DENVER -- Colorado authorities said Thursday they are investigating a funeral home operated by a county coroner where inspectors found several decomposing bodies. The bodies were found this week in a room behind a door that was hidden by a cardboard display during an inspection of Davis Mortuary in Pueblo on Wednesday after Brian Cotter, an owner and the county coroner, asked them not to go inside the room, according to a document from state regulators. The inspectors found a “strong odor of decomposition," it said. Cotter told inspectors that some of the bodies had been awaiting cremation for about 15 years and that he may have given fake cremated remains to family members, according to the document, which explained why the mortuary's license was suspended. Colorado for years had some of

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