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...when hospital tests revealed an "unknown substance" in her blood, Bowen's husband Richard hired a private laboratory to analyze the contents of a bottle of Maximum Strength Anacin-3 capsules he said she had used. Five of the capsules had been tampered with, and one contained cyanide. Richard Bowen retained flamboyant San Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli to sue the maker of Anacin-3, American Home Products Co., for $1 million. But last month Bowen was arrested as a suspect in the crime...
...assent when Santa Clara County Municipal Court Judge Stephen Manley read a written statement in which she said, "I in no way suspect him of trying to injure me." Judge Manley, however, denied bail for Bowen, citing "clear and convincing evidence." San Jose police say they do not believe Anacin-3 capsules played any part in the poisoning...
Some 700 miles north, in Hillsboro, Ore., detectives were keeping "open minds" in their investigation into the death of Patricia Bennett, 31. A campus security officer at Portland Community College, Bennett died last week after swallowing one or more Anacin-3 capsules laced with cyanide. Her death was the first fatal poisoning linked to pain relievers since seven people in the Chicago area died between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1. Meanwhile, American Home Products is voluntarily withdrawing all Anacin-3 capsules not in tamper-resistant containers...
Pain relievers and other over-the-counter medicines are a major target of the Tylenol killer's admirers. Rat poison was discovered in an Anacin capsule in Grand Junction, Colo. Two people suffered fever and nausea after taking Anacin in St. Albans, Vt. In Mills, Wyo., Brian Leyba, 25, suffered acid burns after using Sinex nasal spray, and in Grand Junction, Larry Tingley, 38, a patient at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, is being treated for corneal burns caused by hydrochloric acid in Visine eye drops...
...ornate office at the State Department. On the top of the box is an inscription scrawled in red marker: FOREIGN POLICY KIT. FOR THE BEST DAD IN GOVERNMENT. Inside are a tiny American flag, some Band-Aids, dice, a flashlight, a compass, a pacifier and a box of Anacin. "Everything I need," laughs George Shultz...