Scandal at Harvard: They sold heads, brains and bones

Five people, including the director of the morgue at Harvard Medical School in the United States, were charged with buying and selling stolen body parts.

A lawsuit has been filed against morgue director Cedric Lodge and his wife for allegedly selling heads, brains, skin and bones they stole from cadavers donated to the university over the Internet.

According to the indictment, Lodge and his wife sold body parts online for thousands of dollars between 2018 and 2021. Lodge is alleged to allow outsiders into the morgue and choose the bodies they wish to retrieve.

ALLEGED PRODUCTION WITH HUMAN SKIN

It is alleged that the buyers also made leather products from the carcass parts they purchased.

Corpses donated for students to study at Harvard Medical School are then cremated, given to the owner’s relatives, or buried in the university cemetery.

“Some crimes are beyond our comprehension. Stealing and selling corpses is a blow to human values.