Funeral Home Owner Faces Sentencing After Stashing 190 Decayed Bodies
In a Colorado court, Jon Hallford, the owner of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, is set to be sentenced for abusing the corpses of 191 individuals. Hallford and his wife ran a fraudulent operation for four years, promising cremations but instead storing bodies in a decaying building. The plea agreement recommends a 20-year prison sentence, but some families are contesting this, seeking a harsher punishment. The case has caused immense anguish for the families, who unknowingly spread concrete and had to come to grips with the fact that their loved ones were not properly cared for.
John Q. Hosedrinker