In a shocking development in the USA, a group of people have been arrested on federal charges after investigators accused them of taking part in a nationwide scheme to buy, sell and ship human remains across the country.
A total of 7 people has been arrested and charged with stealing and selling human remains from mortuaries at the prestigious Harvard Medical school and from the University of Arkansas for these offences that were committed over a course of time.
These arrests involve an underground and shady network of people that had robbed corpses - including the bodies of two stillborn infants - at Harvard Medical School’s Anatomical Gifts Program and an Arkansas mortuary and crematorium.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says that this conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen organs and cadavers had occurred between 2018 and 2022.
The FBI stated in a release that the manager of the morgue of Harvard medical school, Cedric Lodge, has been taken into custody without incident, along with his wife Denise Lodge and alleged co-conspirator Katrina Maclean, who owns a curiosities store in Salem.
4 other people have also been charged in Pennsylvania for allegedly trafficking stolen human remains.
A seventh person, Candace Chapman Scott, of Little Rock, Arkansas, has already been indicted earlier.
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