“Some crimes defy understanding,” said U.S. Attorney for the District of Middle District of Pennsylvania Gerard M. Karam, whose office is handling the case. “The theft and trafficking of human remains strikes at the very essence of what makes us human.”
A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue is a member of an alleged human remains trafficking ring, according to federal investigators, who have made several arrests.
Cedric Lodge is accused of stealing organs and other parts of human bodies — described in the indictment as “dissected portions of donated cadavers, including, for example, heads, brains, skin, bones, and other human remains” — that had been donated to the school for medical research and education and were thereafter slated to be cremated in a Roslindale crematorium.
She then allegedly enlisted the leather tanning services of Pennsylvanian Jeremy Pauley — allegedly shipping human skin to him to be turned into leather. She then allegedly asked Cedric Lodge for more human skin to send to “the dude I sent the chest piece to tan.” “We are appalled to learn that something so disturbing could happen on our campus — a community dedicated to healing and serving others. The reported incidents are a betrayal of HMS and, most importantly, each of the individuals who altruistically chose to will their bodies to HMS through the Anatomical Gift Program to advance medical education and research,” they wrote in the statement.
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