USA v. Lodge, et al.
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4:23-cr-00159
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May 22, 2025
Ex-Harvard Morgue Manager Cops To Trafficking Body Parts
A former manager of Harvard Medical School's morgue pled guilty on Wednesday to trafficking human remains donated for research, including brains and skin, that he stole from the morgue as part of a nationwide scheme that prosecutors said had many body parts resold.
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April 17, 2025
Ex-Harvard Morgue Manager Takes Plea Over Stolen Remains
Harvard Medical School's former morgue manager plans to plead guilty to one criminal count in a case alleging he stole and sold human remains from cadavers in his care to a network of "oddities" buyers across the country.
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April 15, 2025
Pa. Man To Plead Guilty In Harvard Body Parts Theft Case
A Pennsylvania man will plead guilty to a federal charge for transporting body parts that were allegedly stolen from cadavers by the manager of Harvard Medical School's morgue, according to a Tuesday filing.
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March 18, 2025
Feds Reject 'Absurd' Defense In Harvard Body Parts Case
Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania have blasted an "absurd argument" that a stolen-goods law doesn't criminalize buying and selling body parts stolen from cadavers donated to the Harvard Medical School's morgue.
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March 03, 2025
Oddities Shop Owner Says Collecting Body Parts Not Criminal
A woman accused of taking part in an interstate ring buying and selling human remains allegedly stolen by the former director of Harvard University's morgue asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss an indictment against her, arguing that charges of transporting stolen goods don't apply to body parts.
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February 21, 2024
Morgue Manager's Wife Cops To Role In Body Part Sales
The wife of a Harvard University morgue manager will cop to interstate transport of stolen goods for her role in the alleged scheme to steal and sell human remains to a nationwide network, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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September 08, 2023
Defendant In Harvard Body Theft Case Pleads Guilty
One of the defendants charged in connection with the alleged theft and sale of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue pled guilty Thursday to his role in buying and reselling human remains both from Harvard and an Arkansas mortuary, federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced.
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June 14, 2023
Harvard Morgue Manager Charged With Selling Body Parts
The manager of Harvard Medical School's morgue stole and sold human remains to a network of individuals around the country, federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania said Wednesday, actions the school called disturbing and "morally reprehensible."