Amber Stone reported her husband missing on Valentine’s Day 20 years ago. A week later he was found in a sewage treatment pond on Fort Carson.
Stone is certain her husband, Joseph Eric Barker, didn’t walk barefoot across Fort Carson in the winter and go willingly into the pond. And so is his mom, Lynda Carlock, who shared her thoughts with The Gazette in the years after his death.
Barker was found without his shoes, but it is possible he was alive when he entered the pond, an Army investigator said in an email to Carlock shared with The Gazette…