Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 200 decaying bodies set to be sentenced for corpse abuse
Jon Hallford faces 191 counts for abusing corpses and fraudulently accepting nearly $900,000 in COVID relief funds, spending on luxury items during a four-year scheme.
- Jon Hallford is facing 191 state counts of abuse of a corpse after nearly 200 decaying bodies were found at the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose.
- Jon Hallford is already sentenced to 20 years for federal wire fraud and is set for sentencing on state charges.
- Jon and Carie Hallford accepted payments for cremations while hiding bodies and providing fake ashes as part of their fraudulent scheme.
- Carie Hallford has pleaded guilty to similar charges and will face sentencing alongside her husband.
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Funeral home's owner sentenced for corpse abuse
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It's been two years since nearly 200 decaying bodies were discovered throughout a fetid, room temperature building in rural Colorado. On Friday, the man responsible, a funeral home owner, is set to be sentenced in state…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
Funeral home stashed 190 rotting corpses in building
Colorado Springs' Return to Nature Funeral Home promised dignified cremations with no embalming or chemicals. Instead, Jon and Carie Hallford piled nearly 200 bodies in their fetid, bug-infested building and handed families urns of concrete dust. Mr. Hallford, already headed to prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges and on the hook for vast sums in damages, is to be sentenced today on 191 counts of corpse abuse. — Read the rest Th…
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