A federal judge has sentenced a Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies to 20 years in prison on federal fraud charges.

Colorado funeral home owners accused of letting nearly 190 bodies decay in a room-temperature building and giving grieving families fake ashes have pleaded guilty to corpse abuse.

Colorado funeral home owners accused of cheating customers and misspending nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 pandemic relief funds have pleaded guilty to federal charges for defrauding clients.

An FBI agent has testified that two Colorado funeral home owners accused of abandoning nearly 200 bodies used payments from families to purchase vehicles, cryptocurrency, a $1,500 dinner in Las Vegas and other personal items.

An FBI agent says investigators who entered a Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 abandoned bodies were found encountered stacks of partially covered human remains, bodily fluids several inches deep on the floor and maggots.

Officials say the remains of at least 189 people have been removed from a Colorado funeral home.

An awful smell seeped from a neglected building in a small Colorado town for days, then police took a closer look at the funeral operator’s storage facility.