In the wake of Colorado’s latest funeral home scandal, the lawmakers who pushed for earlier reforms say it is time for individual operators to be licensed.

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This Colorado family wanted a green cremation for their mother. Now they wonder if they really received her ashes.

October 12, 2023

The gruesome details emerging from Penrose have exposed Colorado's loose regulatory framework around the mortuary industry, which regulates businesses, not people.

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Colorado family seeks answers after bodies discovered at funeral home

October 11, 2023

The gruesome details emerging from the Return to Nature funeral home in Penrose have exposed Colorado's loose regulatory framework around the mortuary industry, which regulates businesses, not people.

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U.S. Attorney's Office: Koch's sentence in Sunset Mesa fraud involving body sales was fair

September 29, 2023

Federal prosecutors are defending the 15-year prison term imposed on Shirley Koch for her role in a long-running fraud that entailed selling human remains through her daughter’s funeral home.

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Families pay respects to strangers whose ashes they received through Sunset Mesa body scam

September 23, 2023

As they had in past years, Debbie Shults and a core group of others victimized in the Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors body-sale scheme gathered in Delta’s Confluence Park. As in

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