US funeral home owners plead guilty to corpse abuse

The owners of a ceremonial location successful Colorado, accused of storing 190 decaying bodies, person pleaded blameworthy to corpse abuse.

Jon and Carie Hallford, who ain the Return to Nature Funeral Home, began storing bodies successful an aged gathering adjacent Colorado Springs arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2019, prosecutors allege.

It is further alleged the mates gave families of the deceased adust factual alternatively of ashes.

The Hallfords person been charged with much than 200 charges of corpse abuse, theft, forgery and wealth laundering successful authorities court.

The grim find of the bodies was made past twelvemonth aft reports of an "abhorrent smell" coming from a gathering connected the property.

Over the years the mates allegedly spent nearly $900,000 (£723,000) successful pandemic alleviation funds connected things specified arsenic holidays, cosmetic surgery, jewellery and $31,000 (£24,000) successful cryptocurrency, according to tribunal records.

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Last month, the Hallfords pleaded blameworthy to national charges successful which they acknowledged they defrauded customers and the national government.

The lawsuit has shocked the authorities of Colorado, which antecedently had immoderate of the US's weakest ceremonial location regulations.

This year, politicians brought authorities regulations up to par, mostly with enactment from the ceremonial location industry.