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SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in the theft and sale of human body parts

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Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, stole dissected portions of cadavers that were donated to the school in the scheme that stretched from 2018 to early 2023



Full report at: https://apnews.com/article/stolen-human-...df18e7b43f

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Harvard Morgue Manager And Associates Charged With Trafficking Human Remains, Sold Parts Via Facebook And PayPal

BY MARK ELIBERT


A former employee at the Harvard Medical School morgue has been charged with selling human remains from donated bodies and allowing buyers to choose which parts they wanted, according to federal prosecutors.

The morgue’s manager, Cedric Lodge, was part of a massive nationwide network that bought and sold human remains stolen from the university’s medical school. From 2018 to 2022, Lodge and his wife, Denise Lodge, stole the corpses, removed parts such as the head, brain, skin, and bones, and sold them to their accomplices. They would also allow their buyers to come into the morgue and pick whichever parts they had their eye on.

One of the main buyers, Katrina Maclean, allegedly agreed to purchase two human faces for a total of US$600. Prosecutors also stated Maclean kept the remains she purchased and resold them through her store, Kat’s Creepy Creations, which sells "creations that shock the mind & shake the soul" according to her Instagram page. A second buyer named Joshua Taylor sent more than US$37,000 to Denise for body parts between September 2018 and July 2021.

Taylor had also added memos to his payments describing what he wanted. A payment for US$1,000 came with a memo that read “head number 7,” and another for US$200 that said “braiiiiiins.” The operation allegedly also involved buyers purchasing stillborn babies that were supposed to be cremated and returned to their families.


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