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Sharon Joann Barnes, a 48-year-old female, was a dedicated law enforcement officer serving as the Chief Deputy Sheriff for the Dent County Sheriff’s Department in Missouri. On the afternoon of December 9, 2002, she and Sheriff Bob Wofford responded to a residence on County Road 231, west of Salem. They were investigating a double homicide that had occurred earlier that morning involving a dispute over a lawn mower and methamphetamine. The bodies of Harriet Smith and Michael Wells had been disc ...Read More
Victim Details

Sharon Joann Barnes

Female

Dent

MO

2002-12-10

48

Sharon

Joann Barnes

01/18/2026