Tylenol murders: 40th anniversary

Go get em!

I always get this mixed up with the bitch that planted bottles and was caught thanks to the gravel in her fish tank.

So this means they have suspects?

I curse that bastard weekly. He's responsible for all the insane safety seals now.

yes, read the tribune article. it's interesting.

CBS Chicago (WBBM) is uploading various news clips of their coverage of this from that time-

Example-This report on the death of the United Airlines flight attendant whose image was shown purchasing the Tylenol at a Walgreens while a mysterious male thought at the time to be a potential suspect looks on from a distance.

Originally broadcast on Oct. 2, 1982: Paula Prince becomes seventh Tylenol murder victim

Wow, r6.

Q. What's the cure for herpes?

A. Tylenol.

Here's that spooky image of her buying 24-count bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol at the North Ave & Wells Walgreens in Old Town @ 9:16 pm on Oct 1, 1982 and you can see the unidentified man looking on. She was headed home from O'Hare after coming in from Las Vegas after working a three-day trip and had stopped there to buy the Tylenol because she had a headache. She lived in an apartment right down the street from there where her corpse was later discovered. Store security cameras were very rare 40 years ago so to have captured that surveillance image was considered a big deal at the time. Side note-Flight attendants of today no longer make enough money to afford to live in such a swank neighborhood.

Store security cameras were not rare in 1982. the Patty Hearst bank robbery was recorded on bank security cameras in 1973 or 1974.

A Walgreens with prescription drugs, etc would certainly have security cameras by 1982.

That's sad.

Razor blade apples sad.

When I was a kid I used to break candy bars in the store because I was mad my mom wouldn't let me have them. Had to ruin it for others.

I feel like this is something like that on a more evil scale. I don't like any psychopath tendencies.

I'm reminded of the old Triopinin SNL skit.

It takes the writer quite a while to mention that Lewis was likely guilty of an unrelated murder and and kidnapping/rape. That seems pretty significant.

What does one send for this anniversary?

We've gotten so used to glued box flaps, shrink-wrap seals over the aspirin bottle caps, then a secondary seal once you get the cap off that when you're in other countries where they don't use those methods (Singapore and Japan as example) it feels unsafe.

Interesting from 1982, a report from Kansas City about suspect James Lewis. It shows evidence the police there had obtained of a search of his house for his previous crimes. One of the items they show is a gay liberation book from 1972 entitled, 'Out of the Closets'. Shown at 2 min 36 sec in on a tv news report at link.

This was horrible and all the safety seals suck and waste packaging, but I am so happy for the advent of CAPLETS. You kids don't know how good you have it. Tablets are harder to swallow and capsules often had weird smells. Caplets are where it's at.

It's also interesting that the tv reporter @ R17 refers to Lewis's former Kansas City home as being in a 'lower middle-class' neighborhood. I never hear that term being used for an area nowadays.

R19 you’re limited

[QUOTE]She lived in an apartment right down the street from there where her corpse was later discovered.

She didn't die at homemade? Did she collapse on the street after taking them? 😳

It was terrorism. Absolutely, they should file charges. I still think about this every time I take the Tylenol caplets. Only capsules I take are fiber ones, and that should scare me.

My mom was pregnant with my in the midst of this. We weren’t in the Chicagoland area, but with the national press coverage everyone had to be careful. She said it was tough because the only pain medicine back then pregnant women could take was Tylenol.

^not HOME not homemade at r21

This is unbelievably sad:

[QUOTE]her grandparents visited the cemetery nearly every day, setting up lawn chairs at the graves and at times having a picnic just to be near their slain sons.

[QUOTE]“And they’d just spend sometimes half the day sitting at the cemetery crying,” she said.

It's funny thinking about how before this incident there would be at most a child-proof cap on a medicine bottle.

My mom was pregnant with me when this was going on. She told me recently that she decided to switch to Tylenol hoping she’d ingest some cyonide

I'm listening to the Chicago Tribune's new podcast about the Tylenol Murders. Only first three episodes are out so far but the series is a total of 8 episodes. An example, lots of friction between various law enforcement agencies (CPD, The FBI, Suburban Police ) over whose turf it was to investigate thie high profile case. Also, about the flight attendant Paula Prince mentioned above. She purchased the Tylenol on Wednesday Sept 29th, two days before she was found, not on Oct 1st like I wrote above. She lived in a nice high-rise condo building @ 1540 LaSalle, literally just around the corner from that Walgreens. In the podcast, they interview her friend who also lived in the building and who was the one that discovered her dead body.