19 ઑગસ્ટ, 2026

"As far back as 2018, Lodge had been stealing body parts — including 'heads, faces, brains, skin and hands' — which he’d then bring to his home..."

"... in New Hampshire and sell with his wife, prosecutors said, shipping them to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. In one horrifying example heard during his trial, Lodge provided skin to a buyer so it could be tanned into leather and bound into a book.... 'In another, Cedric and Denise Lodge sold a man’s face — perhaps to be kept on a shelf, perhaps to be used for something even more disturbing'...."

52 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

Bob Boyd કહ્યું...

What book?

MadTownGuy કહ્યું...

Eek

rehajm કહ્યું...

…decades ago when friends were at Harvard med four of us went to Bertucci’s for a pollomatch and some Peronis on a Saturday night. Afterwards the med students proposed we head over to the medical campus for a tour. They had keys all the labs, including the ‘cat’ lab and the cadaver room, where they enthausuasticly encouraged the business majors to partake in an ad hoc anatomy lesson. Cultural difference I suppose but it did occur to me there's not much security around the body to science donations. Still kind of shapes my feelings about the check bix on the driver’s license application…

baghdadbob કહ્યું...

Shame, shame. How will he save face?

Jamie કહ્યું...

Holy smokes!

Dave Begley કહ્યું...

This is not the first time this has happened. See details of a D.C. case below. Dr. Okoye ended up in Lincoln, Nebraska. Diversity.

"In May 1992, Dr. Okoye became the center of a high-profile investigation by D.C. police and federal authorities. He was accused of illegally removing and harvesting human organs and body parts during autopsies at the D.C. Medical Examiner's office and transferring them to private medical researchers.

The Allegations: Investigators looked into claims that Dr. Okoye performed unauthorized tissue and organ removals on cadavers. These body parts were reportedly forwarded to private research institutions without the knowledge or legally required consent of the deceased individuals' next of kin.

Dr. Okoye is a prominent forensic pathologist who completed his initial medical training in Nigeria before moving to the United States.

Dr. Okoye was relieved of his duties in D.C. in March 1991. During the investigation, he denied any commercial sales of body parts, maintaining that he was following long-established, approved institutional research protocols previously authorized by D.C. health officials. However, D.C. health commissioners at the time strongly denied ever giving authorization for organ harvesting without familial consent."

Quaestor કહ્યું...

What's more predictable than a morally corrupt institution employing and empowering morally corrupt people?

Bob Boyd કહ્યું...

"A judge initially dismissed the cases..."

Leora કહ્યું...

What book would you want to cover with human skin? I'd guess it's not by Jane Austen.

RideSpaceMountain કહ્યું...

"What book?"

*"Cedric and Denise Lodge sold a man’s face — perhaps to be kept on a shelf, perhaps to be used for something even more disturbing'"*

The face was turned into the Necronomicon.

Aggie કહ્યું...

One of their clients.

Quaestor કહ્યું...

Irma Grese got the long fall at the end of a short rope partly because of similar aggravating circumstances -- lampshades make from human skin, books bound with human leather, human heads displayed as trophies...

Harvard has gotten off entirely too lightly.

Quaestor કહ્યું...

"The face was turned into the Necronomicon."

Klaatu barada *cough-cough*

Jersey Fled કહ્યું...

Demonic.

rrsafety કહ્યું...

To be clear, Harvard was not selling "donated corpses on the black market".

Jamie કહ્યું...

"As far back as 2018" - I would have assumed this behavior was limited to no later than like 1920 in the Boston area, no later than 1950 in, say, rural Alaska! Clearly I've led a sheltered life.

Quaestor કહ્યું...

An M1 tank parked in front of Massachusetts Hall with its turbine engine idling is long overdue.

RideSpaceMountain કહ્યું...

"One of their clients."

Damn. Maynard from TOOL has really gone off the deep end.

FredSays કહ્યું...

Can I assume that these sales were via Facebook Marketplace?

Disparity of Cult કહ્યું...

Operational functions and departments at universities, the kind that Kip and Bitsy wouldn't notice or complain about, often have little or no oversight.

john mosby કહ્યું...

It’s great that tv ambulance chasers Morgan and Morgan got a piece of Harvard. I say this as a Harvard man. CC, JSM

William કહ્યું...

How do you do the marketing for a product line like that? if I were looking to have a custom bound collection of the complete works of Stephen King, I would probably discreetly inquire with a med school in Mexico. I wouldn't go to Harvard. Is there some Epstein like web of body part traffickers. You wouldn't think that there would be much demand for body parts from deceased people.

Iman કહ્યું...

WITF!

n.n કહ્યું...

Gosnell lite.

Scott Patton કહ્યું...

"Pennsylvania and elsewhere". I've been there! And so have you.

Tom T. કહ્યું...

"What book?"

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

BarrySanders20 કહ્યું...

It's always the buyers in Pennsylvania isn't it? Gotta watch them.

hombre કહ્યું...

