Owner of funeral home where 189 decaying corpses were found is arrested

A hearse and debris at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colorado (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP, File)

The owner of a Colorado funeral home and his wife have been arrested after the decaying remains of at least 189 people were recently found at his premises.

Jon and Carrie Hallford were arrested in Wagoner, Oklahoma, on suspicion of three felonies: abuse of a corpse, money laundering, and forgery, authorities said in an email to aggrieved families.