Harvard morgue manager and wife sentenced in body parts theft scheme
Cedric Lodge, a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager, was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts from donated cadavers, with his wife receiving a year for aiding him. The scheme involved shipping body parts like brains, skin, and faces to buyers, treating human remains as commodities, which led to Harvard suspending body donations temporarily. The case highlights serious ethical violations in body handling and trafficking.