Criminal charges against former Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter, who owned a mortuary where state inspectors found 24 decaying bodies stashed in a hidden room, are likely still months away from being filed, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Colorado Bureau of Investigation and coroner’s officials have identified six of the two dozen bodies found at Davis Mortuary on Aug. 20 , when staff from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies arrived to inspect the facility for the first time under a new law passed by state legislators.

Cotter, who owns Davis Mortuary with his brother, resigned just over a week after state officials found the bodies and multiple containers of human remains at the funeral home.

He has not relinquished his license to operate a funeral home and t

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