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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jesse Bedayn,Matthew Brown and Colleen Slevin

Funeral home owner who stashed 200 decaying bodies set to be sentenced over corpse abuse

Two years after the horrific discovery of nearly 200 decaying bodies in a fetid, room-temperature building in rural Colorado, a funeral home owner is due to be sentenced on Friday for 191 counts of corpse abuse.

Jon Hallford and his wife, Carie, ran a 'morbid racket' for four years from their Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs. They assured families their loved ones' cremations were being handled, only to stash the bodies in a bug-infested building and provide dry concrete resembling ashes.

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