US EditionColorado funeral home owners accused of stashing decaying bodies agree to plea deal again
Owners pleaded guilty after storing 189 bodies and sending fake ashes from 2019 to 2023; Jon faces 30-50 years and Carie 25-35 years in prison if accepted by court.
- On Tuesday, Jon Hallford and Carie Hallford entered individual plea agreements after investigators found nearly 200 mishandled remains at Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colorado.
- After reports of a foul odor, investigators launched an October 2023 investigation in Penrose and found bodies stacked in a bug-infested building, leading to Nov. 8, 2023 arrests.
- Court records show Jon Hallford pleaded guilty to 191 counts and Carie Hallford to 45 counts, while state charges dropped theft, forgery and money laundering.
- If the court accepts the agreements on Dec. 22, Jon Hallford faces 30 to 50 years and Carie Hallford 25 to 35 years, with sentencing set for February 6 and April 24.
- Relatives say the discovery undid grieving and caused nightmares, while Colorado state funeral-home regulators face criticism amid the Pueblo funeral-home case and some relatives seeking harsher sentences.
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Colorado funeral home owners accused of stashing decaying bodies agree to plea deal ... again
Jon and Carrie Hallford, the couple who operated the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs which left nearly 190 bodies in a building in Penrose, have agreed again to a plea deal to state charges.
Hallfords plead guilty on state charges
Related video: Previous coverage of Carie Hallford's plea agreement. (EL PASO COUNTY, Colo.) — On Tuesday, Dec. 16, Jon and Carie Hallford, the owners of the now-defunct Return to Nature Funeral Home, both entered separate guilty pleas in their state criminal cases being prosecuted in El Paso County. According to the 4th Judicial District Attorney's [...]
Jon and Carie Hallford enter guilty pleas for Return to Nature state charges
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Jon and Carie Hallford, the owners of Return to Nature, have both entered guilty pleas for their state charges, according to Colorado's 4th Judicial District Attorney's Office. Those state charges included abuse of a corpse. The couple ran the now-infamous Return to Nature funeral home, where they were accused of leaving close to 200 bodies to stack up and decompose, reportedly giving families fake cremains. The…
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