PENNSYLVANIA — A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, his wife, and a Peabody business owner pled not guilty to conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods charges in Pennsylvania federal court on Tuesday.
Cedric Lodge, 55, his wife, Denise Lodge, 63, both of Goffstown, New Hampshire, and Katrina Maclean, 44, of Salem, owner of Kat’s Creepy Creations in Peabody, are among several people accused of trafficking body parts stolen from the school’s morgue that were intended for use by researchers in a grotesque multi-state scheme, with some of the body parts sold via Facebook and PayPal and shipped through U.S. Postal Service mail, court documents allege.
According to court documents, Maclean is being released on several conditions.
Cedric Lodge is accused of allowing people to visit the Harvard morgue where he worked as manager to “examine cadavers to choose what to purchase,” prosecutors said.
Denise Lodge also allegedly sold cadaver remains to Joshua Taylor, also indicted on the trafficking charges and others by using her cell phone and social media websites, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
According to the indictment filed in U.S. District in Pennsylvania back on June 15, from 2018 to March of this year, the Lodges, Maclean and Taylor all conspired with Pauley and others to transport the stolen body parts from Boston to New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. At times, they allegedly used the U.S. Postal Service to ship the remains.
Maclean is accused of selling the stolen remains “to buyers in multiple states” including Pauley in Pennsylvania, and she also “stored and sold stolen remains at Kat’s Creepy Creations,” the indictment states.
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