Grim story to say the least in Kentucky when nearly 40 human skulls, body parts and bones were discovered in an apartment.
The human remains were found during an FBI search in connection with robberies at the Harvard Medical School morgue. James Nott, the man who lives in the apartment, has been arrested and jailed, reports WGN9.
Appearing alone in his apartment, the suspect replied to FBI agents who questioned him whether there was anyone else: “only my dead friends”.
Some of the 40 skulls decorated the furniture, one even had a scarf and another was on James Nott’s mattress. In addition to human skulls, there were femurs, bones and spinal cord.
A bag from Harvard Medical School was also found in the suspect’s home.
Several firearms were also found during the search. Nott had an AK-47 near the door, inert grenades and two bulletproof vests.
Prior to raiding Nott’s home, the FBI had received information that there were human remains from an individual living in Pennsylvania named Jeremy Pauley. The latter bought his human remains through Facebook from a woman who worked in a morgue in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Transactions made by PayPal reveal that the woman sold Jeremy Pauley various human remains, including hearts, brains, lungs and two fetuses, according to WGN9.
The suspect provided investigators with information about a network of individuals involved in the sale and transportation of fraudulently obtained human remains.
A certain Cedric Lodge allegedly, according to prosecutors on the record, stole organs and other parts from corpses donated to Harvard for medical research and education before bodies in the morgue were sent for cremation from 2018 to 2022.
Lodge reportedly took the human remains home and together with his 63-year-old wife, they sold the fruit of their thefts to American buyers.
As for Jeremy Pauley, he allegedly sold and shipped human remains to James Nott, which led to the search of his apartment in Mount Washington, Kentucky.
Deans of Harvard Medical School horrified by the whole story wrote on the school’s website that it “was a heinous betrayal and was morally wrong.”
Deans George Daley and Edward Hundert also say Cedric Lodge was fired.