Joe Barton

Joe Barton was a former deputy who got a special award when he solved the case of the missing bodies in Windom, Minnesota. He would admit that after a few beers, he had gotten help from a "specialist" (John Winchester). When his wife, Lisa, pressed him for details--he would tell her not to worry, that he and John had caught whoever had stolen the bodies, that it was over. It is unknown how he met John Winchester, but one can assume that it was from a shared contact or that John just simply met him out on the field. After the case, Joe got promoted and received an award for finding the lost seventeen bodies.