Jon and Carie Hallford ran the Return to Nature Funeral Home, which had operations in the Colorado Springs area and in Penrose, Colorado.
The shocking discovery was made at the Penrose location in October 2023, after the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports from residents of a foul odor coming from the facility. Some of the bodies found had died as far back as 2019, officials said.
The two pleaded guilty to 191 counts of abuse of a corpse, 4th Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen, whose office prosecuted the case, said. The counts include two instances where the wrong bodies were buried.
The judge accepted their pleas during a hearing on Friday, though has not yet accepted the plea agreements and will reserve judgment for that until sentencing next year, Allen said.
The presidential security agency said the vice president’s threat on President Marcos was “a matter of national security.” Duterte said she would have the president killed if she herself were to be killed.
Security agencies in the Philippines raised safety measures on Saturday after Vice President Sara Duterte threatened to have the country’s President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assassinated.
Duterte spoke during a morning press briefing and said that she had spoken to an assassin, instructing him to kill Marcos, his wife, and the speaker of the Philippine House, if she herself were to be killed.
“This country is going to hell because we are led by a person who doesn’t know how to be a president and who is a liar,” Duterte said in the profanity-laden briefing broadcast on her Facebook page before making the brazen threat.
“I have talked to a person. I said, if I get killed, go kill BBM (Marcos), (first lady) Liza Araneta, and (Speaker) Martin Romualdez. No joke. No joke,” Duterte said, referring to the initials BBM which is the president’s alias, Bongbong Marcus.
“I said, do not stop until you kill them, and then he said yes.”
Duterte responded to an online commenter who advised her to stay safe, as she was in a risky situation. She did not mention any specific threats against her.
