Funeral Home Owners Arrested for COVID Fraud and Decomposing Bodies

The owners of a Colorado funeral home, Jon and Carie Hallford, are facing charges after nearly 200 decomposing bodies were found in a building infested with maggots and flies. They are accused of using over $880,000 in COVID relief funds for personal expenses, including vacations and cosmetic surgery. The couple faces multiple counts of abuse of a corpse, theft, money laundering, and forgery, with potential penalties of 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Prosecutors allege that the Hallfords fraudulently obtained loans and used the money for luxury purchases, while also presenting families with dry concrete instead of cremated ashes and burying the wrong body on two occasions.