"Funeral Home Owners Set to Enter Pleas for Storing Decaying Bodies"

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"Funeral Home Owners Set to Enter Pleas for Storing Decaying Bodies"
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The owners of a Colorado funeral home are set to enter their pleas on criminal charges including corpse abuse, falsifying death certificates, and sending fake ashes to families. The disturbing case involves nearly 200 decaying bodies found in a building filled with decomposition fluids and bugs, leaving families shattered. This is one of several criminal cases to rock Colorado’s funeral industry, prompting proposed bills to overhaul funeral home oversight in the state. The owners allegedly spent payments received from families on cryptocurrency, lavish dinners, and expensive vehicles.

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