SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — The manager of the morgue for Harvard Medical School has been indicted on federal charges after he was accused of selling body parts.
Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, is one of seven people charged with conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Lodge’s wife, Denise, is among those charged.
“Some crimes defy understanding,” U.S. Attorney Gerard Karam said in a statement. “The theft and trafficking of human remains strikes at the very essence of what makes us human. It is particularly egregious that so many of the victims here volunteered to allow their remains to be used to educate medical professionals and advance the interests of science and healing. For them and their families to be taken advantage of in the name of profit is appalling.”