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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jesse Bedayn

Funeral home owner accused of stashing decaying bodies expected to plead guilty in federal court

Decomposing Bodies Plea - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A funeral home owner in Colorado accused of storing nearly 190 decomposing bodies in a room-temperature building and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 is expected to plead guilty in federal court, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

Carie Hallford, who ran Return to Nature Funeral Home with her husband Jon Hallford, allegedly duped the Small Business Administration out of almost $900,000 in pandemic-era relief aid and cheated customers who had paid for cremations the Hallfords never performed.

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