Creepy doll maker pleads guilty in Harvard Med stolen human remains case

A Salem doll maker known for her gruesome creations pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of stolen goods in this incident human remains in federal court Monday Katrina Maclean admitted that she sold human remains stolen from Harvard Health School to a person in Pennsylvania Her North Shore studio and shop called Kat s Creepy Creations sold oddities creepy dolls and bone art according to a private Instagram bio for the store Maclean struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors from the Middle District of Pennsylvania getting them to drop a conspiracy charge in exchange for her guilty plea on the other count The charge carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison and fine of but prosecutors are only recommending a -month sentence as a part of the deal According to a June indictment Maclean sometimes entered Harvard Diagnostic School s morgue in Boston with the help of a school employee Cedric Lodge to choose body parts to sell to her customers in other states and at her Peabody shop She purchased two dissected faces from Lodge for the prices of right before Halloween in according to court documents During the summer of she also sent human skin to Pennsylvania resident Jeremy Pauley who then tanned the skin for her In lieu of a monetary payment Maclean sent Pauley more skin in September to pay for his tanning services The following month Maclean received from Pauley for human remains purchases through PayPal In addition to Maclean Lodge his wife Denise and another of Lodge s buyers Joshua Taylor have all pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the transportation of stolen goods across state lines Pauley also pleaded guilty to abuse of a corpse and was sentenced to two years probation after police uncovered buckets of human remains in his Pennsylvania home Lodge had access to remains because he worked in the department of the Harvard Medicinal School that accepts anatomical gifts But instead of inevitably properly cremating interning or returning the dissected and studied bodies to next of kin Lodge would steal body parts including skin heads brains and bones and sell them through a multi-state remains-trafficking ring prosecutors announced Specific crimes defy understanding mentioned U S Attorney for the District of Middle District of Pennsylvania Gerard M Karam at the time of the indictment The theft and trafficking of human remains strikes at the very essence of what makes us human Maclean still awaits final sentencing It s unclear if she still owns or operates her Peabody business although the mill where the store was previously located no longer lists Kat s Creepy Creations in its directory