Inside the conflict brewing in one rural county in Colorado over where to store dead bodies

Inside the conflict brewing in one rural county in Colorado over where to store dead bodies

On Feb. 28, the attorney for a rural county in southeastern Colorado sent its coroner an odd message: Stop storing dead bodies in a county administration building. That letter, part of a string of correspondence Coroner Thomas Dunagan has since shared on his office’s Facebook page, touched off a bizarre dispute between Prowers County commissioners and the elected coroner over where the county should house deceased community members. “It has been…

Inside the conflict brewing in a rural Colorado county over where to store dead bodies

On Feb. 28, the attorney for a rural county in southeastern Colorado sent its coroner an odd message: Stop storing dead bodies in a county administration building. That letter, part of a string of correspondence Coroner Thomas Dunagan has since shared on his office’s Facebook page, touched off a bizarre dispute between Prowers County commissioners and the elected coroner over where the county should house deceased community members. “It has been…

Inside the conflict brewing in Prowers County over where to store dead bodies

On Feb. 28, the attorney for a rural county in southeastern Colorado sent its coroner an odd message: Stop storing dead bodies in a county administration building. That letter, part of a string of correspondence Coroner Thomas Dunagan has since shared on his office’s Facebook page, touched off a bizarre dispute between Prowers County commissioners and the elected coroner over where the county should house deceased community members. “It has been…