Colorado funeral home probe – families 'received fake ashes'
A total of 189 decaying bodies were found at the facility.
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A total of 189 decaying bodies were found at the facility.
Death certificates and other evidence collected by The Associated Press suggests their loved ones weren’t cremated as claimed. They could instead be among the corpses authorities are trying to identify.
A Colorado funeral home where 189 decaying bodies were discovered this month appears to have fabricated cremation records and may have given families fake ashes, according to information gathered by The Associated Press from customers and crematories.
Police found 189 decaying bodies earlier this month after an ‘abhorrent’ smell was reported.
“My mom’s last wish was for her remains to be scattered in a place she loved, not rotting away in a building,” said Tanya Wilson, who believes she spread fake ashes in Hawaii.