US EditionWoman pleads guilty to buying human remains she knew were stolen from Harvard Medical School
Katrina Maclean admitted to trafficking stolen human remains from Harvard Medical School for use in her art business and resale, facing up to 10 years in prison.
- On Monday, Dec 8, 2025, Katrina Maclean, 46, of Bradford pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew W. Brann in Williamsport to interstate transport of stolen human remains linked to Harvard Medical School.
- Prosecutors say Cedric Lodge, former morgue manager for the Anatomical Gifts Program at Harvard Medical School, stole organs from donated cadavers from 2018 through 2022 and sold them from his Goffstown, New Hampshire residence.
- At her shop Kat's Creepy Creations, Maclean used real remains in oddities and bought two dissected faces for $600 in 2020, then received $8,800 from Pennsylvania buyer Jeremy Pauley.
- The plea agreement includes a prosecutors' recommendation of a 12-month sentence, dropping a conspiracy count for Katrina Maclean, who still awaits final sentencing though the offense carries a 10-year maximum.
- Federal investigators including the FBI, United States Postal Inspection Service, and East Pennsboro Township Police Department probed a multi-state trafficking ring that produced guilty pleas and sentences, including Matthew Lampi’s 15 months and Angelo Pereyra’s 18 months.
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Massachusetts woman pleads guilty to transporting stolen human remains to Pennsylvania
A Massachusetts woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to transporting human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School to Pennsylvania in a case that involved a Berks County man.
Stolen Harvard body parts found in 'creepy creations' shop amid missing remains probe - The Mirror
Katrina Maclean, the owner and operator of Kat's Creepy Creations, has been accused of using the morbid curiosities store in Massachusets to traffic stolen body parts
Massachusetts Woman, 46, Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Stolen Human Remains Used in Her 'Creepy Creations' Shop
A woman from Bradford, Mass., pleaded guilty on Monday, Dec. 8 to trafficking human remains that had been stolen from Harvard Medical School. Katrina Maclean used the remains for her store, Kat's Creepy Creations.
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Creepy doll maker pleads guilty in Harvard Med stolen human remains case
BOSTON — A Salem doll maker known for her gruesome creations pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of stolen goods — in this case, human remains — in federal court Monday. Katrina Maclean admitted that she sold human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School to a person in Pennsylvania. Her North Shore studio and shop called Kat’s Creepy Creations sold “oddities,” ...
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