339 bodies in the woods: the Noble crematory story

In the winter of 2002, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received an anonymous tip: somebody had seen bones on a property in Noble, Georgia, and they thought they might be human. Eventually, a police investigation would unearth the remains of more than 300 people.In a different kind of story, this property might belong to America’s most prolific serial killer. But none of these people were murdered – they had been sent there to be cremated. In his podcast Noble, Shaun Raviv tries to understand what happened more than two decades ago at Tri State Crematory and wrestles with the question: what do the living owe the dead?For early, ad-free access to Crime Story, become a subscriber of CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts.Feedback for us? You can email us directly at [email protected].