Cedric Lodge, former Harvard morgue manager, was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling donated human body parts. His wife received a one-year sentence
BOSTON, USA – A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, Cedric Lodge, 58, was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison for stealing and selling human body parts donated for scientific research, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
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Lodge pleaded guilty in May 2025 to trafficking stolen human remains, including brains, internal organs, skin, hands, faces, and dissected heads, taken from 2018 through at least March 2020. He was terminated from Harvard in May 2023.
Investigators revealed that Lodge and his wife, Denise Lodge, 65, removed the body parts from the university near Boston and transported them to their home in Goffstown, New Hampshire, as well as locations in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, without consent from Harvard, donors, or the donors’ families. The remains were then shipped to buyers in other states.
Denise Lodge was sentenced to one year in prison for her involvement.
Wayne A. Jacobs, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office, described the sentencing as a step toward holding those responsible for the “heinous crime” accountable.
The Justice Department noted that many of the stolen human remains were later resold at a profit, with several buyers already sentenced or awaiting sentencing.
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This case has drawn significant attention due to the high-profile nature of the institution involved and the sensitive ethical violations regarding donated human remains.
