A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building is asking for leniency when she is sentenced Monday, saying she was a “scared and desperate mother” who was manipulated to keep the family business operating.
Carie Hallford, 48, faces up to 20 years in prison for taking over $130,000 from families for funeral services, including cremations, and often giving them urns full of concrete mix instead. In two cases, investigators found the wrong body was buried. In August, she pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and admitted that she and her ex-husband Jon Hallford cheated customers and also defrauded the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in pandemic small business aid.
On one hand - agreed, real piece of shit move, on the other hand it’s all symbolic anyway, it’s not like real ashes would make a difference for anything. ig my point is it’s not the worst thing in the world, although the monetary side of things makes it really ugly
In the 1980’s there was a crematory in California that started doing multiple cremations simultaneously. The man that did this claimed much the same, of remains being largely symbolic, and felt he was in the right because he was effectively providing a dozen cremations for the price of one.
HBO made a miniseries about it called The Mortician.
Thanks, I’ll check it out someday