Malpractice Podcast

#3.21: The Chicago Tylenol Murders, Part I

February 02, 2022 Jessica Oswald & Sydnee Spruiell Eldridge Season 3 Episode 21
Malpractice Podcast
#3.21: The Chicago Tylenol Murders, Part I
Show Notes

This week, Syd keeps us on the edge of our seats with the story of the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders, an unsolved medical true crime! When seven people are killed at random after someone fills bottles of the J&J drug Tylenol with cyanide, it led to a global panic and forever changed the way we treat over the counter drugs. 

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Sources for this episode:
https://beyondthedash.com/blog/remembering/remembering-the-victims-chicago-tylenol-murders/7360
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tylenol-murders-1982
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https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2012/Chicago-Tylenol-Murders-An-Oral-History/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cyanide-laced-tylenol-kills-seven
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/chicago-tylenol-murders/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/chicago-tylenol-murders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-chicago-tylenol-murders-strange-sad-and-still-unsolved-72f5b0afc734
https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/a-bitter-pill/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/05/19/136463286/fbi-checking-unabomber-in-tylenol-poisoning-murders

Podcasts:
My Favorite Murder
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/268-my-favorite-murder-w-27911429/episode/43-in-arrears-28951412/
Stuff You Should Know
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tylenol-murders-part-i/id278981407?i=1000439940634 
Crimes of the Centuries 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crimes-of-the-centuries/id1535803457?i=1000505645395

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