Jon Hallford was caught after residents in the tiny town of Penrose, southern Colorado, where he co-owned the Return to Nature Funeral Home, began complaining of an awful smell.

A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 20 years in prison in federal court Friday for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,

Jon Hallford, the co-owner of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in southern Colorado, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in federal court on Friday.