Carie Hallford to be sentenced Friday on state charges related to Return to Nature funeral home investigation

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – One of the owners of the now-defunct southern Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 bodies were found improperly stored back in 2023 is expected to be sentenced on state charges Friday.

Carie Hallford was one of the owners of Return to Nature. She and Jon Hallford were arrested in October 2023 after the bodies were discovered in their funeral home.

Carie took a plea deal for the state case, pleading guilty to abuse of a corpse. The deal was accepted by an El Paso County judge in December 2025…

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