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Carie Hallford gets nearly maximum prison sentence after Return to Nature ruse despite ‘scared and desperate’ explanation
DENVER — Carie Hallford, the former Return to Nature Funeral Home co-owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building in Penrose, was sentenced Monday to 18 years on a federal fraud charge, nearly the maximum allowed under the law. Carie Hallford, 48, faced up to 20 years in prison for taking over…
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Colorado governor signs bills regulating funeral homes after discovery of 189 rotting bodies
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two bills into law Friday that overhaul state oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 189 discomposing bodies in a facility and families being sent fake ashes. Cases such as the 189 bodies found in a Return to Nature funeral home location put Colorado’s…