Around 20 decomposing bodies were discovered in a hidden room concealed by a cardboard display at Davis Mortuary in Pueblo . Investigators believe some of those bodies have been awaiting cremation for 15 years. That mortuary is operated by Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter.

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It's been 14 years since Patty Emerson lost her husband, 59-year-old Mel Emerson, to stage four kidney cancer.

"My daughter was 12 when he passed away and my son was three," said Patty.

When it came down to honoring her husband's life and giving him the proper goodbye, the Pueblo area resident says she enlisted the help of Cotter and his brother's services at Davis Mortuary to cremate his body.

"I have known Mr. Cotter since the early 1980s. I worked at Parkview Medical Center, then in th

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