Investigators discover at least one casket with human remains on crematory property

NOBLE - Officials said Tuesday that at least one casket with human remains has been found on the property of Tri-State Crematory, and other caskets still may be buried behind the operator&#39;s house. <br> <br> Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson also said investigators were searching Tri-State operator Brent Marsh&#39;s home for business records, as the number of bodies found on the property rose to 149. <br> <br> The state&#39;s chief medical examiner, Kris Sperry, said there were an additional six or seven caskets -- separate from the ones that may be buried behind Marsh&#39;s house -- that apparently were dug up somewhere else and brought to the Tri-State property. It was not immediately clear who disinterred the caskets. <br> <br> Marsh remained in jail Tuesday on 16 charges of theft by deception for not cremating scores of bodies at his northwest Georgia crematory, located about 20 miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. <br> <br> Sperry said six vaults, believed to contain at least 20 bodies each, still have not been searched, and those bodies are not included in the count of 149. <br> <br> Sperry said, ``By the hour, this is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I don&#39;t have a theory because none of this makes sense. I don&#39;t think it ever will.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> County coroner Dewayne Wilson said funeral home records show Marsh handled at least 350 bodies after taking over the crematory in 1996 from his parents, Ray and Clara Marsh.