Some expressed surprise at how casually other people treated the poisoned bottles. As a result of the crime, makers of Tylenol developed new product protection methods. And 35 years later, this murder mystery is still . Arlington Heights police Chief Rodney Kath, second from left, works with other members of the Tylenol task force in an old state police bunker in Des Plaines. From the start, Detectives Ford and Gildea didnt understand the purpose of driving out to Des Plaines each day in rush hour traffic when they had a murder to solve back in the city. That wasnt there.. (Phil Greer / Chicago Tribune). Forty years after the infamous Tylenol murders killed her father and two other close relatives, a Wisconsin woman refuses to take the popular pain pills. Tylenol murders: A nationwide panic, a family tragedy Her dad, aunt and uncle were killed in the notorious unsolved poisonings that terrorized Chicago. NBC News has not reviewed those documents. I think after a day or two, the state police realized theyre on their own. A casket is carried out of St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church after the funeral Mass for three members of the Janus family in 1982. The man hurriedly told the Hormel operator that he had to go and he would call her back later. Investigators first considered whether the tampering could have occurred at the manufacturing plants. (Michael Budrys / Chicago Tribune). The publication reported this week that it has obtained video and thousands of documents outlining law enforcement's current case and a possible motive for the killings. Over the next few days, three more strange deaths occurred: 35-year-old Mary McFarland of Elmhurst, Illinois, 35-year-old Paula Prince of Chicago, and 27-year-old Mary Weiner of Winfield, Illinois.. These other men were all worried about his chances. That testing uncovered three more poisoned bottles: two turned in by customers in Wheaton and Chicago and one found on a Schaumburg pharmacy shelf. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner talks about the Tylenol deaths on Oct. 1, 1982. Nearly three weeks after the murders, for example, the FBI asked Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene to write a column about Mary Kellerman and include specific details such as the familys home address and the location of the little girls grave, with her parents permission. It all goes to them, and you get nothing in return., Chicago police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek talks about the Tylenol investigation on Oct. 7, 1982, about a week after the seven deaths. Authorities were convinced the killer didnt know any of the victims. He brought personal knowledge (as the former state police director) and experience regarding a criminal investigation. Former Chicago police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek told the Tribune he believed Fahners selection was purely political, done specifically because of the November election. Back then, bottles of pills did not have tamper-proof seals, just a cotton ball stuffed inside. In this op-ed, he reflects on his experiences leading the public health response to the Tylenol murders of 1982. The bottles traveled to various warehouses, including a final storage stop at a Jewel facility in suburban Franklin Park, before being delivered to different grocery stores on different days before the poisonings. They apologized, he said, but the trust had been broken. Helena Tarasewicz, mother of Tylenol victim Theresa "Terri" Janus, weeps over the casket containing her daughter's body during graveside services at Maryhill Cemetery in Niles in 1982. Severns, who had two young children, heard the undeserved guilt in her voice. The Illinois Department of Law Enforcement, now called the Illinois State Police, wanted him to help. The pills were sold at stores in suburban Chicago, and bottles of Tylenol were immediately pulled from shelves to be tested by health departments for the presence of cyanide. Forty years after that terrifying period in September 1982, investigators say new evidence and a potential motive may be enough to finally solve the case. Given the totality of the circumstances, some thought it unusual for the Illinois attorney general to lead the investigation. Seven people died in 1982 after taking painkillers from bottle someone police do not know who had slipped cyanide pills into. She rarely heard how the tips panned out. The poisonings spanned multiple towns and two counties. Why was this happening? (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). Police grasped for suspects who might be the so-called "Mad Poisoner." (Don Casper / Chicago Tribune), Obviously, Johnson & Johnson didnt put cyanide in their own product. Others found Fahner the obvious choice. Among them was Lane, a well-respected federal agent who would help put away all kinds of criminals during his nearly 30-year career, including mob boss Sam Carlisi, former Illinois Gov. And then there are agents who dont. