Owners of Funeral Home Where 190 Decaying Bodies Were Found Are Due to Appear in Court

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The owners of a Colorado funeral home where 190 decomposing bodies were found are set to appear in court Tuesday, facing allegations that they abused corpses, stole, laundered money, and forged documents. Jon and Carie Hallford own Return to Nature Funeral Home, which has a facility in Penrose where investigators in early October discovered dozens of stacked bodies, some that had death dates as far back as 2019, according to a federal affidavit. Family members had been falsely told their loved ones were cremated and had received materials that were not their ashes, court records said. Several families who hired Return to Nature to cremate their loved ones have told The Associated Press that the FBI confirmed to them privately that their loved ones were among the decaying bodies....