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Boston Globe
22-05-2025
- Boston Globe
Former Harvard morgue manager pleads guilty to selling stolen body parts across state lines
Cedric and Denise Lodge were indicted in New Hampshire in 2023 for selling body parts across the country for at least five years before they were both arrested, records show. The couple used Cedric Lodge's position at the Harvard morgue to divert organs and cadaver parts that had been donated to the Anatomical Gift Program and were supposed to be cremated and instead selling them to people in other states, according to court records and Prosecutors alleged that Cedric Lodge removed organs, brains, skin, hands, faces, dissected heads, and other parts from the cadavers after they were used as for teaching and research purposes. He and Denise Lodge then sold the remains and shipped or personally delivered them to buyers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, prosecutors said. Advertisement In 2023, the couple had two Subarus with vanity plates. One read 'DKSHDWS,' in homage to the gothic-horror show from the 1960s, and t In addition to the Lodges, several others have also pleaded guilty in cases related to the Harvard morgue scandal. Advertisement A Pennsylvania man, Joshua Taylor, pleaded guilty last week to a charge of interstate transport of stolen remains. Prosecutors said Taylor made 39 online payments to an account controlled by Denise Lodge. The payments, which totaled $37,000, sometimes had memos like 'head number 7″ and $200 for 'braiiiiiins,' according to court records. Denise Lodge and Taylor are still awaiting sentencing, prosecutors said in a statement Thursday. Many of the remains were resold at a profit, prosecutors said, including to Jeremy Pauley, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and transporting human remains across state lines. Candace Chapman-Scott, a former mortuary worker in Arkansas who was accused of selling body parts to Pauley, also pleaded guilty in Arkansas federal court and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, prosecutors said. A sentencing hearing for Lodge had not been scheduled in court records as of Thursday. Lodge's lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment. Nick Stoico can be reached at
Boston Globe
17-04-2025
- Boston Globe
Cedric Lodge, former manager of Harvard's morgue, to plead guilty to stealing human body parts from cadavers
A date for sentencing was not posted in US District Court in Scranton, Penn., where Lodge and several other people - including his wife, Denise - were prosecuted by federal authorities. Cedric and Denise Lodge lived in Goffstown, N.H., when they were indicted in 2023 for selling body parts across the country for at least five years before they were both arrested, records show. Advertisement The In 2023, the Globe reported, the couple had two Subarus with vanity plates. One read 'DKSHDWS,' in homage to the gothic-horror show from the 1960s. Advertisement Also agreeing to plead guilty to selling stolen body parts across state lines is Joshua Taylor, a Pennsylvania man, who made 39 online payments to an account controlled by Denise Lodge. The payments, which totaled $37,000, sometimes had memos like 'head number 7″ and $200 for 'braiiiiiins,' according to court records. A sentencing has not been set for Taylor, records show. Katrina Maclean, a Salem woman who used human remains obtained from Lodge in her art works sold at Kat's Creepy Creations in Peabody, is challenging her indictment for interstate transport of stolen property. On March 3, her attorney argued in court papers the charges should be dismissed because body parts are not legally property. 'Human remains are not, and have never been, deemed to constitute property or 'goods, wares, or merchandise' and therefore, fall outside the purview" of federal law, her attorney, Edward J. Rymsza, wrote. 'Even if human remains could constitute property or chattel, it must be commonly bought and sold to come within the statute. The Government fails to allege that the human remains are ordinarily a subject of commerce,' he wrote. The motion is pending. records show. John R. Ellement can be reached at
