The Denver Post: In his decades-long career as an investigative reporter, Tony Kovaleski has often risked his own safety for the sake of the story. Angry subjects have pushed him, cursed at him and otherwise tried to shake the longtime Denver7 reporter and his camera crew as they sought responses to allegations of fraud, abuse and self-dealing.

That goes with the territory when you’re asking questions like, “Do you want to explain why you chopped up bodies?”

“That was one of those interviews where the guy was carrying a shovel,” Kovaleski, 66, said of his KMGH-Channel 7 story about the FBI’s investigation of a Montrose funeral home in 2019. He had confronted the funeral-home owner’s father outside his garage after being turned down for scheduled interviews.

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