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old child named Mary Kellerman had also died suddenly in another Chicago suburb after taking an Extra-Strength Tylenol. Fahner left the dinner immediately and made calls throughout the drive home, taking advantage of his position as a statewide official with access to a car phone, then a relatively rare piece of technology. I think we ended up charging that guy with a misdemeanor, some disorderly conduct or some nonsense, he said. Lewis, who now lives in the Boston area, has long denied any involvement in the murders and has never been charged. Four decades later, task force leaders downplay accusations of tensions among the agencies, suggesting history has been revised in an effort to explain why no one has been charged with the murders. Tylenol murders investigators pursue new charges in 40-year case. And they would remain apart for the next four decades. Joe Murphy told NBC Chicago last year. It would likely be someone with gray hair. He also would have a history of animal cruelty, Lane told the Tribune. It started in 1982, not long after the murders. I stepped off that dais, Fahner told the Tribune this year. Hearing that threat, the detectives said, they banged on the door and announced themselves as police. And there were a lot of bottles to come out of that lot.. Former Chicago police Detective Jimmy Gildea, shown at his Chicago home in July, investigated the death of Tylenol victim Paula Prince. Stanley Janus soon collapsed on his late brothers kitchen floor. In the years that followed, Fellmann would rise through the ranks of the Arlington Heights Police Department and eventually become police chief of far north suburban Island Lake. A decadeslong investigation has centered around Massachusetts man James Lewis, 76, who was 36 at the time of the murders. Employees of the Chicago City Health Department continue to test Tylenol medication for the presence of deadly cyanide at the Department's lab on Oct. 7, 1982. Michael Petros, DrPH Wednesday, September 29, 1982 at 6:30am CDT, the nightmare that was to be known as the "Tylenol Murders" began 1. The Tylenol case, however, would loom largest over his professional life. Prince was officially declared dead by the Medical Examiner's office at 6:45 p.m. Investigators discovered a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol in her bathroom with one capsule missing and a. When that happened, the suspect would make contact with an investigator and offer to help solve the case. Whats going on? My theory is that Anna is a diabetic and had just come home from a . FBI agent Shari Kouba, one of the few women on the task force, ran the tips desk. What are the Tylenol murders? They had a lot of questions and I didnt have any answers at all., Mike Severns, a former Elk Grove Village police detective assigned to Mary Kellerman's murder, says it still bothers him that officials neglected to update her grieving parents in the early days of the investigation. The company, however, did not keep records of where the products were shipped. . The lot numbers for the McFarland, Reiner and Prince bottles indicated they were manufactured in Round Rock, Texas, and went to different warehouses in the Chicago area before ending up on store shelves. There was no clear leader. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). Several people had died within the last day in the Chicago suburbs after ingesting Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide and the situation needed attention. It sounds like an urban legend, but it was chillingly real in 1982. He was released in 1995 after serving only 13 years. I have no idea who gave that one, but it was perfect.. Here, you go, Pete, the police chief said, passing the bottle to him without the type of evidence bag that would now be standard in any investigation. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune). Thats because nobody was keeping track of who was buying cyanide, Wolnik said. The task force knew the mechanism behind the murders, Fellmann said. She also laments that her dad never got to meet her and her husband, her son, her stepson and her step-grandson. Now Fahner had to win the job for himself, and he faced a formidable opponent in Democrat Neil Hartigan, a vote magnet from Chicagos North Side. The Tylenol murders: The story of a 40-year-old unsolved case begins with a terrifying medical mystery. