US police reported that the director of a morgue at Harvard Medical School sold human body parts, including “two dissected faces”, to several buyers in the US and shipped them to them .
Cedric Lodge, director of the morgue since 1995, is accused of stealing donated human body parts, taking them to his home in Gouvestown, New Hampshire, and then selling them online.
The federal indictment, filed in Pennsylvania and released Wednesday, June 14, 2023, also includes the candidate’s manager’s wife, Denise, and two of the alleged purchasers; They are Katrina McClain and Joshua Taylor.
Theft of human remains
Katelyn McClain, owner of Kat’s Creepy Creations, is also accused of selling and storing human remains at her store in Peabody, Massachusetts. The FBI searched the property and her home in Salem in March.
Prosecutors allege that Katelyn McClain, Joshua Taylor, Cedric Lodge and his wife, Denise, stole human remains from the Harvard mortuary and transported them to New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, where Joshua lived, between 2018 and March of this year.
In addition, the director of the Harvard morgue is accused of stealing “heads, brains, skins, bones, and other human remains, without the knowledge or permission of the college, from the mortuary in Massachusetts, and transporting them to his residence in New Hampshire.”
Lodge and his wife allegedly sold the stolen body parts to Caitlin McClain, Joshua Taylor and others, “sometimes shipping these remains via the United States Postal Service to Pennsylvania and other places.”
Investigators also alleged that Lodge allowed McLean, Taylor and others into the morgue to choose which body parts they wanted to purchase.
Tanned human skin!
According to the indictment, McClain agreed to purchase “two dissected faces for $600” from Lodge. The two met in the morgue to make the deal in October 2020, according to the prosecution.
Taylor is said to have sent Dennis Lodge $1,000 in May 2019, along with a note that read “Head #7”. A subsequent note from Taylor allegedly included the words “brains” and that he paid Dennis a total of $37,000 for the body parts.
Maclean’s Instagram account says it specializes in “scary dolls, oddities and bone art”. Posts to the account include what appears to be a real human skull and a bag made of 11 human vertebrae.
Investigators allege that Caitlin McClain shipped human skin to a man in Pennsylvania in 2021 and “hired his services to tan the skin into leather”.
