Introducing: Noble

Suspect

Wondery | Campside

True Crime, Chameleon, Arpana Jinaga, Over My Dead Body, Matthew Shaer, The Shrink Next Door, Exhibit C, Eric Benson

4.2 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In the winter of 2002, police discovered more than 300 bodies on one property in the tiny town of Noble, Georgia. What followed was one of the biggest and most expensive investigations in the history of the American South. To get to the bottom of this forgotten case, journalist Shaun Raviv visits a rural community with plenty of secrets.

He discovers the epic history of the well-respected family who owned the property, uncovers the fates of the bodies sent to a crematory called Tri-State, and searches for the mysterious man at the center of it all. And in the process, Shaun explores one of the most primal and vexing questions we face as human beings: What do the living owe the dead?

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0:00.0	Campsite media.
0:07.0	media. Hey everyone it's Matt the host a suspect I'm here to tell you about a new show one that I love deeply
0:23.0	podcast is called noble and it's set in Georgia in a small community with a lot of secrets.
0:29.0	It's a story about death, life, and the kinds of mysteries that refuse to stay buried.
0:35.0	I'm going to play you a short clip now, and then I'll be back after with a bit more information.
0:42.0	It's October 2000, and Gerald Cook is driving to a crematory.
0:46.0	He's in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where he grew up, like his parents and their parents. Like a lot of people from rural northwest Georgia, his family goes back generations in the area.
0:59.0	Gerald knows it as a place where if one person does something, somebody else knows about it.
1:04.8	Gerald works for a propane company and there's a 3,000 gallon gas tank on the back of his truck.
1:10.4	This isn't normally part of his route, but Gerald has agreed to make the delivery today because the other driver is too scared of going to the crematory
1:17.5	He just said it made him feel creepy
1:20.3	But he never gave anybody any details that he see what I seen. I have no idea.
1:27.0	The crematory is on a 16 acre property in Noble, Georgia.
1:31.0	Noble is a quiet place, not even a real town. No school, no mayor, maybe 300 people live there.
1:38.0	It's just a few dozen one-story houses on sprawling used to be the most bustling in all of Noble, but now it's a quieter place, and strangers are not
1:55.8	welcome.
1:58.8	But Gerald is there on business.
2:01.0	He's driving to the crematory to refill a propane tank that's used to power the furnace,
2:05.0	where the bodies are burned.
2:07.0	He turns past an engraved headstone that says tri-state crematory.
2:11.0	He takes the truck down a long driveway, past a stone-trim ranch-style house.
2:17.0	Gerald comes to a dead end at a cul-de-sac. In front of him are a couple of storage buildings, and a smaller brown building that houses the crematory.
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