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune), John Fellmann at his home in Huntley in September. The prints, however, dont match the prime suspect. The task force didnt know who or why.. When the column ran, Severns knew instantly that the authorities had planted the story. The latest Tribune poll showed he was down by about 20 points in the upcoming election. And neither does the DNA. Security cameras were scarce in 1982, but investigators checked the images that existed, including this photograph from a drugstore camera showing Paula Prince, center, buying a bottle of tainted Tylenol. Chemists working for the Illinois Public Health Department in Chicago test the contents of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. A long-planned meeting with DuPage prosecutors also was pushed back in the spring. You know, its a hackneyed phrase, but we left no stone unturned., Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy Margolis, shown in his Chicago office in July, was part of the original Tylenol task force in 1982. A photograph of a television screen shows the specific lot number for a batch of Extra-Strength Tylenol that was the first to be recalled. The substance was grainier than the untainted Tylenol on the left. The Tylenol murders of 1982,was a pointless killing spree that resulted in the death of seven Chicago area people from Tylenol tablets .The Tylenol poisoning killings was from tampering with over-the-counter Tylenol branded acetaminophen pills laced with potassium cyanide. If you are curious, come to a small house on a quiet, winding street in Elk Grove Village. Investigators express frustration, anger even. The tainted bottle from the Schaumburg pharmacy contained three partial prints on the capsules, but (they) were not suitable for comparison, the memo states. Adam Janus, a 27-year-old postal worker, wasnt feeling well and without having any way to know the mortal peril that the bottle posed for him, he took a pill from it before going to sleep that day. And you had a lot of very experienced, very intelligent, very resourceful people thinking about this all the time, thinking about angles, thinking about ideas, testing them and implementing them wherever we possibly could. James Thompson, Illinois Secretary of State James Edgar and shook his head. For example, Johnson & Johnson quickly established that the cyanide lacing occurred after cases of Tylenol left the factory. Our property guy, he couldnt keep up with it., Chicago police Officer Sam Barsevich, left, takes inventory of Tylenol bottles that residents turned in at his station on Oct. 2, 1982. Each person underwent a rigorous background check. Former Chicago police Detective Jimmy Gildea, shown at his Chicago home in July, investigated the death of Tylenol victim Paula Prince. That thrill, however, would eventually diminish over time and the killer would seek more excitement, according to the profilers. Here, he offers a Spanish-language flyer to Luisa Acevada. He held news conferences, sometimes twice a day, to meet the insatiable media demands. No one has ever been charged with the murders. All 3 networks lead with the Tylenol story on the first day of the crisis. That evening, Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner sat on a dais listening to stump speeches at the Kane County Republican Organizations annual dinner. Stacy has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, with minors in American politics and Spanish. On that day, two unrelated things happened: A pub owner made a phone call to police, and an extortion letter arrived at a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. In work that would later be heralded in scientific journals, the scientists also tested the cyanide kept at the Tylenol plant to see if it somehow got into the production process. We locked him up.. In late September of 1982 seven people were killed after an unknown suspect placed cyanide laced Tylenol pills in store bottles. Seven people in the Chicago area were killed that year by Tylenol that had been poisoned with potassium cyanide. He had never been better known in Illinois and was inching up in the polls too. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). In the first year alone, the task force used it to track more than 35,000 individuals and 15,000 companies contacted as part of the investigation. The profilers believed the killer was likely to visit one of those named places to see the heartbreak he had caused. When the family returned home, both Adam's brother Stanley and Stanely's wife Theresa took a Tylenol, resulting in both of their deaths. He received the assignment by default, and then it became part of a national news story. Subscribe to our Science Newsletter to explore the The coppers and the FBI guys that I knew all worked together. Kasia said she long blamed herself for her fathers death, even though she was just in preschool when it happened. Tribune reporter Stacy St. Clair told NBC News correspondent Kathy Park on TODAY Friday that a number of law enforcement sources close to the investigation have told her that Lewis is the only person currently described as a target of the investigation. Congress eventually criminalized tampering with medications and other consumer products, classifying that as a federal crime that could carry up to life imprisonment in cases involving a death. The red cap was easily flipped open, with nothing but a little piece of cotton left to cover the capsules. Product tampering would become a crime in 1983 as a result of these murders, but in 1982 there was no federal law against it. The evening marked an important shift in the tragedy, moving from a swiftly solved medical mystery into a massive criminal investigation. Several suspects did too. (Josh Reynolds/AP) The investigation into the 1982 Tylenol murders was pretty dormant when an FBI . Seven people between the ages of 12 and 35 years old died in 1982 after ingesting extra-strength Tylenol capsules that were found to have been laced with. