Peabody Shop Owner Accused Of Selling Human Body Parts To Plea Guilty To Stolen Goods Charge: Report

PEABODY, MA — The former owner of Kat's Creepy Creations in Peabody agreed to plead guilty to charges related to the selling of human remains stolen from the Harvard Medical Morgue, according to Boston.com.

Salem resident Katrina Maclean was expected to change her plea to guilty to a charge of interstate transport of stolen goods, Boston.com reported, weeks ahead of her trial on the charge.

• Owner Of 'Creepy' North Shore Shop Trafficked Human Remains: FBI

Maclean was accused of buying the human body parts from the morgue and then selling them as part of her business at the Peabody location.

The FBI raided the shop at the Mills 58 Shopping District on Pulaski Street in Peabody in March of 2023.

Maclean was indicted two months later as part of what the United States Attorney General's Office called "a nationwide network of individuals (who) bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary."

The indictment accused Maclean of being among those who bought remains from the manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue before reselling them to people in multiple states, including Massachusetts.

She was one of six people who the federal grand jury charged with conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods, according to the U.S. Attorney General's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

FBI investigators spent much of the day on March 7, 2023 combing through Kat's Creepy Creations
— a North Shore artisan shop at the Mills 58 Peabody shopping district on Pulaski Street that, according to its Facebook page, included items of "horror, macabre, oddities, and everything creepy."

The FBI
also conducted a search of the owner's Salem house that day but assured at the time there was "no threat to public safety."

"This is an isolated incident and is unrelated to the remaining Mills 58 businesses and property ownership," Mills 58 management told Patch in March 2023.

Cedric Lodge, the Harvard Medical School morgue manager, was accused of working with his wife, Denise Lodge, to sell the remains — including dissected faces and other skin, brains, and bones — which were sometimes shipped through the U.S. Postal Service, according to the indictment.

According to the indictment, Harvard Medical School maintained an onsite morgue facility where donated cadavers were stored and used for education and research purposes. It said Maclean was among those allowed to "enter the morgue and choose what remains to purchase."

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)