Wife of Ex-Harvard Morgue Manager Pleads Guilty to Transporting Stolen Human Remains

WILLIAMSPORT. Pa.—The wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after investigators said she shipped stolen human body parts—including hands, feet, and heads—to buyers. Denise Lodge, 64, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania to a charge of interstate transportation of stolen goods, according to court records. Federal prosecutors last year announced charges against Ms. Lodge, her husband Cedric, and five other people in an alleged scheme in which a nationwide network of people bought and sold human remains stolen from Harvard and a mortuary in Arkansas....