About this episode
The episode begins a two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders, detailing the initial incident and the subsequent investigation.
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. We'll start with the morning of September 29th, when a twelve-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village took a Tylenol for a cold and died, and the hours that followed as authorities slowly pieced together that the deaths spreading across the Chicago suburbs weren't a coincidence. We'll walk through the victims, the investigation, and the realization that someone had been pulling bottles off store shelves, lacing capsules with potassium cyanide, and putting them back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: Cool Down Media
Topics covered
- true crime
- murder investigation
- Chicago history
- unsolved cases
- pharmaceutical tampering
Keywords
- Tylenol Murders
- Chicago
- murder
- investigation
- potassium cyanide
- true crime
- 1982
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Tylenol, potassium cyanide
Places: Elk Grove Village
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