Barry Morphew murder trial reset for 2027 in Suzanne Morphew case
Barry Morphew’s murder trial was reset for July 2027, extending the Suzanne Morphew case nearly seven years past her Mother’s Day 2020 disappearance.
Barry Morphew’s murder trial was reset for July 19, 2027 through August 27, 2027, wiping out the October and November 2026 dates that had been on the calendar in the Suzanne Morphew case. Suzanne Morphew was last seen on Mother’s Day 2020, and her remains were later found on Sept. 22, 2023, in Saguache County, about 45 miles from the couple’s Chaffee County home.
Barry Morphew pleaded not guilty in January 2026 after his June 20, 2025 arrest in Arizona on a grand jury indictment. He faces one first-degree murder charge, and a judge kept his bond at $3 million in September 2025 after refusing to cut it to $500,000.
The second case uses evidence that was not available when the first prosecution collapsed in April 2022. A 2024 autopsy ruled Suzanne Morphew’s death a homicide by unspecified means, and the indictment says investigators found butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine in her bone marrow, drugs associated with wildlife tranquilization and linked in the charging papers to a prescription Barry Morphew had access to. The remains were found in a shallow, clandestine grave.
The first prosecution was dismissed without prejudice, leaving the state free to refile. The fallout later reached Linda Stanley, whose disbarment the Colorado Supreme Court upheld in September 2025, and Barry Morphew’s separate civil suit against prosecutors and investigators was dismissed by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in April 2026.
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