In a court hearing on Friday, Jan. 12th, a judge agreed to unseal an affidavit for one of the Penrose funeral home owners where 190 bodies were found improperly stored.
Cari Hallford’s arrest papers will be unsealed with specific redactions. The judge ordered that the affidavit cannot include names, images, and dates of death to protect victims and their families.
Arrest papers for Jon Hallford remain sealed for now.
Jon and Carie Hallford are accused of accepting payment from families of decedents for cremations, then piling the bodies in their Penrose facility, and giving families falsified death certificates and bags of concrete powder in place of their loved ones’ ashes. They are facing numerous charges, including 190 counts of abuse of a corpse, four counts of theft, four counts of money laundering and 61 counts of forgery, all felonies.
