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. Christy Gutowski focuses her work on stories about criminal justice, public corruption and issues that impact the everyday man. Some expressed surprise at how casually other people treated the poisoned bottles. Sadly, the tragedies that resulted from the Tylenol poisonings can never be undone. Everyone who had access to the box including the judge and his wife provided fingerprints for comparison. Marquette 10 is one of a thousand reasons why theres tension, personal jealousy, personal ambition, jurisdictional turf fights. (Don Casper / Chicago Tribune), People were terrified, Fahner said. Stacy St. Clair joined the Chicago Tribune in 2007. As the de facto leader of the task force, he would come to be known in the media as "Tylenol Ty.". ]. 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. They understood the tension between the FBI and local law enforcement some of them shared those same resentments but they thought Chicago didnt even try to be team players. It started in 1982, not long after the murders. The more she . Most came from a banking service that snapped a photograph of anyone writing a check. I realized I was in the deep end of the pool, he said. The results came back positive for cyanide at 1:30 a.m. Chemists working for the Illinois Public Health Department in Chicago test the contents of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. Fahner looked at all the power brokers on the platform U.S. Sen. Charles Percy, Gov. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. And I want people to know that, yeah, this was my family, and it has changed all of us.. But if they kept the bottles in their medicine cabinets, more people could die. After eliminating the possibility that the poisonings happened at the plant level, investigators scoured the backgrounds of workers at trucking companies and storage warehouses involved in the distribution of the tainted bottles, as well as other company records. 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.. He didnt fit that profile, Hogberg said. 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. Flight attendant Paula Prince bought a tainted bottle of Tylenol at the Walgreens at Wells Street and North Avenue in Chicago. It didnt take long for Fellmann to recognize the pressures and expectations under which the newly formed task force would operate. Thank you. 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. Former DuPage County Coroner Pete Siekmann, who in 1982 was a deputy coroner, handled the Tylenol bottles from Mary "Lynn" Reiner and Mary McFarland. He goes, It smells like burnt almonds. . Eight of them would be three-member squads composed of a federal agent, a state investigator and a suburban detective from one of the towns where the victims lived or tainted bottles were discovered. Kasia Janus also always verifies products are properly sealed before she buys anything at stores, she said in a recently published series of interviews with CNN that described the gut-wrenching legacy left behind for her by the unsolved Tylenol killings, which made tampering with medications as well as other consumer goods a federal crime but remain unsolved. Deputy coroner Siekmann recalled going to Winfield to pick up the Tylenol collected from Reiners house a few hours after her death. In those early days, there were so many agencies involved, so many people desperate to solve the case. 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. Bottles that werent tossed out were sent to J&J, the FDA and various government laboratories for testing. In late September of 1982 seven people were killed after an unknown suspect placed cyanide laced Tylenol pills in store bottles. You know, because Ty was just a classy lawyer, and he never was a politician, he said. 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. Pain in the neck, Hogberg said of his CPD counterparts. Forty years later, it still bothers him. 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. Investigators say new evidence may help finally solve the case of seven people who died after ingesting Tylenol laced with cyanide in the Chicago area in 1982. "As you can see, it is easy to place cyanideinto capsules sitting on store shelves," he wrote in the letter. The substance was grainier than the untainted Tylenol on the left. After a lengthy cat and mouse game, police and federal investigators determined that Lewis lived in New York and had no demonstrable links to the Chicago events. A long-planned meeting with DuPage prosecutors also was pushed back in the spring. 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. 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. (Michael Budrys / Chicago Tribune). The city's most notorious unsolved murdersthe killing of seven people with cyanide-laced Tylenols in 1982is back in the news, as the seating of a grand jury is 1 2 Security cameras were scarce in suburban Chicago in 1982, but investigators checked the images that existed. And as soon as we got the word out that Tylenol had been laced, people said, What do we do? I said, Well, if youve got any in your medicine cabinet either put it in a plastic bag and keep it or throw it away. Investigators pulled library records to see who had checked out books on cyanide. Photo by Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images. Police Officer Michael Miljan leaves an Arlington Heights pharmacy after making sure bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol were being removed from shelves. IE 11 is not supported. 