Dozens of bodies, bones and tissue found at Pueblo mortuary

State and local investigators recovered a total of 24 decomposing bodies and multiple containers of bones and tissue that are likely human from Davis Mortuary, the funeral home owned by embattled Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter.

It’s been almost a week since state inspectors found a hidden room filled with several bodies “in various stages of decomposition,” and it will likely take months more to identify the remains because of their condition and “unverified record keeping” at the mortuary, Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials said.

In addition to the bodies, law enforcement removed “multiple containers of bones and several containers of probable human tissue representing an unknown number of deceased individuals,” CBI officials said in a news release Tuesday.

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