US funeral home ordered to pay families $190m in decaying bodies case

Some 190 decaying bodies were discovered at the Return to Nature home by authorities last year.

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The Return to Nature home, in the town of Penrose, Colorado, had given fake ashes to grieving relatives instead of their loved-ones' remains.

A judge ordered the payment in a civil case, but it's unlikely to be paid as the funeral home owners, Jon and Carie Hallford, had been in serious financial difficulties.

Neither attended the hearings. Mr Hallford is in custody, while his wife is out on bail.

“I’m never going to get a dime from them, so, I don’t know, it’s a little frustrating,” Crystina Page, who hired the funeral home to cremate her son’s remains in 2019, told the Associated Press.

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