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. So, the theory was the tampering took place at the store, said FBI agent Lane. A native of the south suburbs, Gutowski received a master's degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield and is a graduate of Southern Illinois University. In one instance, someone reported that a chemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago had been bragging about access to labs with cyanide. The Unsolved Tylenol Murders of 1982: The Unabomber Theory Written by C.W.S. Pero quin fue el asesino? As weeks went by without an arrest, detectives started using different doors to avoid the cameras. Left: The final Tylenol death was confirmed on the evening of Oct. 1, when 35-year-old flight attendant Paula Prince was found dead in her Old Town condominium. Stanley Janus soon collapsed on his late brothers kitchen floor. Tylenol murders investigators pursue new charges in 40-year case. And I would wake them up just to say good night, you know?. By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. It wasnt a grab for authority. And they talked to veterinarians about any unusual animal poisonings, thinking the murderer may have tested the chemical on pets first. Thats just human nature. Jose Rosa, right, was one of hundreds of Chicago city employees and volunteers to distribute warnings about cyanide-laced Tylenol in fall 1982. Others found Fahner the obvious choice. Stores were pulling the product off shelves. She rarely heard how the tips panned out. The arrests came as the result of an undercover FBI operation, and The Marquette 10 as the disgraced officers came to be known remain an enduring symbol of police corruption in Chicago. 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. Ford said Stein encouraged him to smell the pills, but the detective refused and pushed away the pathologists hand. A casket is carried out of St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church after the funeral Mass for three members of the Janus family in 1982. And he grabs the pills, picks them up in his hand, dumps a whole bunch of them in his hand and starts sniffing, Ford recalled. 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. But I didnt have the gray hair yet.. 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. Two main suspects in this unsolved case are James Lewis and Roger Arnold, who had both been linked to this occurrence in some way. In those early days, the best leads came from the Tylenol bottles themselves. Police grasped for suspects who might be the so-called "Mad Poisoner." Relatives, including two who took polygraph tests, were quickly eliminated from suspicion. Seven people in the Chicago area were killed that year by Tylenol that had been poisoned with potassium cyanide. And there were a lot of bottles to come out of that lot.. 3: A Nightmare on Halloween: With Molly Jean Brandenburg, Carter Roy. Her parents gave permission. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). In theory, the plan would prevent anyone from griping about being kept out of the loop. We didnt get anything, but we were kicking around ideas like that.. History's Greatest Mysteries looks into the theories regarding the Tylenol Murders in Chicago 1982. They also started grumbling about politics overshadowing their work. The Kellerman and Janus bottles contained Tylenol from lot MC2880, manufactured in Pennsylvania on April 26, 1982. 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. 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. And wherever they fell on the issue, that position hasnt changed much over the past four decades. In this op-ed, he reflects on his experiences leading the public health response to the Tylenol murders of 1982. Im just being honest, Siekmann said. His wife whom he had just married fell limp in the living room a short while after that. A lot of people who didnt like me or didnt like Thompson or my association were taking shots, Fahner said. As everyone left that first meeting Friday morning, DuPage deputy coroner Siekmann, who hadnt slept in more than 24 hours, looked around the room and wondered how it would all work. NBC News has not reviewed those documents. Indeed, the Johnson & Johnson recall became a classic case study in business schools across the nation. Now she's sharing her story for the first. Studies have found women who kill use poison more often than men do, but they typically target people they know. The panic stemming from the Tylenol murders resulted in a permanent change in the packaging of medicine. (Stan Policht / Chicago Tribune). 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. Other task force members, it should be noted, werent particularly fond of Chicagos efforts either. Joe McQuaid, a task force investigator with the state police who had worked for Fahner when he was director, acknowledged it was an unorthodox setup. (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. (Stan Policht / Chicago Tribune). In Illinois, some towns began pulling bottles from the store shelves and sent police officers down the street with bullhorns encouraging people to throw out their Tylenol. 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. Rosen's theory is that the tampering did not happen on store shelves, but at the manufacturing plant before the product was shipped out. By the time he reached his house in Evanston, he was the de facto leader of what had quickly become the countrys highest-profile murder case. In 2010, DuPage County prosecutors filed a sealed affidavit stating investigators had found DNA on three bottles and the capsules inside, according to documents obtained by the Tribune. He investigated the Tylenol poisonings in the Janus family and later served as police chief in Island Lake. 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. I mean, it just got to me, Severns said. They looked at accused shoplifters, including a man charged with attempting to steal 28 Tylenol bottles from a Wheaton pharmacy in August. I stepped off that dais, Fahner told the Tribune this year. Six suburbanites had already died from cyanide poisoning by that time, but this was Chicagos first and, in the end, only victim. The task force questioned stock boys, managers, disgruntled former employees and problematic customers at the hot locations, the teams name for the stores that sold the tainted Tylenol. The Illinois State Police told NBC News the investigation remains ongoing. She would be the seventh and final person to die from taking the poisoned medication. Tylenols parent company, Johnson & Johnson, also saw its stock price drop after the news about the tainted capsules broke. Each participant has a packet of information that authorities use to explain their findings. 