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Postmortem, Update: The sentences

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Cedric Lodge, pictured outside the federal courthouse in Williamsport, Penn., after his sentencing. (Ralph Wilson for WBUR)
Cedric Lodge, pictured outside the federal courthouse in Williamsport, Penn., after his sentencing. (Ralph Wilson for WBUR)

In this update episode of Postmortemreporter 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.

Joined by Beyond All Repair host and reporter Amory Sivertson, Jarmanning describes what it was like to meet Cedric and Denise Lodge for the first time, outside the federal courthouse in Pennsylvania. She recounts their explanation for why they committed these crimes. And she shares the first public statement by Pauley about the charges against them.

Jarmanning also updates us on the civil cases filed against Harvard, and talks to a family member who says her nightmares haven't ended.

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