Harvard Morgue Body Part Buyers Tied to Facebook Oddities Group

Members of an alleged conspiracy involving human body parts stolen from Harvard Medical School’s morgue and an Arkansas crematorium connected through a private Facebook group for buying and selling “oddities,” according to court filings.

“Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully in tact embalmed brain?” a Little Rock, Arkansas, funeral home contractor named Candace Chapman Scott asked in an October 2021 Facebook Messenger note to accused dealer Jeremy Pauley in Pennsylvania, federal prosecutors say.

Jeremy Pauley

Source: Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office

Seven people in five states, including Cedric Lodge, 55, who was the longtime manager of Harvard’s morgue, were ...