Georgia crematory operator pleads guilty to dumping more than 300 bodies

By Harry R. Weber
The Associated Press

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Marsh entered the pleas to 787 counts against him, including theft, abuse of a corpse, burial service fraud and making false statements.

A sentencing hearing was set for Jan. 31.

In exchange for the guilty pleas, he is expected to receive a sentence that requires him to serve no more than 12 years in prison followed by probation.

Marsh, 31, allegedly stopped performing cremations at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga., in 1997, when he took over the family business. Based on an anonymous tip in 2002, authorities found more than 300 corpses on the property — scattered in the woods, in buildings and crammed into burial vaults and behind Marsh's house.

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