190 bodiesleft uncremated while a Colorado funeral home kept billing families
A Colorado funeral home collected over $130,000 from grieving families while leaving at least 190 bodies uncremated, some given concrete mix in an urn instead of ashes.
Jon and Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and were sentenced to 240 and 216 months respectively; they also fraudulently obtained $882,300 in COVID-19 small-business relief funds.
Source: US Small Business Administration, Office of Inspector General. Read more: prepaid funeral scam · case file