By COLLEEN SLEVIN, MATTHEW BROWN and JESSE BEDAYN

Summary:

– Jon Hallford pleaded guilty to state and federal charges for corpse abuse and fraud.

– 189 bodies decayed at the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado .

– Families were given fake ashes, while Hallfords profited from COVID-19 aid.

COLORADO SPRINGS , Colo. — It’s been two years since nearly 200 decaying bodies were discovered in a pungent funeral home in rural Colorado. On Friday, the owner who acknowledged discarding and mishandling corpses , leaving them to rot, is set to be sentenced in state court.

Jon Hallford and his wife, Carie, for four years ran a fraudulent scheme from their Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs: assuring people they were handling loved ones’ cremations only to stash

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