A man in the state of Kentucky, in the United States, used at least 40 skulls and other human remains to decorate his house.
The FBI made the discovery and linked the subject to a network of people who dedicated to buying and selling body parts in which a morgue manager from Harvard Medical School participated.
FBI agents went Tuesday to the apartment of the now detainee with a search warrant and, when asked if anyone else was home, he said:
“Just my dead friends,” according to the FBI affidavit shared by CNN.
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Spinal cords, femurs, hip bones…
Skulls were scattered throughout the house, one of them wearing a headscarf and another in the mattress on which he slept.
The agents also found spinal cords, femurs, hip bones and a bag from Harvard Medical School.
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The detainee has not been charged with crimes related to body parts, but faces a federal charge of possession of a firearm being a “prohibited person” due to his status as a convicted felon.
As early as 2011, the defendant pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered destructive device, after a detonating cord, ignition devices, fuses were found on him timers and other materials that could be used to assemble “a destructive device.”
Former Harvard morgue director accused of stealing and selling human remains
Former Harvard Medical School morgue director is one of the five people indicted by a grand jury for stealing and selling body parts donated to the college, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reported.
Cedric Lodge, 55, who was fired May 6, and others involved were charged with running a black market body parts scheme from about 2018 to 2022, the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said in a statement.
One of the defendants lives in Scranton , Pa.
Prosecutors said Lodge, who was hired by Harvard in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1995, would sometimes let potential buyers into the school morgue to examine corpses and select which parts buy.
(Europa Press and Reuters)
