Posted on 09/23/2003 7:41:17 PM PDT by blam
Charges in burial fraud case
AP in Georgia The Guardian (UK)
A man accused of dumping decaying bodies around the crematorium he ran in Georgia, pleaded not guilty yesterday to 122 charges of burial service fraud and 47 of making false statements. Ray Brent Marsh, 29, also faces charges of abuse of a body, and theft. At the hearing he pleaded not guilty to the burial service fraud and false statements charges.
His lawyer, Ken Poston, said Mr Marsh was withholding pleas on 179 charges of abuse of a body and 439 of theft. The lawyer called those charges "defective" under US law.
Mr Marsh is accused of stashing 334 bodies at the Tri-State crematorium in Noble, north-west Georgia. A search of the site in February 2002 found heaps of decaying bodies that were supposed to have been cremated. About 225 bodies have since been identified.
Hundreds of people are suing Mr Marsh for failing to perform cremations.
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