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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...
...week's end Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, stopped all production in capsule form of what had been the nation's top-selling painkiller, and urged druggists across the country to remove all Tylenol capsules from their shelves. That left Tylenol available only in tablet and liquid varieties. Even as Tylenol capsules piled up in warehouses, Johnson & Johnson and other drug companies were grappling with an even more difficult, expensive and far-reaching problem: how to package over-the-counter medications to minimize the chances of tampering. Said Arthur Hull Hayes, commissioner of the Food and Drug...
They had been murdered by remote control, by a poisoner who had no way of guessing in even the most general sense who his victims might be-men or women, young or old-and could not have cared. Six bottles of cyanide-poisoned Tylenol were found in five drugstores and one supermarket; one store was in north Chicago, but the others were in communities in the western suburbs, strung out along a rough north-south line near Illinois State Route 53. The investigators' chilling theory: the murderer had driven along 53, turned off at randomly selected points and placed...
...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...
...week's end strychnine had been found in one more Tylenol bottle still in stock in the Oroville drugstore but nowhere else in the country. Investigators were wondering about the wild coincidences involved in Blagg's story. If it is true, he and his wife had bought the only bottles of strychnine-poisoned Tylenol purchased by anyone. Investigators doubted there had been either an attempt at a copycat murder or any link to the Chicago poisonings...