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		</div><p>The owner of a Colorado funeral home and his wife have been arrested after the decaying remains of at least 189 people were recently found at his premises.</p>
<p>Jon and Carie Hallford were arrested in Wagoner, Oklahoma, on suspicion of three felonies: abuse of a corpse, money laundering, and forgery, authorities said in an email to aggrieved families.</p>
<p>Jon Hallford is being held at the Muskogee County, Oklahoma, jail, though there are not any records showing that his wife might also be there, according to a man who answered a call to the jail but refused to give his name.</p>
<p>The Hallfords could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. Neither has a listed personal phone number and the funeral home’s number no longer works.</p>
<p>Jon Hallford owns Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, a small town about 100 miles south of Denver.</p>
<p>The remains were found on October 4th by authorities responding to a report of an “abhorrent smell” inside the company’s decrepit building.</p>
<p>Officials initially estimated there were about 115 bodies inside, but the number later increased to 189 after they finished removing all the remains in mid-October.</p>
<p>A day after the odour was reported, the director of the state office of Funeral Home and Crematory registration spoke on the phone with Hallford.</p>
<p>He tried to conceal the improper storage of corpses in Penrose, acknowledged having a “problem” at the site and claimed he practiced taxidermy there, according to an order from state officials dated October 5th.</p>
<p>The company, which was started in 2017 and offered cremations and “green” burials without embalming fluids, kept doing business even as its financial and legal problems mounted in recent years.</p>
<p>The owners had missed tax payments in recent months, were evicted from one of their properties and were sued for unpaid bills by a crematorium that quit doing business with them almost a year ago, according to public records and interviews with people who worked with them.</p>
<p>Colorado has some of the weakest oversight of funeral homes in the United States with no routine inspections or qualification requirements for funeral home operators.</p>
<p>There is no indication that state regulators visited the site or contacted Hallford until more than 10 months after the Penrose funeral home’s registration expired in November 2022.</p>
<p>State lawmakers gave regulators the authority to inspect funeral homes without the owners’ consent last year, but no additional money was provided for increased inspections.</p>
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