BODY Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

There's something about wintertime in the deep south.

It can be cool outside but still the sun warms your face.

On February 15th 2002, Lady was out walking her dog along Country Lane in rural Georgia.

One of those places that's got pine trees on either side of the road,

beautiful cobalt blue skies above her, not a cure in the world.

And as she's walking along with her dog enjoying the perfect day,

she looks over to her right and she notices something glinting in the sun.

It's a human skull bleached white.

Lord only knows how long it had been there.

That discovery by that woman led to one of the most horrific events in the history of the state of Georgia.

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags with me today is my good friend Jackie Howard,

executive producer of crime stories with Nancy Grace.

Jackie, have you ever heard about anything like this in your entire life?

And I'm talking about the tri-state crematory.

No, Joe, I have not.

It has been, as you said, 20 years since this gruesome discovery was made in February of 2002,

nearly 350 decomposing bodies were found on the property of a crematorium in noble Georgia.

That is up in the mountains of North Georgia up above Rome.

It's a very small town and the tri-state crematorium had been in business since the early 70s.

And it served a number of funeral homes in Georgia, Alabama, in Tennessee.

What was found was instead of performing services that he was hired to do,

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