Crematorium bosses sued over abandoned bodies

IT was a scene too horrible to imagine: heaps of decaying bodies that were supposed to be cremated - many spilling out of a storage shed, scattered around a crematorium and in nearby woods in the United States.

A civil lawsuit against former operator Brent Marsh and the estate of his late father, former owner Ray Brent Marsh, went to trial yesterday, 2½ years after the remains were discovered at the Tri-State Crematorium in Noble, near the Tennessee line. Investigators found heaps of decaying bodies from Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.

Tests revealed the crematory gave some families cement dust instead of their loved one’s ashes. The remains of 334 people were discovered on the property.