{"id":162467,"date":"2023-06-21T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/harvard-morgue-director-accused-of-selling-corpses\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:13:16","slug":"harvard-morgue-director-accused-of-selling-corpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/harvard-morgue-director-accused-of-selling-corpses\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard morgue director accused of selling corpses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students and teachers from the prestigious Harvard University, in the United States, were surprised when the theft and commercialization of human remains from the morgue of said institution was reported.<\/p>\n

Cedric Lodge, director of the morgue at Harvard Medical School, was singled out as primarily responsible for stealing and trading the corpses.<\/p>\n

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Lodge took advantage of his position as head of the Anatomical Donations Program to dismember and sell the cadavers, which were supposed to be used by medical students for medical procedures.<\/p>\n

Early investigative reports confirm that Lodge took unauthorized \u201cheads, brains, skin and bones\u201d from cadavers donated to the Medical School, which were sold online to buyers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts between 2018 and 2021. Lodge’s wife reportedly helped make the sales without being detected by the law.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that donated bodies are usually cremated at the end of their use in medical practices and the ashes are delivered to relatives, or they can be buried in the university’s medical cemetery, something that Lodge and his wife did not respect.<\/p>\n

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Among the buyers who were part of these acts are Katrina \u201cN\u201d, a native of Salem and owner of a gothic store, and Joshua \u201cN\u201d, a citizen of West Lawn, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Katrina reportedly bought dissected faces for $600, while Joshua made 39 “purchases” for various stolen body parts in the last four years. In addition, in an electronic transfer found in Logan’s account, an invoice from a third buyer under the concept “head number 7” was detected, acquired for a value of one thousand dollars.<\/p>\n

Despite the evidence, Lodge, his wife, Katrina and Joshua have not released a public statement on the matter and it is feared they will not because they are still under investigation. On the other hand, legal experts affirm that if they are guilty of charges of conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen goods, each would be facing a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students and teachers from the prestigious Harvard University, in the United States, were surprised when the theft and commercialization of human remains from the morgue of said institution was reported. Cedric Lodge, director of the morgue at Harvard Medical School, was singled out as primarily responsible for stealing and trading the corpses. Lodge took advantage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":162468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10746],"tags":[12331,25978,10934,21941,38531,12204],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.okchicas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Director-de-la-morgue-en-Harvard-es-acusado-de-vender-cadaveres.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}