Harvard Medical School Employee Among 6 Charged With Stealing, Selling Human Body Parts From Morgues

Students walk through Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on March 12, 2020. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

A former Harvard Medical School employee and his wife were among six individuals to be indicted by a federal grand jury on June 14 after allegedly stealing human body remains—including the corpses of two stillborn babies—from both the school and an Arkansas mortuary and selling them to buyers across the country.

Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, and his wife, Denise Lodge, 63, were indicted on charges of conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.