A Colorado judge has rejected a plea agreement for a funeral home owner accused of storing almost 190 decomposing bodies in a vermin-infested facility. The decision came after victims' families argued the proposed 15- to 20-year sentence was insufficient.
Carie Hallford, alongside her husband Jon Hallford, who operated Return to Nature Funeral Home, allegedly abandoned the remains in a rural town between 2019 and 2023. They are further accused of providing fraudulent ashes to grieving relatives and defrauding the federal government of nearly $900,000.
