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Judge to weigh plea deal of funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies
Judge Eric Bentley agreed with families that a 15 to 20-year sentence was too lenient for Carie Hallford’s abuse of nearly 190 bodies at a Colorado funeral home.
- On Monday, State District Judge Eric Bentley rejected Carie Hallford's plea deal, sending her state case to trial despite the proposed 15- to 20-year sentence.
- Investigators say the abuse involved nearly 190 decaying bodies stacked in a bug-infested building in Penrose, Colorado, spanning the time span 2019–2023.
- In federal court, both Jon Hallford and Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to money-laundering and admitted defrauding the U.S. Small Business Administration of nearly $900,000, with sentences up to 15 years.
- Judge Eric Bentley's decision leaves Carie Hallford able to withdraw her guilty plea or proceed without the deal, exposing her to a potentially higher sentence, with federal sentencing scheduled for December.
- Last year, both Jon and Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to nearly 190 counts of corpse abuse, leaving victims' families haunted by nightmares and spiritual anguish.
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Jon and Carie Hallford confessed last year to concealing the bodies. The judge rejected their plea agreements.
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El Paso County judge rejects plea deal for funeral home co-owner accused of abusing nearly 190 human corpses
One of the Return to Nature funeral home co-owners, Carie Hallford, appeared in an El Paso County courtroom Monday as a judge decided not to accept a plea deal on her state case.Hallford is accused of abusing nearly 200 bodies in partnership with her husband at the time, Jon Hallford. The alleged crimes took place over a time span ranging from 2019 - 2023.News5 has been extensively covering the case since it first broke in 2023. In August, Carie…
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