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Fremont County coroner Randy Keller, center, and other authorities survey the area where they plan to put up tents at the Return to Nature Funeral Home where over 100 bodies have been improperly stored, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP, File)/The Gazette via AP)

Corpse abuse cases force changes on Colorado’s scandal-plagued funeral industry

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Fremont County coroner Randy Keller, center, and other authorities survey the area where they plan to put up tents at the Return to Nature Funeral Home where over 100 bodies have been improperly stored, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP, File)

Ex-funeral home owner faces 20 years in prison after giving families fake ashes

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A hearse and van sit outside the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 6, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. Jon and Carie Halfford, who are accused of storing 200 decaying bodies and sending families fake ashes last year, are set to enter pleas in court on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Funeral home owners accused of storing nearly 200 decaying bodies to enter pleas

By Jesse Bedayn - Associated Press

A hearse and van sit outside the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 6, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. Prosecutors were set to lay out their case Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, against a former co-owner of the Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 bodies, some of them stacked and partially covered, were found last year in a building infested with flies and maggots. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Funeral home owner accused of abandoning nearly 200 decomposing bodies to appear in court

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Oct. 5, 2023. A family filed a lawsuit Monday, Oct. 30, against the Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were found alleging that the owners, a husband and wife, allowed the remains of their loved ones and to “rot” away while they sent families fake ashes. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)

Colorado funeral home owner, wife arrested on charges linked to handling of at least 189 bodies: FBI

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