Colorado Funeral Home Owners Charged with Abuse of Nearly 200 Corpses

Texts reveal owners contemplated disposing bodies by fire or lye amid financial pressures.

Nearly 200 abandoned bodies were found at a Colorado funeral home, some dating back to 2019, in a state of decay and stored at room temperature.
Owners Carie and Jon Hallford are charged with approximately 190 counts of abuse of a corpse, theft, money laundering, and forgery.
Text messages between the owners reveal financial pressures and fears of being caught, with suggestions of disposing of the bodies by digging a hole or setting them on fire.
Some relatives of the deceased received fake ashes instead of the cremated remains of their loved ones.
The Hallfords were arrested in Oklahoma after allegedly fleeing Colorado to avoid prosecution.