and then-Fremont County District Court Judge Ramsey Lama blocked the prosecution from using most of its expert witnesses at trial as punishment.
The area around Moffat, where Suzanne Morphew’s remains were found, is a flat plain, tucked between two distant lines of mountains. The town is 45 miles south of the Morphew home. In April 2022, the area around Moffat was experiencing high temperatures in the 70s and little snowfall, according to the National Weather Service at Pueblo.
When considering whether the evidence now points to Barry Morphew or another suspect, the prosecution and law enforcement are likely to proceed carefully, said Colin McCallin, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor who is not involved in the case. The body was discovered in Saguache County — the 12th Judicial District — so 12th Judicial District Attorney Anne Kelley could take the case. But the case has deep ties to locations in the 11th Judicial District, where Stanley is district attorney, so she could also lay claim to it, Garnett said.