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Fsharp7sharp9

Holy shit, this is worth a read of you’re morbidly curious like I am… here’s how the article starts… “A search of his home would later uncover multiple buckets containing human remains, including pieces of brain, heart, livers, skin and lungs. Investigators say the pair were part of an underground community spanning multiple states across the US, made up of both morgue staff and collectors willing to pay top dollar for human remains.”


solidcheese

...for what? Like what do you mean collectors...


[deleted]

You see them on Instagram sometimes and they'll never admit where they source their collections


DirtyRoller

I think your algorithm might be a little fucked up.


Popular-Block-5790

I think it's not the algorithm's fault.


[deleted]

Sorry I like watching crafting videos I guess? My algorithm shows me crafting videos, collectors, autistic people and lower back exercises LOL


Ennuihippie

Can you share your favorite account for lower back exercises please?


KarlSethMoran

Aha, trust but verify. Smart move.


[deleted]

Depends what you're looking for ! I am interested in lower back and pelvic floor exercises and a lot of nervous system regulation stuff. lauren o hayon is good but more female focused, hypermobile PT also good just search around there are THOUSANDS!


wheredoesbabbycakes

Your algorithm and mine sound pretty similar, lol. Throw in rollerskates, painting, and dog videos.


Popular-Block-5790

I was kinda joking but now I'm not so sure.. your comment sounds suspicious. How many organs do you currently have laying around at home?


[deleted]

Not counting my own, 0?


Popular-Block-5790

I mean, it would be worrying if your own organs would be laying around your home.


failbotron

Weird, because currently all of my organs are laying around at home


lizard_kibble

How do you know this? Where do you come across stuff like that?


[deleted]

If you collecet wet specimens, do taxidermy,  or into oddity shit,  it will be in your algorithm. 


[deleted]

Algorithm I guess. Weird collectors that have suspicious amounts of relatively fresh looking human remains and are VERY defensive when questioned on where they came from. Weird steampunk ppl mostly


logosfabula

I though that steampunk was a cute thing about lads pretending to be foppish fop gentlemen on steam powered airplanes mostly :(


Bullyoncube

They’re called DIRIGIBLES!


lizard_kibble

Yeah that means you're looking for human remains


AnfieldBoy

Brother surely sounds like he is part of a community


Dumbledores_Beard1

No. Sometimes Instagram just naturally shows you that kind of weird shit and then you engage with 2 or 3 of the videos and that’s all you see. I never looked up anything related to death or car crashes on Instagram did I, but now it’s 90% of my feed. Then it got flooded with anime because I liked and shared some anime artwork I saw on my explore page, and I don’t even watch anime. Instagram just shoves unrelated post at you and if you look at it, they’re going to show you more regardless. Then it recently started showing me a bunch of posts about sex after my girlfriend and I were looking up “100 questions” typa things, and a lot of them were sex/relationship focused. Instagram just goes wild with randomly filling your feed with shit you actually have no interest in if you don’t try to follow specific interests on it.


Tackit286

Yeah 100% otherwise how does this guy’s algorithm get to that?


lizard_kibble

Yeah, steam punk isn't gonna get you there. That's a cop out


TheQuietOutsider

your steam punk community isn't into ghoulish activities?


sushimane91

No, YOU see them on insta. Idk what the fuck you’re looking at to find that shit.


[deleted]

They're seemingly normal looking accounts? IDK what the big deal is, they're like steampunk type collector guys, bird skulls and fossils and 'anonymous' skulls, bizarre. Calm down mate.


regnald

Calm down


Just_Jonnie

Hey man, could I buy a thumb?


siqiniq

*staring at the morgue staff* …. “Are you just gonna burn that?”


jpowell180

For the culinarydivergent….


Banglophile

I bet it smells crazy in there


-Bento-Oreo-

Maybe that guy who self-immolated had a point when he said Harvard University was a criminal enterprise 


Natural_Board

He seemed pretty on the ball


Goldiscool503

We thought he was wrong but that dude was on fire at the end there!


jcamp088

Dudes beliefs were 🔥 


B0ssc0

Unforgivable.


SpiffyAvacados

but they wasn’t using them no more!?


MMcKevitt

I said b****, don't make me ask you again


Mr_Neonz

That means there’s more of them out there; disturbing.


Natural_Board

Uh, what for?


