Body desecration at the mortician: Stench exposes married couple!

Colorado - The foul odor coming from a funeral home blew the cover of a fraudster couple in the US state of Colorado.

Married couple Jon and Carrie Hallford pleaded guilty in court on Friday to 191 counts of desecration of corpses, US broadcaster ABC News reported.

Their customers, who had paid a lot of money for the proper burial of their loved ones, were brazenly ripped off. The morticians collected the money, for example for the cremation, but never carried it out over a period of four years.

Instead of human remains, the fraudsters filled the urns with a concrete mixture. In two cases, they even buried a fake corpse.

The bodies that were supposed to be in the ground were instead stored in their funeral home. Residents alerted the police at the end of last year due to a pungent smell of decay.

Jon Hallford is now facing a prison sentence of 20 years. His wife Carrie is facing 15 to 20 years behind bars. The public prosecutor's office emphasized that the relatives of the deceased would "probably never" be able to recover from this breach of trust.