A gruesome scandal has shaken the U.S. as Jon and Carie Hallford, owners of a now-demolished Colorado funeral home, pleaded guilty to abusing 190 bodies under the false promise of eco-friendly burials.

Their so-called “green” services were a front—investigators found concrete mix in urns instead of ashes, and wrong bodies sent for burial. The truth unraveled in October 2023, when neighbors reported a foul smell. What police discovered was horrifying: bodies rotting since 2019, many stuffed in plastic bags, wrapped in duct tape, or left exposed and decaying.

The Hallfords operated a human composting business masked as a sustainable burial service—what they delivered was a nightmare.