Remember how they lived: Memorial planned for Colorado funeral home victims [Video]

ELBERT COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) – Family members of victims whose remains have been mishandled by funeral professionals in Colorado re planning a memorial for their loved ones.

Since 2010, there have been several cases of funeral professionals mishandling remains, according to the Department of Regulatory Agencies. This includes the case of the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, where bodies and body parts were sold without consent, as well as the Return to Nature Funeral Home, where nearly 200 bodies were found improperly stored.

Crystina Page has spoken to 11 News before about her son, whose body was found in the Return to Nature Penrose building. He died in 2019, and for years, Page said she thought she had his ashes in an urn. She recently found that the ashes belonged to someone else, and that there was no way to determine whose remains she had for at least four …