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 ...

Colorado’s governor signed two new bills enforcing stricter requirements for the state’s funeral homes and staff after cases of mishandling human remains.

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.

Colorado to tighten regulations on funeral homes after multiple scandals − here’s what this means for families By Tanya D. Marsh, Wake Forest University June 5, 2024 ...

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.

Colorado lawmakers will propose new regulations for funeral homes during the upcoming legislative session. The move comes after several high-profile incidents in recent years of egregious ...

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.

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.

The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room-temperature building and giving the grieving relatives fake ashes pleaded guilty Friday to corpse abuse as ...