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The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims consumed Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. Seven people died in the original poisonings, and there were several more deaths in subsequent copycat crimes.
- September – October 1982
- Unknown
- 7
- Chicago metropolitan area, U.S.
Other “copy-cat” poisonings, involving Tylenol and other over-the-counter medications, cropped up again in the 1980s and early 1990s but these events were never as dramatic or as deadly as the ...
Oct 3, 2022 · Adam Janus’s relatives rushed to the house to console his grieving wife. Overcome by Adam’s sudden passing, his younger brother and sister-in-law asked for some Tylenol. They were the next to ...
- Dave Roos
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Oct 27, 2022 · Sept. 29, 1982. Seven people died in 1982 from cyanide poisoning after ingesting tainted Tylenol, murders that were never solved. From clockwise top left are Adam Janus, Mary McFarland, Mary ...
Feb 9, 2009 · The murders started in September 1982, when the parents of Mary Kellerman gave the 12-year-old a painkiller when she woke up complaining of a cold. She died hours later. Postal worker Adam Janus ...
Nov 13, 2009 · Flight attendant Paula Prince buys a bottle of cyanide-laced Tylenol. Prince was found dead on October 1, 1982, becoming the final victim of a mysterious ailment in Chicago, Illinois. Over the ...
Sep 23, 2022 · Tylenol murders investigators pursue new charges in 40-year case. It sounds like an urban legend, but it was chillingly real in 1982. Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide that were sold in the ...
