John Hallford, the owner of the funeral bureau, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for accumulate almost 200 bodies And fraud the relatives of the deceased.
The Federal Court of Colorado issued the maximum sentence for electronic fraud after detecting that this person hid the bodies in Advanced state of decomposition And delivered a false ash to families. Thus, Hallford saved money for burning.
The conclusion could be executed thanks to the complaint of the neighbors who noticed Really unpleasant smell from tel. They would be discovered accumulated and suffer from insects.
The condemnation did not act alone, but had the help of his wife, Carrie, and the co -author company. Both were delivered to relatives Dusty polls And when they had to take care of the burial, they did not look at the names of the dead, so some were exchanged.
Those who touch are They are in shock And in a duel that seems endless, they assured that the psychological damage was unbearable. “While the bodies could secretly, Hallford lived, laughed and died,” one of them revealed. “My son, David Jaxon Page, was killed in 2019. Four years later, I received a call from the federals, saying that they found him at the headquarters of the funeral house returning to nature in Penros. Taken from his bag for corpses in the corner of an unemployed refrigerator, while rats and worms already ate his new friends, ”said Mother Curcheino.
For his part, Holford said 191 accusations are guilty Abuse of corpses. Both he and his wife were arrested in Oklahom in November after trying to escape and demolish the funeral bureau.