Colorado Judge Rejects Deal for Funeral Home Owner
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Colorado judge slaps down plea deal for funeral home owner who confessed to abusing 191 corpses
A Colorado judge rejected a plea deal from funeral home owner Jon Hallford, who admitted to abusing 191 corpses.
The Return to Nature co-owner, Jon Hallford, could be going to trial after the judge rejected his plea deal. He was supposed to be sentenced on Friday.
Nearly two years after deputies in southern Colorado made the grisly discovery of 190 bodies in various states of decomposition inside a derelict building operated by Return to Nature Funeral Home, the co-owner of the business will be sentenced.
Nearly two years after close to 200 decaying bodies were discovered left to rot in a funeral home in Penrose, Jon Hallford, one of
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Colorado Springs' Return to Nature Funeral Home promised dignified cremations with no embalming or chemicals. Instead, Jon and Carie Hallford piled nearly 200 bodies in a the fetid, bug-infested building and handed families urns of concrete dust.