Police searched the Return to Nature funeral home after receiving reports of an 'abhorrent smell.' The owners are now facing charges of theft, forgery, money laundering and the abuse of a corpse.
Police searched the Return to Nature funeral home after receiving reports of an"abhorrent smell." The owners are now facing charges of theft, forgery, money laundering and the abuse of a corpse.Jon and Carie Hallford, the owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, were arrested on charges of abusing a corpse, theft, money laundering and forgery, according toPolice first searched the funeral home, located roughly 30 miles south of Colorado Springs in the town of Penrose, on Oct.
What they found inside was"horrific," according to Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper, who declined to go into further detail during, Return to Nature offers green and natural burial services, which allow bodies to decompose underground without the use of metal caskets or chemicals.Fremont County Coroner Randy Keller declined to say whether the remains discovered at Return to Nature were intended for natural burial, but he did note that they were"improperly stored.
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