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<p>In this update episode of <em>Postmortem<strong>, </strong></em>reporter Ally Jarmanning updates us on the criminal cases against Harvard Medical School's former morgue manager Cedric Lodge, his wife Denise, and Jeremy Pauley, whose arrest first exposed the nationwide network of human remains trading. All were sentenced to time in federal prison.</p>

<p>Introducing “What Remains,” a special series from NHPR’s <em>Outside/In</em>. A classroom display of human skulls sparks a reckoning at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. A movement grows to “abolish the collection.” The Penn Museum relents to pressure. But there are more skeletons in the closet.</p> <p>To hear all three parts, including the prologue, subscribe to <a href="https://outsideinradio.org/what-remains">Outside/In.</a></p>

<p>In Episode 5 of <em>Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard</em>, reporter Ally Jarmanning digs deeper into the "legitimate" realm of body-parts collecting ⁠— museums ⁠— and asks the burning question: How different is this from the world of Jeremy Pauley in his basement or Cedric Lodge seizing a financial opportunity at Harvard's morgue.</p> <p>At the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, she takes us through displays of skeletons and sometimes-troubling human specimens. What comes up here and at

<p>As haunting as the Harvard morgue scandal is, you don't have to go back very far in history to find practices for sourcing bodies that would be shocking today. Reporter Ally Jarmanning finds that for more than a century, medical schools relied on grave robbing and body snatching to supply anatomical dissection classes.</p> <p>In Episode 4 of <em>Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard</em>, she talks to medical school professors and historians about this grim reality, shedding light on how

<p>Who are the people buying this stuff anyway? People who collect human remains don’t see it as gross. In fact, these collectors connect and communicate openly on social media. In Episode 3 of <em>Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard</em>, reporter Ally Jarmanning meets Jeremy Pauley, the Pennsylvania man with a tattooed eye whose arrest unravels this whole case.</p> <p>Jarmanning dines in the home of a Delaware couple with a house full of skeletons; they call themselves “rescuers” of huma

<p>When <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/06/14/cedric-lodge-massachusetts-nh-harvard-morgue-cadavers-indictment">news</a> of the Harvard morgue scandal went viral, no one was hit harder than the families of people who had donated their bodies for study at the nation's most prestigious medical school. As if grieving the loss of a loved one wasn't enough, now there was this: the specter of a family member's body dismembered and sold to strangers for profit.</p> <p>In Episode 2 of <em>Postm

<p>Hundreds of people have donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School, hoping to advance science and train the next generation of doctors. But in the basement of the nation's most prestigious medical institution, something went terribly wrong in recent years.</p> <p>In the five-part series <em>Postmortem: The Stolen Bodies of Harvard</em>, WBUR reporter Ally Jarmanning takes us deep into the macabre story of what happened, and how the elite university became a stop on a nationwide network o

<p>Hundreds of people donated their bodies to Harvard Medical School hoping to advance science and train the next generation of doctors. Meanwhile, prosecutors say that for years, the school's morgue manager treated it like a storefront, letting potential customers browse body parts and bringing home skin and brains to be shipped out to people across the country.</p> <p>Last year's arrest of the morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, exposed a nationwide network of human remains swapping that ensnared H