Funeral Homes

What will tightened state regulations on funeral homes mean for Colorado families? Wake Forest Law Professor Tanya D. Marsh provides her expert analysis.

Colorado lawmakers have passed a sweeping bill to overhaul the state's lax oversight over funeral homes after a series of horrific incidents, including sold body parts, fake ashes and the discovery of 190 decaying bodies.

Federal authorities have indicted the owners of a Colorado funeral home on criminal charges for fraudulently obtaining pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government. The husband and wife already face state charges of corpse abuse after 190 decaying bodies were discovered in their funeral home's storage building last year. The new charges Monday against Jon and Carie Hallford underscore their alleged lies, money laundering, forgery and manipulation over the past four years that devastated grieving family members.

A Colorado judge has granted a defense request to delay the criminal case of two Colorado funeral home operators accused of letting nearly 200 corpses decay in a decrepit building in some cases for years. The delay Thursday angered some families of the deceased who are eager to have the case resolved.

he owners of a Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 decaying bodies were found last year are set to enter pleas in court on Thursday. Jon and Carie Hallford are accused of falsifying death certificates and sending fake ashes to grieving families. It's one of several cases to roil Colorado's largely-unregulated funeral industry.

Prosecutors said more cremated remains were found at the home of a Colorado funeral home owner, where a rotting corpse and 35 other cremated remains were discovered last month. Owner Miles Harford appeared in court Friday, where he was read the charges of forgery, abuse of a corpse and theft.

Colorado lawmakers have unveiled a bill that would install requirements for funeral home directors after nearly 200 bodies were found stacked and rotting in a funeral home in September. Another bill expected to be introduced would require routine inspections of facilities

Police in Colorado have arrested a former funeral home owner accused of hiding a woman's corpse in a hearse for two years and hoarding the cremated remains of at least 30 people.

Denver police say the body of a woman who died in 2022 and the cremated remains of about 30 people were found at a rental house in Denver after a former funeral home owner was evicted from the property.

Lawmakers are set to propose new regulations for Colorado’s funeral homes after some recent shocking discoveries about the mishandling of people’s remains. Investigative reporter Scott Franz tells us more today on In The NoCo.