The tips were written up on 3x5 index cards. By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. And soon, many medications and foods sold over store counters began being sold in tamper-proof, sealed packaging. Siekmann drove to a state laboratory in the city with the bottle on the seat next to him. She also told CNN she had invited many people to a memorial service and celebration of life luncheon honoring her father in hopes that shed learn things she never got the chance to because of the murder. Pursuing the mission, however, eventually sent the FBI and the Chicago Police Department in two different directions. It would likely be someone with gray hair. The Tylenol murders launched a massive criminal investigation. I think after a day or two, the state police realized theyre on their own. 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. (Michael Budrys / Chicago Tribune). We still receive tips that are being evaluated and investigated. The results came back positive for cyanide at 1:30 a.m. What are the Tylenol murders? Retired FBI agent Roy Lane Jr., shown in August, is the only member of law enforcement who has been part of the Tylenol investigation in its entirety. Subscribe to Here's the Deal, our politics newsletter. Following the same theory, investigators took pictures . I thought he was perfect.. Other task force members, it should be noted, werent particularly fond of Chicagos efforts either. Seven people died in 1982 after taking painkillers from bottle someone police do not know who had slipped cyanide pills into. 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. We felt kind of creepy doing it, retired FBI agent Bob Gibson said of his graveyard duty. With fears mounting, Johnson & Johnson recalled all over-the-counter Tylenol capsule products on Oct. 5, nearly a week after Mary Kellermans death. In work that would later be heralded in scientific journals, the scientists also tested the cyanide kept at the Tylenol plant to see if it somehow got into the production process. Every Tylenol bottle had a lot number that offered specific details about the batch those capsules came from. . . 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. Their opinion soured even further at their first meeting, when one of the lead investigators asked for a briefing on the Prince murder. Several people had died within the last day in the Chicago suburbs after ingesting Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide and the situation needed attention. Congress eventually criminalized tampering with medications and other consumer products, classifying that as a federal crime that could carry up to life imprisonment in cases involving a death. 40 years later, Kasia Janus is sharing. It marked the first mass recall in U.S. history, involving more than 31 million bottles. This Oct. 18, 1982, column by Tribune columnist Bob Greene included specific details at the request of the FBI, such as the home address of Tylenol victim Mary Kellerman. Unfortunately, each victim swallowed a Tylenol capsule laced with A lethal dose of cyanide. Tainted capsules were discovered in early October in a few other grocery stores and drug stores in the Chicago area, but, fortunately, they had not yet been sold or consumed. In 2010, DuPage County prosecutors filed a sealed affidavit stating investigators had found DNA on three bottles and the capsules inside, according to documents obtained by the Tribune. John Fellmann, whose last name was misspelled on his ID from 1980, was a young Arlington Heights police detective when he was assigned to the Tylenol murders. He believed Thompson was behind the move, though Fahner denied it. Still, in his opinion, Fahner was exactly what the task force needed. He investigated the Tylenol poisonings in the Janus family and later served as police chief in Island Lake. James Thompson, Illinois Secretary of State James Edgar and shook his head. Left: And they had a very good theory as to when they were placed. Im just being honest, Siekmann said. Over the next several months, Fahners task force would do groundbreaking police work, generate 19,000 pages of investigative reports, be accused of playing politics and, ultimately, fail to hold anyone accountable for the murders. Fahner ordered his staff to work through the night, calling local police, sheriffs, coroners, the FBI, the FDA, prosecutors and public health officials. I was the detective at the scene. Critics who had prematurely announced the death of the brand Tylenol were now praising the companys handling of the matter. Im absolutely sure about that. And you had a lot of very experienced, very intelligent, very resourceful people thinking about this all the time, thinking about angles, thinking about ideas, testing them and implementing them wherever we possibly could. And the last point that they wanted to strike home was that the person who committed this is enjoying the attention right now and the fact that he or she had outsmarted the law enforcement, Lane said. Jose Rosa, right, was one of hundreds of Chicago city employees and volunteers to distribute warnings about cyanide-laced Tylenol in fall 1982. Members of the media the same people who were constantly pestering him for information nicknamed Fahner Tylenol Ty. It stuck. The Tylenol case, however, would loom largest over his professional life. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics This Oct. 18, 1982, column by Tribune columnist Bob Greene included specific details at the request of the FBI, such as the home address of Tylenol victim Mary Kellerman. Many people who handled potential evidence in 1982 didnt wear gloves because it wasnt protocol at the time. He investigated the Tylenol poisonings in the Janus family and later served as police chief in Island Lake. The man shrugged off his dismissal when investigators asked, saying it was the nature of the business. They told stories of information hoarding, turf wars and glory seeking even when there was none to be had. Police Officer Michael Miljan leaves an Arlington Heights pharmacy after making sure bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol were being removed from shelves. The publication reported this week that it has obtained video and thousands of documents outlining law enforcement's current case and a possible motive for the killings. The agencies, at times, clashed with each other. The killer may have salted the bottles with cyanide-laced capsules while standing in the store aisle, investigators thought. That said, he was charged with extortion and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images. 