Pueblo County’s coroner faces state probe
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Pueblo Police have asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to take over the probe, given its experience investigating the Return to Nature Funeral Home case. A judge last year ordered that funeral home to pay $950 million to families whose loved ones’ remains were mishandled.
A county coroner in Colorado has been accused of stowing bodies inside his private mortuary for years — with "around 20 or so" being found by authorities "in just a regular room" — in various stages of decomposition,
Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter is being accused of hiding decomposing bodies in the Davis Mortuary, which he co-owns along with his brother.