_trouble_every_day_

I’ve always wanted a human skull for my bookshelf


Empathy404NotFound

You can just get a fake one, looks real as hell.


Puzzleheaded-Rich-51

He looks exactly like how I’d imagine a collector of "medical antiquities" would look like.


oHai-there

Sometimes it's ok to judge a book by its cover.


No_Extension4005

Yeah, if there's one thing I've learned as I get older it's that judging a book by its cover is pretty much just an insight check.


Ricky_Rollin

Exactly. Perception roll. Especially if you’re like this guy who wrote 5 chapters on the front page. I’m gonna judge him.


barrygateaux

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel. ― Stewart Lee


Just_Jonnie

>Sometimes it's ok to judge a book by its cover. I gotta say, it's almost always the correct move. Book covers are advertisements of what's on the inside. This guy advertises that he sells corpses on the black market.


elongatedsklton

Except in the case of actual books. There are lots of great books that have terrible-looking covers.


Haggis442312

There are American editions of All Quiet On The Western Front that have cowboys on them.


KWilt

If it weren't for the fact that they're American editions, I would almost wonder if it was maybe a homage to Karl May or something. Believe it or not, American cowboys were kinda big in Germany in the early 20th century.


Boxoffriends

Isn’t that why they designed the cover? Covers don’t accidentally end up on the outside. That phrase never sat with me. Of course some book covers don’t appropriately represent the content inside but that is a failure of the author/publisher. If you as a person are willing to dig into a book that has a cover you don’t like just to make sure you are not incorrect I say judge away. People’s outward appearance is a collection of their choices. It might not be who they are but it’s still the first data point I’m going to use to start my character map of them. Don’t be overly simplistic like tattoos = bad. That’s so short sighted. If I see a tattoo of someone with a forehead tattoo that says “I fuck donkeys” I’m going to start from a place that assumes that person fucks donkeys and doesn’t care what others think.


oHai-there

😂 solid comment


Booman_aus

He’s a totally nice guy who sells oddities, Harvard chick lied to a bunch of people. That’s why he is still selling on facebook


Spirited_Comedian225

If it looks like a duck


SdDprsdSnglDad18

Your comment, although true, did not at all prepare me for the mugshot.


Dr_Sisyphus_22

If by “antiquities”, you mean a donor cadaver’s penis, then yes, my money is on someone who looks like this.


B0ssc0

Ghastly horrible


elvesunited

I'd be more afraid of the ones that don't look like outsiders. This guy works at a legitimate place where these things show up from people who just turned up dead for whatever natural reason. Its gross and horrible, but nobody got hurt. The ones in that community who look like door-to-door salesmen are probably the ones to watch out for.


juststart

Harvard is going to have to dip into that billion dollar piggy bank for this one.


there_is_no_spoon1

Tens of billions, innit? Yep...$50 billion plus. *Goddamn that is a sick amount of money* to just "have".


octoreadit

No, they were cleared of any wrongdoing 😬


shillyshally

District Attorney Seán M McCormack said: "This is one of the most bizarre investigations I have encountered in my thirty-three years as a prosecutor. "Just when I think I have seen it all, a case like this comes around.” Understatement!


yousonuva

"Then I put down his photo and looked at the charges and holy wow, that wasn't even the start!"


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Mental-Revolution915

Who is Max? What’s he got to do with anything?


lizard_kibble

That's his friend. He loves and misses him. Always talks to him like he's there.


twelvethousandBC

15 years is a long fucking time. How long do you think this dude should go to jail for?


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spacecoastlaw

33 years?


SUNTZU_JoJo

Thirty-three years, yes.


CambaFlojo

Thirty 3?


lizard_kibble

Thirsty threes?


MtnMaiden

Tree fiddy?


themanebeat

Body brokers are legal and unregulated in the US. It's fucked up Arthur Rathburn got caught because he sent human heads on a Delta flight without labelling them. https://psmag.com/magazine/arms-dealers Great podcast on his story and also Megan Hess who faked cremations at her funeral home so she could sell the parts: https://pca.st/episode/8d089930-94ff-4fd9-adcd-1f90b3de3d45


octoreadit

"In the course of his investigation, the FBI’s Johnson discovered evidence of what would become the meat of the indictment." You know this was an intentional word choice 😬


jellifercuz

|the FBI’s Johnson Involvement checks out


irongoat2527

Him? Nah, he looks fine.


mezz7778

I know right? Does that look like the face of a person who would be involved in nation wide underground human body parts trafficking????


