According to the center area of Pennsylvania’s US attorney’s office, a former Harvard worker admitted to human trafficking in connection with the transport of stolen human remains. From 2018 to March 2020, CEDRIC LEE, 57, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, acknowledged his role in the sale and transportation of stolen man remains from the Boston, Massachusetts graveyard. Organs, brains, body, arms, faces, dissected heads, and other body parts were removed from donated cadavers by Lodge, who was then employed as the director of the Harvard Medical School Morgue. These were used for study but before their proper leisure as per donation agreements. Without the consent of his company, contributors, or their immediate families, Lodge transported these keeps to his New Hampshire house. According to a declaration from the Justice Department, he and his family Denise Lodge sold and shipped these bones to clients across states, using routes such as Salem, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Joshua Taylor and Andrew Ensanian, among others, have confirmed trading. These human bones were frequently resold for more money, including to Jeremy Pauley, who has already admitted to conspiracies and interstate transportation of stolen human remains. Many plaintiffs have pleaded guilty in related cases, including Angelo Pereyra, Joshua Taylor, Andrew Ensanian, Matthew Lampi, and Denise Lodge. Pereyra received an 18-month prison sentence while Lampi received a 15-month statement. Sentencing is pending between Denise Lodge and Joshua Taylor. Also, Candace Chapman-Scott, who stole remains from an Arkansas cremation and sold them to Pauley in Pennsylvania, received a 15-year jail sentence in federal court in Arkansas. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alisan Martin prosecuted the case while the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Postal Inspection Service, and East Pennsboro Township Police Department conducted the research. This crime is punishable by a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, supervised release after serving that sentence, and a great under federal law. After considering national sentencing laws and guidelines, the judge decides the word.
