A former Harvard morgue manager is sentenced to eight years for trafficking stolen human remains, including brains and faces, from donated cadavers.
WASHINGTON: A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research.
Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded guilty in May to trafficking stolen remains from 2018 through at least March 2020.
The stolen parts included internal organs, brains, skin, hands, faces and dissected heads.
Investigators said Lodge and his wife, Denise, took body parts from the school near Boston to their home in New Hampshire and other locations without permission.
They then shipped the remains to buyers in other states.
Denise Lodge, 65, was sentenced to one year in prison.
The Justice Department said many of the human remains were subsequently resold at a profit.
Several buyers have been sentenced to jail or are awaiting sentencing.
“Today’s sentencing is another step forward in ensuring those who orchestrated and executed this heinous crime are brought to justice,” said FBI special agent Wayne A. Jacobs.
Lodge was fired from Harvard University in May 2023.
