Former Harvard Morgue Manager, Wife Sentenced for Stealing and Selling Body Parts

Several of the buyers have been sentenced to prison or are awaiting sentencing.

Denise Lodge (L) covers her face as she walks from the federal courthouse in Concord, N.H., on June 14, 2023. Steven Porter/The Boston Globe via AP, File

A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling human body parts donated for scientific research, the Department of Justice said.

Cedric Lodge, 58, was sentenced on Dec. 16 during a hearing in federal court in Pennsylvania. His wife, Denise Lodge, 65, received a sentence of 12 months and one day in prison.