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Marsh Suffers Huge Legal Setback

Written by DeadGirl
Tuesday, 02 December 2003
Judge's Decision a Pivotal One December 2, 2003 LAFAYETTE, Ga. -- A judge on Tuesday refused requests by the former operator of the Tri-State Crematory to move the man's upcoming trial out of Walker County and to grant him indigent status. In a written ruling released Tuesday, Cobb County Superior Court Judge James Bodiford said the case against Ray Brent Marsh does not warrant a complete change of venue. The judge said last month that if he turned down the change of venue request, the jury would be selected in another county. Also, Bodiford said the trial will not be held before March. By refusing's Marsh's request for indigent status, the defendant will now have to foot the bills for his case on his own. Although his lawyer has already been paid $40,000, Marsh said he has not held a job since he was arrested in February 2002 after investigators discovered neglected corpses at the family business in northwest Georgia. "We're broke," Marsh told the judge last month while on the stand during a hearing for the motions. "There is no other way to put it." Marsh has been charged with 787 felony counts that include theft by deception, abuse of a corpse and burial service fraud after the discovery of 334 decomposing bodies at Tri-State Crematory in Noble in February 2002. Marsh pleaded innocent to 179 counts of abuse of a body and 47 counts of making false statements, all of which have been filed by the state of Georgia. He withheld pleas on burial service fraud and theft, and remains free on house arrest bond. When investigators first searched the crematory property on Feb. 15, 2002, they found bodies spilling out of a storage shed and scattered around the crematory building and surrounding woods. Marsh is also charged in Tennessee with abuse of a corpse. He is accused of transporting bodies to the crematory and returning to Tennessee funeral homes what were purported to be cremated human remains. Forensics investigators have said some of the urns contained cement dust, dirt or unidentified cremated human remains. Hundreds of people also are suing Marsh for failing to perform cremations. http://www.wsbtv.com/news/2675248/detail.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries