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Edward Helmore in New York and agencies

Four indicted over ‘appalling’ theft of body parts from Harvard Medical School

A general view of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

The manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School and three other people were indicted for allegedly selling human body parts stolen from the school and a morgue in Arkansas, according to a federal complaint.

Cedric Lodge, 55, formerly manager of the morgue for the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, is alleged to have stolen organs and other parts of cadavers between 2018 and 2022, and with his wife, Denise Lodge, 63, to have sold the remains online.

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