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Seven people including the morgue manager at Harvard Medical School were arrested and charged with stealing and selling human remains from mortuaries at the Ivy League school and the University of Arkansas, prosecutors said.
The arrests involved an underground network that robbed corpses — including the bodies of two stillborn infants — at Harvard Medical School’s Anatomical Gifts Program and an Arkansas mortuary and crematorium, U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam said in a statement Wednesday.
Cedric Lodge, 55, allegedly stole the remains from the university morgue, where he worked, and sold the body parts online with the help of his wife, Denise, 63, to associates Katrina Maclean, 44; Joshua Taylor, 46; and Matthew Lampi, 52.
Officials said that one of Lampi’s clients, Jeremy Pauley, bought and sold body parts with him, with the two exchanging more than $100,000 with each other.
Pauley eventually led detectives to Candace Chapman Scott, who is accused of stealing cadavers slated for cremation in Little Rock and selling them to Pauley in Pennsylvania.
