While I was not born yet and don't personally remember the Chicago Tylenol Murders of 1982, I do feel like I have experienced some of the anxiety that has never gone away. Ford and his partner Jimmy Gildea both said they tried to stop him because evidence technicians hadnt been to the scene yet, but Stein brushed off their concerns. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune), John Fellmann at his home in Huntley in September. Seven people between 12 and 35 died after ingesting cyanide-laced Tylenol pills in the Chicago area in 1982. Seven people died in 1982 after taking painkillers from bottle someone police do not know who had slipped cyanide pills into. A photograph of a television screen shows the specific lot number for a batch of Extra-Strength Tylenol that was the first to be recalled. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tylenol-murders-1982, Why Eleanor Roosevelts civics book for kids is making a comeback. We used every single technique available to us. Now Fahner had to win the job for himself, and he faced a formidable opponent in Democrat Neil Hartigan, a vote magnet from Chicagos North Side. FBI agent Shari Kouba, one of the few women on the task force, ran the tips desk. And lives were at risk. Investigators pulled library records to see who had checked out books on cyanide. Helena Tarasewicz, mother of Tylenol victim Theresa "Terri" Janus, weeps over the casket containing her daughter's body during graveside services at Maryhill Cemetery in Niles in 1982. Investigators, however, are prepared should that question arise. But for something like this, for looking at a pill, it never would even cross our mind., Former DuPage County Coroner Pete Siekmann, who in 1982 was a deputy coroner, handled the Tylenol bottles from Mary "Lynn" Reiner and Mary McFarland. Later, Lewis was arrested,. I think hes nothing but a class act, said McQuaid, a retired state police captain. A theory emerged: What if the Mad Poisoner was actually the Unabomber? But ultimately, three more people Mary Reiner, Mary McFarland and Paula Prince died within days after taking what they thought was an Extra-Strength Tylenol. The arrests came as the result of an undercover FBI operation, and The Marquette 10 as the disgraced officers came to be known remain an enduring symbol of police corruption in Chicago. The police investigation into the Tylenol murders has centered around prime suspect James Lewis for decades. The Tribune has spoken with several people who have been asked to provide DNA samples within the last decade all men who had access to poisoned bottles found in Cook County. When the column ran, Severns knew instantly that the authorities had planted the story. He hangs up, opens the door and we come in like gangbusters, Gildea said. The prints, however, dont match the prime suspect. He didnt get in our way. Investigators express frustration, anger even. The task force knew the mechanism behind the murders, Fellmann said. Pain in the neck, Hogberg said of his CPD counterparts. The dire situation, both in terms of human life and business, made it imperative that the Johnson & Johnson executives respond swiftly and authoritatively. Investigators took the funeral guest books and jotted down license plates, then entered names into a newly developed computer program that allowed them to cross-check for anyone attending multiple memorials, according to the state police report. He said Marys mother, Jeanna, asked him if she should have noticed that someone had tampered with the bottle. Several suspects did too. While acetaminophen the active ingredient in the top-selling pain reliever was a fine white powder, these were filled with a grainy, translucent substance. Whoa, whoa, he recalled. Fahner stepped off the stage and ducked behind a blue velvet curtain, where a state police officer briefed him. Authorities believed they offered clues about who could and who could not have poisoned the capsules. Before that she reported for the Daily Herald, the Dayton Daily News and The Topeka Capital-Journal. Fahner thought state officials needed to be even more aggressive, despite the consequences for the investigation. What are the Tylenol murders? In the end, it was decided that the state police would take the lead among the agencies and that investigators would be divided into nearly four dozen teams. Conspiracy theories about motives and suspects for all these heinous acts continue to be bandied about on the Internet to this day. They knew the locations. Forty years later, investigators still cant say with certainty. The killer may have salted the bottles with cyanide-laced capsules while standing in the store aisle, investigators thought. Forty years later, Ford shook his head at the memory. In 2000, Joy Bergmann revisited the story in "A Bitter Pill" . He held news conferences, sometimes twice a day, to meet the insatiable media demands. Investigators first considered whether the tampering could have occurred at the manufacturing plants. And you know, some agents are better than other agents and can really do a good job. Nobody knew what to do with (the investigation) because it was all over the place, Fahner said. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). Kasia said she still remembers hearing her mother scream when she couldnt wake her father up the next day, 29 September 1982. The state police memo indicates fingerprints were found on at least one of the bottles, as well as a full print on the inside of a different bottles box. President Reagan wanted the FBI in the investigation, retired FBI Special Agent Roy Lane Jr. told the Tribune. Our highest responsibility has always been the health and safety of our consumers," Johnson & Johnson said in a statement to NBC News. Following the same theory, investigators took pictures of everyone who attended the victims funerals and set up time-lapse cameras at grave sites to see if they could capture anyone acting unusual. They were particularly concerned that something happened during the manufacturing or the shipping or storage, Wolnik said. (James Mayo / Chicago Tribune). Studies have found women who kill use poison more often than men do, but they typically target people they know. As the 40th anniversary of the 1982 Tylenol murders approaches, investigators are working with prosecutors on a now-or-maybe-never effort to hold a longtime suspect responsible for the. "Ladies, you ever been harassed for something for 40 years that you had nothing to do with?" Both experienced throbbing headaches, a not uncommon response to a death in the family and each took a Tylenol extra-strength capsule or two from the same bottle Adam had used earlier in the day. It was 1982. The first tainted Tylenol victim - Mary Kellerman, 12, of Elk Grove Village - collapsed and died on . Most came from a banking service that snapped a photograph of anyone writing a check. History's Greatest Mysteries looks into the theories regarding the Tylenol Murders in Chicago 1982. Former Chicago police Detective Jimmy Gildea, shown at his Chicago home in July, investigated the death of Tylenol victim Paula Prince. Records show law enforcement has spent the past several years dealing almost entirely with forensic evidence. Who would be next? There was no clear leader. Security cameras were scarce in 1982, but investigators checked the images that existed, including this photograph from a drugstore camera showing Paula Prince, center, buying a bottle of tainted Tylenol. Her parents gave permission. I knew how to organize things.. He received the assignment by default, and then it became part of a national news story. Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide that were sold in the Chicago suburbs were linked to the deaths of seven people, leading to a nationwide panic that had the Food and Drug Administration advising consumers across the country to stop taking Tylenol products. Manufacturer Johnson & Johnson recalled 31 million Tylenol bottles as panic spread nationwide following the deaths. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune). (Chicago Tribune archive). He investigated the Tylenol poisonings in the Janus family and later served as police chief in Island Lake. What was he like in school? I stepped off that dais, Fahner told the Tribune this year. (Phil Greer / Chicago Tribune). Kasia Janus also always verifies products are properly sealed before she buys anything at stores, she said in a recently published series of interviews with CNN that described the gut-wrenching legacy left behind for her by the unsolved Tylenol killings, which made tampering with medications as well as other consumer goods a federal crime but remain unsolved. Police Officer Michael Miljan leaves an Arlington Heights pharmacy after making sure bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol were being removed from shelves. The Illinois Department of Law Enforcement, now called the Illinois State Police, wanted him to help. The 40-year-old Tylenol murder investigation remains at a standstill. That box had been turned in, along with an unused bottle, a couple weeks after the murders by the wife of a DuPage County judge. Jose Rosa, right, was one of hundreds of Chicago city employees and volunteers to distribute warnings about cyanide-laced Tylenol in fall 1982. With Molly Jean Brandenburg, Carter Roy. Later that morning, Siekmann drove to the northwest suburbs to share what he had learned with a group of law enforcement officials assembled by Fahners team. Their opinion soured even further at their first meeting, when one of the lead investigators asked for a briefing on the Prince murder. Marquette 10 is one of a thousand reasons why theres tension, personal jealousy, personal ambition, jurisdictional turf fights. By days end, however, tainted capsules would be blamed for two deaths in neighboring DuPage County, broadening both the scope of the investigation and the threat to the public. "While this tragic incident remains unsolved, this event resulted in important industry improvements to patient safety measures including the creation of tamper-resistant packaging.". Each participant has a packet of information that authorities use to explain their findings. Theories The first suspect is 48 year old dock worker Roger Arnold, who said some suspicious things about the Tylenol murders at a bar one night. All Rights Reserved. Manufacturer Johnson & Johnson recalled 31 million Tylenol bottles as panic spread nationwide. I was the detective at the scene. Extra-Strength Tylenol, shown in a Tribune studio photograph, once was packaged in a paper box with an unglued lid. As the de facto leader of the task force, he would come to be known in the media as "Tylenol Ty." Former Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner stands on the former site of the Tylenol task force headquarters in Des Plaines, now an empty parking lot. (Josh Reynolds/AP) The investigation into the 1982 Tylenol murders was pretty dormant when an FBI . Four decades later, task force leaders downplay accusations of tensions among the agencies, suggesting history has been revised in an effort to explain why no one has been charged with the murders. Every agency imaginable attended, many of them represented by their top leaders. But others, including Lane, found it immensely helpful and from his perspective ultimately accurate. Thats just human nature. Forty years ago, cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules led to the deaths of seven people all around the Chicago area. As for the ongoing case, sources familiar with the investigation told the Chicago Tribune that charges are not imminent and may not come at all because the case lacks