Harvard morgue manager indicted for trafficking stolen body parts.
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Five people, including the former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, Cedric Lodge, have been indicted for allegedly stealing and selling body parts from cadavers donated to the school. Lodge and the other defendants are accused of carrying out a black market body parts scheme from roughly 2018 to 2022. The buyers mostly resold the body parts. Harvard Medical School cooperated with the investigation, and the school is searching its records to determine which donors' body parts may have been trafficked.
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