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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ed White

Morgue manager sentenced for selling bodies donated to Harvard, including man’s face

A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts "as if they were baubles."

Cedric Lodge was at the centre of a "ghoulish scheme", shipping brains, skin, hands and faces to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere after cadavers donated to Harvard were no longer needed for research.

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