So far, seven people have been charged in an alleged scheme to sell body parts stolen from an Arkansas mortuary and the Harvard Medical School morgue.
But they were not Lux’s remains. Those had been shipped to Pennsylvania and then to an address in Minnesota in exchange for five human skulls — one transaction within a complex scheme to sell stolen body parts across the country, prosecutors allege.
Attorneys for Pauley and Scott didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post. An attorney has not yet been appointed for Taylor, who has filed for a public defender. It’s unclear whether the other four defendants have retained counsel. Efforts to reach them Wednesday were unsuccessful.
“We owe it to ourselves, our community, our profession, and our patients and their loved ones to ensure that HMS is worthy of the donors who have entrusted their bodies to us,” they said, adding that the school appointed a panel of experts to improve the donor program’s security.Cedric Lodge is also accused of letting prospective customers come into the morgue to pick out the body parts they wanted to purchase.
Maclean later contacted Pauley to confirm the shipment arrived because she “wanted to make sure it got to you and I don’t expect agents at my door,” the indictment stated.Pauley often bought and sold body parts via social media — many of them, prosecutors say, sourced from the Arkansas mortuary where baby Lux’s remains were stolen.
The conversation would eventually go on to include photos of brains and hearts, instructions on how to package the parts and a payment agreement, prosecutors allege.
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