Episode 50 - The Tylenol Killer

A mass murder of the most unexpected kind is about to strike in Chicago, Illinois.

When seven people in Chicago start to feel ill, they turn to a common place: pain medication. But how could they have known that a devious individual was coming after them at random?

This week, we're drinking Murphy Goode's Cabernet Sauvignon.

Listen to Episode 50: The Tylenol Killer

SOURCES:

• Tylenol Murders – Chicago Tribune

• Fatal 1982 Tylenol tampering case is renewed - The Boston Globe

• The Tylenol murders: 40 years ago, an infamous Chicago-area crime took these 7 lives

• Chicago Tylenol murders 40 years later: Who have investigators identified as suspects or persons of interest?

• Movement in the Tylenol murders: Law enforcement seeks to persuade prosecutors to act on ‘chargeable’ case

• James Lewis, longtime suspect in 1982 Tylenol poisonings of seven people, dies in Cambridge, officials say - The Boston Globe

• James Lewis, sole suspect in the 1982 Tylenol murders, has died

• Tylenol Figure Is Convicted (Published 1984)

• How the Tylenol murders of 1982 changed the way we consume medication

• Chicago Tylenol Murders: 3 members of Janus family died in 1982, and pain has passed on to generations

• Revisiting Chicago's Tylenol Murders