Barry Morphew’s murder trial will not happen in October, as had been originally scheduled.

Amanda Hopkins, 12th Judicial District judge in Alamosa, on Wednesday granted Morphew’s defense attorneys’ request for a continuance with apologies to Suzanne Morphew’s family, who objected to a postponement, alluding to the “unbelievable amount of information both sides are going through.”

In granting the motion to push the trial back, Hopkins added that “no one wants to do this more than once” but she did not stipulate a date for a new trial. The defense asked for an extra 4-6 months to prepare.

Hopkins said that the new date would be set sometime in the spring of 2027 once she heard from the prosecution and defense about dates that were best for a trial, which is expected to take from a month to five weeks.

The trial had been scheduled to start Oct. 13. Several days of hearings that will start July 6 will still be held despite the postponement.

The nearly six years since Suzanne Morphew went missing have been an emotional torture for her family.

Barry Morphew was arrested and charged with her murder twice.

The first prosecution case was dismissed on the eve of the trial in April 2022 for lack of a body. Morphew was rearrested in June 2024, nine months after her remains were discovered near the small town of Moffat in Saguache County.