Overview

• Jon and Carie Hallford, owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado, are set to appear in court facing charges of corpse abuse, theft, money laundering, and forgery.
• The charges come after the discovery of 190 decomposing bodies at their funeral home facility in Penrose, some with death dates as far back as 2019.
• Family members were falsely told their loved ones were cremated and received materials that were not their ashes.
• The Hallfords were arrested in Oklahoma last month, after allegedly fleeing Colorado to avoid prosecution. They have been jailed on a $2 million bond.
• After the bodies were removed, authorities began working to identify the remains using fingerprints, dental records, medical hardware, and DNA.