A mother’s quest for justice helps new law’s passage

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Photo courtesy Office of Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg Jeanne Hanson-Colburn, sixth from the left, watches Gov. John Hickenlooper sign a bill into law on April 7 that makes it explicitly illegal to tamper with a deceased body and differentiates human remains from other types of physical evidence. Hanson-Colburn was one of several family members of murder victims and missing persons on hand to witness the signing. Photo courtesy Office of Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg
Jeanne Hanson-Colburn, sixth from the left, watches Gov. John Hickenlooper sign a bill into law on April 7 that makes it explicitly illegal to tamper with a deceased body and differentiates human remains from other types of physical evidence. Hanson-Colburn was one of several family members of murder victims and missing persons on hand to witness the signing.

Last Thursday, April 7, a bill was signed into Colorado law by Gov. John Hickenlooper that several Colorado families, including an Archuleta County mother and her family, sought to see come to fruition.

That bill, now law, makes it explicitly illegal to tamper with a deceased body and differentiates human remains from other types of physical evidence.

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