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. Later, Lewis was arrested,. It sounds like an urban legend, but it was chillingly real in 1982. Lane would think of that line a year later when, without prompting, a suspect called him and offered to help solve the case. 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. Former Chicago police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek told the Tribune he believed Fahners selection was purely political, done specifically because of the November election. In keeping with that theory, the task force contacted hospitals to ask about anyone treated for poison burns or symptoms, in case the killer became ill or injured during the spree. We also are still were looking at emerging forensic technology, Sgt. Another tip involved a man who was threatening to poison Hormel food products. Reports would be written in triplicate so each member would get a copy. In a surveillance still photo, you can see a man who looks remarkably similar to Lewis standing in the background as one of the victims, Paula Prince, checks out. Investigators assumed the culprit was a man, though records indicate they didnt automatically rule out anyone based on gender. the fact remains, the Tylenol murders of 1982 . The U.S. Food and Drug Administration then cautioned the public against taking the pain reliever in capsule form. Nobody knew what to do with (the investigation) because it was all over the place, Fahner said. I dont want to get off here, he quietly said. Within 48 hours of the murders, the task force used this information to conclude publicly that the pills could not have been poisoned during production. It started in 1982, not long after the murders. The new timeline suggests Lewis wrote the letter before the public knew the deaths were linked to the tainted Tylenol pills, according to the Chicago Tribune. The best suspect for the Tylenol murders has always been James William Lewis, who sent an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million to stop the murders. Forty years after the infamous Tylenol murders killed her father and two other close relatives, a Wisconsin woman refuses to take the popular pain pills. Another theory was that whoever poisoned the medication did it at home or in a car, then placed the bottles back on the shelves. I think we ended up charging that guy with a misdemeanor, some disorderly conduct or some nonsense, he said. And 35 years later, this murder mystery is still . And then there are agents who dont. Forty years later, investigators still cant say with certainty. 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. Scott Stump is a staff reporter and the writer of the daily newsletter This is TODAY. Was Charles Dickens the first celebrity medical spokesman? (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune). See where the eight tainted Tylenol bottles were purchased or discovered. Some of those interviews may have gone to an agent who didnt do a good job., 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. It was so Dick Tracy to me, Steed said. The Tylenol case marked one of the earliest uses of the approach. Seven people between the ages of 12 and 35 years old died in 1982 after ingesting extra-strength Tylenol capsules that were found to have been laced with. He has been a regular contributor for TODAY.com since 2011, producing news stories and features across the trending, pop culture, sports, parents, pets, health, style, food and TMRW verticals. In one instance, someone reported that a chemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago had been bragging about access to labs with cyanide. 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. The CPD set up its own tip line and organized 35 detectives to work out of what was then Area 6 Headquarters at Belmont and Western. Ford and Gildea arrived at the campus with hopes of a break in the case, only to find out the so-called professor was a high school boy pretending to work at UIC so he could pick up college girls. 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. A drugstore clerk removes Tylenol capsules from the shelves of a pharmacy Sept. 30, 1982, in New York City after reports of tampering. The agents didnt bother to pretend that labeling rules were their true motivation for getting involved. Three months earlier, 10 Chicago officers from the citys West Side were convicted of taking bribes to protect heroin rings. 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. 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. The task force opted to work out of an Illinois state police bunker in Des Plaines, a central location that would be home to a tip line, twice-a-day investigator briefings and news conferences for the scores of reporters camped outside the building. At the time just four, Janus recalls being with her father, Adam, in their Chicago suburb when he bought an Extra-Strength Tylenol bottle that someone had slipped cyanide pills into. Kasia said she still remembers hearing her mother scream when she couldnt wake her father up the next day, 29 September 1982. The operation was primarily staffed by female agents who answered phone calls and assessed information while their male counterparts worked in the field. Who would be next? An FBI agent stood up and started to give a rundown of Chicagos case. After eliminating the possibility that the poisonings happened at the plant level, investigators scoured the backgrounds of workers at trucking companies and storage warehouses involved in the distribution of the tainted bottles, as well as other company records. They understood the tension between the FBI and local law enforcement some of them shared those same resentments but they thought Chicago didnt even try to be team players. His wife whom he had just married fell limp in the living room a short while after that. There, research chemist Karen Wolnik and her colleagues established a trace element pattern a sort of chemical fingerprint for each sample to determine whether it was identical to the poison used in the Tylenol killings. Tylenols parent company, Johnson & Johnson, also saw its stock price drop after the news about the tainted capsules broke. 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. So I stopped by the house on the way home, introduced myself and tried to answer any questions they had, he said. wide worlds of science, health andtechnology. The couple were later pronounced dead, too. 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. What was he like in school? Joe McQuaid, a task force investigator with the state police who had worked for Fahner when he was director, acknowledged it was an unorthodox setup. In fact, so many big dogs were present, Fellmann said he couldnt find a free chair inside his own 60-seat roll call room. Perhaps he traded homemade bombs for poisoned pills. Seven people in the Chicago area were killed that year by Tylenol that had been poisoned with potassium cyanide. 