The manager of Harvard Medical School’s morgue has just admitted to stealing human body parts and selling them on the black market.
That’s right.
Over a five-year period, 57-year-old Cedric Lodge stole and sold various parts of human remains — including several heads, brains, bones, skins, and even faces.
These body parts were from people’s dead bodies that they had donated to Harvard for medical research.
Instead, their bodies were dissected and sold to the highest bidder.
🇺🇸HARVARD MORGUE BOSS SOLD BRAINS, SKIN & FACES… UMM?! WHAT?
Cedric Lodge had one job: manage the morgue at Harvard Medical School and make sure donated bodies were used for science.
Instead? He turned the place into Facebook Marketplace for body parts.
From 2018 to 2023,… pic.twitter.com/O6JnHw5Ej1
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 20, 2025
HARVARD MORGUE BOSS SOLD BRAINS, SKIN & FACES… UMM?! WHAT?
Cedric Lodge had one job: manage the morgue at Harvard Medical School and make sure donated bodies were used for science.
Instead? He turned the place into Facebook Marketplace for body parts.
From 2018 to 2023, Lodge and his wife allegedly sold off brains, bones, and even dissected faces like they were running a haunted Etsy shop.
One buyer literally Venmo’d “braiiiiiins” as a payment note.
Customers sometimes came into the morgue to “pick their parts.”
One woman reportedly bought 2 FACES for $600 – which feels like a discount you only get in a horror movie.
Lodge is now pleading guilty.
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Harvard is furious, families are devastated, and the rest of us are just sitting here wondering…
Who wakes up and thinks, ‘How can I best photo this brain for Ebay?”
Cedric Lodge was originally arrested for his crimes back in 2023.
He has just plead guilty to the charges and faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
The New York Post has more:
Cedric Lodge, 57, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains on Wednesday before Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
The maximum penalty under federal law is 10 years in prison, a term of supervised release following imprisonment and a fine.
ADVERTISEMENTA sentence following a finding of guilt is imposed by the judge after “consideration of the applicable federal sentencing statutes and the federal sentencing guidelines,” according to the release.
Officials said Lodge admitted that from 2018 through at least March 2020 he participated in the sale and interstate transport of human remains stolen from the Harvard Medical School morgue in Massachusetts.
Lodge, then-manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue, removed human remains, including organs, brains, skin, hands, faces, dissected heads and other parts from donated cadavers after they had been used for research and teaching purposes, but before they could be disposed of according to the anatomical gift donation agreement between the donor and the school, according to the release.
He took the remains to his home in New Hampshire without the permission or knowledge of his employer, the donors or donors’ families.
After he and his wife sold the remains, they would ship the remains to the buyers in other states or the buyer would take possession directly and transport the remains themselves, according to the release.
“While Lodge has agreed to plead guilty and taken responsibility for his crimes, this likely provides little consolation to the families impacted,” Daley added. “We continue to express our deep compassion to all those affected.”
Some X users are wondering if Lodge really sold all of the human body parts…
He’s a big boy.
Are we sure he wasn’t snacking on them also? pic.twitter.com/lY0WiS3xXR— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) April 20, 2025
Are we sure he didn’t eat them? https://t.co/NLDFLMU0Bz
— Katya Sedgwick (@KatyaSedgwick) May 25, 2025
All jokes aside, this is one sick money-making scheme.
But, what’s even more disturbing are the sickos that this Harvard morgue manager sold the body parts to…
People reported on a few particularly twisted customers:
A man in Pennsylvania paid Lodge’s wife Denise $37,355.16 over a period of three years, the indictment says, after she allegedly shipped the man body parts her husband took from the morgue.
The indictment says that those payments were sent via PayPal and allegedly included memos such as “head number 7” and “braiiiiiiins.”
Lodge also supplied a woman from Massachusetts with skin that he knew she was sending to be tanned, according to the indictment.
That same woman also met Lodge at the morgue on at least one occasion so he could provide her with “two dissected faces,” the indictment says.
Now, you might be wondering: great, so this guy is caught and probably going to jail for awhile…but what about the weirdos who bought the human brains and faces from him?
Have they been caught yet?
Well, in 2023, four people suspected of purchasing human body parts from the Harvard morgue manager were indicted.
His wife was arrested for assisting him with his…”business.”
Fox News has more details on that:
His wife Denise Lodge was taken into custody as well, along with Katrina Maclean of Salem, Massachusetts.
Three other suspects – Pennsylvania residents Joshua Taylor and Jeremy Pauley, along with Minnesota resident Matthew Lampi – were also indicted for their alleged involvement in the trafficking…
Lodge is accused of letting Maclean and Taylor visit the morgue, pick which parts of cadavers they would purchase, and then remove them. Many of the remains were reportedly shipped through the U.S. Postal Service.
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But, wait, it gets even worse.
You know the woman who purchased a skin to tan and two human faces from Lodger?
Yeah, she sold them as part of her “art” to people across the country…
Maclean, who allegedly sold the remains to buyers across the country, operated a business called Kat’s Creepy Creations.
“I am an artist of horror, macabre, oddities, and everything creepy,” her business’ Facebook page reads.
In one graphic situation, Maclean reportedly bought two “dissected faces” from Lodge for $600. In another, she allegedly shipped human skin to Jeremy Pauley, so he could turn it into leather.
The indictment states that Pauley allegedly sent over $40,000 to Taylor via Paypal. A total of $37,355.56 was sent by Taylor to an account operated by Denise Lodge, with memos including statements like “head number 7” and “braiiiiiins.”
Katrina MacLean is one of the body snatchers. She’s owns this store in Peabody MA 👀 pic.twitter.com/5t0OEIeHJe
— Romy (@RomyInMA) June 15, 2023
Absolutely vile.
By the way, here’s a photo of Jeremy Pauley, the guy accused of tanning the human skin for MacLean’s “art”:
And, here’s a photo of MacLean, posing with one of her creations (which may or may not contain real human body parts):
Despite being arrested for purchasing illegal human body parts and using them as arts and crafts, Katrina MacLean was ultimately let off the hook by a judge.
From CBS News:
The maximum sentence for this is 10 years but she was let go by the judge since this is a non-violent offense. She will have to report to court in Pennsylvania at some point. MacLean wiped away tears when she was told she could go home.
“She’s never been in trouble before and obviously this is very distressful,” MacLean’s attorney Gordon Spencer said outside court. “She just wants to be home with her family.”
What a joke.
Hopefully, Cedric Lodge won’t get off scot-free because some activist judge doesn’t want to make Harvard University look any worse than it already does.
To say this is yet another thing that tarnishes Harvard’s reputation is a huge understatement.
Shut the whole thing down.
Forget about pausing funding. Can we just shut Harvard down all together? https://t.co/ivOS8RUYal
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 24, 2025
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