“Particularly monstrous” case in the US: boss of morgue allegedly stole and sold body parts

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The manager of the morgue at Harvard University’s renowned medical school is said to have illegally stolen and sold body parts from his workplace. Pennsylvania State Attorney Gerard Karam said 55-year-old Cedric Lodge was charged with theft of the body. In addition to Lodge, his wife Denise and five other suspects are suspected of buying and selling human remains as part of a “nationwide network”.

Karam called the crimes “particularly egregious” because 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 between 2018 and 2022. He is accused of taking the parts from Harvard University’s Boston campus to his home in Goffstown, New Hampshire and then selling them to two other suspects. At times, he allowed the two buyers to visit the morgue “and choose what to buy,” it said.

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The buyers then resold the body panels at a profit. The Boston Globe newspaper reported that skin had been sold, among other things, “to make leather”.

Lodge ran the morgue for Harvard’s body donation program. According to the university, he was released on May 6.

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. (AFP)

Source: Blick