Tag: Return To Nature
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Colorado funeral home co-owner gets 20 years in prison on federal charges
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • Shackled at the ankles and wrists, Jon Hallford — co-owner of the infamous Penrose Return to Nature Funeral home — appeared calm in federal court Friday morning as a Denver judge handed down a 20-year prison sentence, with three years of supervision, for one count…
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Nearly $1 billion judgment goes against Return to Nature Funeral Home, although largely symbolic
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A class-action lawsuit against the Return to Nature Funeral Home resulted in a judgment of nearly $1 billion, an attorney representing the victims confirmed Monday. The funeral home about 35 miles southwest of Colorado Springs came under a multiagency investigation in October after reports of…
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Families upset after Return to Nature owners Jon and Carie Hallford offered plea deals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The owners of the Return to Nature Funeral Home have been offered a plea deal in their state-level case, according to an email sent to affected family members and acquired by The Gazette. Jon and Carie Hallford face 286 criminal charges stemming from the discovery…
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Return to Nature purgatory: At least 989 families remain without answers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the days after her 33-year-old son, Zach, died in July, 2020, Heather DeWolf started taking a new route to and from work so she could slow-roll by the Colorado Springs funeral home that was handling his final arrangements. She knew the oldest of her…
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Return to Nature Funeral Home owners plead not guilty to federal charges
DENVER • Return to Nature Funeral Home owners Jon and Carie Hallford pleaded not guilty Thursday to more than a dozen federal fraud charges stemming from the discovery of nearly 200 bodies decomposing inside a funeral home the couple operated in rural Penrose in October. The 15 federal counts pile atop 260 criminal charges at the…
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Former Return to Nature owner Jon Hallford accused of lying about stepchildren, ‘sexting’ stepdaughter
The former owner of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Jon Michael Hallford, is facing allegations that he lied to the court about his relationship to his stepchildren — and their whereabouts — in order to lower his bond from $2 million to $100,000 as he awaits trial on multiple felony charges related to the nearly…
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‘Disturbing discovery:’ More than 115 bodies found improperly stored at Colorado funeral home
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CAÑON CITY • In the coming months, investigators will be piecing together the identities of 115 bodies found this week in a seemingly desolate building in Penrose. The Return to Nature Funeral Home, a formerly Colorado Springs-based business, was using the modest 2,500-square-foot building, when neighbors reported a foul…