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...more than a tantalizing mystery, more even than random terror. The Tylenol murders had the true Kafkaesque quality of a nightmare become real, of vague dreads taking on form and solidity in cold daylight. Such thoughts gripped Americans last week as poison scares spread around the nation, seemingly promising leads dissolved, and the hunt for the person who had put the cyanide into capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that killed seven people in the Chicago area two weeks ago made little progress...
...surprisingly, sales of painkillers of every sort slumped. Poison-control centers around the country were flooded by calls from jittery citizens. Police all over the U.S. looked with extra care into every case, new or old, that might conceivably be related to the Chicago-area poisonings. Results: a number of false alarms that for a time looked like either similar cases or promising leads...
...Oroville, Calif., Greg Blagg, 27, a butcher in a meat market owned by his father, told a strange story. He said that on Sept. 30, the same day that the first Chicago-area poisonings became public knowledge, he had taken three capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol from a bottle that his wife Terry had bought two weeks earlier. "Everything became very blurry," he related. "I'm told I passed out and became real rigid." Terry got him to a hospital, where he was treated for four hours and then released at his own request. Back home, Blagg related...
...Philadelphia, police reopened the case of William Pascual, a 26-year-old graduate student at the Wharton School of Business, who had been found dead of cyanide poisoning in his apartment last April 3. His death had been ruled a suicide, largely on the strength of a note Pascual had mailed to his mother in Arlington, Va. ("Dear Mom: It wasn't your fault. It was mine, all mine"). At the time, analysis of three Tylenol capsules from a bottle found in a shoe in the closet uncovered no poison, but analysis last week of the remaining capsules, which...
...Atlanta murders, and not only because these latest deaths are more random. There is something about the will involved, the you involved, plucking the particular little pill box that your hand has settled on, then standing politely in a row, ready to pay for your medicine. The trouble with poison is that you take it yourself, even when the murderer has spiked the gum on the envelope or when a Borgia has switched the wine. It is the victim who does the actual killing. That is why moviemakers focus so carefully on the glass of smoky milk jiggling...