COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - A judge has rejected a plea deal entered by one of the owners of a Southern Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 improperly stored bodies were found in 2023.

Carie Hallford, who owned Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose alongside her husband Jon Hallford, was in court Monday related to a plea deal entered that would see her plead guilty to 190 counts of abuse of a corpse and serve 15-20 years in prison, concurrent to any federal sentence.

On Monday, an El Paso County judge told a courtroom that there is no sentence that will satisfy everyone impacted or make them whole, but the sentence that was negotiated in the deal was not consistent with the impact of Carie Hallford’s crimes.

Hallford entered a not guilty plea after the deal was rejected. A t

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