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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jesse Bedayn and Matthew Brown

After 189 bodies were found in Colorado funeral home, evidence suggests families received fake ashes

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories.

The families that did business with Return to Nature Funeral Home fear their loved ones weren’t cremated at all and instead could be among the yet unidentified corpses authorities discovered after responding to a report of an “ abhorrent smell.”

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