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Cedric and Denise Lodge earned up to $95,000 selling body parts from over 400 donors in a scheme lasting four years, exposing a nationwide human-remains trade.
- On Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann sentenced Cedric Lodge, former Harvard Medical School morgue manager, to eight years, capping a two-and-a-half-year scandal.
- Between 2018 and 2022 investigators say Lodge stole organs, brains, skin, hands, feet, spines and skulls from donated cadavers at Harvard Medical School, with arrests in 2023 exposing the four-year scheme.
- Prosecutors say he sold parts to buyers met online, including Facebook groups, and at least once invited a purchaser into the morgue, selling two dissected faces for $600 while Denise Lodge shipped parts and accepted PayPal payments, earning an estimated $40,000 to $95,000.
- Both defendants were ordered to begin their prison terms on Jan. 16, with Denise Lodge sentenced to one year and a day; more than 400 donor families may have been affected as civil suits against Harvard proceed.
- Prosecutors had sought a 10-year sentence, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Alisan V. Martin citing online chat evidence and saying the conduct `shocks the conscience`, while Patrick Casey said `There is undoubtedly a level of numbness or lack of appreciation for the sensitivities of the general public.
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Former Harvard morgue manager sentenced for selling body parts
WASHINGTON: A former morgue manager at the prestigious Harvard Medical School was sentenced on Tuesday (Dec 16) to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research, the United States Justice Department said.Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded guilty in May to trafficking the sto
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estrepublicain.frThe director of the morgue at Harvard Medical School was accused of selling "theft of human remains at Harvard and in a morgue in Arkansas." He was sentenced to eight years in prison.
He took the remains of dead bodies home to traffic them. His wife was also convicted for facilitating the sale of stolen organs The former director of the school morgue of
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