This is just incomprehensible! Don't you know there are lots of unhappy spirits around there! What was this guy thinking!?!! Is he sane? It probably comes down to money - even though the crematory wasn't working part of the time, he still accepted the $$ to cremate the bodies. I'm wondering though, how long did he think he could do this and not get found out? Sick.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/02/19/crematory.bodies/index.html[/URL]

Here's the bad part for us: my aunt - dad's sister, that passed away last year (we were notifed the night before he fell and broke his jaw, on 7/10) was most likely cremated there - if indeed she was cremated, az is pretty sure she was. We (mom & I - don't want dad thinking about it) just came to that realization yesterday after the story broke. We need to contact some relatives to see what we can find out. Oh God, please don't let this be true!

Kell

Phew! az just called the funeral home auntie was handled through and they do not use that crematory and have not for years - so, we're safe on that score..

Kell

Here's a good story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper along with related stories to this whole mess.

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/crematory/0218main.html[/URL]

[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: KellKell ]

What in the world did the relatives get from the crematorium if he didn't actually cremate them???????
How many more of these companies are out there??
There was the graveyard in Florida a couple of months back.

Having lived in GA, I can honestly say that I am not suprized. It really is sick and and sad for all those people who thought they did the best thing for their loved ones. The only consolation is that their loved ones moved on to a better place and it's just a body. But I know it's difficult to let go.

the relatives got wood ash and broken concrete.

Here's another question - Some of those bodies go back 10 - 20 years. The guy they arrested is only 29 - why didn't they arrest his Dad too. Certainly he wasn't in charge at age 9! =O!

I read where the dad was ill, and confined to a hospital bed. I guess I would be ill, too, if I were him, and knew that the law was discovering what I had been doing all these years! But, I think that there were lots of people who knew what was going on... the mother was the secretary. Didn't she find it strange that there were no gas bills? They use natural gas to fire most crematories, as I understand it. Also, someone was typing up the mandatory cremation certificates, and somehow, I don't think the son was doing it, but she would have known the crematory wasn't operating, if only from lack of a fuel bill... right? Something is really fishy here!
These folks aren't the upstanding family that their neighbors and friends thought they were. Isn't it funny, how trusting the Georgia lawmakers were assuming that no one would ever desecrate a corpse.... or, at least if they did, it wasn't going to be against the law. Just don't bother their grave or their coffin! I think this should be a wakeup call to all states to take a closer look at their own state laws, just to be sure that a penalty exists for doing something so absolutely revolting with the bodies of someone's family and loved ones. Maybe it should carry a Federal penalty? I think it should, to make it a uniform law throughout the US.

azspirit

I agree Az. The father and mother must have in the very least what was going on but the evidence so far indicates that they are a party to it and passed the business onto Jr. The father may just be feigning non-lucidity. If you are not competent you can't be tried and convicted. And the mother as secretary must have in the least noticed that they weren't paying high gas bills anymore. What did the gas company think? It's possible that they maintained this practice all throughout the history of their business so the gas company wouldn't notice a difference.
If they don't have a severe enough law against desecrating corpses (I'm sure there will be) they can bring it to civil court and fine them millions in reparations for the bereavement of the families of the departed.

This is a little strange. I had that 'the dead are alive dream' on 2/14. I posted it in the psychic forum on 2/16 ( http://azsilvermessageboards.creative-pages.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=6&t=000009[/URL] ). The investigation into the crematory started on 2/15! Maybe the reason that my grandfather, who was cremated, showed up in the dream like he did signaled that there are dead people who were to be cremated in the wrong place - just like he was in the dream.
=O What do you think!?

Kell

Wow that is too coincidental Kell!

Kinda creepy! =O!

The other night I was going through some of the pics I've taken in the house and one that I'd passed over before has what looks like a strange blue energy - or something - that happens to be in the same spot as gramps was in the dream. It was taken on 1/6 while a neighbor was over. I'll show it to you when you come over tomorrow!

Kell

Don't you know that crematory has to be so haunted. I wonder how many ghosts live with the Marsh family because their house is on the same property - next to a church & graveyard to boot. I feel so sorry for these people, both living (the relatives) and dead..

Kell

[ February 23, 2002: Message edited by: KellKell ]

I was thinking the same thing. Wonder what it's like to sleep in that house! =O Can you imagine the smell around there? It's sad but I bet you could get some great paranormal photos around there. So many souls at unrest.

Now they've found pictures of dead bodies in various states of decomposition and tons of pornography both in his computer and office. Oh ugh. I don't even like to think what that's all about. =O

Kell

Are you thinking the necrophiliac word???

something is even weirder with all this than just not cremating the bodies.Argh!!!

sundog

Yep, I am. It's either that or something equally fishy!

Necrophilia, and then some!!! I didn't know that this creep is also married!! How could his WIFE not know what was going on??? I think his whole family was just turning a blind eye to all of this..... could it be that they were afraid of him? Perhaps he might have loved them better if they had been deceased, and they knew it!
All I can say is one GIANT SIZED "YUCK!!!!!"

azspirit >:-(

A lot of these bodies are older than the man charged with the crime - he grew up with this. It's a family crime as far as I can see. I can see being married to someone that does this and not know about it - how many of us actually know "details" of our husbands regular jobs - they don't bring it home with them and if they do it's just gossip. Oh, I had to handle the cremation of so and so today - he doesn't say HOW he handled it.

I don't know if any of you have been exposied to a body that has been out too long.I have and it one of the most horrable smells.One that once you have been exposied to it you will not forget.This guys smeller has to be dead by now.He has to be one sick creature. Bonnie