{"id":1949008,"date":"2023-06-16T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-demands-harvard-return-her-mothers-remains-after-dads-body-parts-allegedly-sold-on-black-market\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:22:36","slug":"woman-demands-harvard-return-her-mothers-remains-after-dads-body-parts-allegedly-sold-on-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-demands-harvard-return-her-mothers-remains-after-dads-body-parts-allegedly-sold-on-black-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman demands Harvard return mother&#8217;s remains after father&#8217;s body parts allegedly sold on black market."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwoman-demands-harvard-return-her-mothers-remains-after-dads-body-parts-allegedly-sold-on-black-market%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1949008&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>A Shocking Crime: Harvard Medical School Morgue Allegedly Involved in Black Market Scheme<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A New Hampshire woman is disgusted after learning that her late father\u2019s remains were allegedly stolen and sold from a Harvard Medical School morgue in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/human-brains-skin-from-harvard-morgue-sold-on-black-market-feds-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duggan-flanakin-killing-the-dream-of-the-abundant-life\/\" title=\"Duggan Flanakin: Killing the Dream of the Abundant Life\">criminal plot<\/a><\/a>. Now she\u2019s demanding the Ivy League school return the body of her deceased mother.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paula Peltonovich said her parents, Nick and Joan Pichowicz, both had their bodies donated to science after their deaths. Peltonovich, along with her sister, confirmed with the U.S. attorney\u2019s office that their father\u2019s remains were stolen and sold in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-grassley-fbi-and-doj-will-damage-their-credibility-further-if-they-dont-cooperate-with-subpoena\/\" title=\"Grassley warns FBI and DOJ to cooperate with subpoena or risk credibility damage.\">alleged criminal scheme<\/a>, WMUR <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/harvard-morgue-new-hampshire-scheme\/44209029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWho could do something like that? What kind of person? No respect at all for the family,\u201d said Peltonovich. \u201cThey need to pay.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several people stole and sold human remains, including brains and skin, from Harvard Medical School\u2019s morgue, federal prosecutors say. A grand jury indicted Cedric Lodge, 55, the morgue manager, and his wife in the criminal plot, which lasted from 2018 to earlier this year, according to the complaint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The complaint alleges that Lodge took some of the remains that were supposed to be cremated to his Goffstown, New Hampshire, home and sold them to people in other states. The morgue manager was fired on May 6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/06\/15\/metro\/its-just-unthinkable-daughter-man-whose-remains-were-stolen-harvard-medical-school-morgue-speaks-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Boston Globe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Peltonovich said that she contacted the Harvard morgue after learning about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-demands-harvard-return-her-mothers-remains-after-dads-body-parts-allegedly-sold-on-black-market\/\" title=\"Woman demands Harvard return mother's remains after father's body parts allegedly sold on black market.\">alleged black market plot<\/a>, and the university informed her that her father \u201cwas a victim\u201d of the scheme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe were just disgusted,\u201d Peltonovich said. \u201cSick, like we were going to throw up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New Hampshire woman said she is still unsure if her mother\u2019s remains are at the morgue, saying her family has requested that her body be returned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe want her returned, so we can bury her. We don\u2019t even want them to cremate her,\u201d Peltonovich said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peltonovich said that her parents, who both worked in law enforcement, chose to donate their bodies to science \u201cyears ago\u201d and were always focused on \u201chelping people.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nick Pichowicz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmerfuneralhomes.com\/obituaries\/Nicholas-A-Pichowicz?obId=9180567\">born<\/a> in 1931, served in the Massachusetts National Guard and was a deputy sheriff and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barack-obama-calls-for-every-american-to-get-vaccine-particularly-african-americans-and-latinos\/\" title=\"Barack Obama Calls For Every American To Get Vaccine, \u2018Particularly African-Americans and Latinos\u2019\">part-time police officer<\/a>. He died in November 2019 at the age of 87. Joan Pichowicz was born in 1936 and served as a police officer in Plaistow, New Hampshire, in the 1970s and \u201980s, according to her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooksidechapelfh.com\/obituary\/joan-pichowicz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">obituary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She died on March 14, 2023, also at the age of 87.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>their bodies donated to Harvard Medical School for scientific research. However, after discovering her father&#8217;s remains were stolen and sold illegally, Peltonovich is appalled. She is now urging the prestigious institution to return her mother&#8217;s body. The family trusted Harvard, but this incident has shattered their faith in the Ivy League school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1949009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4845,4212,4716,4201,6652,6240,4545,9109,8689,5309,9395,3983],"class_list":["post-1949008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-allegedly","tag-black","tag-body","tag-demands","tag-fathers","tag-harvard","tag-market","tag-mothers","tag-remains","tag-return","tag-sold","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}