Ray Brent Marsh was before Lookout Mountain Superior Court Judge Don Thompson this week and lost a bid to have his probation revoked early. 

Marsh operated the Tri-State Crematory in the Noble area of Walker County and was sentenced in 2004 to 12 years in prison and 63 more on probation for improper handling of corpses. Marsh was indicted by a grand jury in 2003 on 787 felony counts connected to the 2002 discovery of 334 bodies at his family-owned crematory and served a term in prison.  He was released in 2016.  This week’s hearing was an attempt to get an early release from probation under a law that was signed by Governor Kemp two years ago.

Marsh’s attorney said that the bid for early probation release was automatically triggered by the law, which also gives a district attorney the right to object to an early termination of probation. Tuesday’s hearing was the result of an objection filed by Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney Clayton Fuller.

Compiled Sources / Chattanooga Times-Free Press