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The death of Mary Kellerman
Mary Kellerman was a 12 year old girl. She complained of a cold and a sore throat, so she went to the bathroom to take extra-strength tylenol. She collapsed in an instant. -
The death of Adam Janus
Adam Janus was a postal worker who stayed home from work. He had chest pains, so he took extra-strength tylenol. He died three hours later. -
Death of Stanley and Theresa Janus
Adams realitives come over to grieve his death. They
unwittingly took Tylenol from the same bottle. -
Death of Mary Mcfarland
Mary Mcfarland complained of a headache at work and she took an extra-strength Tylenol capsule. She soon died within minutes. -
Death of Mary Reiner
Mary Reiner was caring for her infant child. She soon died
two hours later at the hospital where her child was born a week earlier. -
Death of Paula Prince
A flight attendent named Paula Prince stopped at a drugstore, she bought a bottle of poisoned capsules and was found dead in her apartment two days later with an open bottle of Tylenol sitting on the bathroom sink. -
Discovery of the link to Tylenol
Two firemen named Richard Keyworth and Lt Phillip Capitelli came up with the theory that the deaths were linked to Tylenol. They came up with it because they were getting so many phone calls and they saw a streak of Tylenol being mentioned so they linked Tylenol to the murders. -
Recall of Tylenol
Johnson & Johnson issued a national recall on Tylenol. It cost them a total of 100 million dollars. -
James Lewis
Early on in the investigation of the Tylenol Murders, a man
named James Lewis sent a letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding 1 million dollars to stop the murder. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison but only served 13. This is singificant because it was a lead in the investigation. Soon, it was found, that he did not actually commit the crime. -
Start of the Excedrin murders
Stella Nickell's husband came home from work and took four excedrin capsules. He collapsed minutes later. -
Death of Susan Snow from Excedrin
An Auburn bank manager took two extra strength excedrins and died within minutes.