Universities, like the Democrat Party that sponsors them, are havens for depravity. Look closely at Democrats’ candidates, their activists and their consorts. What form of turpitude is missing?

Ampersand કહ્યું...

Mary Roach's book "Stiff" gives you an idea of the many indignities to which donated cadavers are subjected. I vividly recall a chapter devoted to a plastic surgeon conference in which each attendee sat at a a large conference room table with their own personal detached cadaver head upon which they practiced nose jobs.
It made me think of the practice of turning one's deceased enemy's skull into a drinking vessel.

FullMoon કહ્યું...

Always wondered if memory of a skull with bullet hole in it was legit or some kind of childhood dream. Couple of months ago, reminiscing with my sister, she brought it up. Confirmed it was real. Wondering what happened to it, possibly ended up at Goodwill with other ww2 or Korean war memorabilia?

loudogblog કહ્યું...

"Eddie Gein is on the scene
With his sausage making machine.
He's lost his head
But he's got a heart
And various other body parts." - The Ziggens

gspencer કહ્યું...

"Lodge provided skin to a buyer so it could be tanned into leather and bound into a book"

from,
Family haunted by Nazi lampshade made of human skin,

A family said they have felt haunted for 80 years by a piece of a lampshade made from human skin seized from a concentration camp and brought home for evidence.

The macabre object was given to then-Caerphilly MP Ness Edwards, who went with a parliamentary delegation to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 to gather evidence of the horrors of the Holocaust.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx9l4x7xjno

gspencer કહ્યું...

Book,

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUbgGb2Y8qXTDvef2HpL8BwRoxfQ2WmLXxzHn4YrJeBwwUOrx3-l5rIZc&s=10

n.n કહ્યું...

The cannabilistic clinician. Starring in the little shop of horrors. A feature presentation in a neighborhood near you.

paminwi કહ્યું...

Ok. Why did no one who knew about this report it to the police when they saw these items for sale?
It’s the same question I have of those idiot kids who filled cocaine baggies as part of their hazing for a Penn State fraternity? Why is belonging so important that you wouldn’t think “Holy Shit, if this ever gets out I could be in trouble, too!”

Bob Boyd કહ્યું...

According to my sources Lodge also settled out of court for an undisclosed amount to avoid being sued for fraud by an angry client whose cherished purchase was discovered to be a radiator hose from a '67 Chevy Malibu.

Smilin' Jack કહ્યું...

Well, suppose you have a corpse with a very impressive work of tattoo art. Seems wrong to destroy the art just because the owner is gone. Let it live on and continue to delight others as a lampshade. They didn’t burn the Mona Lisa when DaVinci died.


FullMoon કહ્યું...

"Bob Boyd said...
According to my sources Lodge also settled out of court for an undisclosed amount to avoid being sued for fraud by an angry client whose cherished purchase was discovered to be a radiator hose from a '67 Chevy Malibu."

Yeah, he told me it was an esophagus!

Bob Boyd કહ્યું...

He told me he found it in an esophagus and it was likely the cause of death.

FullMoon કહ્યું...

"Bob Boyd said...
He told me he found it in an esophagus and it was likely the cause of death."

Dang it!, I shoulda kept it.

Peachypeachy કહ્યું...

Harvard… a joke

Wince કહ્યું...

"Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner?"

JaimeRoberto કહ્યું...

That's no way to get ahead.

FullMoon કહ્યું...

"Peachypeachy said...
Harvard… a joke"

Tuition costs an arm and a leg.

Jim at કહ્યું...

*Damn. Maynard from TOOL has really gone off the deep end.*

OK. That made me click on the link.
He does kinda look like him.

Bob Boyd કહ્યું...


Maybe Cedric will be having a going out of business sale. You have to give him credit, he had some skin in the game.

Bob Boyd કહ્યું...

What kind of sick sonuva bitch wants an esophagus?

Bob Boyd કહ્યું...

Would you like to come up to my room and see my esophagus?

Marcus Bressler કહ્યું...

I see that this was related to the concentration camp lampshade made of human skin -- I read a book about it quite a long time ago.

john mosby કહ્યું...

Then there was a LIFE magazine photo of a girl gazing lovingly at a Japanese skull her boyfriend sent her:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/young-woman-japanese-skull-1944/

CC, JSM

Bob Boyd કહ્યું...

"That's not an esophagus."

"What? Yes it is. I got it at Harvard. Harvard!"

"That's a radiator hose, dude."

"No it's not."

"It has a part number on it."

"Oh my God. This is embarrassing."

"Harvard Med School is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Never buy body parts at Harvard. Never buy auto parts there either."

"Never again. Look, I'm sorry, I brought you all the way up here, but the only body parts I can show you are still...like, pink."

"Oh well. Better than nothing."

Tina Trent કહ્યું...

Their medical school should lose its special academic nonprofit status, and all involved students be expelled and prosecuted for abusing a corpse, which is a crime.

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