Crematorium owner who left 100s of bodies lying around is "oppressed".

JS Online ^ | July 26, 2002 | Associated Press

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Ga. Crematory Operator Speaks Out

Associated Press

Last Updated: July 26, 2002 at 8:34:42 a.m.

LAFAYETTE, Ga. - The operator of a crematory where investigators found hundreds of discarded corpses made his first public comments since the bodies were discovered, saying he was aware of the hostility he would face if he were released while awaiting trial.

``We live in the South and I'm a black man,'' Brent Marsh said Thursday, the day Cobb County Superior Court Judge James G. Bodiford set bond for him at $159,200. ``A lot of people don't like me because I am me.''

In February, more than 340 human remains were found on the grounds of the Marsh family's Tri-State Crematory at Noble, a small, northern Georgia town near the Tennessee border. Bodies were found in the woods, stacked in storage buildings, stuffed in burial vaults and buried in pits. So far, 167 bodies have been identified, most of them white.

Marsh is charged with 398 felony counts, including theft by deception and abuse of a body, for allegedly accepting money and never performing the cremations.

Marsh, who has been held since mid-February, was denied bond three times previously.

Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson testified that releasing Marsh could put him and innocent bystanders in danger from lingering community hostility.

Marsh took over the crematory in 1996 from his parents, Ray and Clara Marsh. His parents and a sister, Rhames LaShea Marsh, 32, are charged with misrepresenting themselves as licensed funeral directors by signing death certificates in Georgia. They are free on bond.

Dozens of Tennessee residents have sued Marsh and funeral homes. Records show Tennessee funeral directors sent at least 257 bodies to Tri-State since 1999. Georgia and Alabama funeral homes also contracted with Marsh.

Lisa Cash of East Ridge, Tenn., whose mother's body was among those recovered at the crematory, said Marsh has hurt hundreds of families.

``How can he sit up there and tell the judge he is not hurting anybody?'' Cash said.

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Ah, so it's not criminal negligence if you're an oppressed minority.

I have to wonder if even Rev. Jackson is sleazy enough to touch this one.

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We need a word to cover this tactic by blacks. As the letter "n" has been recently freed up, I suggest that we call these false charges of racism by the name, "Nacism".

Mr. Morse is a nacist. There are many others.

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A man doesn't perform the job that he was paid to do and most if not all are white thereby in my opinion a racist act by him and he's crying about a racist backlash against him. It's the typical i'm an abused oppressed minority B.S., shucking their own responsiblity of their own frigging actions. Welcome to the 21 st Century, god help us.

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This Crematorium owner is a crook and a ghoul, but he's clearly not oppressed since all these 'crackers', according to local black parlance, trusted their deceased loved ones to his abuse.

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