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~ Walter Barton, 19May20, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: February 20, 2020, 8:35 pm
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State of Missouri v. Walter Barton
Missouri Supreme Court Case Number: SC80931
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Case Facts: On the morning of October 9, 1991, Carol Horton, a
resident of Riverview Mobile Home Park in Ozark, Missouri,
visited the trailer of Gladys Kuehler at approximately 9:00 a.m.
Kuehler, eighty-one years of age, served as manager of the park.
Kuehler was unable to move about without the assistance of a
cane. Horton assisted Kuehler with some tasks and last saw
Kuehler at 11:04 a.m.
The owners of the trailer park, Bill and Dorothy Pickering,
visited Kuehler’s trailer some time between 1:15 p.m. and 2:00
p.m. to collect rent receipts. Ted and Sharon Bartlett, former
residents of the trailer park, arrived for a visit with Kuehler
between 2:00 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. and remained until about 2:45
p.m. Kuehler told the Bartletts that she was going to lie down
because she was not feeling well.
Appellant was visiting Horton in her trailer on October 9, 1991.
At approximately 2:00 p.m., appellant left her trailer.
Appellant said that he was going to Kuehler’s trailer to borrow
twenty dollars. He returned to Horton’s trailer ten or fifteen
minutes later saying that Kuehler told him to return later and
that she would write him a check. Appellant left Horton’s
trailer again at approximately 3:00 p.m. He told Horton that he
was going to Kuehler’s trailer.
At approximately 3:15 p.m., Bill Pickering telephoned Kuehler’s
trailer. A man, later determined to be appellant, answered the
telephone and stated that Kuehler was in the bathroom and could
not come to the telephone. Debra Selvidge, Kuehler’s
granddaughter, spoke with Kuehler on the telephone some time
after 3:00 p.m. She telephoned Kuehler again between 3:30 p.m.
and 4:00 p.m., but received no answer.
Appellant returned to Horton’s trailer at approximately 4:00
p.m. Appellant was acting “totally different,” seemed to be in a
hurry, and asked Horton if he could use her restroom. Horton
detected a smell of blood on Barton’s person. After noticing
that appellant had been in the bathroom for a long time, Horton
went to check on him. Appellant was washing his hands. He said
that he had been working on a car.
At approximately 4:15 p.m., Horton told appellant that she was
going to Kuehler’s trailer. Appellant told her not to go because
Kuehler had told him she was going to lie down and take a nap.
Appellant left Horton’s trailer. Horton then went to check on
Kuehler. She received no response when she knocked on Kuehler’s
door. She tried to open the door, but it was locked. She
returned to Kuehler’s trailer again at 6:00 p.m. and again
received no response.
Debra Selvidge, who had been attempting to reach Kuehler by
telephone, drove to Kuehler’s trailer. She knocked on the door
but received no answer. At approximately 7:30 p.m., Selvidge
went to Horton’s trailer and expressed her concern. Horton,
Horton’s son, and Selvidge went to Kuehler’s trailer. They
knocked and received no response. On their way to make telephone
calls, they saw a police officer, Officer Hodges, who agreed to
meet them at Kuehler’s trailer after he answered another call.
The two women saw appellant at another trailer in the trailer
park. Selvidge asked him if he would go with them back to
Kuehler’s trailer. Appellant agreed to go but said that he would
go later.
The women drove to Kuehler’s trailer. After a time, appellant
arrived. The women knocked on Kuehler’s door. Appellant walked
over to the side of the trailer, where he began to pound on the
wall of the trailer under the bedroom window near where
Kuehler’s body was later found.
Officer Hodges arrived and unsuccessfully attempted to open the
door. He radioed a dispatcher to send a locksmith. The officer
left on another call. When the locksmith arrived, he opened the
door. After the locksmith opened the door, Selvidge and Horton,
followed by appellant, entered the trailer. After calling out
for Kuehler and receiving no answer, Selvidge started down the
hallway toward Kuehler’s bedroom, followed by Horton and
appellant. Appellant told Selvidge not to go down the hall.
Selvidge did, however, and noticed Kuehler’s clothing on the
floor in front of the toilet in the bathroom. Selvidge also
noticed that the lid of the toilet had been left up. Selvidge
discovered Kuehler’s body in the bedroom. Kuehler’s partially
**** body lay on the floor between the bed and the wall; there
was a large amount of dried blood on the bed and the floor.
Officer Hodges returned to Kuehler’s trailer. Selvidge directed
him to Kuehler’s bedroom where he saw her body between the bed
and the wall.
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Re: ~ Walter Barton, 19May20, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: May 16, 2020, 7:15 am
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Missouri is moving ahead with plans to execute a man next week
despite concerns about the coronavirus that have prompted other
states to postpone lethal injections--
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
O'FALLON, Mo. -- Missouri is moving ahead with plans to execute
a man next week, despite new concerns about key evidence that
led to his conviction, and despite concerns about the
coronavirus that prompted other states to postpone lethal
injections.
Walter Barton, 64, is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for
killing 81-year-old trailer park operator Gladys Kuehler in
1991. She was beaten, sexually assaulted and stabbed more than
50 times in the town of Ozark, near Springfield. The execution
would be the first in the U.S. since March 5.
The Missouri execution will be at the prison in Bonne Terre,
about 60 miles south of St. Louis. No confirmed coronavirus
cases have been reported there.
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Re: ~ Walter Barton, 19May20, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: August 9, 2021, 9:31 pm
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Missouri Execution of Walter "Arkie" Barton--
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
On Tuesday the state of Missouri executed Walter Barton for the
killing of an elderly woman in 1991. He was killed at the
Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center.
Barton, 64, died by injection at the prison in Bonne Terre
making him the first person executed in the U.S. since the
coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic.
In his final statement released prior to his execution, Barton
said: “I, Walter ‘Arkie’ Barton, am innocent and they are
executing an innocent man!!”
Barton breathed heavily five times after the lethal drug entered
his body, then suddenly stopped. He was pronounced dead at 6:10
p.m., according to the Missouri Department of Corrections.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Barton’s application for a stay of
execution about two hours earlier.
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Re: ~ Walter Barton, 19May20, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: September 9, 2021, 8:27 pm
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Barton was involved with a previous murder too. So even if he
was innocent in this one as he claimed then God saw to it that
he died for the old one...
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