He has also speculated in interviews with reporters that his wife may have been killed by a mountain lion. Since his arrest in May 2021, law enforcement say Barry Morphew has not agreed to an interviewed with them. Suzanne Morphew, mother of two daughters, reportedly went for a bike ride on Sunday, May 10, 2020 -- mother’s day -- and never returned home, the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office said at the time. Sheriff’s deputies said they found her blue bike with colorful pedals tumbled down a mountain slope near their home. Investigators say they were paying close attention to Barry Morphew’s statements early on. He told law enforcement that he left for work that Mother’s Day morning at 5 a.m. But the arrest affidavit states that based on Barry Morphew's Telematics report on his truck, law enforcement allege "from 2:47 p.m. May 9 until 5:37 a.m. May 10, he took steps to dispose of evidence of Suzanne’s disappearance and death."