Governor Jared Polis demanded Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter's immediate resignation today, August 22, after state inspectors discovered about twenty decomposing bodies behind a hidden door on Thursday at Cotter's Davis Mortuary in Pueblo.

Investigators say that families and other next-of-kin may have received fake cremains, and that the corpses behind the door could have been there up to fifteen years.

This state has a recent history of funeral home atrocities , and the trend doesn't seem to be abating. Colorado was the last state in the union to enact a formal licensing process for funeral home operators and directors, and that law was passed just over a year ago .

From 2010 to 2018, the operators of Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose illegally sold the bodies or body parts

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