One half of the Oklahoma couple accused of stashing nearly 200 human bodies inside their Colorado funeral home has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for defrauding pandemic relief programs.

Jon Hallford, the co-owner of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in southern Colorado, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in federal court on Friday. He pleaded guilty last fall in connection with misusing federal pandemic relief funds in regard to his business.

A federal judge will sentence a Colorado funeral home owner for cheating customers and fraud after he stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a room temperature building