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| Harvard Medical School worker who sold stolen bones and brains from morgue learns his fate for gory crimes |
| 2025-12-18 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts 'as if they were baubles.' Federal authorities have said Cedric Lodge, 58, was at the center of a ghoulish scheme in which he shipped brains, skin, hands and faces to buyers in multiple states after cadavers donated to Harvard were no longer needed for research. His wife, Denise Lodge, 65, was also sentenced to just over a year in prison for assisting him. The couple had previously pleaded guilty to charges related to the interstate transportation of stolen goods, with Cedric admitting he stole body parts from cadavers donated to Harvard Medical School's Anatomical Gift Program and sold them to buyers across the country. Among the many gory body parts Cedric removed from the cadavers between 2018 and March 2020 were organs, brains, skin, hands, faces and dissected heads. 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 US 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. She said Lodge, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, treated the parts of 'beloved human beings as if they were baubles to be sold for profit,' collecting thousands of dollars in profit along the way. |
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