David Zalubowski/AP A sign covers the broken back window of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.

The Natural Funeral’s efforts to normalize its business hit a speed bump in October 2023, when a horrifying scandal rocked many Coloradans’ trust in funeral homes statewide.

In the past couple of years, Colorado has had two major funeral home scandals. In 2023, the operators of the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado, pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges.

The owners of a Colorado funeral home who sparked a statewide scandal after authorities discovered nearly 200 decomposing bodies at their business have pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the Justice ...

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) - Victims of the Sunset Mesa funeral home investigation in Montrose, which found that it's owners dismembered and sold the body parts of hundreds of corpses in 2018 ...

Handmade signs are affixed to the fence surrounding the Return to Nature Funeral Home facility in Penrose on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Return to Nature is the Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 ...

Colorado remains the only state in the country that doesn’t license funeral directors or require some certification. State officials don’t regularly inspect funeral homes and only devote one ...

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. — An El Paso County Judge informed the co-owner of Return to Nature Funeral Home on Friday that he is potentially facing more than 250 charges. Jon Hallford made his first ...

Miles Harford, a former funeral home owner. Harford is accused of hiding a woman's corpse in the back of a hearse for two years and hoarding the cremated remains of at least 30 people.

DENVER (CN) — Today, virtually anyone can start a funeral home or embalming service in Colorado. That lax occupational freedom is unlikely to remain for long after the revelation of several businesses ...

Colorado lawmakers will propose new regulations for funeral homes during the upcoming legislative session. The move comes after several high-profile incidents in recent years of egregious ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In May 2024, Colorado enacted two laws that will tighten regulations on the funeral industry. The legislation comes in the wake of several incidents at funeral homes across the ...