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Former crematory owner out of prison 14 yeas after shocking discovery

Emergency personnel and investigators stand on the property of Tri-State Crematory in Noble GA. MANDATORY CREDIT CHATTANOOGA TIMES FREE PRESS KATHLEEN COLE.

Christine Dallas and her brother-in-law Michael Dallas talk to law enforcement officials in the driveway of the Tri-State Crematory Saturday morning. Christine's husband was supposed to be cremated at the facility and they are hoping to find out whether or not his body is among te 49 already found at the site.

Tri-State Crematory investigators remove a casket from the backyard of Brent Marsh's family home Tuesday, February 19, 2002. More remains were found today as the investigation continues.

Brent Marsh,center, sits with his defense attorneys during a hearing Friday, February 7, 2003 at the Walker County Courthouse in LaFayette, Ga. Four Grand Jury motions and one bond motion were heard by Superior Court Judge James G. Bodiford during the proceeding.

Pictured is the memorial for the unidentified remains collected from the Tri-State Crematory. The memorial resides in the Tennessee-Georgia Memorial Park. This February will mark the 10-year anniversary of the discovery of hundreds of bodies at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Georgia.

The Tri-State Crematory sign in front of the Marsh property on Center Point Road was removed Friday while Marsh family attorney McCracken "Ken" Poston watches on with Steve Reece, Ringgold Monument employee. The property was turned back over to the Marshes by officials with the Tri-State Crematory investigation.( Photo by Juliette Coughlin/ Chattanooga Times Free Press/ 4/19/02)

Staff Photo by Stephen Jones- Saturday morning Jackie Degraw and her brother Herbert Duncan unearth an urn they thought had contained the cremains of their mother from a cemetary in Noble, Georgia. DNA tests recently confirmed that skeletal remains found on the property of the Marsh Crematory are those of her mother. The urn and its contents will be turned over to the Walker County Coroner's office.

Leatha Shropshire, left, consoles Terry Sloan Tuesday in front of the Walker County Jail prior to the release of Brent Marsh. Shropshire's brother was one of several victims not cremated at the Tri-State Crematory.

Once the identification process has ended, the unidentified bodies that were recovered from the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga. will be placed in these vaults and buried in the Tennessee Georgia Memorial Park.

Brent Marsh takes a look around the Walker County Courtroom during Monday's hearing in the courthouse Annex in Lafayette.

Terry Nida, owner of Tennessee-Georgia Memorial Park, says that 28 of 133 unidentified bodies and partial remains recovered from Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga. have already been placed in the cemetery. A memorial will be placed after the burials are complete.

Teri Crawford, left, and her daughter Jennifer Curtis cry in the front row while Leatha Shropshire, second row left, and daughter Veronica Lively turn their backs as Brent Marsh reads a prepared statement to the courtroom Friday afternoon in the Walker County Judiciary Annex in LaFayette Georgia. Mr. Marsh, former operator of the Tri-State Crematory, pled guilty to all charges but the judge is waiting to accept the plea until he can hear from all people involved.

Staff Photo by John Rawlston James Harris of the GBI, left, and Bill Cason of the Walker County Sheriff's Office search for an evidence bag Wednesday morning at the Walker County Civic Center to return to a family of a victim of the Tri-State Crematory scandal.

Staff Photo by John Rawlston Dr. Kris Sperry of the Georgia Medical Examiner's office talks on the telephone Wednesday as he sits in a room with evidence bags from the Tri-State Crematory investigation. Family members were allowed to reclaim the bags, most of which contain bogus cremains.

Former crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh, left, appeares in court for arraignment Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2003, in LaFayette, Ga., with his attorney Ken Poston. Lisa Cash, far right, watches the proceedings from the gallery. Marsh pleaded not guilty to 122 counts of burial service fraud and 47 counts of making false statements. Marsh, accused of dumping decaying bodies around his family business, faces multiple counts of burial service fraud, making false statements, abuse of a dead body and theft. He remains free on bond. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Kathleen Cole)

Ray Brent Marsh, 28, operator of the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga., is shown in a booking photo taken after his arrest Saturday evening, Feb. 16, 2002. Marsh was charged Saturday with theft by deception, a felony, in connection with the operation of the crematory where dozens of decomposing corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered in the woods behind it. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times and Free Press, Walker County Sheriff's Department)

File Photo by John Rawlston James Nicely, right, accompanied by his daughter, Tina Nicely Boyd, from Middle Valley, TN, carries a box that they thought contained the remains of his mother into the Walker County Civic Center Tuesday, February 19, 2002.

Staff Photo by Kathleen Cole A GBI investigator searches the vehicles and garage at the Marsh residence at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Georgia, Tuesday, February 19, 2002. More human remains were found on the property Tuesday.

GBI workers collect human remains from the property of Brent Marsh who lives near the Tri State Crematory Wednesday Feb. 20, 2002 in Noble, Ga.

**FILE** Officials with a Bobcat and a backhoe dig behind the home of Ray Brent Marsh, 28, outside of Noble, Ga., in this Feb. 19, 2002, file photo. Several revelations were made in recently unsealed depositions in a federal lawsuit that went to trial in March 2004 in the case of a former northwest Georgia crematory operator accused of dumping 334 bodies and passing off concrete dust as people's remains. The revelations include: Heavy machinery was used to remove some bodies, two sets of remains were misidentified and given to the wrong families and an official says the state's chief medical examiner left the crime scene for long periods to spend time with a subordinate. Defense lawyers for Ray Brent Marsh plan to use the testimony to prove that authorities botched the Feb. 2002 investigation. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

Neighborhood children ride their bikes on Center Point Road in Noble Georgia, less than 100 yards from where more than 300 bodies were discovered on the property of Tri-State Crematory. The Marsh family property borders the road on the right side of this picture.

Workers are shuttled into the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga. Monday where GBI agents continue to investigate the discovery of more than 300 bodies.

Ray Brent Marsh faces a half-full Bradley County , Tenn. courtroom, Friday, Jan 7, 2005, and apologizes to family members for the wrongs he committed in the Tri-State Crematory case.

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