THE chilling final texts of a missing mom in the days before she disappeared have been revealed by her family.
Suzanne Morphew reportedly told her sister details of her husband’s alleged abuse before she went missing while on a bike ride in 2020.
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Melinda Moorman told 48 Hours, during her first interview, that her sister told her in text messages that she was being abused by her husband and wanted to leave him, just days before she vanished.
“It was very lengthy. It was very powerful. It was very revealing,” she said.
“Barry was very dominant in the relationship, and my sister was a very passive, gentle soul … he had … a great tendency to overpower, intimidate people to get what he wanted.”
The alleged text from Suzanne reads in part: “He’s also been abusive emotionally and physically… I feel more angry now. Anger at what I’ve allowed.”
Melinda said that says she often thinks about Barry, and urged him to share what he knows about her sister’s disappearance.
“Please do the right thing, Barry,” she pleaded in the 48 Hours episode.
“Please do the right thing.”
Melinda also had a message for her sister’s daughters, Mallory and Marcy.
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“Mallory, Macy … Your mother would have laid down her life for you girls,” Melinda said.
“She would never leave you. She would never forsake you. She loved you with her whole being.”
Suzanne is presumed dead by police, but her body has never been found.
Her husband Barry was arrested last year and was due to face a murder trial this summer.
However last week Judge Ramsey Lama announced that all charges against Barry will be dismissed.
Prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the indictment minutes before a pre-trial conference on April 19, according to CBS News.
District Attorney, Linda Stanley, shared that they believe that the victim’s body is close to being found.
Stanley also claimed that several key witnesses being excluded, key evidence and the body not being found is the reason why prosecutors could not move forward at this time.
They can refile charges in the future.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
Morphew’s attorney, Iris Eytan, claimed that his client is innocent at a press conference after the charges were dismissed.
“First I want to say that Mr. Morphew not only was presumed innocent and still is presumed innocent, he is innocent,” Eytan said to CBS News.
For the past several months, Eytan and his team, have urged the judge to dismiss the charges because the prosecution wasn’t following all of the requirements.
The judge did punish the prosecution by not allowing 11 of their 16 expert witnesses to testify, according to CBS News.
Suzanne Morphew was last heard from on May 9, 2020, the day before Mother’s Day.
She had allegedly gone for a bike ride and never returned.
A neighbor raised the alarm after Mallory and Macy were unable to contact their mother.
Barry had allegedly been staying in a Denver hotel 140 miles away the night before Suzanne vanished as he prepared for a landscaping job.
Her body has not been found and she is presumed dead.
A cause of death has not been revealed.
TEXTS TO HER FRIEND
Additional texts from Suzanne to a close friend from the months leading up to her disappearance were revealed by CBS, detailing more of the turmoil she was experiencing in her marriage.
“He won’t speak of divorce,” one text read.
“I feel no peace when he’s here.”
“I wouldn’t feel safe alone with him.”
‘UNUSUAL PHONE ACTIVITY’
Both Suzanne and Barry had unusual activity detected on their cell phones on May 9, 2020, the day Suzanne was last heard from alive.
Suzanne had texted her alleged lover, Jeff Libler, 59 times the day of her disappearance, phone records revealed. This was more than the norm for the two.
Suzanne also sent Liebler a selfie during that text conversation – her last known photo.
Barry also had unusual activity detected on his phone, which he attributed to chipmunk hunting around his property.
Multiple pings of his cell phone were detected on the perimeter of the $1.7million mansion he shared with Suzanne and their two adult daughters, Mallory and Macy Morphew.
But authorities believe Barry may have been chasing his wife instead.
‘TRASH RUNS’
Barry claims he went to bed at 8pm the night Suzanne went missing, but his car data tells a different story according to investigators.
Data pulled from his truck’s computer appears to reveal movement of his car on his property at 9:30pm, which contradicts what he told officials.
Car data from the next morning shows that Barry drove past the location where Suzanne’s bike helmet was later found on his way to a work location.
On the way to the worksite, Barry pulled over at a bus stop, a hotel, a McDonalds, and a dumpster, disposing of trash at all locations, prosecutors have said, citing security footage and vehicle data.
Investigators have alleged that he could have been disposing of evidence within the area but in different places.
Barry claims he was working and that the trash disposal was just part of his job.
‘NO WINNERS’
In an official report, authorities alleged that Barry hunted and controlled Suzanne “like he had hunted and controlled animals.”
Barry denies all of the charges against him, and insists he has nothing to do with his wife’s disappearance.
While he awaits trial, which is expected to begin in May, Suzanne’s sister has a message.
“There are no winners in this story,” she said in the episode.
“There are two families who are suffering deeply.”
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