By: Sophie Ma

At Harvard Medical School, Cedric Lodge, a former manager at the school, was indicted, along with his wife, for having a connection with the theft and sale of human body parts. Love the new intro!

Lodge stole dissected portions of a human body without any consent from the school and sometimes brought these portions home where he lived with his wife, Denise Lodge. Lodge sold and mailed the body parts, as well as allowed people to come and pick up what parts they wanted to buy.

This is completely contrary to what bodies are intended to be used for in Harvard Medical School. Bodies are used for education and research, and once they are no longer needed, they are cremated and returned to the donor’s family, or buried.

The other three implicated individuals, Katrina Maclean of Salem, MA.; Joshua Taylor of West Lawn, PA.; and Matthew Lampi of East Bethel, MN. were also charged for selling and buying stolen cadavers.

Through phone calls and social media platforms, the Lodges sold remains to Maclean and Taylor. Occasionally, Taylor would convoy the remains, and other times the Lodges would mail them. Authorities said the two would then resell the remains for profit.

Two other people, Candace Scott, and Jeremy Pauley, have also been charged in the same case, Candace Scott and Jeremy Pauley.

Candace Chapman Scott, of Little Rock, Ark. sold stolen remains to Jeremy Pauley of Bloomsburg Pa.. According to authorities, Scott and Lampi sold and bought remains from each other, and exchanged a total of over 100,000 dollars. The human remains were stolen not only from Harvard but also from other places. Authorities say that Scott stole remains from a mortuary where she works at. The cadavers she sold were supposed to be cremated.

The deans of Harvard Medical School expressed shock that “something so disturbing could happen on our campus — a community dedicated to healing and serving others,”