The families want justice, but is the law on their side? They fight a class action against the university, while preparations for Cedric’s trial are underway - but will it ever happen? We speak to the lawyer who defended one of the most infamou

Priceless

Dec 17th, 2024 35m 43s

Are the bodies allegedly sold from the Harvard morgue priceless or worthless? Turi learns it’s an argument that’s key to the case. And finds out the surprising ways a donated body can help science and technology, from football helmets to ejecto

In Life, and Death

Dec 10th, 2024 38m 50s

Turi looks at the complicated history of universities and human remains - from grave robbing to buying bones with your books. And learn about the broadcasting legend who ended up mixed up in a plot involving the mafia and the UK’s National Heal

Blast Test

Dec 3rd, 2024 37m 19s

What rights do you have over your own corpse? If you donate your body to science what will actually become of it? As the families of the victims mobilise they learn about the legal grey areas that exist around the rights of a corpse.Listen to e

14 Tonnes

Nov 26th, 2024 30m 26s

Harvard writes a letter to the family members of those allegedly sold from their mortuary and the story hits the news. Who were the people behind the bodies donated to Harvard Medical School? The families take action.Listen to episodes of Head

Five Gallon Bucket

Nov 19th, 2024 32m 14s

A woman in Pennsylvania is leaving her husband, as she packs up she goes down to his cellar - she’s been told not to go in there. She finds a bucket full of human organs, her discovery brings Cedric’s alleged network of collectors crashing down

Wets

Aug 14th, 2024 23m 13s

What were Cedric’s customers doing with the body parts they purchased and how illegal is it? The dark world of human “oddity” collectors is revealed, and the price tags that come with a clandestine purchase.Listen to episodes of Head Number 7 e

An Anatomical Gift

Aug 14th, 2024 23m 58s

For 15 years Cedric Lodge has run Harvard Medical School mortuary - he’s a quirky local legend with a licence plate that reads “GRIM-R”, and he even has a place in the Universities hall of fame, but all that changes when he’s arrested for the m

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Introducing: Head Number Seven

Jul 30th, 2024 1m

In June 2023 over a hundred people got a letter from Harvard Medical School, what it said changed their lives forever. Head Number 7 tells a story about an FBI investigation, an underground network, and human remains being sold on social media.

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