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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.
TYLENOL MURDERS: After a joint FBI task force was unable to pin the 1982 Tylenol murders on prime suspect James Lewis, special agent Roy Lane was coaxed out of retirement to carry out a daring ...
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%.
Editor’s Note: Learn more about the decades-old cold case of the Tylenol murders in the latest episode of “How It Really Happened,” airing Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN. It’s almost ...
4. The Chicago Tylenol Poisoner. Location: Chicago Victims: 7 Timeframe: 1982 This twisted killer's method was unconventional and particularly insidious. He would tamper with Tylenol bottles by ...
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 .
Seven people died after taking poisoned Tylenol in 1982, and though no one was ever charged in the killings, packaging for over-the-counter medicine across the industry was revamped.
In 1982, DeLong became involved in the investigation of the Chicago Tylenol murders, in which seven people died from potassium cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. [5] Although no one was ever charged in the poisonings, the incident led to new packaging for over-the-counter medication and federal anti-tampering laws. Regarding the incident, DeLong ...