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune), If you stopped a thousand people on the street, youd be lucky if one of them could tell you who Ty Fahner was. What happens in most cases, and certainly what happened here beyond any question, was a 100% selfless, unified devotion to a very important mission.. Details about the seven victims, how they obtained the tainted bottles and their final moments were outlined in a confidential police memo obtained by the Tribune. On Friday afternoon, doctors removed Stanley Janus wife, Terri, from life support. The police investigation into the Tylenol murders has centered around prime suspect James Lewis for decades. Former Chicago police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek, shown in September, says he felt Ty Fahner was chosen to head the task force for political reasons. A photograph of a television screen shows the specific lot number for a batch of Extra-Strength Tylenol that was the first to be recalled. A drugstore clerk removes Tylenol capsules from the shelves of a pharmacy Sept. 30, 1982, in New York City after reports of tampering. When Thompson, a Republican, became governor in 1977, Fahner followed him to Springfield to lead the Illinois state police. That same day, a 27-year-old postal worker named Adam Janus of Arlington Heights, Illinois, died of what was initially thought to be a massive heart attack but turned out to be cyanide poisoning as well. Three of the deaths occurred in Arlington Heights, where police told NBC Chicago last year that they still have the pills, bottles and boxes as evidence. Early on, the task force decided to instruct the public to get rid of their Tylenol by either turning it in to police departments or throwing it away. The Tylenol task force may be no exception, he said, but the tensions didnt affect the overall effort. Siekmann, who had been working since 8 a.m., believed some capsules were tainted from the first time he laid eyes on them. He investigated the Tylenol poisonings in the Janus family and later served as police chief in Island Lake. Extra-Strength Tylenol bottles, for example, came in a paper box with an unglued lid. You shove those up my nose again, youre going to get socked in the face. And by days end, flight attendant Paula Princes body would be discovered and tests would show that a Tylenol bottle inside her home contained four cyanide-laced capsules. Chicago police Detective Charlie Ford, assigned to the Prince murder, recalled being stunned when Cook County Medical Examiner Robert Stein showed up at the victims Old Town condo and immediately asked to see the Tylenol. Chicago police Detectives Jimmy Gildea. Editors note: This report has been updated to remove the reported amount of cyanide used. J.J. Bittenbinder a tough-talking, mustachioed detective who would later gain fame as a TV safety expert served as a liaison to Fahners task force in Des Plaines. And I would wake them up just to say good night, you know?. Some of those interviews may have gone to an agent who didnt do a good job., Shari Kouba, shown in July at an FBI office in Mount Prospect where she used to work, ran a tips desk as part of the Tylenol task force. Marquette 10 is one of a thousand reasons why theres tension, personal jealousy, personal ambition, jurisdictional turf fights. With fears mounting, Johnson & Johnson recalled all over-the-counter Tylenol capsule products on Oct. 5, nearly a week after Mary Kellermans death. This Oct. 18, 1982, column by Tribune columnist Bob Greene included specific details at the request of the FBI, such as the home address of Tylenol victim Mary Kellerman. The FBI put about three dozen agents on the case, under the premise that the agency needed to determine whether Johnson & Johnson had violated federal law by failing to list potassium cyanide among the active ingredients in Tylenol. