In 1982, Chicago experienced a wave of unexplained deaths in a gruesome case that’s now known as the Tylenol murders.
Between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1, 1982, seven healthy people ranging in age from 12 to 35 died suddenly. The only thing they had in common was that they had all taken the popular over-the-counter pain reliever Tylenol moments before they fell ill.
An investigation soon revealed that the victims’ Tylenol had all been laced with cyanide, but exactly how the poison made it into their bottles — and who put it there — remains unsolved to this day.
The Victims Of The Chicago Tylenol Murders
Around 6:15 on the morning of Sept. 29, 1982, 12-year-old Mary Kellerman woke up feeling too sick to go to school. Before going back to bed, she decided to take a capsule of Extra-Strength Tylenol to soothe her sore throat. “I heard her go into the bathroom,” Kellerman’s father told the Chicago Tribune in October 1982…