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.

Law enforcement officials hosted a press conference Aug. 21 to discuss findings in the ongoing criminal investigation into the Pueblo County Coroner.

Multiple decomposing bodies were discovered behind a hidden door in a Pueblo funeral home run by the county coroner during an annual inspection, state officials said.