Former Funeral Home Director Faces Sentencing for Corpse Abuse

0:00Carrie Haulford, the former face of return to nature funeral home, heads to court today for sentencing on corpse abuse charges. She helped her ex-husband stash nearly 200 decomposing bodies at their site south of Colorado Springs. Under a plea deal, she's looking at 25 to 35 years behind bars. Her ex, John Haulford, already drew a 40 years sentence back in February, with victims calling him straight up monstrous. He did the heavy lifting at the Pinro spot, where bugs crawled and bodies piled up in various the case stages after neighbors flagged that awful smell. In 2023, families hit hard by this are speaking out loud, no mercy for Carrie, who they say enabled the nightmare. Folks like Christina Page, whose son David's body rotted there for years, got handed fake ashes instead of real remains. This mess spotlights Colorado's Wild West funeral scene, with scandals from sold body parts and matros to hidden remains in Pueblo and a hearse, corpse in Denver.

1:00State stepping up now, with mandatory inspections and licensing first time ever for the whole industry. Before, Colorado was the only spot with zero oversight, letting shady operators slide in easy. Reforms got the state catching up to the pack, and families demand to watch cremations themselves to rebuild that shattered trust. One case, one family. At a time, Durham News today, powered by AI, bringing you what matters.