Cadet Man Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter

(Cadet, MO.) A man from Cadet, 40 year old Charles Caldwell, is charged with driving while intoxicated - chronic offender and involuntary manslaughter in the first degree after a traffic accident last August in which his wife, Barbara J. Caldwell, was killed. Caldwell is also charged with second degree assault and driving while revoked. The wreck took place just after 11 o'clock Sunday night, August 5 of 2018 when Barbara Caldwell was a passenger in a car driven south on highway 21 in Washington county at Tindall road by Charles Caldwell. The car crossed over the center line and crashed head on into a car driven north by 34 year old Lauren B. Johnston, of Festus. Barbara Caldwell was pronounced dead at Washington County Memorial Hospital. Charles Caldwell received serious injuries. The crash was a head on collision.