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Hey, it's Ali Jarmannin, host and reporter of postmortem, the stolen bodies of Harvard.

And I'm dropping back into your feed because I have a couple of updates.

When the podcast series wrapped a year and a half ago,

there was still a couple of outstanding criminal cases we knew we wanted to follow.

And that's what I've been doing over the last year and a half.

The wheels of justice move very slowly.

But since I last spoke to you, Cedric Lodge, the former morgue manager at Harvard, he has pled guilty and been sentenced.

So is his wife.

And so is Jeremy Pauley.

That's the guy whose arrest unraveled this whole crazy scheme. So I'm here with Amory Sivertson,

host of Beyond All Repair, a colleague and friend at WBUR, and we're going to talk through

some of the things that have happened. Hey, Amory. Hey, Allie. You've had quite a week, I will say.

Can you just remind us who Cedric Lodge is and what we knew about him?

So Cedric was a Boston native, had spent almost three decades working in the morgue at Harvard Medical School, had done his job seemingly well, quietly, but was charged along with a slew of other people in June 2023 with stealing body parts from Harvard Medical School.

And these parts came from bodies that were donated to the school, people who wanted medical students to learn from them.

They're called anatomical gifts, is how Harvard puts it.

And so federal prosecutors charged him, his wife, several alleged buyers with taking those body parts, faces, skin, hearts, lungs, brains.

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