ATLANTA, Sept. 24 — A Georgia county is suing to recover $2 million in cleanup costs and other expenses from the owners of a crematory where 334 corpses were found dumped in the woods, buried in pits and stacked in storage sheds.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in state court, seeks to recover money spent by Walker County to correct the ''public nuisance'' caused by Ray Brent Marsh and his parents at their Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Georgia.

It said the family was liable for the cleanup costs because they had failed to cremate the bodies and were not licensed to perform such services in the state.

Ray Brent Marsh, who operated Tri-State on behalf of his parents, was arrested and charged with theft by deception in February 2002 after a local resident stumbled upon decaying corpses in the woods near the crematory, about 100 miles northwest of Atlanta.

Marsh, whose criminal trial begins next month, could be sentenced to between one and 15 years in prison for each of the 787 criminal charges he faces. Last month the Marsh family reached an $80 settlement with relatives of the dead.

In March an insurance company and 58 funeral homes agreed to pay relatives nearly $40 million.

Investigators suspect that Tri-State, which had been in business for about 30 years, was forgoing cremations and passing off wood chips and other substances, including powdered cement, as human ashes to the families.

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well i hpe this case is DEAD and Buried soon lol

What a horrid disgrace to the dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope the spirits of thoes who died come back to haunt them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sick

ok i must agree it sick

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Totally disrespectful and sick.