US EditionMan whose mother was found among 189 decaying bodies tells the story
The Hallfords allegedly defrauded nearly $900,000 in pandemic aid and misled families with fake ashes while storing 189 bodies in poor conditions, officials said.
- Jon Hallford and Carie Hallford of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colorado improperly stored 189 decaying bodies and handed out fake ashes to grieving families.
- Derrick Johnson's mother, Ellen Marie Shriver-Lopes, was one of the victims whose body was left to decay, and Johnson unknowingly spread fake ashes in her honor.
- Jon Hallford faces 30 to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty, while Carie Hallford will be sentenced in April for their roles in the incident.
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Man whose mother was found among 189 decaying bodies in Colorado funeral home tells her story
Hundreds of families learned from that the ashes they ceremonially spread or kept close weren’t actually their loved ones’ remains. The bodies of their mothers, fathers, grandparents, children and babies had moldered in a room-temperature building in Colorado.
A funeral home illegally stored nearly 200 bodies while families received fake ashes. Shocking details about the case.
Colorado funeral home owner faces sentencing for abusing 189 bodies and giving families fake ashes
A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes will be sentenced Friday on corpse abuse charges.Jon Hallford owned Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs with his then-wife Carie. They pleaded guilty in December to nearly 200 counts of corpse abuse under an agreement with prosecutors.Jon Hallford faces between 30 and 50 years in prison. Carie Hallfor…
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