The co-owner of a Colorado funeral home was sentenced in state court on Friday to 30 years in prison for her part in a corpse abuse scheme that involved hiding nearly 200 decomposing bodies. Carie Hallford, 48, was also sentenced to 18 years in prison earlier this month after pleading guilty to a federal fraud charge related to the scandal. Hallford, who operated the Return to Nature funeral home in the Colorado Springs area with her then husband, Jon Hallford, defrauded dozens of grieving families by promising proper funerary services only to leave their relative’s remains to decay in a neglected building. The Hallfords collected over $130,000 for funeral services, often returning urns filled with concrete mix rather than ashes to families. The Hallfords’ crimes, which were first discovered in 2023 after authorities noticed a foul odor emanating from their building, prompted international media coverage and a crackdown on Colorado’s loosely regulated funeral industry.…