A woman who kept her husband's body in a freezer in her bedroom at their southwest Missouri home is suing for the return of his remains.
Barbara Watters, 67, of Joplin, was charged in November with abandoning a corpse after police found Paul Barton's body in the freezer.
Authorities have said the last time anyone saw Barton alive was in 2018 and his body may have been in the freezer for most of 2019, but the lawsuit says Barton died in September 2019, two months before his body was found. Watters alleges that Jasper County Coroner Rob Chappel has ignored several requests for the return of her husband's body even after the charges were dismissed and has not provided a death certificate. It says Watters believes she is in danger of losing the body if it is not returned soon.
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