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Colorado funeral home owners stockpiled bodies for 4 years, gave families fake remains, police say
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Several families say the FBI told them privately that their loved ones were among the decaying bodies, meaning the ashes they were given belonged to someone else.
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By JESSE BEDAYN and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing…
Police searched the Return to Nature funeral home after receiving reports of an "abhorrent smell." The owners are now facing charges of theft, forgery, money laundering and the abuse of a corpse.
The company, which was started in 2017 and offered cremations and “green” burials without embalming fluids, kept doing business even as its financial and legal problems mounted in recent years.
By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma, weeks after 190 sets of human remains were discovered “improperly stored” at their business, authorities say.
The owners of a Colorado funeral home where 190 decomposing bodies were found last month were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma and are to be extradited, authorities say.
Police searched the Return to Nature funeral home after receiving reports of an "abhorrent smell." The owners are now facing charges of theft, forgery, money laundering and the abuse of a corpse.
The Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs and Penrose, Colo., offered so-called green burial services. Investigators had been drawn by a foul odor.
The owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home have been arrested more than a month after at least 189 improperly stored bodies were discovered inside a facility in Penrose.
Several families say the FBI told them privately that their loved ones were among the decaying bodies, meaning the ashes they were given belonged to someone else.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The owner of a Colorado funeral home and his wife were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four years.
They've been charged with the abuse of approxmately 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that apparently had been languishing there for four years.
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