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Funeral home owners plead guilty to corpse abuse after nearly 200 decomposing bodies found

abcnews.go.com Funeral home owners plead guilty to corpse abuse after nearly 200 decomposing bodies found

The married co-owners of a Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 decomposing bodies were found pleaded guilty Friday to corpse abuse.

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.

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For a second there, I thought the lady was Amy from Amy's Baking Company which created so many questions.
- Not convinced it's not her.
  
  Tweak the story just a bit and you get Sweeney Todd though, that'd be an interesting take.
  
  Now you got me wondering again lol
  
  Well, it seems like Amy's Baking Company has not survived the test of time. According to Kitchen Nightmares Updates, the bakery closed in 2015 after its owners found a new buyer for the business. In response to a question posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) about the business closing, Amy's Baking Company confirmed the news, tweeting, "Yes! Now we can focus on several other projects!"
  
  -- Source
Fun fact, until that event, Colorado had hardly any regulations around funeral homes.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/24/colorado-funeral-home-bills-signed-law/
- but if they waited the free market would make sure competition would kick in and solve the problem ✨magically✨
She's got that Amy's Baking Company face.
- Its that suburban trophy wife face. I grew up in a suburban labyrinth and so many of my friends' moms looked exactly like this.
  
  if that's a trophy wife...i'd rather lose...
- Jfc that’s a business I haven’t heard in a long time. I drove by there once.
What was the plan here? Surely they had some idea of what they were going to do with the bodies?
- Bleach the skeletons and sell them to medical institutions H.H. Holmes style
- American Dad did an episode on this, funny enough
Lemmy has been very interested in this story, which I’m grateful for. I’ve been able to follow it since the beginning. Thanks, OP!
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But why?
Really, the sentences are going to be concurrent and I think the fraud conviction will likely be much longer than whatever the corpse thing is.
And these fucktards did not even have the frame of mind to rent a backhoe, and a wood chipper and get these bodies done in an afternoon.
- Bacho....backhoe?
  
  The latter.. a digger
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.
Well.. they did what they promised, returned them to nature
- Nah, they were more like stacked in the basement. Think necropolis but worse.
  
  Packed in barrels with extra-dimensional fluid to turn them into demon midgets?
  
  I thought it was the case with dead bodies being dumped in the nature around the place.
Do Israel next

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