Former funeral home owner who stashed remains at Denver home sentenced to 18 months in prison
Harford pleaded guilty in April to charges of abusing a corpse and theft as part of a plea deal.
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Miles Harford, the former Denver-area funeral home owner who pleaded guilty to storing human remains and cremains at a home he rented, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday.
Denver7 has been following this case since the investigation began in February 2024. According to Denver authorities, a woman’s remains and the cremated remains of at least 30 other people were found at the Denver property he previously rented on Quitman Street. It was determined that a 63-year-old woman’s body, later identified as Christina Rosales, had been inside a hearse in the driveway of the home for 18 months.
Rosales was Harford’s former middle school teacher and died of Alzheimer’s. Prosecutors said Harford had given her family the cremated remains of a different person, and made the family believe Rosales had been appropriately cremated.
Harford pleaded guilty in April to charges of abusing a corpse and theft as part of a plea deal. He was facing a total of 12 counts of corpse abuse, forgery and theft, and pleaded guilty to two of them. The other 10 counts were dismissed.
