Duane Arden Johnson, 58, told police that his wife had begged him to take her out of her nursing home so that she could die at home, and they had spent the last days of her life “rocking out” to the heavy metal band Quiet Riot and doing methamphetamine.
Duane A. Johnson, 58, was charged with third-degree murder on Monday after allegedly holding a"death party" for his sick wife where they blasted heavy metal music and used methamphetamine. By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 13 at 6:28 AM When a sheriff’s deputy showed up at a white clapboard house in the tiny, snow-covered farming community of Searles, Minn., on Jan.
According to the initial criminal complaint filed in Minnesota’s fifth judicial district, Debra Johnson had suffered from two heart attacks in the years leading up to her death, and had been diagnosed with high blood pressure, diabetes and affective disorder. In September 2018, a social worker helped move her into a nursing home located 70 miles north of Searles, but Duane Johnson had removed her from the facility against medical experts’ advice.
Johnson also allegedly told police that his wife had been unable to eat or drink for the previous two days, and had stopped taking her medications. He said that he had held her tight while she had convulsions so that she wouldn’t hurt herself on the floor, and turned the music up to full blast so that she wouldn’t hear him crying. She had been shaking so much that she couldn’t sleep, he added, and he had promised her a party because he couldn’t stand to watch her suffer any longer.
Debra had also wanted to have sex with him one last time before she died, Duane Johnson told investigators, and he had acquiesced. He said that she had’t been able to speak, but her body told him that she was enjoying the experience. Afterward, he claimed, she appeared to have stopped trembling and was more at peace. She died about an hour and half later, and he washed her with a washcloth and wrapped her in the gray bedsheet, he said.
In charging documents that were filed on Monday, prosecutors from the Brown County Attorney’s Office said that an autopsy had revealed that Debra Johnson had died of methamphetamine toxicity, The Journal reported. Duane Johnson potentially faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison for the third-degree murder charges if he is found guilty of unintentionally causing her death by giving her a controlled substance. The felony criminal neglect charges carry a 10-year maximum sentence.
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