AZ
25. 11. 2024, 19.28
Updated: November 25, 2024, 7:33 p.m
The owners of the funeral company Carie and Jon Hallford in Colorado, USA, understood the business of the funeral home a little differently. Instead of cremating the bodies of the deceased, they poured cement into the urns and charged the families of the deceased the full price for cremation.
The main motive for this operation was, of course, money, but the bodies were stored at room temperature in the basement of the funeral home. In the end, 190 bodies had already accumulated, and the stench from the dismemberment reached even the neighbors, who alerted the police.
Dead bodies lay everywhere
At the Return to Nature Funeral Home, officers found the remains of the bodies, and the basement was similar, so one of the officers, “a scene from the worst horror movies”. The residents of Penrose, near Colorado Springs, still can’t believe that all of this happened right on their doorstep. Hallford however, they are now suspected of various offences, including theft, forgery and disrespectful treatment of the bodies of the dead.
Wagoner County Sheriff
The two fraudsters lived on the big foot, betrayed by the stench from the basement of the funeral company.
190 bodies were unprofessionally placed in the basement at room temperature, so they had to be identified again. ยปThey were lying on the floor, on the shelves of simple racks, on stretchers, in some places they were even stacked one on top of the other.” said the state prosecutor.
They collected money for cremation from the families of the deceased, and together they accumulated 190,000 dollars or 181,000 euros, and with this money they lived lavishly with expensive vacations and trips, luxury cars or the most expensive clothes. They didn’t have the costs of the crematorium, because they didn’t even start the furnace, but so that the families of the deceased wouldn’t suspect anything, they handed over urns filled with powdered cement.
I would pay compensation
In the meantime, the couple pleaded guilty in court and agreed to pay restitution, which has not yet been determined, so the state attorney’s office could drop the theft, forgery and money laundering charges. Otherwise, the prosecutor asked for 20 years in prison for Jon Hallford and 15 to 20 years for his wife Carie. The court’s decision is expected to be known only in the spring of 2025.
Source: svet24.si
