Morgue manager at Harvard Medical School sold stolen body parts, prosecutors say

Denise Lodge (left) covers her face with a printout of the indictment against her as she walks away from the federal courthouse on Wednesday in Concord, N.H., following her arrest on charges related to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts. (Steven Porter/The Boston Globe, distributed by the Associated Press)

SCRANTON, Pa. — A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted in the theft and sale of human body parts, federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced Wednesday.

Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, stole dissected portions of cadavers that were donated to the school in the scheme that stretched from 2018 to early 2023, according to court documents. The body parts were taken without the school’s knowledge or permission, authorities said, adding that the school has cooperated with the investigation.