Owners of Colorado Funeral Home Admit to Abusing Nearly 200 Corpses

“He laid in the corner of an inoperable fridge, dumped out of his body bag” for four years, David Page, a relative of a person who died in 2019 and whose body was found in one of the funeral home buildings, said outside the courtroom after the guilty pleas, The Associated Press reported.

To conceal the gruesome collection of bodies at the funeral home locations, the couple prevented outsiders from entering their buildings, covered the windows and doors, and lied about the source of the odor, the federal indictment said.

In 2021, Colorado became the second state, after Washington, to legalize human composting that would allow bodies to be turned into soil.