Owners of Colorado funeral home Return to Nature where decaying bodies were found charged with COVID fraud

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The U.S. Attorney office in Colorado have indicted the owners of a funeral home on federal charges for fraudulently obtaining pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government. The husband and wife are already facing state charges for abusing corpses, after 190 decaying bodies were discovered in their funeral home’s facility last year.

FILE - A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 5, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. The couple who owned the Colorado funeral home — where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last year — have been indicted on federal charges for fraudulently obtaining nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds from the U.S. government, according to court documents unsealed Monday, April 15, 2024. FILE - This combination of booking photos provided by the Muskogee County, Okla.

Previously released court documents from the abuse of corpse case reveals more details about how they spent the money. But they left in their wake a trail of unpaid bills, disgruntled landlords and unsettled business disputes. In 2022, the company failed to pay more than $5,000 in 2022 property taxes at one of their locations, public records show. Then last year, the business was slapped with a $21,000 judgement for not paying for “a couple hundred cremations,” according to public records and Lisa Epps, attorney for the crematory Wilbert Funeral Services.

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