US EditionEx-funeral home owner faces 20 in prison after giving families fake ashes
Carie Hallford admitted to defrauding families of $130,000 and federal COVID aid, with nearly 200 bodies found decomposing at her Colorado Springs funeral home.
- On Monday, Carie Hallford, former Colorado funeral home owner, is asking for leniency after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud linked to nearly 200 decomposing bodies found at the Return to Nature funeral home, Colorado Springs.
- Prosecutors allege the couple misused nearly $200,000 in pandemic small business aid, with Carie Hallford taking over $130,000 from families and providing urns of concrete instead of remains.
- The probe found errors including wrong bodies being buried, with bodies stacked high enough to block doorways and buckets placed to catch leaking fluids at Return to Nature funeral home.
- Carie Hallford's lawyers asked for an eight-year term while federal prosecutors urged 15 years, and state prosecutors seek 25 to 35 years next month; co-defendant Jon Hallford received 20 and 40 years.
- Prosecutors noted victims have suffered lasting trauma since the 2023 discovery, and plea deals require state and federal sentences to run concurrently.
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Funeral Home Owner Sentenced After Defrauding Grieving Families with Fake Ashes While Hiding Their Loved Ones' Bodies
Carie Hallford was handed almost the maximum sentence on Monday, March 16Jon and Carie HallfordCredit: Muskogee County Sheriff's Office via APNEED TO KNOWCarie Hallford was sentenced on federal fraud charges in a Colorado court on Monday, March 16Carie was sentenced in a large-scale scheme in which she and ex-husband Jon Halford deceived customers at their Return to Nature Funeral Home by giving them fake ashes and keeping nearly 200 decaying bo…
Judge Throws the Book at Ex-Funeral Home Owner
A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a decrepit building was sentenced Monday to 18 years on a federal fraud charge, nearly the maximum allowed under the law. Carie Hallford, 48, faced up to 20 years in prison for taking over...
Colorado ex-funeral home owner sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud
A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in pandemic small business aid.
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