Author: Colleen Slevin
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Carie Hallford gets nearly maximum prison sentence after Return to Nature ruse despite ‘scared and desperate’ explanation
DENVER — Carie Hallford, the former Return to Nature Funeral Home co-owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building in Penrose, was sentenced Monday to 18 years on a federal fraud charge, nearly the maximum allowed under the law. Carie Hallford, 48, faced up to 20 years in prison for taking over…
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Suspect in custody in Colorado in the case of 3 women found dead in Utah
TORREY, Utah (AP) — A man who authorities accuse of killing a southern Utah woman, stealing her vehicle and driving it to a nearby trailhead and killing two women who were hiking together before fleeing in one of their vehicles has been arrested, officials announced Thursday. The series of events happened late Wednesday afternoon in…
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Suspect in custody in Colorado in the case of 3 women found dead in Utah
TORREY, Utah (AP) — A man who authorities accuse of killing a southern Utah woman, stealing her vehicle and driving it to a nearby trailhead and killing two women who were hiking together before fleeing in one of their vehicles has been arrested, officials announced Thursday. The series of events happened late Wednesday afternoon in…
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A woman wins $3.8 million verdict after SWAT team searches wrong home based on Find My iPhone app
A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.8 million jury verdict
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Paramedic gets 5 years in prison for Elijah McClain’s death in rare case against medical responders
A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020
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Woman’s corpse and 30 cremated remains found after ex-funeral home owner gets evicted from house
Colorado authorities issued an arrest warrant for a former funeral home owner who they say kept a deceased woman’s body in a hearse for two years at a residence where police also found the cremated remains of at least 30 people
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Family of man who died after being tackled by mental crisis team sues paramedic, police officer
Members of a mental health response team sent to help a man who was having a “psychotic breakdown” instead killed him by tackling him and leaving him handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by his family
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Concerns were raised about the Return to Nature funeral home years ago. Why did authorities take so long to act?
The Fremont County coroner reported suspicions about bodies being poorly treated at Return to Nature funeral home more than three years before nearly 200 decomposing bodies were discovered inside a decrepit building in October, according to newly unsealed court documents that raise questions about how the mistreatment of corpses was able to continue for so…
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Nearly 200 abused corpses were found at a funeral home. Why did it take authorities years to act?
Court documents say a county coroner reported suspicions about bodies being poorly treated by a Colorado funeral home more than three years before nearly 200 decomposing bodies were discovered inside a decrepit building last October
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Heavily-armed man kills himself, rather than shoot up Colorado amusement park, authorities say
A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday. A maintenance crew found the 20-year-old man dead in a bathroom at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park on Saturday morning before it opened to the public. The man, identified by the…