A county coroner in Colorado has been accused of stowing bodies inside his private mortuary for years — with "around 20 or so" being found by authorities "in just a regular room" — in various stages of decomposition , officials say.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has confirmed to Law&Crime that authorities are currently weighing criminal charges against Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter after the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies' (DORA) Division of Professions and Occupations conducted an annual inspection at Davis Mortuary in Pueblo on Wednesday and found the bodies.

A press conference was held Thursday by CBI, the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office and other local officials, during which they described how Cotter and his brother, Chris Cotter, allegedly kept the decomposin

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