Ep 59: Kidney Heist

Picture this: You are traveling on business, you go to get a drink before bed and someone slips a nice little roofie into your drink. When you wake up you are in a bath tub filled with ice with a little note laying next to you saying that if you want to live you should probably call 911. How freaking scared are you?! In the 59th episode of Legend Amy tells Samm all about the urban legend surrounding kidney jacking. Where it might of come from, how it evolved and some real life stories!

Kidney Diagram

American Kidney Fund

Be the Match

Donate Life

Sources:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/youve-got-to-be-kidneying/ Kidney Theft

https://web.archive.org/web/20000424092453/https://stumedia.tsp.utexas.edu/WebTexan/kidney.html The Daily Texan

https://www.wired.com/1998/12/the-great-kidney-snatch-myth/ The Great Kidney-Snatch Myth

https://www.deseret.com/1991/11/15/18951979/the-kidney-heist-draws-flood-of-embellishments `THE KIDNEY HEIST’ DRAWS FLOOD OF EMBELLISHMENTS

https://web.archive.org/web/19980506013419/http://www.mardigrasday.com/police1.html New Orleans Department of Police

https://nerdbot.com/2023/01/04/urban-legend-fact-or-fiction-did-kidney-heist-really-happen/ Urban Legend Fact or Fiction: Did ‘Kidney Heist’ Really Happen?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629431/ Sonata for Solo Organ

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/law-order-10-infamous-cases-that-inspired-series-episodes Ready For The 'Law & Order' Reboot? Here Are 10 Infamous Cases That Inspired Episodes Of The Iconic Series

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/341814/WHO-HTP-EHT-CPR-2010.01-eng.pdf?sequence=1#:~:text=Cells%2C%20tissues%20and%20organs%20should,deceased%20persons%2C%20should%20be%20banned WHO GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON HUMAN CELL, TISSUE AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION

https://www.kidneyfund.org/kidney-donation-and-transplant Being a living kidney donor

https://www.donatelife.net/register/ Donate Life

https://bethematch.org/ Be the Match

https://youtu.be/BstUHzNAm2I Living Donor Kidney Transplant: Laparoscopic Left Nephrectomy