By Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post (TNS)

DENVER — More than a decade ago, John Cordova listened to his granddaughter’s first cry.

Soledad Cordova was born two months premature at a hospital in Pueblo in 2012. She lost consciousness after she was born and died on the day of her birth, despite the medical staff’s best efforts to revive her.

Cordova entrusted Soledad’s body to his longtime friends, brothers Brian and Chris Cotter, owners of Davis Mortuary in Pueblo . They agreed to cremate her remains, and gave the family an urn with what they believed to be Soledad’s ashes. The family buried the urn alongside Cordova’s late wife.

But in August, Soledad’s body was discovered among 24 bodies inside a hidden room at the Pueblo funeral home. The infant’s body was never cremated. I

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