:confused: Doesn't it seem like it would've taken more of an effort to bury the bodies than to burn them? :confused: Something doesn't sound right....

This is just plain old nasty and sick. Sometimes I wonder what in the hell is wrong with people.

I don't understand why a cousin is trying to place the blame on the mother. The son is the one who buried bodies all over the place, not the mother. Whoever is the cousin was trying to make it seem like the mother drove her son to bury the bodies by making him take over the family business. Every mother I know would persuade or even force their child to take over a family business in the case of an illness. She was probably just trying to preserve the legacy that her husband started for her children.


Anyway, my mother always says that you know it when black people do something wrong because the media always has a picture. Whenever a black person commits a crime, the news will always have their face plastered all over the television and the paper. If this man had been white, we probably would not know what he looks like.

They granted the dude bail
 

Man in Crematory Case Granted Bail
Tue Feb 26,11:01 AM ET
By ERIN McCLAM, Associated Press Writer

NOBLE, Ga. (AP) - A man charged with accepting payment for cremations, then leaving the corpses to rot on the grounds of a Georgia crematory, may go free on $100,000 bail, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Magistrate Judge Jerry Day said there was no evidence that Ray Brent Marsh was dangerous or posed a flight risk.

Marsh, 28, has been the operator of Tri-State Crematory in the northwest Georgia community of Noble since 1996. He is charged with 16 counts of theft by deception.

Prosecutors had argued Marsh should not be released because the intense outrage in the community would pose a danger to him. Marsh's attorney, Ken Poston, said concern for Marsh's safety was no reason to deny him freedom.

So far, investigators have discovered 331 corpses on the crematory grounds but say more than half the property still needs to be searched.

Authorities said Monday it could be late summer before all the bodies are identified. Some workers, in their 11th day of scouring the grounds, are growing weary and occasionally sick as the emotional toll mounts.

"Everybody involved in this process, from the word go, is suffering some kind of emotional strain," said David Ashburn, the Walker County emergency director. "It's things that you and I were never meant to be exposed to."

Officials estimated they had searched only three or four acres of the Tri-State grounds, which comprise at least eight acres, excluding buildings and a small lake. Authorities are working on a plan to drain the lake.

Family members lined up Monday to give blood samples, hoping their DNA would help investigators identify more bodies. Only 70 of the 331 corpses have been identified.

Dr. Kris Sperry, the chief Georgia medical examiner, said a full database will not be complete until late summer.

"This is a very slow, time-consuming process because of the volume of tests that have to be done," he said.

Donating blood for a DNA test meant fresh grief for Elaine Bray of Chattanooga, Tenn., who arrived at the county civic center down the road from Tri-State with a mug of small pebbles — part of which she thought were the remains of her brother, who died four years ago.

"All I wanted to do is give him a proper death," she said. "This is what I got."

Eddie Young of Crystal River, Fla., said he hoped DNA testing might tell him for sure whether the body of his mother, who died in November, was left to decompose on the grounds of the crematory.

"I know her soul went to heaven, but to think that my mother might be out there — it's so hard to accept," he said. "We had our closure through the funeral, and now it's like it's reopened."

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On the Net:

Information for families: http://www.gema.state.ga.us

Walker County sheriff: http://www.co.walker.ga.us/cd_14.htm

Georgia Bureau of Investigation: http://www.state.ga.us/gbi



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Just sick!
 

Total 330+ bodies...

I am just gonna put it out there and say that Ray Marsh needs his AZZ whipped. This is truly sad...

Re: I'm mad
 

Now that's exactly what I've been thinking. When it all first came out, I never expected it to be a "brotha." I almost fell off my couch when I saw that man's picture on TV. Something else has got to be up...black people don't just kick it with dead bodies around the house. I know that gas and electric bills can be a "mutha" this time of year, but dang bro...hook it up in your cousin's name or somthing.

