BellaOnline Forums News and Politics Crime Article Posted-The Tylenol Murders of 1982

I have posted a new article. This one has a personal background which I did not relate in my article. In 1982, I was 15. in high school, and we were allowed to carry things like tylenol in our purse's.

I remember distincly the day they were connecting the cyanide and the tylenol with the deaths of people in the areas very close to where I lived. An announcement was made over the HS PA system asking everyone who had tylenol in their purse or locker to bring it to the nurse and to NOT take any of the medicine as it had been connected to four deaths in the area and believe to be poisoned.

I had JUST taken two tablets right before this class began. I raised my hand and must have been white as a ghost because the teached immediately asked what was wrong and I said I just took some tylenol....she said why don't you go to the nurse RIGHT now AND she had two people go with me...

Lives intertwine and now I am 40...it has been 25 years since the Tylenol murders, which are still unsolved and I am sure still painfully raw for the families of those who died.

Are we any safer now than 25 years ago? What do you all think? Do you pay attention to the safety seals on your medications? Do you listen for the ring on your milk to "snap" when you open it?
Read the article and then come back and post your thoughts and if you were in Chicago at the time of the Tylenol murders please feel free to share your thoughts and feelings then and now~

The Tylenol Murders of 1982

Blessings~

Erika,

I believe that most people do not take care despite things going wrong.

I never understood how tylenol recovered after 1982. I am a Bufferin man, myself.

Jim,
I imagine the only reason is the triple safety seals. I cannot immagine the freak who did this is still running around free and clear. THAT is the scary part.