COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — One of many homeowners of the Return to Nature Funeral Residence, the place 190 our bodies had been discovered improperly saved, can be in courtroom Thursday.
Carie Hallford can be in courtroom in Colorado Springs at 1:30 p.m. It is a preliminary listening to the place a choose will determine if there’s sufficient proof to ship this case to trial.
The our bodies had been discovered on the Penrose funeral dwelling again in October. Carie and her husband Jon are accused of abusing corpses, stealing, laundering cash and forging paperwork.
Our bodies had been stacked up on high of one another and a few weren’t even in physique luggage, in line with an arrest affidavit. Jon had a preliminary listening to final week. A choose lowered his bond from $2 million to $100,000.
Decide William Moller stated that was as a result of he did not assume Hallford was a risk to the general public, he would not have a legal historical past, and the $100,000 bond remains to be ten occasions the quantity prompt by courtroom tips.
It was an sudden ruling for a lot of members of the family of the alleged victims contained in the courtroom.
Regardless that Jon’s bond was lowered, he stays in jail. The district lawyer’s workplace stated the choose could focus on Carie’s bond throughout Thursday’s listening to.
An investigation into the funeral dwelling started in early October after studies of a horrific odor coming from the constructing.
Investigators stated they discovered greater than 150 our bodies in varied states of decomposition contained in the constructing.
In what was a multi-agency clean-up effort, coroner workplaces and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation labored tirelessly for a few weeks to take away the our bodies from the constructing earlier than the identification course of may start.
Jon and Carie Hallford had been arrested in Oklahoma in November.
The 2 had been then moved to El Paso County the place each appeared in courtroom and had money bonds initially set at $2 million. The Hallfords are dealing with a whole lot of legal costs for abuse of a corpse, fraud, and cash laundering.
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