Judge to Weigh Plea Deal of Funeral Home Owner Accused of Stashing Nearly 190 Decaying Bodies in Bug-Infested Building

A Colorado funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies in a bug-infested building took a plea deal last year for abusing corpses, but on Monday, family members of the deceased will argue that the deal’s 15- to 20-year sentence isn’t enough.

Carie Hallford and her husband, Jon Hallford, owned Return to Nature Funeral Home and are accused of piling the bodies in the building in a rural town between 2019 and 2023, giving families fake ashes and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000.

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