The owner of the funeral of the US funeral, who has hidden 191 bodies, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Crime news

Investigators have described the finding of bodies that decompose on top of each other throughout a demolished building and filled with a pipe.

A judge in the US state of Colorado handed over a funeral home, hidden 191 bodies in his places, and a 20 -year prison sentence to deceive customers and defraud the federal government.

Federal Public Prosecutors sought a 15 -year prison sentence for John Halford, the owner of return to Nature Fairral Home in Colorado, where he and his wife, Carrie Halford, stored the bodies between 2019 and 2023 and the families sent fake ash.

On Friday’s session, American boycott judge Nina Wang said that the circumstances and the size of John Holford’s crimes, as well as the emotional damage of the families he caused, justifies a longer penalty.

“This is not an ordinary fraud,” said Judge Wang.

The investigators were called to the dilapidated building full of insects in the small town of Pinrose, about 160 km (100 miles) south of Denver, in 2023 after reports of a “hateful smell” coming from property.

In the trial, investigators described the finding of the bodies stacked on top of each other and their inability to move to some rooms because they were highly stacked with human residue.

The FBI agents also had to put the panels so that they could roam the crime scene and above the assembled fluid on the ground.

The discovery obsessed by investigators in 2023 revealed for the first time to many families that the ash they received from returning to nature was fake. The court documents showed that Halford sent families of jars filled with a dry concrete mixture, and in two cases, the wrong body was buried.

On separate charges, John Holford acknowledged that he was guilty of 191 charges of abuse of corpses in the state court. He is scheduled to be sentenced to those charges in August.

Carrie Halford is scheduled to be tried in the federal case in September. In the same month, her next hearing will attend the state case, which was also charged with 191 charges of abuse of bodies.

Covid-19 fraud

In Friday’s session, John Holford was also imprisoned due to the fraud of the US federal government of nearly $ 900,000 as financial aid in emergency assistance provided to Americans who deal with the economic impact of the Covid-19 bouquet.

In a news statement, the US Prosecutor’s Office in Colorado County said that Halford had “defrauded the small business administration through Covid-19’s fraudial loan requests.”

Federal Public Prosecutors said that Hallfords Hallfords used and spent them, along with customer payments, on SUVs that are worth more than $ 120,000, along with $ 31,000 in the encrypted currency, and luxury elements of stores such as Gucci and Tiffany & Co.

In addition to the prison sentence, John Halford also paid “1,070,413.74 dollars in response to a plot to commit wire fraud,” according to Colorado Province.

The Colorado County statement said that Halfords “raised more than $ 130,000 from the sad families for funeral services that have never been provided.”

“Instead of ensuring the proper behavior of the remains, Halford allowed the bodies to accumulate in various cases of decomposition and decomposition within the funeral house facility,” she said.

According to order to register the house as a funeral organization, John Holford claimed that when the bodies discovered “he was embalming” in the property.

In court before the ruling, John Holford told the judge that he had opened a return to nature to make a positive impact on people’s lives, but “then everything came out of control.”

He said, “I am very sorry for my actions.” “I still hate myself for what I did.”