A man has taken legal action against a funeral home, accusing them of providing families with fake ashes, while the real remains of their loved ones were left to decay in the building, reports Law and Crime.
“In death, these men and women deserved to be treated with respect and dignity,”
plaintiff attorney Andrew Swan said per the Associated Press.
“Instead, they were defiled.”
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has discovered that there are at least 189 deceased individuals inappropriately stored at a building owned by Return to Nature. As they continue their investigation and make efforts to identify the victims, the number of deceased individuals may vary.
Richard Law filed a lawsuit against a funeral home owned by Jon and Carie Hallford. He had entrusted his father, Roger Law, to the funeral home for cremation in 2020. The funeral home gave Richard what they claimed to be Roger’s ashes. However, it is now alleged that Roger’s body was among the bodies discovered in the funeral home building.
The lawsuit is a class action, and other families have come forward expressing doubts about the ashes they received from the funeral home too.
“It looked very, very similar, the consistency and everything,”
one of the relatives, Tanya Wilson told KDRO.
“Then when it dried, it dried into little tiny rocks, very, very similar. It gave me confirmation that I believe it’s concrete.”
Richard Law handed over the supposed ashes to the FBI who are authenticating the substance.
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