A Former Funeral Home Owner Has Been Arrested After a Corpse Lay in a Hearse for 2 Years

DENVER—A former funeral home owner accused of keeping a woman’s corpse in the back of a hearse for two years and hoarding the cremated remains of 35 people has been arrested, authorities said. Thursday night’s arrest of Miles Harford, 33, is the latest allegation of misconduct by Colorado funeral home owners, a string that includes the discovery of nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a bug-infested funeral home facility last year. The horrifying finds have underscored the laxness of state funeral home regulations and pressed lawmakers to try to strengthen the laws. A grisly scene of urns stashed around the Harford property, from the crawl space to inside the hearse where the 63-year-old woman’s body lay, was uncovered in early February during a court-ordered eviction at his home, police said. While searching the property, police opened the door of the hearse to a “foul odor,” seeing the outline of the human body seemingly strapped to the gurney and covered by blankets, according to the arrest affidavit....