Suspected Killer’s Secret Double Life Exposed

When Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother’s Day 2020, her husband Barry was the prime suspect. Now, five years later, he’s back in handcuffs—after living under false names, flirting with women, and blending into a quiet desert town 600 miles from the Colorado home he once shared with the woman he’s accused of killing.

Barry Morphew, 56, was arrested again on June 20 in Goodyear, Arizona, after a Colorado grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder in Suzanne’s death. But locals in Cave Creek, where he’d lived quietly since prosecutors dropped the original charges in 2022, say they had no idea who he really was.

“He told everyone his name was Bruce,” said Charlie Loots, bar manager at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral. “He was just a regular—liked Miller Lite, sometimes Coors. Friendly. Flirty. You’d never think…”

Loots said Morphew—still using the alias “Bruce”—was drinking at Harold’s just one week before his arrest. “I was floored when I saw it on the news. I read for two hours straight,” he said. “This doesn’t happen. Not here.”

Others recall their own strange run-ins. In March 2024, local woman Libby Spruill said Morphew asked her to dance. When she recognized him, he denied it.

“I said, ‘You’re Barry Morphew.’ He goes, ‘No, I think you’ve got the wrong guy,’” Spruill recalled. “Then someone else came over and said his name was Lee—from Indiana.”

Court records confirm he was using the alias “Lee Moore.” A nearby gas station clerk said he also knew him as “Lee.”

Barry paid taxes on a trailer in the dusty Stardust Trailer Park and listed himself as self-employed—though he never registered any business in Arizona. In Colorado, he worked as a landscaper and hunting outfitter.

Now back in Colorado to face murder charges, prosecutors say they have new forensic evidence tying him to Suzanne’s death. According to the June 20 indictment, deer tranquilizer chemicals—including butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine—were found in Suzanne Morphew’s remains. Investigators believe Barry may have used the same “BAM” compound, typically reserved for sedating wildlife, to drug his wife.

“When Suzanne vanished, there was only one private citizen in the area with a BAM prescription,” prosecutors wrote. “Barry Morphew.”

The chemicals are not common—and only two wildlife agencies in the region had authorized access.

Former prosecutor Colin McCallin called Barry’s use of aliases “highly suspicious.”

“You don’t go by three names unless you’re hiding something,” McCallin told Fox News Digital. “It’s classic double life behavior.”

Barry’s defense attorney, David Beller, insists his client is innocent.

“The government keeps chasing a conclusion instead of the evidence,” Beller said. “The facts haven’t changed—and the outcome won’t either.”

But the public isn’t so sure. With Barry’s secret life now unraveling, one question looms: Was Cave Creek a hiding place—or a fresh hunting ground?