Cedric Lodge: Grave Mistake

Cedric Lodge: Grave Mistake

August 17, 2026 · 39 min · Season 14 · Episode 55

About this episode

This episode explores the case of Cedric Lodge, a morgue manager who stole body parts from donated cadavers and sold them online, betraying the trust of grieving families.

On this episode of The Opportunist, Cedric Lodge spent nearly three decades as a trusted morgue manager at Harvard Medical School - until he was caught stealing body parts from donated cadavers and selling them online to collectors across the country. The episode traces how a man entrusted with the remains of people who gave their bodies to science turned that access into a black market, betraying hundreds of grieving families in the process. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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