A Colorado judge this week stopped public livestreaming of court proceedings in the high-profile murder case against Barry Morphew after at least two YouTube accounts violated state law that prohibits the recording and rebroadcasting of the court’s videos.

In a Monday order, 12th Judicial District Chief Judge Amanda Hopkins shut off virtual public access to the proceedings on the grounds that doing so was necessary to preserve Morphew’s rights amid “an unbelievable amount of local, state, national and international attention.”

Morphew, 58, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Suzanne Morphew, 49, who disappeared from the family’s Chaffee County home in 2020 and was found buried in a shallow grave near Moffat in 2023. Morphew initially was charged in 2021 with his wife’s de

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