The Tylenol Murders

In September of 1982, a 12-year-old girl and six adults in and around Chicago died suddenly and mysteriously. The victims of this product tampering case were Mary Kellerman, age 12, of Elk Grove Village; Adam Janus, age 27, of Arlington Heights; Stanley Janus, age 25, and Theresa Janus, age 19, both of Lisle; Mary Reiner, age 27, of Winfield; Mary McFarland, age 31, of Elmhurst; and Paula Prince, age 35, of Chicago. All seven were determined to have ingested cyanide-laced Extra Strength Tylenol capsules on or shortly after September 29, 1982.

Additional information about this investigation can be found on the FBI’s Internet website, www.fbi.gov.

Sources:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cyanide-laced-tylenol-kills-seven

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95086875/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95087191/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2013-09-29-ct-met-tylenol-investigation-20130929-story.html

https://abcnews.go.com/WN/james-lewis-tylenol-killer-suspect-1982-murders-innocent/story?id=9531812

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/chicago/press-releases/2012/search-for-tylenol-killer-continues-as-30th-anniversary-of-poisonings-approaches

https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/02C2/Johnson%20&%20Johnson.htm

https://apnews.com/article/c501b46c160c342222d3414c286b74a1

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2018/01/05/260121/how-the-tylenol-murders-fundamentally-changed-the-way-we-all-take-medicine/

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/chicago-tylenol-murders/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95086729/north-bay-nugget/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNOHWrAbX2w

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