It Old Manager of the Morgue of the Harvard Medical Schoolwho was accused of stealing and selling body parts, will be guilty of a single interstate transportation of stolen goods, according to court records.
Cedric Lodge, Goffstown, New Hampshire, becomes at least the third person to blame for the stolen human remains: his wife, Denise, declared himself guilty last April, and another man, Jeremy Pauley, was found guilty in September 2023.
Lodge previously appeared in trial next month.
The supply agreement filed in the United States District Court for the Middle Pennsylvania district indicates that prosecutors will drop Lodge conspiracy, but does not indicate what their sentence may be. The agreement, on the other hand, says that prosecutors will make a recommendation that they consider “adequate … even the maximum prison sentence”.
The maximum sentence in prison is 15 years in prison.
Lodge oversaw the Morga at Harvard Medical School and from 2018 began to steal dissected portions of dead bodies donated to the Morga, including heads, brains, skin and bones. He continued to do so until March 2023, according to federal prosecutors.
He and Denise Lodge were among six people accused of trafficking in 2023, a group that included Katrina Maclean, a woman from Salem who owned a store in Pearabody
Cedric Lodge would carry the stolen body of Harvard’s Morgue in New Hampshire, where he and his wife negotiated his online sale. The Lodges sent two dozens of hands, two feet, nine thorns, portions of skulls, five human faces dissected and two dissected heads as part of the scheme, Pennlia reported.
In doing so, Cedric Lodge violated a Harvard Medicine School policy that prevented employees from eliminating, maintaining or selling remains.
The couple reached the payments of tens of thousands throughout the regime, According to prosecutors.
Following the allegations against Lodge and others, several families that their loved ones donated their bodies to the Harvard Medical School filed demands to the Sufolk High Court accusing the University of negligence.
The lawsuits were launched by a lower court judge but the supreme judicial court weighs If you need to reinstall them.
Jeffrey Catalano, a family lawyer, told the state’s highest court in February that the security cameras surrounding the Morga showed Lodge “leaving unauthorized strangers” and “dragging body parts” in their car.
The car had a registration reading “Grim reaper”, said Catalonia.