COLORADO, USA — Barry Morphew and his two daughters said Friday that they're hoping they can begin healing and focus on finding Suzanne Morphew now that charges have been dismissed against Barry Morphew in connection with the presumed death of his wife.
“I just love my girls," Barry Morphew said during an interview with ABC's Good Morning America. "And I love my wife. And I just want her to be found.”
Suzanne Morphew was last seen in May 2020 near her Chaffee County home and about a year later Barry Morphew was charged with first-degree murder even though she remains missing.
"We feel like we can finally take our first steps in healing which is a blessing," said Mallory Morphew. "We just know our dad better than anyone else and we know he was not involved in our mom’s disappearance.”
Late last month, Fremont County District Judge Ramsey Lama granted a motion filed by prosecutors that asked to dismiss the murder case against Barry Morphew.
District Attorney Linda Stanley filed the motion that asked Lama to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning charges could be filed again at a later date.
Prosecutors said in that motion that they and law enforcement believe they're "close to the discovery" of Suzanne Morphew's body, but said they wouldn't be able to complete searches ahead of the scheduled trial date due to weather and snowpack.
According to the motion, they've been focused on a "remote and mountainous" region near the Morphew residence that is currently covered in 5 feet of snow.
Prosecutors said if Suzanne's body was located, examination of it could provide evidence to potentially implicate or rule out Barry Morphew.
“I just hope that Linda [the district attorney] will step up to the plate and do everything she can to find our mom, because what they’ve done is not fair, and we’re never going to stop looking for our mom," Macy Morphew said.
Barry Morphew's attorney, Iris Eytan, said she plans to file a request for an investigation into the prosecutors' misconduct to the Colorado Supreme Court’s Office of Attorney Regulation in the next few weeks.
Eytan said, among other things, prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to the defense, and she's hoping her complaint results in the district attorney and the other prosecutors who worked on the case being disbarred.
She said, "I have never seen prosecutorial misconduct this egregious in my entire career, and I've been practicing law 30 years."
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