The same judge, Christine M. Arguello, on Monday stuck with her original sentences, giving Megan Hess 20 years and Shirley Koch 15 years, following a lengthy resentencing hearing.

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing c.mayer@newsweek.com A Colorado funeral home owner pleaded guilty to corpse abuse and theft on Monday in what looks set to mark the culmination of a ...

Hess and Koch were arrested and charged with six ... resentencing of the Sunset Mesa funeral home case comes as similar operations are under more scrutiny. The owners of the Return to Nature ...

Miles Harford's guilty plea to counts of corpse abuse and theft in Denver, Colorado, follows years of other gruesome funeral home cases in the state. In one unrelated case, the owners were accused ...

DENVER — Megan Hess and Shirley Koch, the Colorado mother-daughter tandem who orchestrated a yearslong scheme to sell body parts without the consent of grieving families, will spend years in ...