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. A decadeslong investigation has centered around Massachusetts man James Lewis, 76, who was 36 at the time of the murders. The Tylenol Murders Remain One of the Nation's Biggest Unsolved Mysteries Popular belief is that the killer was James Lewis, the man imprisoned for 13 years for extorting Johnson & Johnson in the. 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 bottles, however, needed to be tested before they could say with certainty. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). One man, James Lewis, claiming to be the Tylenol killer wrote a ransom letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million in exchange for stopping the poisonings. I was the detective at the scene. Here's what to know about the history of the case and the latest developments. 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. The first tainted Tylenol victim - Mary Kellerman, 12, of Elk Grove Village - collapsed and died on . (Phil Greer / Chicago Tribune). 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. Despite the passage of time and, in a way, because of it the bottles still may offer clues as to who poisoned the capsules. Its a one-way street for information back and forth. With no apparent motive and little evidence to go on, it was a tough task. The bottle's cap was easily opened. Johnson & Johnson initially recalled only those products with the same batch number as the Janus and Kellerman bottles. I dont know what he thought. Several victims families told the Tribune they didnt hear much from investigators after those initial interviews. 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. And we were able to analyze the cyanide and show that it was not the same (cyanide at the plant) as cyanide in the capsules., 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. See where the eight tainted Tylenol bottles were purchased or discovered. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. Tylenol murders: A nationwide panic, a family tragedy Transformed by tragedy Her dad, aunt and uncle died 40 years ago after taking poisoned Tylenol. The first few days were spent talking to people closest to Prince and sifting through the many tips they received. "Ladies, you ever been harassed for something for 40 years that you had nothing to do with?" The program went far beyond any database previously used by law enforcement in Illinois. The police questioned him and searched his home, they turned up several interesting connections. . The U.S. Food and Drug Administration then cautioned the public against taking the pain reliever in capsule form. Nobody knew what to do with (the investigation) because it was all over the place, Fahner said. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics But on Oct. 1, 1982, he had been a detective for only a year. The dire situation, both in terms of human life and business, made it imperative that the Johnson & Johnson executives respond swiftly and authoritatively. I always wear the blue suit and the red tie, Lane said. Former Chicago police Detective Jimmy Gildea, shown at his Chicago home in July, investigated the death of Tylenol victim Paula Prince. He has been a regular contributor for TODAY.com since 2011, producing news stories and features across the trending, pop culture, sports, parents, pets, health, style, food and TMRW verticals. He was released in 1995 after serving only 13 years. They gave her one extra-strength Tylenol capsule that, unbeknownst to them, was laced with the highly poisonous potassium cyanide. 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. The Chicago detectives shared that worry. Ford and Gildea arrived at the campus with hopes of a break in the case, only to find out the so-called professor was a high school boy pretending to work at UIC so he could pick up college girls. He hangs up, opens the door and we come in like gangbusters, Gildea said. I think after a day or two, the state police realized theyre on their own. 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 Chicago Tylenol Murders: With Laurence Fishburne. To this day, however, the perpetrators of these murders have never been found. The Tylenol murders launched a massive criminal investigation. He believed Thompson was behind the move, though Fahner denied it. Thats clear, Margolis told the Tribune. Investigators, however, are prepared should that question arise. He held news conferences, sometimes twice a day, to meet the insatiable media demands. It was 1982. Theories The first suspect is 48 year old dock worker Roger Arnold, who said some suspicious things about the Tylenol murders at a bar one night. Roger Arnold worked at a jewel warehouse with the father of one of the victims named Mary Reiner. Early on the morning of Sept. 29, 1982, a tragic, medical mystery began with a sore throat and a runny nose. They knew the weapon. We had an absolute tsunami of Tylenol bottles. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). And everyone in the meeting is aware of one undeniable truth: There is no physical evidence linking a suspect to the poisonings. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). But before Sept. 29, 1982, consumer products had few defenses against a person bent on sabotage. Investigators first considered whether the tampering could have occurred at the manufacturing plants. (Don Casper / Chicago Tribune), Obviously, Johnson & Johnson didnt put cyanide in their own product. Elk Grove Village Detective Michael Severns said investigators were so intent on chasing leads that they at times lost sight of the grieving families. What are the Tylenol murders? Tylenol murders victims Among the victims there were three from the same family, as Adam Janus, aged 27 collapsed after ingesting extra-strength Tylenol and was rushed to the hospital where he died. The profilers believed the killer was likely to visit one of those named places to see the heartbreak he had caused. Former Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner stands on the former site of the Tylenol task force headquarters in Des Plaines, now an empty parking lot. Stanley died that very day and Theresa died two days later. And, in the decades since, scientific advances have allowed investigators to detect DNA profiles on at least three of the tainted bottles and the capsules inside. 