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?
Everywhere you looked, there was just bodies, just human bodies.
In the winter of 2002, the most mind blowing crime you've never heard of happened in the least likely of places.
We all know the story.
Well respected people in a small community, and boy, that's a real small community.
More than 300 human bodies were found in a tiny town called Noble.
I mean, guys, this looked like a horror movie.
I was like, my God, there's skeletons everywhere.
There was just this sickening odor.
This was just overwhelming.
It all starts when a delivery man stumbles upon a dead body on a remote property.
I looked down and seen that there was bones and bodies just pushed up in a pile of debris.
Over the next few days, the police find bodies almost everywhere they look.
Most of them have been there for years.
The bodies were dumped in woods and storage sheds outside the crematory.
Residents of the town of Noble are in shock tonight.
What follows is one of the biggest and most expensive investigations in the history of the American South.
All to help families desperate to know the fates of their loved ones.
I kind of slid to the floor holding the phone.
I just couldn't believe it.
Just the biggest betrayal I've ever felt in my life.