Families struggle to get remains stolen by Colorado funeral home

MONTROSE, Colo. — When the FBI called, Debbie Shultz knew something was wrong.

But what went wrong began months earlier — just hours after she watched her best friend Lora Johnson die of cancer in her home on Colorado’s Western Slope.

“I held her hands and told her it was OK to let go, that she was safe,” Shultz said. “But she wasn’t safe.”

Shultz turned Johnson’s remains over to a Montrose funeral home for cremation and later collected the ashes. But the FBI told her that’s…