Summary
Owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado, pleaded guilty to 191 counts of corpse abuse after nearly 200 decomposing bodies were found at their facility.
The couple, Jon and Carie Hallford, admitted to defrauding families by taking payments for burial or cremation services they never performed, sometimes substituting concrete mix for ashes.
They also admitted to a related federal conspiracy to commit wire fraud, including $800,000 in COVID-19 relief fraud.
Sentencing for both state and federal cases is scheduled for 2025, with each facing up to 20 years in prison.
I just finished listening to a podcast about a very similar situation, it’s a great listen. It’s called Noble for anyone interested.
Wasn’t there a case in Georgia where the furnace used for cremation broke down and they didn’t fix it?
It wasn’t broken. He just didn’t use it. He dumped 339 bodies in the woods behind his crematorium. It took years for anyone to find out.
I feel like that would’ve smelled really bad, and there would’ve been flocks of crows and vultures hanging around.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just super sensitive to the smell of death or something, but one decomposing mouse can stink up a good portion of a warehouse. If he was too lazy to cremate them, I doubt he was throwing garden lime down.
Strange situation.
I forgot the number was that insanely high. 339! WTF, dude!
I guess that after the first one, it just gets easier to think of the bodies as mere things instead of human remains that deserve at least token respect.