Denver – An owner of Funeral Homear de Colorado who declared himself guilty of leaving a body of women in the rear of a funeral car for more than a year and hiding the cremated remains of at least 30 people has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, announced the Office of the District District Prosecutor.
Miles Harford, 34, declared himself guilty in April for a serious crime of abuse of a corpse and a minor crime of robbery. He faced other positions, including falsification and robbery, which were dismissed as part of their guilt agreement.
Its 18 -month judgment is the maximum sentence under the Colorado Law for the positions.
“Nothing will undo the terrible pain that Miles Harford caused so many families, but we hope that this prayer will give the family and friends of the deceased some justice,” said Denver District Prosecutor John Walsh, in a statement on Monday. “Harford systematically and surprisingly violated his professional and moral obligations, and, therefore, he is now responsible.”
Harford was arrested last year after the body of a woman named Christina Rosales, who died of Alzheimer’s at age 63, was found in the back of her funeral car, covered with blankets. His remains had been there for about 18 months. The authorities said that the Rosales had provided the cremated remains of a different person who misrepresented as Rosales.
Police also found the cremated remains of other people hidden in boxes throughout Harford’s rental property, even in the tracking space.
Prosecutors said he treated the bodies and remains “in a way that indicates the sensitivity of the normal family.”
Harford’s judgment follows years of other horrible funeral cases in Colorado, including one where the owners were accused of storing almost 200 bodies in a decrepit building and giving the false families cremated.
