We have no choice but to trust those who work with the dead. Undertakers, funeral managers, and morgue workers all perform vital functions that most would be squeamish about. But a morgue manager at Harvard Medical School has left observers horrified after his truly demented money-making scheme was exposed.
Enter 58-year-old Cedric Lodge and his wife Denise, who masterminded a literally ghoulish side business in which he profited from selling body parts “as if they were baubles”. Prosecutors alleged that between 2018 and March 2020 they sold two dozen hands, two feet, nine spines, portions of skulls, five dissected human faces, and two dissected heads.
