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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

‘Heads, brains, skin and bones’: Everything we know about the Harvard Medical School body parts seller

Reuters

“Some crimes defy understanding.”

That’s how US attorney Gerard M Karam summed up the ghoulish case of Cecil Lodge, the long-serving morgue manager of the prestigious Harvard Medical School (HMS), who, along with his wife Denise and five other people, has been charged with stealing and selling human remains donated to the facility and selling them on the black market.

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