Steaming hot hunk of isht
 

:mad:

More Charges Filed in Corpses Case
Tue Mar 5, 1:20 PM ET
By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press Writer

LaFAYETTE, Ga. (AP) - Authorities filed 56 additional charges Tuesday against a crematory operator accused of discarding hundreds of corpses he was paid to cremate.

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The new charges bring to 174 the number of theft by deception counts against Ray Brent Marsh, who remains in Walker County Jail. A magistrate denied Marsh bond on Monday, noting that investigators were likely to file further charges.

So far, 339 rotting corpses have been discovered dumped in pits, left in sheds and stacked in vaults at the Tri-State Crematory.

Authorities continued Tuesday to drain a small lake nearby where a skull and a torso were discovered last month. Officials estimate the lake is 8 feet deep at its deepest point.

Authorities said they will probably spend more than a week dredging the dry lake bed for human remains.

The charges accuse Marsh of allegedly taking payment to cremate the dead and instead passing off cement powder and dirt as ashes.

Investigators have said Marsh told them the incinerator was broken.

But on Monday, authorities disclosed for the first time that the incinerator is working properly. State emergency agency spokeswoman Lisa Ray said the machine's manufacturer successfully tested it last week.

In another disclosure, prosecutor Buzz Franklin said investigators had discovered photos of decomposed bodies on Marsh's office computer. Franklin did not say why Marsh was storing the photos and declined to elaborate.

Magistrate Judge Jerry Day, noting more charges were likely, denied Marsh bail for a third time. Prosecutors said they were worried Marsh might be killed if released.

Sheriff Steve Wilson testified that at a victims' meeting one woman said she wanted to hang Marsh, and the threat was met with thunderous applause.

Defense attorney Ken Poston criticized the prosecution for discussing the threats. "If that isn't inviting trouble and torches and ropes, then I don't know what is," Poston said.

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On the Net:

Information for families: http://www.gema.state.ga.us

Walker County sheriff: http://www.co.walker.ga.us/cd(underscore)14.htm

Georgia Bureau of Investigation: http://www.state.ga.us/gbi

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now the body count is OVER 200
 

I read about that in my school paper and it sicken me!!
Officials also found bodies in a near-by lake and in one of the guys back yard.

WHAT A SHAME!!!!!!!

Now Lawd have mercy..

So the incinerator was working....if it wasn't nasty before, it certainly is now. How in da hell can you justify doing people like that when you have the means to do it. Pure D. Laziness. They should tie him to a tree and beat him.!!! Damn heathen making black folks look bad. :rolleyes:

I just read on USAtoday's website that the parents were arrested for lying on a death certificate.

Now we reallllly have to wonder.
Was he eating them? ewwww. He still could have burned the remains. :confused:
Is this some mob/ mafia/ Mr. Biggs stuff? ALL THE MORE REASON TO BURN THE BODIES. :confused:

Was he fascinated by death?
Was he doing... other stuff with them? Is he a necromaniac? :confused:

Again.... Ewwwwwww.


Crazy, deranged.

TickledPink...
 

see, you took it to another level there. i have been trying not to even consider WHY that clown had those bodies laying around still... icky-eww-eww-eww!!!

LOL, I was thinking the same thing especially the necromaniac thing. Is he the Black Jeffrey Dahmer?

"crazy. . .deranged" -- Did you watch Martin Lawrence comedy special on Saturday on HBO or Cinemax -- can't recall?

Re: They granted the dude bail
 

When you think about it, they actually did him a "disservice" by granting him bail! Can you imagine getting bailed out and returning to the very community where this happened to face all of those angry relatives!:eek:

I'm surprised no one has tried to hurt him by now!

I heard on the radio that they found pictures of decompossing womens bodies on his hard drive of the computer, but I have not seen that on the news yet.

I haven't seen it lately, but I crack UP everytime he talks about the "crazy.... deranged" dude in the club with pajamas on. LOL!

Now I'm even thinking he may be misogynistic. I wonder if most of the bodies that they found female. I wonder if it pleased him to see them disfigured. I'll be glad when they find out the details of what's going on. Kind of like the Atlanta Child murders .... very disturbing and still a mystery.