A Colorado funeral home owner and his wife are arrested in Oklahoma on suspicion of abuse of a corpse, theft, money laundering and forgery.
The owner of a Colorado funeral home and his wife were arrested Wednesday after the decaying remains of at least 189 people were recently found at his facility. Jon and Carrie Hallford were arrested in Wagoner, Okla., on suspicion of four felonies — abuse of a corpse, theft, money laundering and forgery — Dist. Atty. Michael Allen said in a news release after at least some of the aggrieved families were told.
They said death certificates indicated the remains were cremated at one of two crematories, but both crematories told The Associated Press that they weren't performing cremations for Return to Nature at the time of the dates on the certificates. One of the aggrieved family members, Tanya Wilson, said her mother’s body was among the neglected remains found last month and that ashes that Return to Nature told her family were her mother's were not.
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