'An animal did not attack her': Missing Suzanne Morphew's brother says he thinks someone tossed her bike down a hill; pleads with Barry Morphew to take a polygraph test - CrimeOnline
'An animal did not attack her': Missing Suzanne Morphew's brother says he thinks someone tossed her bike down a hill; pleads with Barry Morphew to take a polygraph test - CrimeOnline |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2020 06:33 AM PDT The brother of a missing Colorado woman has spoken for the first time since Suzanne Morphew's disappearance on Mother's Day weekend. Suzanne's brother Andy Moorman told Fox News that he had traveled to Chaffee County, Colorado, to search for his missing sister, and that he plans to return there for an additional search. " … she has two daughters without answers right now. My father at 87 has cancer and needs answers. And I'm not going to give up. I'm coming back out there to look," Moorman said in the interview.
Though police have never confirmed this, multiple sources have said that Suzanne Morphew's bike was found not far from her Maysville home shortly after she was reported missing. The Chaffee County Sheriff said during the first week of the investigation that authorities found a personal item belonging to Suzanne, but did not say what the item was. Get your daily crime on! Breaking crime and justice news on 'Crime Stories with Nancy Grace' It's been widely reported that Suzanne left her home on May 11 to go for a bike ride and did not return. But as the investigation has progressed, questions about the precise timeline of her disappearance have emerged: Reportedly, both Suzanne's two daughters and her husband Barry Morphew were out of town that weekend, and the daughters called a neighbor to check on their mother when they could not reach her. Investigators have not confirmed Suzanne's last known sighting.  Moorman told Fox News that he and Barry Morphew went to the area where Suzanne's bike had reportedly been found; his comments indicate that the bike was found at the bottom of a hill. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Suzanne's husband has floated the idea that his wife may have encountered a mountain lion while riding her bike. "I said to Barry 'Hey, I don't think she fell off the hill on that bicycle or rode over the edge.' I said, 'I believe a human being threw this down here,'" Moorman told Fox News. "An animal did not attack her because there absolutely was no blood evidence and no tracks on the ground, no scent from an animal," he said. "I stood there and looked and I realized that nobody rode over the side of that hill. There would have been signs of a struggle or you would have been skinned up." Earlier this month, Barry Morphew gave his first media interview about his wife's disappearance to Fox 21 News. He addressed previously reported claims made by family members that he had twice refused to take a polygraph test. Morphew claimed that police never asked him to take one, and insisted he has consistently made himself available to law enforcement. But Suzanne's brother says he wants Morphew to take the test. In the Fox News interview, Moorman said he had not been in contact with his sister's husband or daughters since shortly after Suzanne disappeared, and addressed Barry Morphew directly: "Please, Barry, if you could see this, I would really love it if you would take the time to revisit the authorities and go over everything once again … Take a voice analysis and a lie detector test and clear yourself," Moorman said.
Moorman reportedly said that while he is not optimistic that Suzanne is still alive, he is determined to find out what happened to her. "My sister was just the sweetest person ever and anyone would have been happy to be friends or neighbors with her," Moorman said. Anyone with information about Suzanne Morphew's whereabouts is urged to call the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's tip line at (719) 312-7530. Read more of CrimeOnline's extensive coverage of the Suzanne Morphew case here. For the latest true crime and justice news, subscribe to the 'Crime Stories with Nancy Grace' podcast.  |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2020 10:10 PM PDT  Sheriff Steve Kieliszewski ALPENA — An Alpena County commissioner is dissatisfied with Sheriff Steven Kieliszewski's explanation for why the sheriff can't provide copies of text messages from Kieliszewski's county-owned phone. The sheriff's official response to Commissioner John Kozlowski's request through the Michigan Freedom of Information Act is pertinent because, in response to a separate FOIA request, the sheriff earlier this year released texts sent by former undersheriff Terry King, the sheriff's opponent in the August primary. Some of those texts included homophobic statements by King, prompting protests against the former undersheriff just weeks before the election, which Kieliszewski won. The sheriff is now unopposed in November. The sheriff said his texts were destroyed in a routine technology upgrade at the county, but King's texts were available because King resigned in summer 2019 and turned in his phone before the upgrade. "As far as being satisfied from the explanation I received from (Kieliszewski), I would have to say no I was not," Kozlowski said in an email to The News. In June, Kozlowski, of Ossineke, requested texts sent to or from Kieliszewski's work phone between August 2018 and September 2019. Almost no texts from that timeframe were retrievable, Kieliezewski explained in a memo to Kozlowski, because phones at the Sheriff's Office were replaced in October 2019 as part of a routine technology upgrade. After being replaced, Kieliszewski's county-owned phone was "wiped" by the county's technology staff as part of their normal procedures, the sheriff said in his official response to Kozlowski's FOIA request. Kieliszewski then purchased the phone for personal use, the memo said. Only one text — to a relative of the sheriff — was available and was shared with the commissioner, with the relative's phone number redacted, Kieliszewski said. The sheriff told The News he saved any important information from his phone in a document before giving it to the tech department and that he regularly deletes texts. According to Kozlowski, a representative of the county's tech department told him all information had been transferred from the sheriff's old county-owned phone to the newly issued phone. Alpena County tech staff were unwilling to clarify to The News what may or may not have been transferred between the phones or what information was on the old phone when they received it. Last year, King was given the choice of resigning or being fired after what Kieliszewski called King's lack of judgement in several matters. King has sued Kieliszewski, saying he was wrongfully terminated for being whistleblower on other wrongdoing in the county. Kozlowski said in June that he requested Kieliszewski's texts to have a clearer understanding of King's resignation and the sheriff's internal investigation that prompted it. Text messages from King's phone — obtained through a FOIA request from a former employee of the Sheriff's Office — implied that King lied about encouraging a suspect in an Alpena Police Department investigation to refuse a lie-detector test. Other texts showed the then-undersheriff in 2013 texted a picture of two men holding hands to a relative and said, "Where's my gun?" Those texts were retrievable because King's phone was turned in when he resigned, before the department's phones were replaced, Kieliszewski said. King also uploaded his texts to an internet server, preserving them, while Kieliszewski doesn't allow his phone to upload to the online server, the sheriff added. Kozlowski said the only texts he received from Kieliszewski were those between the sheriff and King, presumably pulled from King's phone. He declined to share further comment about the texts to or from King. Kieliszewski said he followed county policy. Policies regarding use of county-issued phones need to be re-examined and clarified, Kieliszewski said. He is in the process of collecting sample policies used by counties and police agencies elsewhere and will adopt new, more clear language for his office, even if county commissioners decline to do so across all departments, he said. Julie Riddle can be reached at 989-358-5693, jriddle@thealpenanews.com or on Twitter @jriddleX.  |
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