Also tanned human skin into leather, Harvard Medical School exposed a shocking case! A four person gang stealing corpses and selling organs and corpses | Taylor | Case
This week, a shocking gang theft case shocked American public opinion.
According to reports, a four person gang has been stealing corpses from Harvard Medical School morgues for a long time, cutting them into different parts and selling them to buyers across the United States. It is infuriating that the stolen body was voluntarily donated by the deceased to Harvard for medical research during their lifetime.
Harvard Medical School
On Wednesday local time, the grand jury officially filed charges against the four individuals involved: 55 year old morgue manager Cedric Lodge and his wife, 63 year old Dennis Lodge, 44 year old Katrina McClane, and 46 year old Joshua Taylor. According to court documents, McClane owns and operates a store where she and Taylor are responsible for contacting buyers to "select goods," while the Rocky couple "inside out" help them transport the bodies from the morgue.
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The federal prosecutor wrote in a statement, "Sometimes Cedric Rocky would allow McClane and Taylor to enter the morgue at Harvard Medical School to examine the condition of the body and choose which organ to purchase. In some cases, Taylor would transport the stolen body back to Pennsylvania himself. In other cases, the Rocky couple would help transport the stolen body to Taylor and others."
The indictment states that Cedric Lodge "stole the anatomical parts of the donated body, such as the skull, brain, skin, bones, and other human remains, without the knowledge or permission of Harvard Medical School.".
Human skeletal model
The court documents also show that the Rocky couple will contact buyers through websites and mobile phones. The document does not provide a detailed explanation of the buyer's purpose for purchasing body parts, but mentions that McClane once shipped human skin to a man in Pennsylvania, asking him to "sun tan human skin to make leather."
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The indictment states that from September 3, 2018 to July 12, 2021, Taylor made a total of 39 payments to Dennis Lodge's PayPal account, totaling over $37000. On May 19, 2019, Taylor's memo message for a payment was "Head 7", and the transaction message on November 20, 2020 was "Brain".
Taylor's lawyer refused to discuss the case. The Rocky couple and McClane's lawyer also did not comment on this.
Harvard Medical School said in a statement, "We were all shocked to learn that such a disturbing thing would happen on our campus. The reported incident is a betrayal of Harvard Medical School."