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Judge Keeps Barry Morphew’s $3 Million Bail, Tightens Release Conditions

The court shifted the bond to a surety or property option and ordered passport surrender, GPS tracking and home‑confinement limits.

Barry Morphew, 57, makes his first court appearance in the new murder case against him in Alamosa on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. A grand jury indicted Morphew on a single count of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew, who disappeared from the family’s Chaffee County home in 2020 and was found dead in a shallow grave near Moffat in Sept. 2023. (Video still via KRDO)
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Overview

  • A Colorado judge refused to lower Barry Morphew’s $3 million bail but converted it to a cash surety or property bond, allowing a bond company to post it for a fee.
  • New bond conditions require Morphew to give up his passport, remain in Colorado, wear a GPS monitor, observe strict home‑confinement exceptions, avoid firearms, use his legal name and drive only vehicles registered to him.
  • Defense attorneys sought a bond reduction to $500,000, citing family ties, while prosecutors opposed changes and noted he operated a business under a different name and lacks ties to the local community.
  • Morphew was re‑indicted in June on first‑degree murder after forensic testing reported a wildlife tranquilizer cocktail known as BAM in Suzanne Morphew’s bone marrow.
  • Suzanne Morphew’s brother urged the court to deny any interim release, and Morphew remains in Alamosa County Jail following his June arrest in Arizona and extradition to Colorado.