In a shocking case that has garnered national attention, Denise Lodge, the wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager, has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods. The incident involved the shipment of human body parts, including hands, feet, heads, spines, skulls, faces, and dissected heads, to buyers across the country.
The scheme, which unfolded between 2018 and March 2020, implicated Lodge, her husband Cedric, and five other individuals in a network that illegally bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and a mortuary in Arkansas. The stolen body parts, dissected from cadavers donated to the school, were taken without authorization, raising serious ethical and legal concerns.
