The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room-temperature building and giving the grieving relatives fake ashes pleaded guilty Friday to corpse abuse as aggrieved families looked on in court.

The Return to Nature Funeral Home co-owners appeared in El Paso County Court on Friday and pleaded guilty to corpse abuse charges. Jon and Carie Hallford began storing bodies in a building without electricity in Penrose,

Jon and Carie Hallford previously admitted in a related federal case to accepting payment for the services but then never performing them -- in some cases providing dry concrete mix