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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 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 ...
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.
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 .
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 ...
Perhaps the most notorious serial killer ever, Jack the Ripper killed and mutilated at least five women in London. All of the killings took place in 1888, and the killer allegedly sent several ...
It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [48] Paracetamol is available as a generic medication, with brand names including Tylenol and Panadol among others. [49] In 2022, it was the 114th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 5 million prescriptions. [50] [51]