Owners of Colorado Funeral Home Admit to Abusing Nearly 200 Corpses

Return to Nature advertised to families that their loved ones would be given green burials that included the use of biodegradable caskets, baskets or shrouds.

But when a foul odor led investigators to the Penrose location, they found at least 190 improperly stored corpses at the Hallfords’ funeral home in Penrose and Colorado Springs in October last year. They were arrested in November.

“The impact on these family members has been immense,” Mr. Allen said.

He added that the Hallfords deceived grieving families and that “having somebody violate that trust is something that they’ll likely never recover from.”

The Hallfords had also pleaded guilty in federal court last month to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for misusing more than $800,000 in Covid-19 pandemic relief funds from the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado said at the time.