$10,000 reward offered for stolen preserved kidney

$10,000 reward offered for stolen preserved kidney

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Story Published: Jan 5, 2007 at 4:09 PM PDT

Story Updated: Jan 5, 2007 at 4:12 PM PDT

By Associated Press

SEATTLE (AP) - A $10,000 reward is being offered to help find a kidney that was stolen from an exhibit in Seattle.

A manager for "Bodies ... The Exhibition" called police on Dec. 30 to report someone had taken the kidney, which was displayed being held by a child.

The 21 cadavers and 250 organs in the exhibit are injected with liquid silicon rubber to preserve them. The bodies are skinned, cut open and arranged in various poses to expose muscles and organs.

The kidney was from an adult's body and is valued at $1,000.

The exhibit has proven popular, but also has attracted some controversy. Critics in Seattle unsuccessfully sought to have the exhibit halted, arguing that the Chinese citizens whose bodies are in the displays never gave consent for their remains to be publicly shown.

Premier Exhibitions Incorporated of Atlanta, which runs the exhibit, has said the cadavers are from people who died of natural causes, and whose bodies were unidentified or unclaimed before they were turned over to a medical school in China.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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