The privately owned funeral home and mortuary run by Pueblo Coroner Brian Cotter was suspended after state inspectors found the decomposing bodies at his private office in the city of Pueblo, just over 100 miles south of Denver, the state's capital.

Cotter and his private funeral home, Davis Mortuary, CBI officials said all of the bodies were respectfully removed over the weekend, but the identification process is expected to take months "due to the condition of the remains and the unverified record keeping at Davis Mortuary.