The same judge, Christine M. Arguello, on Monday stuck with her original sentences, giving Megan Hess 20 years and Shirley Koch 15 years, following a lengthy resentencing hearing.

Hess and Koch were arrested and charged with six ... resentencing of the Sunset Mesa funeral home case comes as similar operations are under more scrutiny. The owners of the Return to Nature ...

DENVER — A rehashing of a prison sentencing on Monday for a mother and daughter who ran the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose didn’t impact their original sentence. In 2023, a federal judge ...

Former Montrose funeral home operator Megan Hess was resentenced ... Hess and Koch were indicted in 2020 and later pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud related to 12 and nine bodies ...