A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake…
appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories.
Calls and texts sent to numbers listed for Return to Nature and owners Jon and Carie Hallford have gone unanswered since the discovery of the decaying bodies. No arrests have been made. Law enforcement officials have said Return to Nature’s owners were cooperating as investigators sought to determine any criminal wrongdoing.
Stephanie Ford said her dry-witted adrenaline junkie husband, Wesley Ford, had nightmares of waking up in a coffin and hated the idea of being buried and his body decaying.Wesley Ford died in April, and Return to Nature handled the cremation. When Stephanie Ford learned of the grim discovery at the funeral home this month, her daughter, a physician, took a closer look at the ashes.“I know logically it's not my fault,” said Stephanie Ford, pushing the words through tears.
With both siblings skeptical, Wilson took some of the ashes to a different funeral home for a second opinion. Funeral director Amber Flickinger from Platt’s Funeral Home told the AP that the ashes were unusually fine and dark, adding, “I’ve never seen anything that looks like that in the range of what cremated remains would typically expect to look like."
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After 189 bodies were found in Colorado funeral home, evidence suggests families received fake ashesSeveral families who sent loved ones to a Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered fear they were given fake ashes.
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After 189 bodies were found in Colorado funeral home, evidence suggests families received fake ashesSeveral families who sent loved ones to a Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered fear they were given fake ashes.
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