Colorado funeral home owner sentenced to 20 years after stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies
Owner of A Colorado Funeral House After hiding about 190 bodies in a brand building and sending fake ash to families instead of their loved ones, he was sentenced to maximum imprisonment.
Jon Hallford, who returned to the Nature Funeral House, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday for cheating on customers and defrauding the federal government of approximately $ 900,000 in Covid-19 aid. Last year, he was found guilty of conspiring in the federal court to make a wire fraud.
Separately, hallford Guilty guilty Until 191, the state court will be abused and sentenced to August.
During the hearing on Friday, the federal prosecutors requested a 15 -year imprisonment, while Hallford’s lawyer demanded 10 years.
Judge Nina Wang said that although the case focuses on a single fraud charges, the conditions and scale of Hallford’s crime and the emotional effect on families require maximum sentence.
“This is not an ordinary fraud case,” he said.
Before the prisoner, Hallford said to the judge, “It was completely out of control, especially before me” before me “before people opened the funeral house to create a positive effect on their lives, he said.
He said, “I’m so sorry for my actions.” “I still hate myself for what I do.”
Hallford and his wife Carie were accused of storing bodies between 2019-2023 and sending false ashes to families. In 2023, the inspectors found their bodies, colorado, crouching in Penrose, piled up on top of each other along a building that invaded insects.
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The inspectors could not move to some rooms because the bodies were very high and stacked in various decay. The FBI agents had to lower the boards to the ground so that they could walk on the liquid.
Many families learned that after the discovery, their loved ones were not burned and that the ashes they received were fake. In two cases, the wrong body was buried.
Jon Hallford was sentenced to maximum possible 20 years of imprisonment.
Some relatives had nightmares, others struggled with guilt, and at least one wondered about the soul of their loved ones.
Sacrifice Colton Sperry spoke during the punishment on Friday and told the judge that he was a second mother, according to Associated Press, and told her grandmother, who was died in 2019.
His body was in his return to nature for four years until the discovery, when he said he had pushed him into depression.
He said to his family at the time, “If I die, I can meet my grandmother in heaven and talk to her again.” Finally a Mental health control, This led to the therapy and emotional support dog.
“I miss my grandmother so much,” the judge said to tears.
Federal prosecutors accused both Hallfords of Pandemik Aid Fraud, Siphoned the money, and its customers’ GMC Yukon and Infiniti, as well as a combination of over $ 120,000 in the crypto currency of $ 31,000 in Crypto currencies, Gucci and Tiffany & Co.
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Jon Hallford and his wife Carie were accused of storing bodies between 2019-2023 and sending false ashes to families.
AP, another victim, Derrick Johnson, said the judiciary traveled to 3,000 miles to express his mother “how to throw into the sea of death”.
“I wonder if he was lying awake, was he naked? Was he stacked on the others like Kereste?” Johnson said.
“While the bodies were rotting secretly (hallfords), they laughed and had dinner.” “My mother’s cream money is probably a cocktail, SPA paid for a day, a first -class flight.”
Carie Hallford is planned judge In the federal case in September, the same month in the state case, where he was accused of abuse of 191 census body.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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