Saturday, December 27, 2025

Harvard Morgue Manager Sold Body Parts: Gets 8 Years

A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts "as if they were baubles." Authorities said Cedric Lodge was at the center of a ghoulish scheme in which he shipped brains, skin, hands and faces to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere after cadavers donated to Harvard were no longer needed for research. His wife, Denise Lodge, was sentenced to just over a year in prison for assisting him. They appeared Tuesday in federal court in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In one example, Cedric Lodge provided skin to a buyer so it could be tanned into leather and bound into a book, a "deeply horrifying reality," Assistant U.S. Attorney Alisan Martin said in a court filing. "In another, Cedric and Denise Lodge sold a man's face -- perhaps to be kept on a shelf, perhaps to be used for something even more disturbing," Martin said.

Comments

... sentenced to eight years in prison ...

Good.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-27 06:28 PM

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