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Criminal Minds: Evolution is a revival of the original series, which ran from 2005 to 2020. The new show now picks up the story with the BAU (FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit) dealing with different and more complicated criminal cases.
As the agents return for season 3, new and very disturbing cases arise, and the most recent illegal organ harvesting case in episode 4 is incredibly shocking. In the episode, the BAU investigates this illegal business while also following the emotional story of Elias Voit, who is recovering from a life-changing injury.
The team is sent to Tucson, Arizona, where they’re confronted with a shocking crime scene: victims whose organs have been removed in a way that mimics cartel violence. What's even more startling is that the fictional episode ties in with a chilling real-world event.
Yes, you read that right. Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3 Episode 4 highlights the real-life Harvard Morgue Scandal from 2023, where human remains were being illegally sold from a medical school.
While the story of this episode is different as it centers on live victims rather than corpses, the actual case brings an urgency and realism to the episode. It simply shows how real-life horrors can influence fictional crime.
Keep reading to explore more about this real-life incident mirrored in the latest episode of Criminal Minds: Evolution.
Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3, Episode 4 includes a chilling nod to a real-life scandal
Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3 continues to offer criminal cases that are heartbreaking, shocking, and at the same time, challenging for the BAU to solve. While most of the stories in the TV series are fictional, the latest episode included a chilling nod to the real-life Harvard Morgue Scandal.
The Harvard Medical School morgue scandal shocked everyone in 2023 when it was discovered that a long-time employee had taken parts from donated human bodies and sold them. Not just any bodies, these were being donated to Harvard by families who believed they were donating their loved ones' bodies to science and medical education.
Instead of being used for research or training as stated, they were secretly stolen for commercial gain and sold to private buyers. Cedric Lodge (the individual in question) managed traffic to and from the school morgue, reportedly took body parts, such as skin, bones, and even heads, without permission.
Lodge routinely permitted people who wanted to buy human remains to visit the morgue and choose the preferred parts from the final product, as in any grocery store. These disturbing actions reportedly went on a high scale for a number of years (spanning several states of interest) and included several others besides Lodge and his wife.
Then, some of those unnamed remains were resold and resulted in a black market for human body parts that no one expected to be connected to a world-class institution like Harvard. When the truth came to light, the families of donors were devastated.
The scandal didn’t just damage Harvard’s reputation, but also raised numerous questions about the procedures of body donation programs and how checks are conducted. If something like this could happen at one of the top medical schools in the world, it suggests that there may be weak points in similar programs elsewhere, and this is what Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3, Episode 4 highlighted.
The team solves a black market organ trafficking case in Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3
In Criminal Minds: Evolution Season 3, Episode 4, the team ends up in Tucson, Arizona, where they are staring at a gruesome crime scene: victims whose organs have been removed, displaying similar characteristics of cartel violence.
Initially, these seem like drug-related murders, but things don't seem right. Field agents Luke Alvez and Tyler Green notice microscopic specs of metal on the bodies. These small details are significant as they lead the team to Michael Falco, an EMT who had been terminated from his previous position for stealing drugs.
His nefarious background places him in connection with an even bigger monster: Dr. Malcolm Ramsey, a doctor who once had a respected name but lost his grip on reality. Years earlier, Dr. Ramsey's life was thrown into chaos after a fatal car crash that killed his wife and severely burned his daughter, Arielle.
After the accident, Ramsey has spiraled into an obsession to save Arielle at all costs, regardless of the ethical and medical laws he breaks along the way. He conducts sadistic skin graft experiments using living victims so that the grafted skin on Arielle can be seen and making no thought of the pain and trauma he leaves in every living person he violates.
Later in the Criminal Minds: Evolution episode, Arielle learns the truth about her father hurting others. Things become intense when her father refuses to let her go home, and she ends up stabbing Ramsey in self-defence.
The BAU team also arrives on time, but Arielle faints after the incident. Tyler then carries her outside, letting her see the night sky, something she hadn't seen in months.
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