Summary
Owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado, pleaded guilty to 191 counts of corpse abuse after nearly 200 decomposing bodies were found at their facility.
The couple, Jon and Carie Hallford, admitted to defrauding families by taking payments for burial or cremation services they never performed, sometimes substituting concrete mix for ashes.
They also admitted to a related federal conspiracy to commit wire fraud, including $800,000 in COVID-19 relief fraud.
Sentencing for both state and federal cases is scheduled for 2025, with each facing up to 20 years in prison.
For a second there, I thought the lady was Amy from Amy’s Baking Company which created so many questions.
Not convinced it’s not her.
Tweak the story just a bit and you get Sweeney Todd though, that’d be an interesting take.
Now you got me wondering again lol
Well, it seems like Amy’s Baking Company has not survived the test of time. According to Kitchen Nightmares Updates, the bakery closed in 2015 after its owners found a new buyer for the business. In response to a question posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) about the business closing, Amy’s Baking Company confirmed the news, tweeting, “Yes! Now we can focus on several other projects!”
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Wasn’t that one revealed to be a front for money laundering or something?
Well… they did what they promised, returned them to nature
Nah, they were more like stacked in the basement. Think necropolis but worse.
I thought it was the case with dead bodies being dumped in the nature around the place.
I just finished listening to a podcast about a very similar situation, it’s a great listen. It’s called Noble for anyone interested.
Wasn’t there a case in Georgia where the furnace used for cremation broke down and they didn’t fix it?
It wasn’t broken. He just didn’t use it. He dumped 339 bodies in the woods behind his crematorium. It took years for anyone to find out.
I feel like that would’ve smelled really bad, and there would’ve been flocks of crows and vultures hanging around.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just super sensitive to the smell of death or something, but one decomposing mouse can stink up a good portion of a warehouse. If he was too lazy to cremate them, I doubt he was throwing garden lime down.
Strange situation.
Lemmy has been very interested in this story, which I’m grateful for. I’ve been able to follow it since the beginning. Thanks, OP!
