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Chicago Tylenol murders (1982) Several people aged 12 - 35 died from a potassium cyanide poisoning after consuming contaminated Tylenol capsules containing paracetamol Capsule (pharmacy) Paracetamol Charles Francis Hall (d. 1871), American Arctic explorer poisoned with arsenic by members of the Polaris expedition .
The Tylenol murderer was never found, (though later James Lewis was a prime suspect [10]) and a US$100,000 reward offered by Johnson & Johnson remained unclaimed as of 2023. [11] [12] [13] Before the poisonings, Tylenol brands held around 35% of the US market for acetaminophen and in the immediate aftermath, fell to 8%.
Health officials later found that the capsules had been taken apart and the Tylenol powder was replaced with potassium cyanide. Within just a few days, a nationwide recall of Tylenol Extra ...
But in a 1992 jailhouse interview with ABC 7 Chicago, Lewis described in detail how the killer would have used a pegboard to drill holes into the Tylenol capsules and inject them with deadly cyanide.
The 40-year-old Tylenol murder investigation remains at a standstill. A long-planned meeting with DuPage prosecutors also was pushed back in the spring. Investigators express frustration, anger even.
Stella Maudine Nickell (née Stephenson; born August 7, 1943) is an American woman who was sentenced to ninety years in prison for product tampering after she poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide, resulting in the deaths of her husband Bruce Nickell and Sue Snow, a stranger.
Paracetamol, [a] or acetaminophen, [b] is a non-opioid analgesic and antipyretic agent used to treat fever and mild to moderate pain. [13] [14] [15] It is a widely available over-the-counter drug sold under various brand names, including Tylenol and Panadol.
Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide that were sold in the Chicago suburbs were linked to the deaths of seven people in 1982, leading to a nationwide panic. Tylenol murders: New Efforts to Solve ...