BOSTON — (BOSTON) -- Five people, including a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager, face federal charges after allegedly conspiring to steal and sell body parts from cadavers donated to the institution.
A federal grand jury indicted Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, who managed the morgue for the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School, with conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods charges for allegedly transporting and selling the human remains across multiple states between 2018 and 2022.
The court documents, filed this week in the United States District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania, lay out an unsettling scheme involving the alleged theft and sale of human body parts -- including brains, faces and skin -- in multiple states, with transactions totaling in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Maclean allegedly stored and sold stolen remains at her store, Kat's Creepy Creations in Peabody, Massachusetts, as well as shipped to buyers in multiple states, including Pauley, according to the indictment. Pauley allegedly transferred 25 payments totaling $40,049.04 to Taylor via PayPal, according to the indictment, which did not specify what the payments were for.
"We are appalled to learn that something so disturbing could happen on our campus -- a community dedicated to healing and serving others," Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley and Dean for Medical Education Edward Hundert said, adding they are"very sorry for the pain this news will cause for our anatomical donors’ families and loved ones."
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