Marsh said there is a widespread market for human remains “and it’s not expressly legal, but in a lot of states, it’s not expressly illegal either”.
There are no federal criminal statutes that deal with the mishandling or sale of human remains, and in most states, the sale of human remains is not illegal, said Tanya D Marsh, a Wake Forest University law professor who has written books about cemetery and human remains law. Nott was charged by federal investigators with illegally possessing a firearm. Nott also had several guns and ammunition in the apartment about 32 kilometres south of Louisville. During the search, an FBI agent asked Nott if anyone else was in the residence. They found one skull wrapped in a head scarf and another on the bed where Nott slept, along with a Harvard medical school bag. Investigators said in an affidavit that James Nott had “40 human skulls, spinal cords femurs, and hip bones” in his home during a search of his apartment in Mount Washington, Kentucky, last week. Last week, federal officials charged a Kentucky man who had communicated with Pauley on Facebook about the sale of skulls and spines. An FBI affidavit in a Kentucky case last week said Pauley bought hearts, brains, lungs and two fetal specimens from the Arkansas woman, who had allegedly taken them from a mortuary. Police say Pauley allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook. Authorities were first clued into the nationwide network after the arrest of Jeremy Lee Pauley, who was charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other state charges in Pennsylvania in July 2022. The indictment charges Lodge his wife, Denise Maclean Joshua Taylor, of West Lawn, Pennsylvania and Mathew Lampi, of East Bethel, Minnesota, with conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods. Another person facing criminal charges, Katrina Maclean of Salem, Massachusetts, owned a store that sells “creations that shock the mind” with along with “creepy dolls, oddities and bone art”, according to the store’s social media page. One of those charged, 55-year-old Cedric Lodge, of New Hampshire, allegedly took dissected parts of cadavers that had been donated to Harvard in a scheme that started back in 2018, prosecutors said. According to prosecutors, the defendants were part of a nationwide network of people who bought and sold remains stolen from the medical school and an Arkansas mortuary. Photo / 123RF What happened?įederal investigators in the US have discovered a human remains trade with connections to Harvard Medical School and have arrested people in several states.
Human remains appear to be trafficked from Harvard Medical School.
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