physical proof. For example, Johnson & Johnson quickly established that the cyanide lacing occurred after cases of Tylenol left the factory. It was at this point, early October of 1982, that investigators made the connection between the poisoning deaths and Tylenol, the best-selling, non-prescription pain reliever sold in the United States at that time. The batch contained more than 1,800 pounds of cyanide, divided into packages of various sizes. Forty years later, it still bothers him. They can do it, in part, by revisiting the earliest days of the Tylenol investigation, a time when evidence was not always handled according to todays careful standards. The FBI put about three dozen agents on the case, under the premise that the agency needed to determine whether Johnson & Johnson had violated federal law by failing to list potassium cyanide among the active ingredients in Tylenol. Fahner ordered his staff to work through the night, calling local police, sheriffs, coroners, the FBI, the FDA, prosecutors and public health officials. Among those questioned was a clerical worker who was fired for repeatedly missing work. Daniel Walker and several Chicago aldermen convicted in Operation Silver Shovel. NBC News has not reviewed those documents. We also are still were looking at emerging forensic technology, Sgt. Tribune reporter Stacy St. Clair told NBC News correspondent Kathy Park on TODAY Friday that a number of law enforcement sources close to the investigation have told her that Lewis is the only person currently described as a target of the investigation. Back then, bottles of pills did not have tamper-proof seals, just a cotton ball stuffed inside. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Security cameras were scarce in suburban Chicago in 1982, but investigators checked the images that existed. And we were able to analyze the cyanide and show that it was not the same (cyanide at the plant) as cyanide in the capsules., Lab technicians Nlada Marzette, left, and Lynn Pilaggi inspect the contents of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules for cyanide contamination at the Illinois Department of Public Health in 1982. I dont want to get off here, he quietly said. John Fellmann at his home in Huntley in September. It would likely be someone with gray hair. Scott Stump is a staff reporter and the writer of the daily newsletter This is TODAY. The task force didnt know who or why.. The task force investigating the Tylenol killings doubted that James Lewis would be reckless enough to stay in Manhattan after mailing an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million . He had never been better known in Illinois and was inching up in the polls too. The tips were written up on 3x5 index cards. The bottles traveled to various warehouses, including a final storage stop at a Jewel facility in suburban Franklin Park, before being delivered to different grocery stores on different days before the poisonings. Why was this happening? . Other copy-cat poisonings, involving Tylenol and other over-the-counter medications, cropped up again in the 1980s and early 1990s but these events were never as dramatic or as deadly as the 1982 Chicago-area deaths. I have no idea who gave that one, but it was perfect.. The tainted bottle from the Schaumburg pharmacy contained three partial prints on the capsules, but (they) were not suitable for comparison, the memo states. According to the state police memo obtained by the Tribune, the FDAs work traced the cyanide from the tainted capsules to Fisher Scientific, a Massachusetts-based lab supply company, which distributed that particular batch in 1978. I mean, theres 10,000 reasons why people compete with each other. I thought, well, this is rather impressive, Siekmann said. And when the sitting attorney general was indicted on tax fraud charges, Thompson appointed Fahner to fill the post. Joe Murphy told NBC Chicago last year. So he thought hed maybe get a lifetime supply of ham. . McNeill and Johnson & Johnson offered replacement capsules to those who turned in pills already purchased and a reward for anyone with information leading to the apprehension of the individual or people involved in these random murders. Chicago police Detectives Jimmy Gildea. Former Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner stands on the former site of the Tylenol task force headquarters in Des Plaines, now an empty parking lot. In all, the task force had only eight bottles to offer clues to where and when the tampering could have taken place. It marked the first mass recall in U.S. history, involving more than 31 million bottles. The red cap was easily flipped open, with nothing but a little piece of cotton left to cover the capsules. The Tylenol murders would soon spur the development of plastic seals and tamper-evident packaging. They can account for the differing DNA profiles. The latest Tribune poll showed he was down by about 20 points in the upcoming election. A long-planned meeting with DuPage prosecutors also was pushed back in the spring. Seven people in the Chicago area were killed that year by Tylenol that had been poisoned with potassium cyanide. Lane would think of that line a year later when, without prompting, a suspect called him and offered to help solve the case. At first, the story focused in the Chicago/Cook County . Shari Kouba, shown in July at an FBI office in Mount Prospect where she used to work, ran a tips desk as part of the Tylenol task force. Indeed, the Johnson & Johnson recall became a classic case study in business schools across the nation. Arlington Heights police Chief Rodney Kath, second from left, works with other members of the Tylenol task force at its Des Plaines headquarters in 1982. Local police departments and states attorneys offices have been trying to crack the case for 40 years. And Fahner wasnt