Case dropped against Colorado man accused of killing wife

A decide Tuesday dismissed the case towards the Colorado man accused of killing his spouse, Suzanne Morphew, who vanished almost two years in the past on a Mom’s Day bike experience.

Barry Morphew was set to face trial on April 28 within the presumed dying of the mom of two, who was declared lacking after she didn’t return from biking in Chaffee County in Could 2020.

However prosecutors have been granted a movement to dismiss the case “with out prejudice,” which is able to permit them to carry new costs towards him later, CBS4 Denver reported.

District Lawyer Linda Stanley stated in a Tuesday morning submitting that investigators want extra time to seek out Suzanne’s physique.

Stanley indicated that the prosecution believes her physique is situated in an space lined deep in snow close to the couple’s former dwelling.

Stanley additionally stated that the choice to drop costs got here partially from the courtroom’s choice to exclude key prosecution witnesses from trial.

Barry was arrested in Could 2021 on costs of homicide after deliberation, tampering with bodily proof and trying to affect a public servant.

The husband, who has pleaded not responsible, had refused to take a polygraph within the days after Suzanne was reported lacking by a neighbor.

Authorities allege that he discarded Suzanne’s bicycle and helmet on the morning of her disappearance earlier than leaving city.

With Put up wires