Funeral home owners accused of stashing decaying bodies agree to plea deal … again

Jon and Carrie Hallford, the couple who operated the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs which left nearly 190 bodies in a building in Penrose, have agreed again to a plea deal to state charges.

That’s after a judge made the rare move earlier this year, to reject previous plea agreements to state charges made by the 4th Judicial District Attorney in Colorado Springs.

The pair was in a courtroom in Colorado Springs Tuesday. They had already pleaded guilty to charges of abuse of a corpse, money laundering and forgery earlier this year.

But Judge Eric Bentley rejected those plea deals. In Jon Hallford’s case he was to do 20 years…

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