
The Tylenol murders: A look back at the rash of 1982 drug store poisonings
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The 1982 Chicago cyanide poisonings known as the 'Tylenol murders' terrified the nation and forever changed the way over-the-counter medications are manufactured.
Investigators soon realized that each victim had swallowed a tablet laced with a lethal dose of cyanide. The pill manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, determined that the bottles had been tampered with after leaving the factory. Rebecca Rosenberg is a veteran journalist and book author with a focus on crime and criminal justice. Email tips to rebecca.rosenberg@fox.com and @ReRosenberg.
Someone had taken the bottles off the shelves at several drug stores, added poison to the capsules and then put them back, with unwitting customers purchasing the deadly concoctions.
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