A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison for stealing and selling organs and other parts of cadavers that were donated to the school for medical research and education.
Prosecutors said Cedric Lodge from 2018 through at least March 2020 stole parts from cadavers including heads, faces, brains, skin and hands after they had been used for research and teaching purposes and transported them from Harvard's morgue in Massachusetts to his home in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
Together, the Lodges sold stolen remains to several individuals including two in Pennsylvania, which the buyers mostly then resold, prosecutors said.
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