Investigators in southern Colorado say they ended up finding the remains of almost 200 people, improperly stored at the former “Return to Nature” funeral home in Penrose…
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The inside of that building was said to be so horrific, the investigators had to wear hazmat suits, and get help from the FBI. “Return to Nature” in that town west of Pueblo had advertised so-called “green” burials, where bodies weren’t embalmed. The state says instead, the operators failed to properly store people’s remains, as deputies learned when they first arrived to investigate what neighbors had called a “bad smell” coming from the building. They initially thought there were about 150 bodies improperly stored there. By the time all of them were removed last Friday, the count was up to 189. The Fremont County Coroner’s office is working to identify all those bodies and notify those late people’s families, but it’s not clear how long that’s going to take. The owners of that funeral home are six figures in debt, and its state registration expired last November.
TAG– Colorado is the only state that doesn’t regulate funeral home operators. At least one lawmaker has previously begun pushing to change that, after a pair of women from the western slope were convicted of illegally selling body parts.