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Seven people die after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol...
Adam Janus, 27, had a minor chest pain last Wednesday morning, so he went out and bought a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. About an hour later in his home in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Janus suffered a cardiopulmonary collapse. He was rushed to Northwest Community Hospital, where doctors worked frantically to revive him. "Nothing seemed to help," said Dr. Thomas Kim, chief of the hospital's critical-care unit. "He suffered sudden death without warning. It was most unusual...
That evening, grief-stricken relatives gathered at Janus' home. Someone offered to go out for aspirin. No need, said Stanley Janus, 25, Adam's younger brother, who had noticed a bottle of Tylenol in the kitchen. He and his wife Theresa, 19, each took at least one capsule. At 8:15 p.m., five hours after his brother died, Stanley was pronounced dead. Theresa died on Friday afternoon...
...week's end at least seven Chicago-area residents had died under similar circumstances. Each had ingested an Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule laced with cyanide. Food and Drug Administration officials suspect that someone unconnected with the manufacturer tampered with the drug; by their reasoning, the killer bought Extra-Strength Tylenol over the counter, inserted cyanide in some of the capsules, then returned the bottles to store shelves. Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner suggests that "a disgruntled employee in the production chain" was the more likely culprit. Whatever the method and motive, the killer clearly knew what he was doing...
Twelve-year-old Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village took Extra-Strength Tylenol to ward off a cold that had been dogging her. Mary Reiner, 27, of Winfield, who was poisoned on Thursday, had recently given birth to her fourth child. Paula Prince, 35, a United Airlines stewardess, was found dead in her Chicago apartment, an open bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol near by in the bathroom. Says Dr. Kim: "The victims never had a chance. Death was certain within minutes...