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Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter is facing a recall effort amid a criminal investigation into his private mortuary.

The recall petition requires 16,431 signatures to trigger a recall election.

Cotter's mortuary is under investigation after 24 decomposing bodies and boxes of bones and tissue were discovered.

Colorado law currently doesn't allow for the removal of an elected coroner, even during a criminal investigation.

The CBI investigation is ongoing, with no arrests or charges filed as of yet.

An effort to recall Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter — the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation after 24 decomposing bodies and multiple boxes of bones and probable human tissue were found inside his private mortuary — is officially underway.

The Pueblo Co

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