Minnosota man arrested after wife found dead after "death party"

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A Searles man reportedly told authorities he gave his ailing wife methamphetamine and they had a “death party” before she died.

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The husband said he did not get his wife medical help because she did not want to die in a nursing home

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Debra Lynn Johnson, 69, was found dead inside her Searles home Thursday morning after her husband, Duane Arden Johnson, 58, called 911. Responding authorities reportedly found words spray-painted on the front door, a naked Duane Johnson, several guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

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The first Brown County sheriff's deputy on scene observed the words “Death Parde God Hell” written in red spray paint on the front door

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Duane Johnson came out naked, yelled that his wife was dead, and ran back inside. The deputy found him in a bathtub and he said he was trying to cleanse little white and black “things” from his skin.

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Debra Johnson's body was wrapped in a sheet at the top of the stairs. The body was still warm but there was early rigor mortis in her arms. Duane Johnson said he thought his wife had died at about 8:30 that morning but had waited to make sure she was dead before he called 911.

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The man said his wife couldn't eat or drink so he said he used snow to wet her mouth. He said she had convulsions but she wouldn't let him call for help, so he held her to keep her from hurting herself. He said they had sex fewer than two hours before she died and she stopped convulsing and was more at peace.

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