Weird World
Created | Updated Jan 23, 2003
Intelligence Reports from Earth
This week is the first of the weird news items in which I find enough of a strange or funny aspect from which to draw a cartoon. This week I feature a strange story from the USA.
Authorities arrested a Georgia man Saturday after discovering about 80 unburied and un-cremated bodies and body parts in sheds and strewn on the grounds of a crematory northwest of Atlanta.
Ray Brent Marsh, 28, the son of the crematory's owners, told authorities the incinerator had not worked for some time, Marsh was arrested Saturday and charged with theft by deception. Marsh's mother and father lived on the grounds of the Tri-State Crematory but may not have known about the bodies, Marsh has run the business since taking over from his father, who is bedridden, in the mid-1990s.