This incident is largely the reason we now have tamper-evident packaging for most consumable products.
The incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substances and to federal anti-tampering laws.
Still unsolved; someone laced Tylenol pills with potassium cyanide and put them onto store shelves for random people to come along and buy.
...police concluded that they were likely looking for a culprit who was believed to have acquired bottles of Tylenol from various retail outlets. Furthermore, they concluded the source was most likely supermarkets and drug stores, over a period of several weeks, with the culprit likely adding the cyanide to the capsules, then methodically returning to the stores to place the bottles back on the shelves. In addition to the five bottles that led to the victims' deaths, three other contaminated bottles were later discovered.
They found the girl, but didn’t realize she was a minor. They turned the case over to the juvenile justice system. So in all likelihood she will face no time with minimal repercussions:
The Chicago Tylenol Murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. Hundreds of copycat attacks involving Tylenol, other over-the-counter medications, and other products also took place around the United States immediately following the Chicago deaths. The incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substances and to federal anti-tampering laws.
bobzilla05 on April 19th, 2020 at 15:23 UTC »
Information on the Tylenol Murders here.
This incident is largely the reason we now have tamper-evident packaging for most consumable products.
Still unsolved; someone laced Tylenol pills with potassium cyanide and put them onto store shelves for random people to come along and buy.
ShuttleXpC on April 19th, 2020 at 17:52 UTC »
They found the girl, but didn’t realize she was a minor. They turned the case over to the juvenile justice system. So in all likelihood she will face no time with minimal repercussions:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blue-bell-licker-lufkin-texas-police-identify-juvenile-who-licked-ice-cream-tub-in-viral-video-2019-07-06/
Glavobolja on April 19th, 2020 at 20:32 UTC »
The Chicago Tylenol Murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. Hundreds of copycat attacks involving Tylenol, other over-the-counter medications, and other products also took place around the United States immediately following the Chicago deaths. The incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substances and to federal anti-tampering laws.