Owners of Colorado funeral home to plead guilty to improper body storage and giving families fake ashes.

The owners of Colorado's Return to Nature Funeral Home, Jon and Carie Hallford, are expected to plead guilty to charges involving the improper storage of 190 bodies and providing fake ashes to families. They face over 200 counts of corpse abuse, theft, forgery, and money laundering, having spent customers' money and pandemic relief funds on luxury items. The discovery of the bodies led to Colorado strengthening its funeral home regulations.

November 22, 2024
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