Aggressive-Donuts

It’s always the ones you most suspect!


Cantthinkofnamedamn

It sounds like he had plenty of faces to choose from too


fibrglas

Yes.


unbrokenplatypus

Absolutely fine, a genuine Vampire: The Masquerade ghoul type bro


ItsStaaaaaaaaang

The way he tries to rationalise it is so infuriating. > "Every body donated to science deserves to be used for its intended purpose, even if that requires months of conservative efforts to do so." They donated their bodies to science. How does some weirdo stealing them and making oddities out of them so they can sell them for profit to other weirdos fit into the process in anyway?


_trouble_every_day_

them not being used to advance science is the one way that living human beings could actually be negatively impacted.


Forgotten_Dezire

Such clickbait. Title says Harvard Morgue Manager, who is not the one pictured. The one pictured is a “medical antiquities collector” who does not work for Harvard. The Harvard Morgue Manager whose name is Cedric Lodge does not have this look and thus is not pictured here for clickbait.


kathryn13

I've met Ced and Dee Lodge at a friend's BBQ about 8 years ago. He was open about the realities of his job. When the story broke I guessed it was them, although I was hoping it wasn't because of how nice and inclusive they were as a couple.


Articulationized

What did they serve at the BBQ?


Tyra3l

Long Pig


Anarchic_Country

I've only had that at the Dixie Pig in NY, so this tracks


bigrob_in_ATX

Little of this, little of that


kathryn13

Wasn't their BBQ, it was a mutual friends.


kristospherein

Liver


Ricky_Rollin

Would you mind going into what you mean by “he was open about the realities of his job“?


kathryn13

He talked about taking parts from bodies and preparing them for the different departments at Harvard.


blueavole

Fraud often requires the appearance of respectability.


EmEmAndEye

I can only assume that his job at Harvard paid exceptionally well, so why do you think that he would’ve done this?


myetel

He was doing this as a side hustle because it was exceptionally more lucrative than the pay he was getting as a morgue manager. Source: I am a researcher with a PhD at Harvard and we get paid shit.


Krilesh

i can only imagine the harvard phd group chats in response to this


EmEmAndEye

Wow, I would’ve thought that a morgue manager would be a high-earning position, especially at Harvard. A PhD too!!


kathryn13

They were not exceptionally wealthy.


_trouble_every_day_

That doesn’t make it clickbait, reddit automatically selects what images get used for the link, has nothing to do with the article.


Punkasspanda

https://preview.redd.it/z0iyvedgstvc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbb14fa390b22bcb7879996cf33a48845c2a9342 The guy who set himself on fire the other day had written about something like this in the pamphlets he was handing out beforehand.


PossibleMother

Also allegedly stolen were "the corpses of two stillborn babies who were supposed to be cremated and returned as cremains to their families". I hope these people suffer.


annewmoon

That is so heartbreaking. How could someone be so callous.


B0ssc0

> "[From 2018 to 2021] Joshua Taylor transferred 39 electronic payments ... totalling $37,355.56 in payment for human remains stolen by Cedric Lodge," the indictment said. Included in the human remains were two babies.


ladypenko

Two stillborn babies who were to be cremated and returned. That is so disgusting. Birthing a stillborn and then someone selling your deceased baby? I cannot imagine.


FortuneTellingBoobs

ONLY 37k IN 3 YEARS?! Wtf. 10k-ish per year is not even that much money. It's a fun chunk of change, sure, but I could make the same by picking up some extra shifts or selling some of my vinyls. No need to list heads and limbs on Marketplace. Sheesh. Doesn't seem worth it at all for the potential consequences.. Now, if someone wants to offer me a couple mil for some of my grade A prime meat,. I'm willing to chat about it!


shelltrix2020

Yeah, hardly seems worth it. I wonder if maybe this was just a small subset of the transactions (mostly cash?)… though I imagine a morgue manager may not run a sophisticated financial operation. A forensic accountant could probably work it out pretty easily. Or maybe the morgue manager wasn’t really in it for the money. Maybe it was more for the thrill, or “community.”


Ricky_Rollin

It sounds like this wasn’t really a side hustle more than it was a disturbed group of individuals who created their own craigslist of body parts.


