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...needles. There seems to be no limit to the numbers, targets or methods of copycats seeking to emulate their demonic hero, the still unknown poisoner who murdered seven people (and, it was disclosed last week, might have come hair-raisingly close to killing an eighth) by placing cyanide in Tylenol capsules...
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...
...these events: anger, thrill seeking, retribution against injustice, real or imagined." Helen Morrison, an authority on mass murder, sums up their motives: "Better to be wanted by the police than not to be wanted at all." Morrison and other psychologists are virtually sure that no copycat is the Tylenol killer...
That killer remained elusive last week. There were no new leads and no real suspects. The major development was a brief flurry about a "mystery woman" who had turned in a bottle of cyanide-poisoned Tylenol to Chicago police on Oct. 14. The mystery, police later confessed, was actually a "clerical error" that had caused them to misidentify which judge of the Du Page County, Ill., circuit court was her husband. The woman turned out to be Linda Morgan, 35, wife of Judge Lewis Morgan...
...Morgan said she had bought the Tylenol on Sept. 29, the day before the first deaths were reported, and that very day wanted to take some at a family gathering. Her sister offered Bufferin, she said, and she decided to take that instead. She escaped death, she says, by "blind luck...