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HISTORICAL FACTS: Colorado funeral director who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses withdraws guilty plea - The Untold Story

US Funeral Home Corpse Abuse - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A Colorado funeral home owner who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses withdrew his guilty plea Friday and will go to trial, after a judge rejected a plea agreement in a rare decision.

Family members of those whose bodies were found piled up and decomposing in a building in Penrose, Colorado, want a longer state prison sentence than the 20 years in the plea agreement.

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