Colorado Judge Rejects Deal for Funeral Home Owner
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Colorado judge rejects plea deal for funeral home owner accused of corpse abuse
In a rare move, an El Paso County judge on Friday rejected a plea agreement for Jon Hallford, who allegedly let roughly 190 bodies rot inside the Return to Nature funeral home in the Colorado Springs area and sent fake ashes to grieving families.
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Boing Boing on MSNFuneral home stashed 190 rotting corpses in building
Colorado Springs' Return to Nature Funeral Home promised dignified cremations with no embalming or chemicals. Instead, Jon and Carie Hallford piled nearly 200 bodies in a the fetid, bug-infested building and handed families urns of concrete dust.
Colorado's governor called for the Pueblo County coroner to resign on Friday following the discovery of at least 20 decomposing bodies in a hidden room concealed by a cardboard display at Davis Mortuary in Pueblo.