Colorado County Coroner Brian Cotter allegedly concealed decomposing remains in a hidden room at his funeral home, and relatives were possibly given fake ashes.

The investigation continues in Pueblo County after several bodies were discovered in a hidden room at a mortuary.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation scheduled a news conference for updates on the Davis Mortuary investigation at 1 p.m. Friday. A multi-agency criminal investigation is underway after state inspectors found "around 20" decomposing bodies hidden inside a private funeral home owned by Brian Cotter,

A judge on Friday rejected a plea agreement for a Colorado funeral home owner who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses, after family members described the pain and shame they’ve carried since learning their loved ones’ bodies were left to rot.

Two years after piles of decaying bodies were found in a rural Colorado building, a funeral home owner is set to be sentenced for 191 counts of corpse abuse. Jon Hallford, who owned Return to