Half a dozen state and county agencies are investigating a burned Georgia funeral home after a photographer from England said he found urns, bags of human ashes and even human remains in what is left of the building.
Norman Medford Peden Funeral Home and Crematory in Marietta, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Atlanta, caught fire earlier this year. The building was up for a foreclosure auction before the fire happened. The cause of the fire is undetermined, and the building is set to be demolished.
Six agencies are now involved in figuring out what was happening inside the funeral home, including Marietta police, Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office, the Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office and the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, WSB-TV reported Thursday.
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