US EditionEx-funeral home owner faces 20 in prison after giving families fake ashes
Carie Hallford admitted to defrauding families and misusing nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds while hiding about 200 decomposing bodies at a Colorado funeral home.
- On Monday, Carie Hallford, former Colorado funeral home owner, is asking for leniency after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud linked to nearly 200 decomposing bodies found at the Return to Nature funeral home, Colorado Springs.
- Prosecutors allege the couple misused nearly $200,000 in pandemic small business aid, with Carie Hallford taking over $130,000 from families and providing urns of concrete instead of remains.
- The probe found errors including wrong bodies being buried, with bodies stacked high enough to block doorways and buckets placed to catch leaking fluids at Return to Nature funeral home.
- Carie Hallford's lawyers asked for an eight-year term while federal prosecutors urged 15 years, and state prosecutors seek 25 to 35 years next month; co-defendant Jon Hallford received 20 and 40 years.
- Prosecutors noted victims have suffered lasting trauma since the 2023 discovery, and plea deals require state and federal sentences to run concurrently.
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A former funeral director from Colorado (United States) helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building and put false ashes back on the families of the deceased, risking up to 20 years in prison.
A new twist in the American funeral scandal: a woman involved in the fake ashes case is asking for a lighter sentence, while nearly 200 bodies were found in a Colorado building.
Co-owner of disgraced Colorado funeral home set to be sentenced Monday morning on federal wire fraud charge
After almost three years, the federal case against one of the disgraced Southern Colorado former funeral home owners accused of stockpiling nearly 200 decomposing bodies instead of burying or cremating them is moving forward.Carie Hallford is expected to be sentenced in U.S. District Court at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, after her original December sentencing date was postponed.She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in August, marking her…
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