the only source of tensions. Hearing that threat, the detectives said, they banged on the door and announced themselves as police. (Don Casper / Chicago Tribune), Obviously, Johnson & Johnson didnt put cyanide in their own product. Following the same theory, investigators took pictures . Written by a high-ranking Illinois state police supervisor in April 1983, the document describes the wide net authorities cast in the hopes of solving the mystery. And, in the decades since, scientific advances have allowed investigators to detect DNA profiles on at least three of the tainted bottles and the capsules inside. McNeil Consumer Products, a subsidiary of the health care giant, Johnson & Johnson, manufactured Tylenol. He already had a new job. 3: A Nightmare on Halloween: With Molly Jean Brandenburg, Carter Roy. When Ford and Gildea arrived at the North Side flophouse where the man lived, he was still on the phone with a company operator and was promising to punish Hormel just like he had in the Tylenol case. They gave her one extra-strength Tylenol capsule that, unbeknownst to them, was laced with the highly poisonous potassium cyanide. And I would wake them up just to say good night, you know?. Relatives, including two who took polygraph tests, were quickly eliminated from suspicion. And they had a very good theory as to when they were placed. They told stories of information hoarding, turf wars and glory seeking even when there was none to be had. Our property guy, he couldnt keep up with it., Chicago police Officer Sam Barsevich, left, takes inventory of Tylenol bottles that residents turned in at his station on Oct. 2, 1982. I think after a day or two, the state police realized theyre on their own. Critics who had prematurely announced the death of the brand Tylenol were now praising the companys handling of the matter. However, investigators believe circumstantial evidence is enough to make this a "chargeable" case, but that decision would have to come from prosecutors, according to documents reviewed by the Chicago Tribune. And everyone in the meeting is aware of one undeniable truth: There is no physical evidence linking a suspect to the poisonings. The Soviets were willing to assist, but their satellites werent trained on the Chicago suburbs at the time. Even after he retired from the FBI in 1996, he didnt let it go. What was he liked as a boss?, She added: Good and bad, I want to hear those stories, because its a reflection of who I am., Hurricane Ian: South Carolina and Florida comb wreckage to assess deadly toll, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The first few days were spent talking to people closest to Prince and sifting through the many tips they received. You werent there. That evening, Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner sat on a dais listening to stump speeches at the Kane County Republican Organizations annual dinner. She also laments that her dad never got to meet her and her husband, her son, her stepson and her step-grandson. Paramedics came and took Adam Janus to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead from what they suspected may have been a heart attack. He also laid the foundation to get Extra-Strength Tylenol off store shelves statewide, going beyond the single batch the pain relievers manufacturer had recalled that day. The Chicago detectives shared that worry. The lot numbers for the McFarland, Reiner and Prince bottles indicated they were manufactured in Round Rock, Texas, and went to different warehouses in the Chicago area before ending up on store shelves. In the years that followed, Fellmann would rise through the ranks of the Arlington Heights Police Department and eventually become police chief of far north suburban Island Lake. And by days end, flight attendant Paula Princes body would be discovered and tests would show that a Tylenol bottle inside her home contained four cyanide-laced capsules. A casket is carried out of St. Hyacinth Roman Catholic Church after the funeral Mass for three members of the Janus family in 1982. Nearly three weeks after the murders, for example, the FBI asked Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene to write a column about Mary Kellerman and include specific details such as the familys home address and the location of the little girls grave, with her parents permission. The FBIs involvement puzzled some because, as far as anyone knew, the federal agency didnt have jurisdiction in the case. Investigators also collected more than 200 cyanide samples from Chicago-area businesses, facilities and institutions and sent them to an FDA research laboratory in Cincinnati. (Don Casper / Chicago Tribune), People were terrified, Fahner said. NBC News reached out to Lewis and did not receive a response. [Para leer en espaol] Los asesinatos de Tylenol, parte 2: Tylenol mezclado con cianuro fue el arma homicida. Ford, a Vietnam veteran with a classic Chicago accent and an Irishmans love of storytelling, died of a heart attack a few days after speaking with the Tribune. Kouba reviewed each as it came in, deciding which needed a field agents attention and which could be placed in a bin with other ludicrous claims. Chemists working for the Illinois Public Health Department in Chicago test the contents of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. James Thompson, Illinois Secretary of State James Edgar and shook his head. The Chicago Tylenol Murders: With Laurence Fishburne. It didnt take long for the Tylenol murders to become national news. Three of the deaths occurred in Arlington Heights, where police told NBC Chicago last year that they still have the pills, bottles and boxes as evidence. She told investigators that, in retrospect, she deserved her termination and swore she would do better at her next job. 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