A Colorado funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a room-temperature building admitted in federal court Monday that she cheated customers and defrauded the federal government out of nearly $900,

A former owner of a funeral home in Colorado, who was found guilty of abuse of a corpse, took a plea deal Monday on charges of wire fraud.

Carrie Hallford, co-owner of the Return to Nature Funeral Home, has changed her plea in federal court, pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. In her plea agreement with the federal government,

Carie Hallford, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in federal court, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison. As part of the agreement, Hallford admitted to sending families dry concrete in place of ashes and stashing decomposing bodies in a room-temperature building.

Carie Hallford and her husband Jon faced charges linked to the case in which police found nearly 200 decomposing bodies at their facility.

Carie Hallford pleaded guilty to a federal charge in connection to her operation of the Return to Nature funeral home in Penrose, Colorado. The facility was found to have nearly 200 bodies improperly stored.