|
|
Article: Bodies in limbo. (Crematory Scandal).(Tri-State Crematory)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 13, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
THE SCANDAL unfolding at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Georgia, has often been compared to events in a Stephen King novel, complete with decaying corpses and an upstanding citizen unmasked as a monster. Over 300 corpses thought to have been cremated have been discovered scattered across the 16-acre property of Ray Brent Marsh in rural Walker County. Ken Poston, an attorney defending Marsh on multiple counts of theft by deception, rejected the analogies to King's literature of terror. "No one has been killed," he told a judge in the case. "There is no suggestion of murder here."
True enough. Nonetheless, what Marsh is charged with is in some respects even more ...