A Minnesota man has been arrested after his wife was found dead in their home following a meth-fueled 'death party' that he threw for her when he checked her out of a nursing home.

Duane Arden Johnson, 58, was arrested Friday for criminal neglect after he called 911 to report that his 69-year-old wife Debra Lynn Johnson had died.

Police found Debra's body inside the couple's home in the small town of Searles, south west of Minneapolis, last Thursday.

Johnson told police that he had medicated his wife with meth and they had a 'death party' because she didn't want to die in the nursing home where she'd been living, the Free Press reports.

Duane Arden Johnson, 58, was arrested Friday for criminal neglect after he called 911 to report that his 69-year-old wife Debra Lynn Johnson had died in Minnesota

He said they took the drugs, were 'rocking out' to metal band Quiet Riot and had sex in the hours before Debra died.

Johnson said his wife, who had stopped taking various medications, started having convulsions but she allegedly wouldn't let him call police.

He said he had to hold her body down on their bed until she stopped convulsing and later died.

Johnson said he then washed his wife's body and wrapped her in a sheet 'like the Bible told me to do.'

Debra had been prescribed anti-psychotic medication and had a history of heart attacks, diabetes and high blood pressure.

When police arrived at the couple's home, they found the words 'Death Parde God Hell' scrawled on the door, as well as several stolen guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside.

A naked Johnson allegedly ran out of the home and told police his wife was dead before running back inside to take a bath.

He told the officers that he was washing white and black 'things' from his skin.

Johnson told police his wife died at about 8.30am but he waited several hours to call 911 because he wanted to make sure she was dead.

He had checked her out of the nursing home in the days leading up to it.

Johnson was arrested on suspicion of criminal neglect. He has been charged with felony counts of theft and receiving stolen property in relation to the guns.

An autopsy is being carried out to determine Debra's cause of death.