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

Investigators described finding decaying bodies stacked atop each other throughout a dilapidated, bug-infested building.

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…