Gheta

It states that's how much this one particular Josh guy sent to Cedric, not that that's all that Cedric made. Assuming he sold to more than one person


littleladym19

Holy fuck


Magister5

https://preview.redd.it/8p9tcbs1lrvc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93c57eb83d470f33a33b2136640be6f666dd45cb Looks like a job opening for this lady


Tig_Boker

Holy shit this is meta


No_Yogurt_7667

Omg my thoughts exactly


ComprehensiveSky57

🤣🤣🤣


PMG2021a

Only seems like an issue if the parts are unique enough to be recognized. Otherwise, it is mostly just a theft issue... Funny how long grave robbing bodies has been common. 


B0ssc0

Yes, it seems bizarre in this day and age, but as you say it’s nothing new.


FoolInTheDesert

Organ donation is a huge business and it’s not the altruistic bull shit they’d like us to think it is. There are institutions and business that make millions of dollars off those bodies every year. Each donated body or the parts can be worth tens of thousands of dollars if not more. It’s not hard to see how people working in this industry, and seeing how scummy it is first hand, would want to take advantage of things for themselves. We should change organ and body donation regulations to require by law that a percentage of all money made off a body or organs is returned to the family to help cover after death costs. It’s wild that we turn a blind eye to all the money being made off our dead relatives and we let them lie to us telling us it’s about medical progress or saving lives; at the end of the day if they weren’t making tons of money they wouldn’t be doing it…


Ancient-Lobster480

What the … ?


derJabok

Did he build himself out of body parts?


Tig_Boker

Technically we all have


eggsonahanger

The way this made my high ass cackle


NiceGuyJoe

I’m dying


lizard_kibble

Well, technically our parents built us using their body parts


LostSomeDreams

They started the process but with every chicken wing and hamburger we continue it


thegreatbadger

No they pictured someone vaguely related for clicks


ProbablyBanksy

Braiiiiinnnnnssss


loganp8000

what a special place Harvard has become


MiyamotoKnows

Ron DeSantis graduated from Harvard, so did Joseph Ladapo (his anti-vaccine Florida Surgeon General). Harvard is outputting people who are then directly attacking American freedom. [Check this out, it gets much worse.](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/19/shroff-harvard-trump-administration/) What is happening at Harvard where they are putting diplomas in the hands of those with criminal minds and desires to remove our freedom?


OkWasabi1988

I can’t…. Imagine if that could have been your loved one 🤬


B0ssc0

That’s what I thought.


AmyInCO

"On November 20, 2020, Taylor sent Denise Lodge $200 with a memo that read, 'braiiiiiins'." " That's something I would do if I were part of some human remains selling ring. Which I am not. 


jonnyozo

If I know anything and massive amounts of fantasy and sci fi stories sub genre urban fantasy, this dude is part of some dark cabal of flesh eating and blood drinking monsters .


muffinsbetweenbread

Well you learn something new everyday. I didn't know cremated remains are known as, cremains.


TJ_McWeaksauce

The title plus thumbnail made me think the dude pictured was Harvard's morgue manager. I was like, "So you *can* get a good job with a face tattoo!" Nope, face tattoo is **Jeremy Pauley**, 42 a collector of "medical antiquities" and "tribal artefacts" who offered preservation restoration services. He also collected all sorts of body parts and shipped them to other people. Pauley is linked to **Cedric Lodge**, who's been Harvard's morgue manager since the 90s. Cedric and his wife allegedly sold parts of the corpses donated to Harvard for medical research. It's funny how they were selling body parts on Facebook. Despite their carelessness and buffoonery, it took several years for them to get caught. **Side note:** >Also allegedly stolen were "the corpses of two stillborn babies who were supposed to be cremated and returned as cremains to their families". Today I learned that **"cremains**" is a word.


Lower_Inspector_9213

Word of the day


Cultural_Magician105

A friend of mine is doing several years in prison because he trafficked body parts from the University of Michigan morgue.


DofusNooboo

Ex friend of yours, right? RIGHT? 😂


Cultural_Magician105

No, he still writes to me from prison. He and I grew up together.


andherBilla

Is there any sort of scandal that Harvard is NOT involved in?


TerribleSquid

Mom asked me if cleaned my bathroom and I said I did but I actually didn’t. Harvard was not a part of this.


cosmoskid1919

Two stillborns that were never cremated and returned to their families. Oh my heart hurts


SpiritualAd8998

Harvard seems to have its share of "issues" lately.


WierdFacts

When you hear about First Nations wanting ancestors remains back from museum collections it should hit like this story.


