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Jon and Carie Hallford are accused of piling bodies in a room-temperature building and giving out fake ashesThe owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room-temperature building and giving the grieving relatives fake ashes pleaded guilty on Friday to corpse abuse as aggrieved families looked on in court.Jon and Carie Hallford, who own the Return to Nature Funeral Home, began storing bodies in a decrepit building near Colorado Springs as far back as 2019 and gave families dry concrete in place of cremated remains, according to the charges. The grim discovery last year upended families’ grieving processes. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Six people are dead after a suspected mass methanol poisoning at a backpacker party town. What went wrong in Laos?

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