Suzanne Morphew Case: Eventually, One Of The Daughters Will Flip On Daddy

Tale as old as time — beauty and the backhoe.

Ted Bauer
4 min readJul 6, 2023

The Suzanne Morphew case goes to Mother’s Day Weekend 2020 (the first of several COVID-impacted Mother’s Days). I’ll link a video with an essential recap in a second, but basically you have this couple Barry and Suzanne Morphew from Indiana, married maybe 25–27 years. They had recently moved to a $1.5M house in Salida, Colorado. He had probably had several affairs, and she was currently in one with a guy named Jeff Libler out of Michigan — funnily, the three of them (Barry, Suzanne, and Jeff) had gone to HS together. So this marriage is collapsing, and she just disappears on Mother’s Day Weekend. He ends up getting interviewed probably a dozen times by the police, and his story changes maybe 18 times across those interviews, but somehow his case was dismissed — but in a way where they could go after him again — because the prosecution wasn’t giving enough to the defense.

Here’s a video that runs most of it down:

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.