Ex-morgue manager stole brains and other body parts to sell, indictment says

Lodge sometimes took the body parts – which included heads, brains, skin and bones – back to his home where he lived with his wife, Denise, 63, and some remains were sent to buyers through the mail, authorities said.

According to prosecutors, the defendants were part of a nationwide network of people who bought and sold remains stolen from the school and an Arkansas mortuary. File picture

A former manager at the Harvard Medical School morgue, his wife and three other people have been indicted over the theft and sale of human body parts, federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced.

Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, stole dissected portions of cadavers that were donated to the school in a scheme that stretched from 2018 to early 2023, according to court documents.