COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado judge rejected a plea agreement Friday for a funeral home owner from Oklahoma who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses, many of which languished in a room-temperature building in Penrose, Colorado, for years as the owner and his wife maintained a lavish lifestyle.

The rare decision to reject the agreement came after families of the dead who were given fake ashes asked for a more severe punishment for Jon Hallford, who owned and operated Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs with his wife, Carie Hallford.

Hallford, who described himself in reports as a fourth-generation Oklahoma funeral director , had worked as a funeral director at his family’s Muskogee funeral home, the Tulsa World has reported.

The plea agreement called for a 20-year priso

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