{"id":21839,"date":"2025-06-12T16:18:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-funeral-homeowner-who-left-corpse-in-hearse-for-a-over-a-year-sentenced\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:09:10","slug":"colorado-funeral-homeowner-who-left-corpse-in-hearse-for-a-over-a-year-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-funeral-homeowner-who-left-corpse-in-hearse-for-a-over-a-year-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado funeral homeowner who left corpse in hearse for a over a year sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miles Harford appears in court to hear the charges against him on March 8, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo\/Thomas Peipert\/Associated Press file)<\/span>dur-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DENVER \u2013 A Colorado funeral homeowner who pleaded guilty to leaving a woman\u2019s corpse in the back of a hearse<\/a> for over a year and improperly stashing the cremated remains of at least 30 people<\/a> has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced.<\/p>\n

Miles Harford, 34, pleaded guilty<\/a> in April to one felony count of abuse of a corpse and one misdemeanor count of theft. He faced other counts, including forgery and theft, that were dismissed as part of his plea agreement.<\/p>\n

His 18-month sentence is the maximum sentence under Colorado law for the charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing will ever undo the terrible pain that Miles Harford caused so many families, but it is our hope that this sentence will provide the family and friends of the deceased with some measure of justice,\u201d Denver District Attorney John Walsh said in a statement Monday. \u201cHarford systematically and shockingly violated his professional and moral obligations, and, for that, he is now being held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harford was arrested last year after the body of a woman named Christina Rosales, who died of Alzheimer\u2019s at age 63, was found in the back of his hearse, covered in blankets. Her remains had been there for about 18 months. Authorities said he had provided the Rosales family with the cremated remains of a different person that he misrepresented as Rosales.<\/p>\n

Police also found the cremated remains of other people stashed in boxes throughout Harford\u2019s rental property, including in the crawlspace.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said he treated the bodies and remains \u201cin a way that would outrage normal family sensibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harford\u2019s sentencing follows years of other gruesome funeral home cases<\/a> in Colorado, including one where the owners were accused of storing nearly 200 bodies<\/a> in a decrepit building and giving families fake cremated remains<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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