Scranton, Pa. – A former morgue manager of the Harvard Medicine School has admitted his role in the theft and sale of human body parts, including hands, feet and heads.
Cedric Lodge, 57, from Goffstown, New Hampshire, declared himself guilty on Wednesday in Pennsylvania of interstate transport of stolen human remains, federal prosecutors said. I could face up to 10 years in prison.
The robberies of the morgue in Boston occurred from 2018 to at least March 2020, prosecutors said. The authorities have said that Lodge, his wife and others were part of a National Network of people who bought and sold Harvard stolen human remains and a morgue in Arkansas.
Denise Lodge and several other defendants declared themselves guilty of several positions derived from the scheme. Prosecutors have said that she Negotiated online sales Of several articles, including two dozen hands, two feet, nine thorns, bearing portions, five dissected human faces and two dissected heads.
The authorities have said that the dissected parties of the bodies donated to school were taken without the knowledge or permission of the school.
The bodies donated to the Harvard School of Medicine are used for education, teaching or research purposes. Once they are no longer necessary, the bodies are generally cremated and the ashes are returned to the donor’s family or buried in a cemetery.
