Colorado funeral home owners enter pleas for storing 200 bodies [Video]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. –

A Colorado judge on Thursday granted a defence request to delay the criminal case against two Colorado funeral home operators accused of letting nearly 200 corpses decay, in some cases for years, angering some families of the deceased who are eager for the case to be resolved.

Jon and Carie Hallford are now scheduled to enter pleas to the numerous felony charges they face in June, with a tentative trial date in October. That would be a year after the corpses were discovered in a decrepit, bug-infested building.

Prosecutors did not object to the defense request for a delay, which attorneys for the couple said was necessary to prepare their case.

“Every single time this is postponed or this is dragged out, it just reopens that whole wound all over again,” said Heather DeWolf after the hearing. She wore a shirt with a photo of her son, Zach DeWolf, who …