US funeral home owner who stashed 191 bodies sentenced to 20 years

Washington [US], June 29: A judge in the US state of Colorado has handed a funeral home owner, who stashed 191 dead bodies on his premises, a 20-year prison sentence for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government.
Federal prosecutors had sought a 15-year sentence for Jon Hallford, the owner of Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado, where he and his wife, Carie Hallford, stored bodies between 2019 and 2023 and sent families fake ashes.
At Friday's hearing, US District Judge Nina Wang said the circumstances and scale of John Hallford's crimes, as well as the emotional damage to families he inflicted, warranted a longer sentence. "This is not an ordinary fraud case," Judge Wang said, as she handed him the maximum prison sentence of 240 months. (Agencies)
Source: Qatar Tribune