About this podcast
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?
“A gripping, thoughtful, perfectly balanced meditation on death and our relationship to its practicalities” – The New Yorker, Top Podcasts of 2024
Episodes
- NEW SERIES: The Deadly Seven · 1 min · Season 1Host Ashley Willcott is known as a TV anchor, a former judge, and a trial lawyer, and nearly all of the cases she's covered over the years intersect with one of the seven deadly…
- NEW SERIES: We Came to the Forest · 6 min · Season 1In the depths of an Atlanta forest, a clash between activists and authorities ended in tragedy. But the official narrative doesn't add up.
- BONUS: Behind the scenes of Noble · 17 min · Season 1Matt Schaer, one of the Executive Producers of Noble and host of hit podcasts such as Suspect, sits down with the host and writer of Noble, Shaun Raviv for a deeper look into how…
- The Pastor | Chapter 8 · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 8Years later, Shaun meets a man who knows all of Brent Marsh’s secrets, and travels to Noble, where it all started.
- The Missing Right Arm | Chapter 7 · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 7As Brent Marsh’s court case winds up, one victim of Tri-State Crematory has a remarkable change of heart, even after seeing her husband’s mummified corpse. Other families are not…
- The Marshes | Chapter 6 · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 6The family that owns the crematory—the Marshes—has been in northwest Georgia since slavery times. Their story may help explain what went wrong at Tri-State.
- The Recovery | Chapter 5 · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 5Forensic specialists from around the country are brought in to help recover and identify all the bodies found at Tri-State Crematory. One woman brought in to help also searches…
- The Furnace | Chapter 4 · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 4The Marsh family hires a lawyer with a history of representing town weirdos. And an expert examines the crematory furnace.
- The Vaults | Chapter 3 · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 3As police scour the crematory property, hundreds of family members who sent bodies to be burned learn that they’ve been deceived, setting off a panic.
- The Special Agents | Chapter 2 · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 2Two EPA agents investigate a report of human body parts discovered at the rural site of Tri-State Crematory. What they find sets off the biggest investigation in Georgia history.
- The Gas Man | Chapter 1 · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 1A gas man out on a routine delivery discovers a corpse on a rural property in the tiny town of Noble, Georgia.
- Trailer: Noble · 3 min · Season 1In 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…
