The manager of Harvard Medical School’s morgue has been accused of stealing body parts from donated cadavers and selling them on the black market over the past five years.
As NBC Boston reported, buyers were allegedly permitted by the morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, to examine the dead bodies and select which body parts they wished to purchase. Also indicted were his wife Denise Lodge and alleged buyers Katrina Maclean, Joshua Taylor, Mathew Lampi, and Jeremy Pauley.
According to the indictment, Lodge stole the requested body parts from the morgue — including brains, skin, and bones — then took them to his home in New Hampshire, where he packaged and shipped them to buyers via the post…