Authorities use DNA testing to identify more bodies at crematory

ATLANTA - The number of remains from the Tri-State Crematory identified through DNA testing has risen to 211. <br> <br> Complete and partial human remains were found on the crematory property in the small town of Noble, in northwest Georgia. Authorities discovered 340 bodies in storage buildings, burial vaults, pits and a surrounding forest. <br> <br> Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead says that any bodies not identified through DNA will be tested in other ways. <br> <br> Crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh was arrested about ten months ago for allegedly accepting money for cremations he never performed. Marsh allegedly stopped performing cremations in 1997, when he took over the family business from his father. <br> <br> Marsh remains free on bond awaiting trial on nearly 400 felony charges, including theft by deception and abuse of a body.