Organs Stolen in USA

June 7, 2019 — 1 Comment

Organs Stolen

It is hard to believe THIS (organs stolen) happened in America. Veteran dies in jail and when he is returned to his family his brain, heart and throat were gone.

Two days after Army veteran Everett Palmer Jr. turned himself into Pennsylvania authorities in April 2018 for a DUI-related arrest warrant, he was dead. It’s been over a year since he passed, but his family is still searching for answers.

“When we reached out to find out what happened to his organs, they initially lied,” Palmer’s brother Dwayne Palmer told Spectrum News NY1. “They directed us back to our funeral director and told us that we need to confer with them because they probably took the organs.”

Palmer’s brother has told reporters that he suspects Everett’s death was a homicide.

An attorney working with the family said that this “makes no sense, unless you’re trying to maybe avoid people knowing how he died.” Marlon Kirton, the attorney, reportedly suggested that death could have been the result of asphyxiation.

The family has rejected the possibility that Palmer took drugs in prison or that he would have slammed his head into his cell. His mother, Rose Palmer, told reporters that her son “was not a troublemaker.”

Why would he have turned himself in, who gave him meth in jail?

According to court documents, Everett crashed a Honda Accord in Codorus Township just after 2 a.m. in October 2016. After failing to respond to a court summons, the judge on his case issued a warrant for Palmer’s arrest in January 2017.

Dwayne said that when Everett moved to Delaware, he didn’t know there was a warrant out for him. When he found out, he turned himself in to police. He was arrested and taken to another precinct to the York County Prison.

Read more here, here and here.

Of course don’t forget the story of Kendrick Johnson from Georgia also returned with his organs missing. “When forensic pathologist Bill Anderson received Kendrick’s body before performing a second autopsy, all of Kendrick’s internal organs — including his brain, his heart, and his lungs — were missing, as first reported by CNN.”

It’s been a year since Palmer passed away in police custody, and the family is still searching for answers, rejecting the explanations provided thus far.
Much more on Justice for Everett Facebook page.

These days not a lot makes me sick or shocked, but this does.

Opioid Deaths and Donations

Oh and did you know, Opioid overdoes’s now account for 1 in 6 heart donations? In many states, overdose-death donors comprised over 25% of cardiac allograft donors in 2018, with a high of 50% in Delaware.

Mary Keebler, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, who was not involved in the study. “It adds on to prior literature showing that the outcome with organs from these higher risk donors are just as good as in our donor pool from lower risk donors. It also highlights really nicely just the number of potential donors that we could be using that we aren’t using to get our patients transplanted,” Keebler told MedPage Today.

“These are younger donors, their hearts are arguably better quality than some of the non-opioid related death donors that we are using. So I think that we as a field just need to strongly consider using these organs to help our patients, because there’s really very little downside at this point,” Keebler said.

What about doing everything possible to keep the overdose victim alive?

Have something to add?

Loading Facebook Comments ...

One response to Organs Stolen in USA

  1. Wow, just wow. How can people get away with this? What other insanity goes on in this country? The words I have used do nothing to describe what is going on in my head when I read this!

Leave a Reply to wschryverCancel reply