Carlsbad, NM: Husband's Dead Body Found in Freezer for a Decade in Barbara Sharpe's Bedroom!

January 27, 2011 04:35 PM EST


Barbara Sharpe allegedly hid her husband’s dead body in a freezer in her Texas home. The decomposing body of her husband was found by the woman’s daughter and son-in-law as they were cleaning out their deceased mother’s home in Carlsbad.

The dead body of James Sharpe was located at 7:50 pm on Monday in a chest-type freezer in the woman’s bedroom. The shocked couple loaded up the remains of Sharpe into the back of their pickup truck and drove the dead body and the freezer to the Carlsbad Police Department.

Sharpe had been suffering from a terminal health condition, when he went missing back in 1997. It is being assumed that the husband died at the time he went missing. In November of 2010, Barbara Sharpe, 63, died from health complications.

Even more bizarre, Barbara Sharpe changed her name to Barbara Campbell after she assumed the last name of a boyfriend that she had been seeing for a few years after her husband’s death.

Wouldn’t Mr. Campbell have been freaked out to learn his girlfriend was keeping a dead body in the freezer in her bedroom? It would be even more weird to find out the dead body was her decomposing husband. Police say that Mr. Campbell did not know about the decomposing body in the freezer. Creepy!

Captain Zuniga of the Carlsbad Police Deparment stated, “Barbara had mentioned to a health care worker prior to her death that she had stored her late husband in a freezer. The health care worker dismissed the statement due to Barbara Sharpe's grave condition.”

So, the health care worker ignored the wife’s statement, because she was dying. Why wouldn’t she call police to have them check out the alleged dead body in the freezer? At this time, the health care worker is the only one that had prior knowledge about the husband’s dead body in the freezer.

At this time, it is speculation that the decomposing body in the freezer was that of James Sharpe. The ECSO Special Investigations Unit will continue to investigate and discover the “official identity of the decedent as well as the cause and manner of death.”

Even if they do find out that Sharpe’s wife killed him, she is dead and can serve no time. Can you imagine being the daughter who found your dad dead in a freezer? She must have been traumatized.

© Bella Rose 2011