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy Margolis, shown in his Chicago office in July, was part of the original Tylenol task force in 1982. He couldnt leave. At the time just four, Janus recalls being with her father, Adam, in their Chicago suburb when he bought an Extra-Strength Tylenol bottle that someone had slipped cyanide pills into. Ted Kaczynski had proven he was a revenge-seeking terrorist, and he had connections to Chicago. The program went far beyond any database previously used by law enforcement in Illinois. NBC News reached out to Lewis and did not receive a response. Elmhurst police Detective Herb Hogberg interviewed a chemist who had been laid off from the company in recent months. So as we organized, there were about 10, 15 different avenues of investigations to pursue, like disgruntled employees, former employees, lawsuits, Lane said. Fahner stepped off the stage and ducked behind a blue velvet curtain, where a state police officer briefed him. Tylenol Ty, Ford said. The Soviets were willing to assist, but their satellites werent trained on the Chicago suburbs at the time. Scott Stump is a staff reporter and the writer of the daily newsletter This is TODAY. . (Carl Wagner / Chicago Tribune). . In all, the task force had only eight bottles to offer clues to where and when the tampering could have taken place. The gelatin-based capsules were especially popular because they were slick and easy to swallow. The Tribune has spoken with several people who have been asked to provide DNA samples within the last decade all men who had access to poisoned bottles found in Cook County. That said, he was charged with extortion and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Her parents gave permission. [Para leer en espaol] Los asesinatos de Tylenol, parte 2: Tylenol mezclado con cianuro fue el arma homicida. Tamper-resistant pill containers were introduced with packaging that allows consumers to notice if a bottle of pills or medication has been opened or altered. Other copy-cat poisonings, involving Tylenol and other over-the-counter medications, cropped up again in the 1980s and early 1990s but these events were never as dramatic or as deadly as the 1982 Chicago-area deaths. They told stories of information hoarding, turf wars and glory seeking even when there was none to be had. 3: A Nightmare on Halloween: With Molly Jean Brandenburg, Carter Roy. Do not use it.. In a surveillance still photo, you can see a man who looks remarkably similar to Lewis standing in the background as one of the victims, Paula Prince, checks out. I realized I was in the deep end of the pool, he said. Roger Arnold worked at a jewel warehouse with the father of one of the victims named Mary Reiner. Before the 1982 crisis, Tylenol controlled more than 35 percent of the over-the-counter pain reliever market; only a few weeks after the murders, that number plummeted to less than 8 percent. The best suspect for the Tylenol murders has always been James William Lewis, who sent an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million to stop the murders. Because all the other possibilities had been eliminated.. Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide that were sold in the Chicago suburbs were linked to the deaths of seven people, leading to a nationwide panic that had the Food and Drug Administration advising consumers across the country to stop taking Tylenol products. But for something like this, for looking at a pill, it never would even cross our mind., Former DuPage County Coroner Pete Siekmann, who in 1982 was a deputy coroner, handled the Tylenol bottles from Mary "Lynn" Reiner and Mary McFarland. History's Greatest Mysteries looks into the theories regarding the Tylenol Murders in Chicago 1982. Nothing has come of that January 2022 meeting. (Stan Policht / Chicago Tribune). It didnt take long for the Tylenol murders to become national news. Authorities believed they offered clues about who could and who could not have poisoned the capsules. The task force met each morning at the Des Plaines headquarters to discuss leads and get their assignments. It was 1982. Lab technicians Nlada Marzette, left, and Lynn Pilaggi inspect the contents of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules for cyanide contamination at the Illinois Department of Public Health in 1982. I said, Excuse me. Ford and his partner Jimmy Gildea both said they tried to stop him because evidence technicians hadnt been to the scene yet, but Stein brushed off their concerns. As the de facto leader of the task force, he would come to be known in the media as "Tylenol Ty.". John Fellmann at his home in Huntley in September. Seven people died in 1982 after taking painkillers from bottle someone - police do not know who - had slipped cyanide pills into Ramon Antonio Vargas Sun 2 Oct 2022 02.00 EDT Forty years after the. DNA evidence wasnt part of police work at the time, but it would become a factor in the case a quarter-century later. They can do it, in part, by revisiting the earliest days of the Tylenol investigation, a time when evidence was not always handled according to todays careful standards. By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. The FBIs counterintelligence unit even reached out to their Soviet counterparts to see if they had any spy satellite images that could help, according to former FBI agent Grey Steed. He also laid the foundation to get Extra-Strength Tylenol off store shelves statewide, going beyond the single batch the pain relievers manufacturer had recalled that day. Chicagos doing what they want, so lets just give them