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. Following the same theory, investigators took pictures of everyone who attended the victims funerals and set up time-lapse cameras at grave sites to see if they could capture anyone acting unusual. The red cap was easily flipped open, with nothing but a little piece of cotton left to cover the capsules. A casket is carried out of St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church after the funeral Mass for three members of the Janus family in 1982. It marked the first mass recall in U.S. history, involving more than 31 million bottles. 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. Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner talks about the Tylenol deaths on Oct. 1, 1982. But the police chief of the Chicago suburb where Adam Janus lived, Joe Murphy, told CNN he hopes forensic technology used to analyze DNA could eventually produce the break they need to conclusively identify whoever was responsible for the Tylenol killings. Conspiracy theories about motives and suspects for all these heinous acts continue to be bandied about on the Internet to this day. The effort was Herculean, said Jeremy Margolis, a former U.S. attorney who was assigned to the task force. The batch contained more than 1,800 pounds of cyanide, divided into packages of various sizes. After just one or two task force meetings, Ford and Gildea told their boss they werent going back. She told investigators that, in retrospect, she deserved her termination and swore she would do better at her next job. My theory is that Anna is a diabetic and had just come home from a . For example, Johnson & Johnson quickly established that the cyanide lacing occurred after cases of Tylenol left the factory. President Reagan wanted the FBI in the investigation, retired FBI Special Agent Roy Lane Jr. told the Tribune. . 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. There, research chemist Karen Wolnik and her colleagues established a trace element pattern a sort of chemical fingerprint for each sample to determine whether it was identical to the poison used in the Tylenol killings. The guy was a little wimpy, but his ham did stink.. Daniel Walker and several Chicago aldermen convicted in Operation Silver Shovel. And the last point that they wanted to strike home was that the person who committed this is enjoying the attention right now and the fact that he or she had outsmarted the law enforcement, Lane said. Dr. Howard Markel. The Tylenol Murders" and asked him if he has any theories on who the Tylenol Killer might be. The CPD set up its own tip line and organized 35 detectives to work out of what was then Area 6 Headquarters at Belmont and Western. The company, however, did not keep records of where the products were shipped. The company also introduced price reductions and a new version of their pills called the caplet a tablet coated with slick, easy-to-swallow gelatin but far harder to tamper with than the older capsules which could be easily opened, laced with a contaminant, and then placed back in the older non-tamper-proof bottle. 40 years later, Kasia Janus is sharing. Former Chicago police Detective Jimmy Gildea, shown at his Chicago home in July, investigated the death of Tylenol victim Paula Prince. (Carl Wagner / Chicago Tribune). Hearing that threat, the detectives said, they banged on the door and announced themselves as police. The agents didnt bother to pretend that labeling rules were their true motivation for getting involved. James Thompson, Illinois Secretary of State James Edgar and shook his head. the fact remains, the Tylenol murders of 1982 . Lewis admitted to the FBI that he sent a ransom letter at the time to Tylenol's parent company, Johnson & Johnson, according to reporting by The Chicago Tribune. Investigators also collected more than 200 cyanide samples from Chicago-area businesses, facilities and institutions and sent them to an FDA research laboratory in Cincinnati. The police investigation into the Tylenol murders has centered around prime suspect James Lewis for decades. All 3 networks lead with the Tylenol story on the first day of the crisis. 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. Investigators took the funeral guest books and jotted down license plates, then entered names into a newly developed computer program that allowed them to cross-check for anyone attending multiple memorials, according to the state police report. Police Officer Michael Miljan leaves an Arlington Heights pharmacy after making sure bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol were being removed from shelves. 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. John Fellmann, whose last name was misspelled on his ID from 1980, was a young Arlington Heights police detective when he was assigned to the Tylenol murders. And it took over my life.. His task force partners the FBI and state police had blindsided the Elk Grove Village detective, and he was angry. A drugstore clerk removes Tylenol capsules from the shelves of a pharmacy Sept. 30, 1982, in New York City after reports of tampering. 6 Amazon travel essentials for your next getaway, starting at $12. Fahner thought state officials needed to be even more aggressive, despite the consequences for the investigation. As the de facto leader of the task force, he would come to be known in the media as "Tylenol Ty." Here, he offers a Spanish-language flyer to Luisa Acevada. Because all the other possibilities had been eliminated.. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Over the next several months, Fahners task force would do groundbreaking police work, generate 19,000 pages of investigative reports, be accused of playing politics and, ultimately, fail to hold anyone accountable for the murders. 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