Owners of Colorado Funeral Home Admit to Abusing Nearly 200 Corpses

They each could face up to 20 years in federal prison, according to the authorities. The Hallfords are scheduled to be sentenced in March on the federal charges, according to court records.

Instead of using the money they were given by the government or customers to bury or cremate bodies, the couple spent thousands on vacations, jewelry from Tiffany & Company, and items on Amazon, according to court records.

“The Hallfords collected in excess of $130,000 from victims for cremation or burial services, which they never provided,” the federal indictment said.

Lawyers for the Hallfords did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment on Saturday.

The Hallfords gave urns filled with concrete mix to survivors instead of remains of the deceased and provided the wrong bodies for cemetery burial, the indictment said.

Some of the bodies that were found last year at Return to Nature were of people  who had died as far back as 2019, the authorities said.