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Friday, March 13, 2026
March 13: Barry Morphew: Colorado (Junk Science): Carol McKinley reports special to The Colorado Sun that Barry Morphew's October murder trial promises to center around a highly restricted concoction of potent chemicals the autopsy revealed were discovered in his dead wife’s remains, noting that: "The premixed chemical compound, marketed as a patented product under the acronym BAM, is a regulated blend of butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine used almost exclusively by biologists and veterinarians to sedate large animals. According to the grand jury indictment, the El Paso County coroner’s chief toxicologist found that “all three of the individual chemicals that comprise BAM were present” in Suzanne Morphew’s bone marrow. Suzanne Morphew died as a result of homicide “by unspecified means in the setting of butorphanol, azaperone, and medetomidine intoxication,” an autopsy found. In other words, it remains unclear how Suzanne Morphew was killed, but the BAM found in her bones contributed to her death."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The claim that Suzanne Morphew had BAM in her system is not true,” said David Beller, who has been representing Barry Mor...
Thursday, March 12, 2026
March 12: Tyree Bowie: Pennsylvania: (He tried to save the boy's life, but was instead accused of murdering him by York County prosecutors); In December, 2022, a jury acquitted him of murder after deliberating for 10 minutes following a four-week trial in December 2022 after evidence showed two-year-old Dante Mullinex had been subject to neglect and abuse from someone other than Bowie in the weeks before he died. Pennlive (Reporter Jon Bergmueller) reports that Tyree Bowie is still fighting for compensation for malicious prosecution, noting that: "The move byTyree Bowie renews his efforts to bring malicious prosecution claims against York City Detective Kyle Hower over what Bowie says are omissions and falsehoods that misled a magistrate judge."
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----------------------------- Video interview with some of Tyree Bowie's jurors and alternate jurors: (The jury returned the verdict ...
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