2023-06-15 01:14:37
The former director of the Harvard University Medical School morgue is accused of stealing and selling organs and human remains.
Cedric Lodge, 55, his wife and four others are charged with spending four years stealing organs and other parts from donated corpses for teaching and research, the federal prosecutor’s office confirmed Wednesday. Pennsylvania American.
Among other things, they face charges of “conspiracy” and “transportation of stolen property”, underlines the press release from the office, which confirms information first revealed by the Boston Globe.
Cedric Lodge, Denise Lodge and Katrina Maclean, 44, of Massachusetts, were arrested without incident on Wednesday, authorities say.
A national network
From 2018 to 2022, the group allegedly contributed to a national network that bought and sold human remains from the Harvard Medical School, but also from the Arkansas morgue, according to the charges.
Cedric Lodge allegedly transported “heads, brains, skin, bones and other human remains” stolen from Boston to his residence in New Hampshire.
With his wife Denise Lodge, he allegedly sold them to Katrina Maclean, owner of a shop called Kat’s Creepy Creation, Joshua Taylor, and some other people through cell phones and social media.
On the Instagram account of the business, which became private on Wednesday evening, we could see scary dolls and “artistic creations”, in particular with human vertebrae.
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Katrina MacLean, worked alongside Harvard Medical School mortuary chief Cedric Lodge. In the capture, we see 11 human vertebrae that she displayed on Instagram.
At times, Lodge reportedly even let Maclean and Taylor into the morgue so they could “choose” what they wanted to buy.
“Heinous” acts
Prosecutor Gerard Karam denounces “heinous” and “appalling” acts and promises that justice will be done for relatives.
In an email made public, the deans of the Faculty and the Harvard Medical School expressed their “dismay to learn that something so disturbing could happen on a campus dedicated to the care and service of others”.
They state that Mr. Lodge was fired in May and that the “investigators believe he acted without assistance from anyone at Harvard”.
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