EXCLUSIVE: Suzanne Morphew’s body was found in Colorado dumping ground known as ‘The Boneyard’ where missing man James Montoya’s body was found during search for Edna Quintana
Suzanne Morphew’s remains were found in a Colorado body dump known as “The Boneyard,” where investigators found a 26-year-old aspiring Marine in July and continued their search for a missing 55-year-old woman.
Corinna Montoya, whose son James Montoya disappeared the day before he was to meet with Navy recruiters, told DailyMail.com on Friday that she visited the site herself and felt the eerie isolation after her son’s body was discovered in a remote part of the sparsely populated Saguache. District.
“It’s just so crazy that it’s all happening in that same area,” said the 56-year-old mother.
‘They call it The Boneyard because so many people live there and it’s such a remote area.
‘To see where my son was, there are indeed no cars around. You can be in that one area for hours and not see anyone.”
The body of missing mother Suzanne Morphew, pictured with husband Barry, was found in Moffat, Colorado, on September 22, three years after she disappeared
Morphew’s remains were found in the same remote landfill known as “the boneyard” where the body of aspiring Marine James Montoya, 26, (left) was discovered in July during a search for missing 55-year-old Edna Quintana .
Her son disappeared on April 2. The mother told DailyMail.com that James took an Uber that evening to a bar in Lakewood in the Denver area, where he met and later left with two men.
His live-in girlfriend, noticing he had not returned by sunrise, reported him missing, the mother said.
“They were probably hanging out, or maybe they wanted to give him a ride home,” Montoya said.
She believes she knows the individuals may have been involved in her son’s disappearance, but did not want to discuss the details because the investigation is still ongoing.
She said her son “loved to laugh and was very family oriented.”
He installed kitchen cabinets for a Home Depot subsidiary after doing work erecting cell phone towers.
“He had an appointment with the Marines the next day,” she said. “That was his lifelong dream to join the Marines.
“He just felt like being a Marine gives you respect and gives you the opportunity to fight to defend this country.”
His body was found in July in the foothills west of Saguache Peak off County Road 46AA, Colorado radio station KRDO reported.
At the time, investigators were conducting an unrelated search for Edna Quintana, a 55-year-old with known medical complications who was last seen in the area on May 3.
But during the search for Quintana, investigators on Sept. 22 found Suzanne Morphew’s remains scattered in a shallow grave in a remote field near Moffat in Saguache County, 50 minutes from her home in Salida.
The 49-year-old was last seen on May 10, 2020, when she took a bike ride from the home she shared with husband Barry and their two daughters.
Her bicycle was found the day she went missing, discarded in a ravine near her mountain home.
Baryr and Suzanne Morphew had both had an affair, and she had texted him that she was ‘done’ with their wedding days before disappearing.
Barry was arrested a year after her disappearance and charged with murder – despite no body being found at the time.
During a 2021 preliminary hearing, law enforcement officials presented Suzanne’s text messages with her lover to the court, in which she told him she had a nice night and was looking at houses for sale.
Bary Morphew was accused of murdering his wife, but the case was dismissed without prejudice – meaning the case can be reopened
Barry Morphew arrived at court in Salida, Colorado, in November 2021, flanked by his daughters Macy (left) and Malorie
When her husband came home from work that day, he found Suzanne sunbathing in the garden. She sent photos of herself to Libler via LinkedIn, which the couple used to communicate behind her husband’s back.
The court was then shown a photo of Suzanne that she had sent to her lover Jeff Libler that day, showing her lying on her stomach in a bikini and smiling at her $1.3 million home.
Barry would later tell investigators that his wife looked “drunk” in that photo, which officials said was Suzanne’s last proof of life.
The next day, Libler wished Suzanne a happy Mother’s Day and said he knew it would be a difficult day for her because she missed her mother. Suzanne never replied.
His last known text message to Suzanne was sent on May 11, 2020, expressing good wishes for her cancer treatment. That message also went unanswered.
Suzanne had survived two battles with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, decades apart.
Just days before her disappearance, Suzanne texted her husband and apparently signaled to him her intention to end their rocky marriage.
“I’m done with it,” Suzanne wrote to Barry on May 6. “I don’t care what you’re up to, and I have been doing that for years. We just need to resolve this in a civil manner.”
After arguments over evidence and procedures, charges against Barry were dropped without prejudice a year later – meaning he could be charged again if new evidence came to light.
No arrests have been made since Morphew’s remains were located.