Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decaying bodies sentenced to 20 years in prison
June 27, 2025
A federal judge has sentenced a Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies to 20 years in prison on federal fraud charges. Jon Hallford stored the bodies in a room-temperature building between 2019 and 2023. Prosecutors say he cheated customers and defrauded the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in pandemic aid. Friday’s sentence was the maximum prison term for which Hallford was eligible in the case. He will be sentenced in August in a separate state case in which he pleaded guilty to 191 counts of corpse abuse.
