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Judge sentences Colorado funeral home owner who kept woman's body inside a hearse for more than a year
The former owner of a Colorado funeral home was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison. In April, Miles Harford pleaded guilty to one felony count of abuse of a corpse and theft, a misdemeanor.
Miles Harford
Arapahoe County
More than a year ago police found the remains of a 63-year-old woman in a hearse that had been sitting on a Denver street for about 18 months. Her name was Christina Rosales, and her family had thought they were provided with Rosales' cremated remains. They had actually been given the ashes of a different person who died.
Boxes of cremated remains were also found in Harford's home on Quitman Street. Harford was being evicted from the home at the time.
Eighteen months was the maximum sentence that Harford could have faced.
The home on Quitman Street in Denver that Harford was evicted from
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Denver District Attorney John Walsh said in a prepared statement that Harford caused "terrible pain" to many different families.
"It is our hope that this sentence will provide the family and friends of the deceased with some measure of justice," Walsh said. "Harford systematically and shockingly violated his professional and moral obligations, and, for that, he is now being held accountable."
Miles Harford
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Harford's funeral home closed about a year-and-a-half before he was arrested. Apollo Funeral and Cremation Services was located in Littleton.
