Denise Lodge, 63, covered her face with a printout of the indictment against her Wednesday afternoon as she walked silently from the federal courthouse following her arrest on charges related to an alleged scheme to steal and sell donated body parts.

Her husband, Cedric Lodge, 55, the morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, had allegedly taken human remains from his workplace without permission and engaged in an interstate conspiracy to profit off of them. …

The alleged conspiracy ran from about 2018 until at least August 2022, as Cedric Lodge allegedly diverted organs and cadaver parts that had been donated for medical research and education, according to the indictment. The body parts in question were supposed to be cremated.

Denise Lodge, 43, of Goffstown was silent as she left the federal courthouse in Concord. Her husband, Cedric Lodge, 55, is accused of stealing body parts from the Harvard Medical School morgue. They’re charged in a connection with an alleged conspiracy to sell the remains. pic.twitter.com/UOzzQuVooG

— Steven Porter (@reporterporter) June 14, 2023

[How did this go on so long without detection at Harvard? They’ve never heard of audits? I suspect that people who plan to donate their bodies to science later will want answers to that now. — Ed]