WILLIAMSPORT-The former manager of the on-site morgue at the Harvard Medical School has admitted stealing human remains and with his wife, selling and shipping them.

Cedric Lodge, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. Middle District court to a charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods.

He admitted stealing human remains including organs, brains, skin, hands, feet, spines and skulls from donated cadavers after their use for research and teaching purposes was completed.

The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years but the guidelines recommend no jail time to six months. The government plans to seek an enhancement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alisan V. Martin said.

In reviewing the evidence, the prosecutor said between 2018 and 2022 Lodge stole body parts and his wife Denise shipped them to buyers including Andrew Ensanian in Lycoming County and Joshua Taylor in Berks County.

Martin did not put an exact value on the transactions but said it exceeded $5,000.

When Denise Lodge pleaded guilty in April 2024 to the same charge as her husband, it was revealed that Taylor sent her PayPal account more than $37,000.

A stipulation read at the same proceeding stated the items attributable to Denise Lodge were sold for between $40,000 and $95,000. She is awaiting sentencing.

When Taylor last Thursday pleaded guilty to the same charge, he admitted between September 2018 and July 2022 buying body parts from Denise Lodge and selling them to individuals including Jeremy L. Pauley, a former East Pennsboro resident.

Pauley, who now lives in Susquehanna County, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty in September 2023 to charges of conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen goods.

He admitted buying and selling body parts and in a recorded FBI interview said it is his living and he made $180,000 doing so in 2022.

Pauley also pleaded guilty in Cumberland County to possessing stolen body parts and was placed on two years’ probation.

The remains Cedric Lodge admitted stealing had been donated to Harvard as part of its anatomical gifts program.

Once their educational use ended, the cadavers were to be cremated with the ashes either returned to the donor or disposed of properly.

Candance Chapman Scott of Little Rock, Arkansas, who worked for a mortuary there, admitted stealing body parts that had been donated to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

She received a 15-year prison sentence and was fined $2,000. She also was ordered to pay restitution to the mother of one of two fetuses she admitted stealing.

Cedric Lodge is the eighth person to plead guilty in the nationwide network of individuals charged with buying and shipping stolen human remains. That includes Scott who was prosecuted in Arkansas.

Only Katrina Maclean of Salem, Massachusetts, is awaiting trial in the case in which those charged have been described as collectors of “oddities” that encompass human body parts.

Matthew Lampi of East Bethel, Minnesota, admitted when he pleaded guilty he bought from Pauley the remains of a stillborn boy named Lux stolen by Scott from the Arkansas mortuary.

Pauley sent Lampi the remains of Lux along with $1,550 in exchange for five human skulls, Camoni said.

Brann sentenced Lampi in January to 15 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Ensanian and Angelo Pereyra, of Wichita, Kansas, were indicted separately. Pereyra admitted stealing remains from Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, where he had worked, and arranging to sell them to Ensanian by eBay.

Pereyra was sentenced in January to 18 months in prison. Ensanian is awaiting sentencing.