(27 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 27 June 2025
1. Various of Crystina Page’s shirt honoring her son
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Crystina Page, Return to Nature customer:
“My son, David Jaxon Page, was killed during mental health crisis in September of 2019. And just over four years later, I got a call from the feds saying that he was found in the Penrose location of Return to Nature’s funeral home building. He was left there, as I said, for just over 4 years, dumped out of his body bag in the corner of an inoperable refrigerator while rats and maggots ate on him and his new friends."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Penrose, Colorado – 6 October 2023
3. Various of the exterior of the Return to Nature Funeral Home
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 27 June 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Crystina Page, Return to Nature customer:
“So today in federal court, Jon was sentenced to 20 years in the federal case. That was for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Unfortunately, federal doesn’t address the body charges, if you will. So this was only about the money. Feels like a small win."
MUSKOGEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE – MUST CREDIT
Muskogee County, Oklahoma – 8 November 2023
5. Mugshot of Jon Hallford, Return to Nature owner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 27 June 2025
6. Various exterior shots of the federal courthouse
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Crystina Page, Return to Nature customer:
“The part of this that makes it a smaller win than it feels like it should be is that the victims are being addressed as 191 bodies that were found in that building. But there are still 987 people who have not been accounted for."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Penrose, Colorado – 6 October 2023
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8. Various photos of the investigators outside of the Return to Nature funeral home
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 27 June 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Wilson, Return to Nature customer:
“It’s hard to imagine that my mom was a part of that, that she was left in there in those conditions."
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Oahu, Hawaii – 13 August 2023
10. Wilson’s family spreading what they thought were the ashes of their mother
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Denver – 27 June 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Wilson, Return to Nature customer:
"It leaves me with this guilt that she’s not settled, that she’s lost. I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes, just hearing her call my name, and that’s just it, she’s just calling my name. And it wakes me up from a dead sleep, almost as if she was right there next to me. And I wake up in a panic, because the way that her voice sounds doesn’t sound like she’s at peace. So how am I ever supposed to find peace?"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Penrose, Colorado – 6 October 2023
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12. Various photos of investigators and the exterior of the Return to Nature Funeral Home
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Penrose, Colorado – 16 October 2023
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13. Various photos of the exterior of the Return to Nature Funeral Home
STORYLINE:
In court before the sentencing, Hallford told the judge that he opened Return to Nature to make a positive impact in people’s lives, “then everything got completely out of control, especially me.”
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