Drugged & Butchered: How Organ Traffickers Operate | Criminal Planet

The illegal organ trade is talked about so little and is one of the most terrifying things on the planet..

My mom is from a very small town in Jalisco, Mexico, and we would always visit. I remember once when I was very young (around mid 2000s) there was an accident involving a truck and a car on one of the main roads outside the city. The people who were driving the truck fled and the people who were in the car looked inside the truck and found a truck full of bodies of children whose organs were all missing. That story still haunts me.

The illegal "organ trade" is among the most sickening things you learn about as a human. This would require you to be an extremely depraved human, completely and utterly, morally bankrupt many times over..

These reporters are hardcore man, mad respect for them and what they do, people don't realize how dangerous of a job it is for them to go to some of the places they go, to interview the people they do. They put themselves in some very dangerous situations to get the scoop and report on all these different issues going on in the world, just to show the public what's really going on. Crazy man, crazy

Reminds me of a true story that happened to a friend. He was at a party and a unknown was buying everyone drinks, and befriended him. By the end of the night, this dude convinced our friend to go on a "all expense paid surf vacation to Mexico. We all said that he shouldn't go, but he went anyways. Long story short, he never made it back home alive! His parents had to hire an investor to get information about his disappearance. Each piece of tidbit information, from Mexican authorities, costs them. When he was finally found, his organs were removed, and the authorities automatically cremated him without permission! The parents even had to pay to get back those remains! SHOCKING, to say the least!!

If awards were fair, this segment would win an Emmy. Very uncomfortable, but necessary. Very brave reporting.

"It's not the poor, I'm not a demon or anything" *proceeds to explain he preys on the poorest of the poor and most desperate people

What's horrible is the people who pay to get the organs pay 100k and the people who's organs get taken don't even get 1% of that profit. It's truly despicable.

My kidney was trafficked w/o my knowledge after going to Mexico for a medical procedure. Im from (TX) America but I’m half Mexican, fluent in Spanish, & treated by this Dr as a child, so I had no suspicions. As a college student w no medical insurance Mexico was my only option for surgery. The irony is I recently just finished medical school & currently doing my residency in orthopedic surgery. I’m ashamed for my choice. I’m only 25 & living w one kidney but through Gods grace I’ve had no complications.

This shines a whole new light on the people that have disappeared in Mexico and also make you wonder about the missing kids in the United States

Getting an organ transplant in Mexico is like playing Russian roulette. Diseases, straight up kidnapping or murder, robbery, your body rejecting the organ, etc.. what an insane practice

As a person that worked directly with kidney, liver and pancreas transplant patients and helping them through recovery I can’t imagine what is like to wake up without an organ and just go back to the streets like its just 5 stitches. People need so much to recover even those who just donate their kidney! We as humans are the absolute worst things created in this world. This makes me so incredibly sad and uncomfortable, hard to trust people!

Aunt of mine knew a guy who came from Mexico, who was a police officer. When asked why he came, he told a story of horror. His unit stumble upon a tunnel that was filled with pieces of children flesh. Apparently, children would get snatched from the streets and butchered for organs, and he used as mules to put drugs inside their corpses. He couldn't take it and had to leave.

Scary and depressing. Human beings are the most sinister, cruel, and savage organisms on our planet.😢

I tried to turn this off several times because of disgust but couldn’t look away. Well worth the watch

Money is really the root of all evil worldwide. This was tough to watch, but our reality is becoming a nightmare…

The world is a fucking terrible place...

If you knowingly buy a black market organ you are just as guilty as the person that forcibly removed the organ.

30:53 Made me tear up the fact that he said you don't think about whether it is legal or illegal if you are so desperate to feed your kids and pay off your loans. It's an evil world we live in. But there are people that are wiling to do anything just to protect and keep their family safe. Reminds me of how we should all be grateful for whatever we have in our lives because these people are wishing they could be us while we watch them from a screen. So sad.

This is why there are missing people everywhere. Organs, sacrifices, etc. Wake tf up. And those who go to the black market for organs don't care about the human toll, they view it as my life or yours.