US EditionFuneral home owner who stashed nearly 200 decaying bodies set to be sentenced for corpse abuse
Jon Hallford faces 20 years for 191 counts of corpse abuse after stashing bodies and defrauding $900,000 in COVID-19 relief, disrupting families' grieving processes, officials said.
- On Friday, funeral home owner Jon Hallford is set to be sentenced in state court for 191 counts of corpse abuse linked to his Return to Nature Funeral Home near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- The Hallfords' operation amassed nearly 200 decaying bodies by 2019, and investigators say they defrauded families and the federal government of nearly $900,000.
- Investigators found bodies in a bug-infested, room-temperature building in 2023, and families of the deceased reported anguish as Crystina Page demanded a real cremation for her son.
- A plea agreement calls for a 20-year state sentence for Hallford's corpse abuse charges, while he is already headed to federal prison and has appealed that sentence.
- Colorado's weak oversight framed the case involving nearly 200 bodies, with four unidentified remains and Carie Hallford, co-defendant awaiting sentencing, amidst ongoing appeals by Jon Hallford.
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Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 200 decaying bodies set to be sentenced for corpse abuse
Two years after piles of decaying bodies were found in a rural Colorado building, a funeral home owner is set to be sentenced for 191 counts of corpse abuse.
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Funeral home owner who stashed 200 decaying bodies set to be sentenced over corpse abuse
Two years after the horrific discovery of nearly 200 decaying bodies in a fetid, room-temperature building in rural Colorado, a funeral home owner is due to be sentenced on Friday for 191 counts of corpse abuse. Jon Hallford and his wife, Carie, ran a 'morbid racket' for four years from their…
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