something minor to do.. Investigators took pictures of people who attended the victims funerals to see if they could capture anyone acting unusual. Dr. Howard Markel. It was at this point, early October of 1982, that investigators made the connection between the poisoning deaths and Tylenol, the best-selling, non-prescription pain reliever sold in the United States at that time. Every night, I would come home after my kids were in bed, he said. A new book by a former Johnson & Johnson employee suggests the Tylenol poisonings, which killed seven people in the Chicago area in 1982, took place in the company's production or distribution. She told investigators that, in retrospect, she deserved her termination and swore she would do better at her next job. And when the sitting attorney general was indicted on tax fraud charges, Thompson appointed Fahner to fill the post. Pursuing the mission, however, eventually sent the FBI and the Chicago Police Department in two different directions. The new timeline suggests Lewis wrote the letter before the public knew the deaths were linked to the tainted Tylenol pills, according to the Chicago Tribune. When Ford and Gildea arrived at the North Side flophouse where the man lived, he was still on the phone with a company operator and was promising to punish Hormel just like he had in the Tylenol case. Whoa, whoa, he recalled. "Ladies, you ever been harassed for something for 40 years that you had nothing to do with?" (Chicago Tribune), If you are the Tylenol killer, though, you may be harboring just the vaguest curiosity about the people on the other end of your plan: The people who were unfortunate enough to purchase the bottle you had touched, Greene wrote. Each participant has a packet of information that authorities use to explain their findings. The effort was Herculean, said Jeremy Margolis, a former U.S. attorney who was assigned to the task force. Stanley died that very day and Theresa died two days later. Shari Kouba, shown in July at an FBI office in Mount Prospect where she used to work, ran a tips desk as part of the Tylenol task force. He is the director of the Center for the History of Medicine and the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and the author ofThe Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick and the Discovery of DNAs Double Helix (W.W. Norton, September 21). 1: Poisoning the Well: Directed by Travis Clark. The first few days were spent talking to people closest to Prince and sifting through the many tips they received. Among those questioned was a clerical worker who was fired for repeatedly missing work. Indeed, the Johnson & Johnson recall became a classic case study in business schools across the nation. The Tribune interviewed nearly two dozen members of the task force, many of whom confirmed the reports veracity and added their own perspective. The task force opted to work out of an Illinois state police bunker in Des Plaines, a central location that would be home to a tip line, twice-a-day investigator briefings and news conferences for the scores of reporters camped outside the building. I thought he was perfect.. Within 48 hours of the murders, the task force used this information to conclude publicly that the pills could not have been poisoned during production. But others, including Lane, found it immensely helpful and from his perspective ultimately accurate. Tainted capsules were discovered in early October in a few other grocery stores and drug stores in the Chicago area, but, fortunately, they had not yet been sold or consumed. She has received numerous national honors for her work. Severns worked on the case for three days before he realized no one had offered an update to young Mary Kellermans grieving parents. But on Oct. 1, 1982, he had been a detective for only a year. And they had a very good theory as to when they were placed. Forty years later, Ford shook his head at the memory. Studies have found women who kill use poison more often than men do, but they typically target people they know. Fahners critics accused him of milking the Tylenol tragedy for his own benefit, and his opponents camp worried that he knew who the killer was and would make an arrest right before the November election. Thank you. After just one or two task force meetings, Ford and Gildea told their boss they werent going back. The attorney general largely stopped campaigning after joining the task force, but his face was on TV every night. Arlington Heights police Chief Rodney Kath, second from left, works with other members of the Tylenol task force at its Des Plaines headquarters in 1982. Tylenols parent company, Johnson & Johnson, also saw its stock price drop after the news about the tainted capsules broke. Deputy coroner Siekmann recalled going to Winfield to pick up the Tylenol collected from Reiners house a few hours after her death. Was Charles Dickens the first celebrity medical spokesman? 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