Harvard Medical School mortuary chief allegedly stole and sold body parts from his workplace. Cedric L., 55, is charged with theft of the body, prosecutor Gerard Karam said. His wife Denise and five other suspects are also charged with buying and selling human remains as part of a “nationwide network”.
Karam called the crimes “particularly egregious” as many of the victims were organ donors who donated their remains to science. Prosecutors believe Lodge stole “organs and other body parts” prior to her cremation from 2018 to 2022.
Body parts were resold for a profit
The head of the faculty is accused of taking the items from Harvard University’s Boston campus to his home in Goffstown, New Hampshire and then selling them to two other suspects. He sometimes allowed buyers to visit the mortuary “and choose what they wanted to buy.” The buyers then resold the body parts at a profit. He was released on May 6.
The Boston Globe newspaper reported that skin had been sold, among other things, “to make leather”. Another co-defendant allegedly stole stolen body parts from an Arkansas morgue, including the bodies of two stillborn babies, who were about to be cremated. Two other suspects allegedly sold body parts to each other and exchanged a total of $100,000 in payments.
Source: Krone
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