Cedric Lodge, a former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. He ran a scheme where he stole and sold body parts from donated cadavers. Lodge worked at the morgue for 28 years before authorities caught him stealing brains, hands, skin, and faces from bodies that families had donated for medical research.
According to AP News, the body parts were shipped to buyers in Pennsylvania and other states. Lodge took the parts after the cadavers were no longer needed for teaching purposes. He made thousands of dollars from this operation, which ran from 2018 to March 2020.
