1982. Chicago. Tylenol.
Get the ****ing picture?
Total different thing. [ this for the benefit of those not even born at that time ]
From what little I remember of the case someone thought up a way to get rid of a spouse. They went from store to store buying Tylenol and filling some of the capsules with poison. then smuggled them back into the stores. They just sat back and waited for someone to take a capsule and die. TRUE EVIL. After 3-4 deaths they poisoned their own bottle and waited for the spouse to finally take one of the poisoned pills.
Big problem for the police, what looked like a random act as none of the victims had any connection to each other. All had bought Tylenol at different stores, those that traveled or went out of state on vacation died in other parts of the country. It took a while for a connection to be made with the victims and the Tylenol. As only 1 or 2 of the pills were poisoned it may have taken months before a victim found the poisoned pill.
Only by the grace of the Good Lord did the authority's manage to find one or two boxes unsold in the stores and find the poison.
The poison was unique, it was sold to clean fish tanks and only one of the victims family had a aquarium.
As it is known poisoning is usually a woman's crime, they concentrated on the widow of the victim with the fish tank and BINGO they got their killer.
Not that that long ago we had the snipers killing random people and the police wondering if this was a hide the victim among others, made life a horror for their family's.
This is the reason today we have all these bottles and boxes of items that have double seals and the child proof caps on medication, those pop tops on baby food that at a glance one can tell if the jar had been opened.
Now Sparky I have been reading about the newest fad for the kids for Booze enemas. Pour out the solution, refill with whiskey and a literal BOTTOMS UP.
