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Sep 29, 1982:
Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six
Flight attendant Paula Prince buys a bottle of cyanide-laced
Tylenol. Prince was found dead on October 1, becoming the final
victim of a mysterious ailment in Chicago, Illinois. Over the
previous 24 hours, six other people had suddenly died of unknown
causes in northwest Chicago. After Prince's death, Richard
Keyworth and Philip Cappitelli, firefighters in the Windy City,
realized that all seven victims had ingested Extra-Strength
Tylenol prior to becoming ill. Further investigation revealed
that several bottles of the Tylenol capsules had been poisoned
with cyanide.
Mary Ann Kellerman, a seventh grader, was the first to die after
ingesting the over-the-counter pain reliever. The next victim,
Adam Janus, ended up in the emergency room in critical condition.
After visiting his older brother in the hospital, Stanley Janus
went back to Adam's house with his wife, Theresa. To alleviate
their stress-induced headaches, they both took capsules from the
open Tylenol bottle that was sitting on the counter. They too
were poisoned--Stanley died and Theresa lapsed into a coma. That
same day, Mary Reiner, who had a headache after giving birth,
took the tainted pills. A woman named Mary McFarland was also
poisoned.
While bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol were recalled nationwide,
the only contaminated capsules were found in the Chicago area.
The culprit was never caught, but the mass murder led to new
tamper-proof medicine containers. It also led to a string of
copycat crimes, as others sought to blackmail companies with
alleged poisoning schemes, most of which proved to be false
alarms.
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