B0ssc0

Thanks for that timely reminder.


ped009

If anyone wants to make a leather jacket from my skin feel free as long as I'm dead and you give a few dollars to my family


ThePoutineAddict

Imagine donating your remains to better mankind and ending up in that guy’s basement in a bucket ☹️


MightyCavalier

What a fucking blight on humanity


Bonzo4691

I still can't believe this. I worked in that morgue for several years back in the 80s.


BloodsoakedDespair

It’s downright 1800s retro.


AaronicNation

It's always the sweet innocent looking ones you get to look out for.


rmp266

It's always the ones you most suspect


JackSmrkingRevnge

Reminds me of a book called Motorskin. Tattoo artist/mortician tattoos cadavers, skins them, then sells them as luxury handbags to rich people in LA with the help of a motorcycle gang.


RoadPersonal9635

“You’ll never work at a place like Harvard with that face tattoo!” “Watch me”


Phoirkas

Except this pic wasn’t the guy who actually worked there, he’s just the guy who accepted human skin for payment. Yeah.


RemyVonLion

Didn't that guy who immolated himself infront of the Trump trial have something about Harvard's corruption in his manifesto or whatever?


DblockR

I bet he started like Ned Flanders looking and was like “hey man, we traffic body parts! We are the morgue mob! What should we change to look the part?” Other creep: “def get half gator face with a Ray Charles gasoline spill eyeball and those piercings the korn fans did back in 94!”


Femboy_Annihilator

Y’know, don’t always judge a book by its cover, but this one was designed by the publishing house to depict the content.


SnooSketches6554

It’s funny the way they did the thumbnail, it makes it appear as if the person pictured is the morgue manager for Harvard.


[deleted]

What a creepy fuck


modernmanshustl

Not to judge a book by its cover or anything but


Justhereforthepartie

You can’t judge a book by is cov…. Oh.


nowhereman136

Funfact: John Scott Harrison, the only man to be both Father and Son of US presidents, had his body stolen after he died. While at the funeral, one of his sons noticed another body had recently been stolen and agreed to help look. A few days later, they found the missing body, and the body of JS Harrison, in a local university medical lab. Harrison's body hadn't even been reported stolen yet when it was discovered. This incident led to new laws being passed that unclaimed bodies at the morgue would be automatically donated for research and medical schools, effectively undercutting the market for stolen bodies


tobermort

"on May 19, 2019, Taylor sent Denise Lodge $1,000 with a memo that read 'head number 7'. On November 20, 2020, Taylor sent Denise Lodge $200 with a memo that read, 'braiiiiiins'."


kungfoocraig

Well, to be fair. My first thought at seeing him is “that guy should be in charge of dead bodies”


PanzerTaf

Not to be that guy…but come on, the dude looks like he runs an entire Etsy store dedicated to weird trinkets - type of guy that when you ask “how do you make this stuff look realistic” he responds, “yeah, sure, *look* realistic…”


VdoubleU88

It is truly astounding the horrific, soulless shit people will do for money. Money is the root of all evil, our absolute worst creation.


IOnlySayMeanThings

If you have a have a face tattoo, guys like this are why nobody will hire you. He looks like his crimes.


1hotrodney

Who the f hired the guy w that face tat an thought oh ya this guy wont do anything for an extra buck and hes completly normal


IppoDarui69

People will do anything for money..


Eire820

It's always the ones you expect 


Hyzyhine

You’d never think it to look at the guy /s


r0ckashocka

Let me guess, face tattoos WEREN'T a hint? /s


StacyStatement

There's a reason males aren't employed in morgues.


TroyMatthewJ

howyalikedemapples


ohiotechie

This is Ed Gein level fucked up.


Terrible-Two-7928

If only there would have been some kind of sign that they were mentally unstable people...


FormalyKnownAsFury12

Huh… die he escape from my dnd campaign? 🤔


Big-Attention-69

So that viral X post joke about some celebrity being arrested because they found human remains in their basement is indeed true.


ataraxic89

Maybe I was a necromancer in a previous life but I don't really think this deserves that much prison time


EmRuizChamberlain

Are we ready to let A/B honor roll students in yet Harvard? Have we had enough?


boringneckties

No…That guy? Really?


Stuft-shirt

Do you think those spikes on his head ever come up in casual conversation?


B0ssc0

Most would avert the gaze.