Former Colorado Funeral Home Owner Faces Up to Two Decades
Carie Hallford, 48, is set this morning in U.S. District Court on federal wire fraud charges related to her role at a disgraced Southern Colorado funeral home where she helped hide nearly two hundred decomposing bodies and sold families fake ashes made of concrete mix for over $130,000; the former co-owner with ex-husband Steve Hallford is facing up to 20 years in prison after three months spent hiding evidence.
Key Points
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1Carie Hallford faces up to twenty-five years (or potentially reduced) for federal wire fraud charges related to the operation of a disgraced Colorado funeral home.
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2Hallford is accused of taking over $130,000 from families while providing fake services such as urns filled with concrete mix instead of cremated ashes or burial plots.
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3The case involves her helping an ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building for almost three years before they were discovered and removed by authorities.
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A French source reports that an American female manager of the deceased risked twenty years imprisonment for helping to conceal more than one hundred corpses.
— [Mar 16, 28:04] Elle avait aidé son mari à dissimuler plus de 100 corps de_décompose_ : une ex-ge_rante_de pompes fune_bres ame_erique risque ans_prison (Feeds.leparisien.fr)NBC News reports that Carie Hallford is asking for leniency when she faces twenty years in prison, stating the case involves taking over $130,000 and handing out urns full of concrete mix.
— [Mar 16] NBC'Denver7' states a co-owner set to be sentenced on Monday morning for federal wire fraud charges related to stockpiling nearly two hundred decomposing bodies instead of burying or cremating them, with the sentencing expected at U.S. District Court.
— [Mar 16] Denver'Mediafax.ro' reports that a funeral home owner faces twenty years in prison after selling fake ashes and leaving corpses to rot for families.
"The Independent" states an ex-funeral-home-owner who left bodies to decompose gave out false ash, asking the court of lighter sentence.
— [Mar 16] The independentCarie Hallford is requesting leniency at her upcoming sentencing for conspiring with an ex-husband to defraud families of funeral services and cheat the government out nearly $900,000 in pandemic aid. Prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison term after investigators discovered that she helped hide approximately 200 decomposing bodies while often providing urns filled with concrete mix instead of ashes or remains to grieving customers.
Carrie Halloward is expected Monday in U.S. District Court for sentencing on a federal wire fraud charge related to her and husband Jon storing nearly 200 decomposing bodies while collecting $130,000 from families without providing burial services; she pleaded guilty after previously changing pleas twice regarding the couple's alleged misappropriation of COVID-19 relief funds.