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Barry Morphew was booked into the Boulder County Jail. Alamosa
County District Judge Amanda Hopkins set a hearing to discuss
Morphew's bond Tuesday, online records show.
Under the terms of his bond set last year, Morphew was not
supposed to travel away from home in southern Colorado except
for work and other limited circumstances.
He got into the crash involving two other vehicles during a trip
to Denver International Airport on Aug. 28, possibly to pick up
his daughter, prosecutors said in a court filing.
“To go to the airport for any purpose other than work
constitutes a breach of his bond,” read the filing by District
Attorney Anne Kelly.
Morphew's attorneys didn't immediately respond to phone and
email messages seeking comment Friday.
Morphew has pleaded not guilty and faces trial next summer in
the death of his wife, who disappeared in 2020.
Suzanne Morphew’s skeletal remains were found off a dirt road in
southern Colorado in 2023. By then, charges against Barry
Morphew had been dropped, but he was charged again with
first-degree murder in his wife’s death and arrested.
Investigators found no sign of trauma in Suzanne Morphew's
remains but allegedly found traces in her bone marrow of a drug
cocktail used to tranquilize wildlife. Barry Morphew was the
only person in the area other than wildlife officials with
authorization to use the chemicals, prosecutors allege.
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