A Colorado funeral home owner, Jon Hallford, received a 20-year sentence for stashing 190 bodies and committing fraud. He deceived grieving families with fake ashes and misused COVID-19 aid. His ...

A federal judge has sentenced a Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies to 20 years in prison on federal fraud charges.

In the past couple of years, Colorado has had two major funeral home scandals. In 2023, the operators of the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado, pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges.

Colorado citizen Samantha Naranjo highlights her mother Dorothy Tardif, who was involved in the recent Colorado funeral home scandals. AP Photo/David Zalubowski ...

David Zalubowski/AP A sign covers the broken back window of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.

(THE CONVERSATION) In May 2024, Colorado enacted two laws that will tighten regulations on the funeral industry. The legislation comes in the wake of several incidents at funeral homes across the ...

The Natural Funeral’s efforts to normalize its business hit a speed bump in October 2023, when a horrifying scandal rocked many Coloradans’ trust in funeral homes statewide.

The owners of a Colorado funeral home who sparked a statewide scandal after authorities discovered nearly 200 decomposing bodies at their business have pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the Justice ...

The owners of a Colorado funeral home who sparked a statewide scandal after authorities discovered nearly 200 decomposing bodies at their business have pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the Justice ...

Two funeral home owners in Colorado pleaded guilty to 191 counts of abuse of a corpse on Friday, a year after decaying bodies were found piled on top of each other.

A Colorado funeral home owner accused of improperly storing cremated remains and keeping a dead woman's body in a hearse for over a year has pleaded guilty, prosecutors said. Miles Harford, the ...