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. Nothing was being solved.. And when the sitting attorney general was indicted on tax fraud charges, Thompson appointed Fahner to fill the post. The Tylenol Murders Remain One of the Nation's Biggest Unsolved Mysteries Popular belief is that the killer was James Lewis, the man imprisoned for 13 years for extorting Johnson & Johnson in the. Not just the hours, but the frustration. 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. Seven people between 12 and 35 died after ingesting cyanide-laced Tylenol pills in the Chicago area in 1982. Six suburbanites had already died from cyanide poisoning by that time, but this was Chicagos first and, in the end, only victim. A theory emerged: What if the Mad Poisoner was actually the Unabomber? Forty years ago, cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules led to the deaths of seven people all around the Chicago area. 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. And wherever they fell on the issue, that position hasnt changed much over the past four decades. Why was this happening? 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. Fahner had worked for James Thompson in the U.S. attorneys office, handling some of the citys biggest federal corruption cases. There was no clear leader. Over the next few days, three more strange deaths occurred: 35-year-old Mary McFarland of Elmhurst, Illinois, 35-year-old Paula Prince of Chicago, and 27-year-old Mary Weiner of Winfield, Illinois. Tylenol murders investigators pursue new charges in 40-year case. September 22, 2022. (Earl Gustie / Chicago Tribune). Rosen's theory is that the tampering did not happen on store shelves, but at the manufacturing plant before the product was shipped out. The latest Tribune poll showed he was down by about 20 points in the upcoming election. The bottle's cap was easily opened. What are you giving this story for? So they ran him off the stage and I got up there.. Police grasped for suspects who might be the so-called "Mad Poisoner." The pills were sold at stores in suburban Chicago, and bottles of Tylenol were immediately pulled from shelves to be tested by health departments for the presence of cyanide. Stores were pulling the product off shelves. We were getting flooded with calls, said John Fellmann, an Arlington Heights detective assigned to the case. . It was then that Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old girl from Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago, told her mother and father about her symptoms. John Fellmann, whose last name was misspelled on his ID from 1980, was a young Arlington Heights police detective when he was assigned to the Tylenol murders. Chemists working for the Illinois Public Health Department in Chicago test the contents of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner talks about the Tylenol deaths on Oct. 1, 1982. Flight attendant Paula Prince bought a tainted bottle of Tylenol at the Walgreens at Wells Street and North Avenue in Chicago. The Soviets were willing to assist, but their satellites werent trained on the Chicago suburbs at the time. Finally, in late July, officials from both Cook and DuPage gather for a video conference. I had people dropping dead all over the place.. The substance was grainier than the untainted Tylenol on the left. The program went far beyond any database previously used by law enforcement in Illinois. 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. Former Chicago police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek, shown in September, says he felt Ty Fahner was chosen to head the task force for political reasons. And you know, some agents are better than other agents and can really do a good job. It is something that altered the life of every person in the world, Janus, who had never before spoken publicly about her ordeal, told CNN. Every night, I would come home after my kids were in bed, he said. FBI agents carry boxes out of the apartment building in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. On Friday afternoon, doctors removed Stanley Janus wife, Terri, from life support. Wherever they stand, everyone wishes they had achieved a different result. What are the Tylenol murders? The tip line received more than 6,000 calls within the first few weeks. 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. Chemists working for the Illinois Public Health Department in Chicago test the contents of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. He brought personal knowledge (as the former state police director) and experience regarding a criminal investigation. Investigators pulled library records to see who had checked out books on cyanide. Local police departments and states attorneys offices have been trying to crack the case for 40 years. If Fahner had any chance of keeping his office in November, he had to build enthusiasm among conservative voters in the suburbs. The coppers and the FBI guys that I knew all worked together. Within a week, her death would panic the entire nation. And there were a lot of bottles to come out of that lot.. One man, James Lewis, claiming to be the Tylenol killer wrote a ransom letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million in exchange for stopping the poisonings. 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. But if they kept the bottles in their medicine cabinets, more people could die. Or, at the very least, get them to remember his name. Despite the passage of time and, in a way, because of it the bottles still may offer clues as to who poisoned the capsules. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tylenol-murders-1982, Why Eleanor Roosevelts civics book for kids is making a comeback. The Tylenol murders of 1982,was a pointless killing spree that resulted in the death of seven Chicago area people from Tylenol tablets .The Tylenol poisoning killings was from tampering with over-the-counter Tylenol branded acetaminophen pills laced with potassium cyanide. Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner talks about the Tylenol deaths on Oct. 1, 1982. They came up with nothing. President Reagan wanted the FBI in the investigation, retired FBI Special Agent Roy Lane Jr. told the Tribune. He didnt get in our way. Fahner looked at all the power brokers on the platform U.S. Sen. Charles Percy, Gov. 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. 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