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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton. A grand jury has indicted Barry Morphew

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Speaker 2: on charges of first degree murder related to his wife,

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Speaker 2: Suzanne Morphew, whose remains were discovered in October twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: The indictment was issued by the twelfth Judicial District Grand Jury,

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Speaker 2: leading to Morpheu's arrest in Gilbert, Arizona. He is set

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Speaker 2: to be extradited back to the Saint Louis Valley to

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Speaker 2: face the charges. Suzanne Morphew, forty nine, was reported missing

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Speaker 2: on Mother's Day in twenty twenty while residing in Maysville

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Speaker 2: with her husband, Barry and their two daughters, Mallory and Macy.

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Speaker 2: At the time of her disappearance, the Chafey County Sheriff's

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Speaker 2: Office stated she had gone out for a bike ride

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Speaker 2: and did not return. Barry Morphew, now fifty six, was

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Speaker 2: initially arrested and charged with first degree murder in May

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, but all charges were dropped just days

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Speaker 2: before his trial was set to begin in April, following

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Speaker 2: a motion from the prosecutors to dismiss the case during

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Speaker 2: a preliminary hearing in January twenty twenty two, prosecutors alleged

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Speaker 2: that on May nine, twenty twenty, Barry Morphew prepared a

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Speaker 2: tranquilizer dart, switched his phone to airplane mode, and then

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Speaker 2: shot his wife with it. They claimed he ran her

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Speaker 2: around the property until the tranquilizer took effect. An autopsy

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Speaker 2: has determined the manner of death to be homicide by

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Speaker 2: determined means in the setting of butorphenol ozepparan and meditadomdine intoxication.

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Speaker 2: This according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. The indictment

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Speaker 2: indicates that butorphenol o zepparan and meditadolphinine, referred collectively as BAM,

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Speaker 2: are heavily regulated substances with sales limited to a single

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Speaker 2: company in the US. The indictment also claims that Barry

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Speaker 2: Morphew was the only private individual in Colorado with access

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Speaker 2: to BAM, as records show no other individuals or businesses

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Speaker 2: apart from the Bureau of Land Management and Colorado Parks

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Speaker 2: and Wildlife, purchased BAM prescriptions between twenty seventeen to twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: All BAM required by these government agencies has been accounted

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Speaker 2: for in a previous interview with News nine, Barry Morphew's

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Speaker 2: attorney contended that the autopsy findings did not implicate him

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Speaker 2: in any wrongdoing. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have

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Speaker 2: consistently pursued justice for Suzanne, stated Ann Kelley, the twelfth

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Speaker 2: Judicial District Attorney. The twelfth Judicial District Attorney's office stands

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Speaker 2: united with Suzanne's family and the communities and our counties

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Speaker 2: to seek justice and seeking a grand jury indictment. Count

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Speaker 2: on Prime Alert hourly update to keep you posted as

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Speaker 2: this case continues to unfold for Primate Justice News. After

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Speaker 2: this Sean Diddycomb's former assistant testified Friday about intense conditions

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Speaker 2: while working for the disgraced music mogul. Brendan Paul began

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Speaker 2: working for the Last Night Rapper in late twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: two up until March twenty five, twenty twenty four, in

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Speaker 2: the day Combs Los Angeles and Miami homes were raided

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Speaker 2: as part of a human trafficking investigation. Paul, a former

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Speaker 2: Syracuse basketball player, claimed that Combs wanted his employees to

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Speaker 2: move like quote Seal Team six, and his mission was

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Speaker 2: to make sure Combs was always happy. Paul allegedly used

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Speaker 2: adderall and cocaine to stay awake while employed, and would

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Speaker 2: go long periods without sleeping, once up for three days.

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Speaker 2: Paul was the fifth person to receive immunity in exchange

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Speaker 2: for his testimony in Comb's federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial.

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Speaker 2: He told Christine Slavic the US Attorney's Office, that Christina

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Speaker 2: kk Korum, Comb's former chief of staff, basically ran the

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Speaker 2: enterprise for the Bad Boy Records founder. Paul said he

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Speaker 2: initially packed a quote lot of joints for Combs in

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Speaker 2: the early days of his employment, and would then travel

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Speaker 2: ahead of Combs to quote advanced locations he testified. Paul

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Speaker 2: claimed that he was instructed to buy drugs for the

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Speaker 2: rapper and once purchased more than four thousand dollars worth

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Speaker 2: of marijuana from a former assistant, Philip Pines. He testified

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Speaker 2: to purchasing drugs like ecstasy, cocaine, and ketamine for his boss.

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Speaker 2: He told the Cord that he would text a handful

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Speaker 2: of dealers to procure drugs for Diddy and would keep

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Speaker 2: the drugs in a Gucci pouch. Paul also said he

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Speaker 2: was responsible for picking up prescription drugs and claimed did

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Speaker 2: he used clus like it was viagra once? Paul said

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Speaker 2: he was asked to pick up xanax without a prescription,

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Speaker 2: but he did not get it. Paul claimed did he

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Speaker 2: participated in quote Wild king Knights where the rapper and

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Speaker 2: a significant other would go to a hotel to party

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Speaker 2: and have sex under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

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Speaker 2: He testified that Jane Ditty's ex girlfriend would participate in

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Speaker 2: those Wild King Knights in addition to the rapper's other girlfriends.

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Speaker 2: KK allegedly made the assistant responsible for setting up and

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Speaker 2: cleaning up after those Wild King Knights that took place

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Speaker 2: once a month in La or Miami. Paul claimed for

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Speaker 2: more Here's crime on Lines.

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Speaker 1: Drew Nelson Ananya Sankar reads aloud messages from Comb's assistant

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Speaker 1: Ryan Lopez to Christina Korum. Lol, I think I saw

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Speaker 1: one of the cowboys today. You can spot them in

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Speaker 1: a lobby like an escort. I forgot to tell you

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Speaker 1: about it. Korum texted back for laughing face emojis with BTW,

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Speaker 1: how long is he going to stay awake? Lopez replies, lol,

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing until tomorrow night. Cowboys is a possible reference

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Speaker 1: to the Cowboys and Angels service did he allegedly used

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Speaker 1: for Hotel Knights and Freak Coughs.

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Speaker 2: Paul also testified that the Wild King Knights took place

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Speaker 2: at residence. Following Cassie Ventiras November twenty twenty three lawsuit,

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Speaker 2: Paul claimed the event stopped taking place at hotels. For

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Speaker 2: more on the case against Sean diddy Comb's tune in

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Speaker 2: tonight Crime Stories with Nancy Grace six nine and midnight

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Speaker 2: crime alert. I'm Nicole Parton