A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies and gave families fake ashes is being sentenced for corpse abuse. Jon Hallford, who owned Return to Nature Funeral Home with his then-wife Carie, pleaded guilty in December. Investigators discovered the bodies in 2023 after reports of a stench. Families of the deceased were devastated to learn the ashes they received were not their loved ones. Jon Hallford faces up to 50 years in prison. Family members of the deceased urged the judge to give him the maximum sentence. In a related case, the Hallfords admitted to defrauding the federal government of nearly $900,000 in pandemic aid.
