A major investigation underway at a funeral home in Marietta. Investigators say dozens of cremated human remains were discovered inside the building that has been closed for months.
Investigators from Marietta Police, Fire, the District Attorney’s Office, the Medical Examiner and state agencies swarmed the Norman Medford Peden funeral home in Marietta Thursday.
The business has been closed since a fire damaged the building last spring, yet police say cremated human remains had been sitting inside the building all this time.
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Investigators found 35 boxes of cremains along with death certificates, and personal information inside.
“There are boxes, there are folders, file drawers. Everything you would imagine there to be in a fully functioning funeral home, embalming area, and a crematory, certainly there’s a tremendous amount of chemicals,” said Marietta Police Officer Chuck McPhilamy.
Police were tipped off to …