Pueblo County coroner, brother under investigation
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State inspectors believe there may be about 20 bodies that were improperly stored inside Davis Mortuary in Pueblo, a business co-owned by the current coroner of the county.
Pueblo County’s coroner faces state probe after decaying bodies found hidden at his private practice
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.
Colorado’s Governor Jared Polis has called for Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter to resign immediately after the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) announced the criminal investigation into Davis Mortuary in Pueblo,
The investigation continues in Pueblo County after several bodies were discovered in a hidden room at a mortuary.
The privately owned funeral home and mortuary run by Pueblo Coroner Brian Cotter was suspended after state inspectors found the decomposing bodies at his private office in the city of Pueblo, just over 100 miles south of Denver, the state's capital.