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Harvard Morgue Manager Admits Selling Stolen Human Remains
- Cedric Lodge, 57, who once oversaw the morgue at Harvard Medical School, admitted Wednesday in a Pennsylvania federal court to transporting stolen human body parts across state lines.
- Between 2018 and at least March 2020, Lodge unlawfully removed organs and other human remains from cadavers that had previously been utilized for educational and research purposes, doing so without authorization and in violation of the agreements governing the use of donated bodies.
- Lodge secretly moved the stolen human remains to his residence in New Hampshire, where he and his wife Denise proceeded to sell various body parts, such as hands, brains, faces, and dissected heads, to buyers located in multiple states.
- Lodge admitted selling remains to individuals such as Joshua Taylor, who pleaded guilty May 15 and transported stolen remains between New Hampshire and Pennsylvania from 2018 through 2022.
- Several co-conspirators pleaded guilty or received prison sentences, while Lodge and Denise Lodge await sentencing, highlighting a nationwide network trafficking stolen human remains.
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