On Friday, the owner of the funeral institute in Colorado, USA, sentenced to twenty -year prison for cheating customers and federal government. TASR writes according to AP.
The owner of the Return Institute to Nature (Return to Nature) Jon Hallford and his wife Carrie in an abandoned building stored nearly 200 bodies in decomposition, to save for their cremation. The survivors sent fake ash. From the federal government also collected almost $ 900,000 to support during the Covid-9 pandemic. Hallford confessed to the fraudulent plot last year.
The owners of the burial institute used money from clients and governments to buy luxury goods. The court now sentenced Hallford to a maximum sentence, although the federal prosecutor asked for 15 years and his lawyer for 10 years. “I deeply apologize for my actions,” Hallford said in court. “I still hate myself for what I did,” added. In August will be judged in a national case in which he confessed to 191 by the point of indictment of the disgrace of the dead bodies. Carie Hallford will be judged in both federal and national cases in September.
Investigators described that In 2023, they found in an abandoned insect infested building in the town of Penros south of Denver bodies in the decomposition stacked on each other. Many survivors have caused revelation psychological problems And it made it impossible to cope with grief from the loss of the loved ones. Some report that they had Nightmares or still chases guilt.
Among the victims they spoke during Friday’s judgment was Little boy Colton Sperry. He spoke to the judge about his grandmother, who died in 2019. Her non -constructed body was found in four years and the boy thrown it into depression. He had to be hospitalized and is now helping him a therapeutic dog.
