Cedric Lodge pleads guilty in remains-smuggling ring
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Left: Cedric Lodge (WBTS). Right: Jeremy Pauley (Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office).

Individuals who chose to donate their bodies to Harvard Medical School likely intended for their remains to be used strictly for educational and scientific purposes.

The morgue manager, however, had different plans: He stole the remains — and sold them for profit.

The person involved, Cedric Lodge, 57, confessed to the crime of interstate shipment of stolen body parts on Wednesday at a federal court in Pennsylvania, according to an announcement by authorities.

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He follows his wife, Denise Lodge, and others in admitting wrongdoing.

Prosecutors revealed that Cedric Lodge, who is no longer employed as the morgue manager, admitted his role in the illicit body parts trade from 2018 at least until March 2020. He took organs, brains, skin, faces, and heads from the facility to his residence in New Hampshire. Lodge and his wife then sold these remains to buyers in Salem, Massachusetts, as well as in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, according to prosecutors.

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