Crime & Safety
Former Harvard Morgue Manager Sentenced For Selling Body Parts
Cedric Lodge of Goffstown, New Hampshire, was fired from the university in May 2023, Harvard has said.
December 17, 2025 / 4:45 AM EST
A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts donated for scientific research, the Justice Department said.
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Cedric Lodge, 58, pleaded guilty in May to trafficking the stolen remains, which include internal organs, brains, skin, hands, faces and dissected heads, from 2018 through at least March 2020.
He was fired from the university in May 2023, Harvard has said.
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