From another article linked in the body of this one:

The Hallfords also face state charges related to the October discovery in of 190 sets of human remains improperly stored at their Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colorado.

Investigators were called to the funeral home after receiving a report of an odor coming from the building, Fremont County officials said at the time.

From this article:

They were stacked so high in some places that they blocked doorways. There were bugs and maggots. Buckets had been placed to catch leaking fluids.

Jesus, usually when you hear something like this, it's some organ smuggling thing. These people were literally just too lazy/greedy to buy a cremator, and used the money on cars, crypto, and other vanities instead. Wtf.

If it helps any, the state is looking into finally having some sort of licensing / testing done with funeral homes to keep this from happening again.

It's a shitty thing to do and deserves prison time but 18 years is way too much imo.