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Federal investigators discovered a human remains trade with connections to Harvard Medical School and have arrested people in several states

BOSTON — One of two new lawsuits filed against Harvard in the wake of bombshell allegations a morgue employee was stealing and selling body parts donated to the university’s medical school reveals the employee may have identified as the “Grim Reaper.”

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Four individuals were charged with federal crimes in June 2023 related to the “unlawful transport” across state lines of human remains taken from the Harvard Medical School morgue. This indictment was part of a larger effort by the Department of Justice to shut down a national network of people trafficking…

Federal prosecutors say that cadavers were stolen from the university’s morgue, then chopped up and sold

Six people were charged on June 14, 2023, with buying and selling human remains stolen from the Harvard Medical School morgue and from an Arkansas mortuary. The macabre story made national headlines, particularly the indictment of Cedric Lodge: a morgue manager at Harvard from 1995 until earlier this year.

Cedric Lodge allegedly allowed buyers to visit the morgue and decide which remains they wanted to buy, a federal prosecutor said.

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The manager allegedly sold body parts on the black market, prompting a lawsuit for negligence and emotional distress.