Overview
- Carie Hallford was sentenced Friday to 30 years in state prison after families urged the judge to impose the maximum.
- Her husband, Jon Hallford, received a 40-year term in February for abuse of corpses in the same case.
- Investigators say the couple took payment for cremations or burials, stored bodies at room temperature in a sealed building, and gave families urns filled with dry concrete.
- Authorities counted 189 bodies and said some took months to identify because insects had infested the remains.
- Prosecutors say the scheme brought in about $130,000 over four years with spending on luxury cars and cryptocurrency, and Colorado has since moved to require routine inspections and a licensing system for funeral homes, according to AP.