By COLLEEN SLEVIN, MATTHEW BROWN and JESSE BEDAYN, Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — It’s been two years since nearly 200 decaying bodies were discovered throughout a fetid, room temperature building in rural Colorado. On Friday, the man responsible, a funeral home owner, is set to be sentenced in state court for 191 counts of corpse abuse.

Jon Hallford and his wife, Carie, ran a morbid racket for four years out of their Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs: assuring people they were handling loved ones’ cremations only to stash the bodies in a bug-infested building and give them dry concrete resembling ashes.

Jon Hallford is already headed to prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges. Friday’s sentencing hearing will focus on state charges related

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