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Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Chicago Tylenol Murders

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Allison and Mike

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In September of 1982, people in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs were turning up dead after taking some Tylenol for normal aches and pains. Why was this happening? Was it going to spread across the nation? World?

Mike tells the story of the Chicago Tylenol Murders in today's episode.

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Sources:

  • https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2012/Chicago-Tylenol-Murders-An-Oral-History/
  • The Mysterious Poisoned Pill Murders - Buzzfeed Unsolved Network
  • Podcast Intro and Outro music:
    Seductress Dubstep by Audionautix http://audionautix.com
    Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

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    Transcript

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    0:00.0

    Welcome back to another episode of Crime and Coffee.

    0:06.9

    I'm going to be your host today, Mike.

    0:08.6

    And I am your sidekick today, Allison.

    0:11.1

    Yeah, I mean, our names don't change, but typically what we do is go back and forth about

    0:14.9

    which person's going to be telling the story today, and today's my job.

    0:19.3

    So, and you have no idea what I'm about to tell you.

    0:21.4

    No idea.

    0:22.2

    So it's going to be kind of fun, fun little ride, um, you know, and we'll see, uh, you know,

    0:26.5

    what the reactions are live and everybody will learn something.

    0:29.6

    And if you've heard the story before, maybe I'm bringing some more details.

    0:32.6

    Who knows, right?

    0:33.8

    We'll see.

    0:34.5

    Yeah. right we'll see yeah so if you could guess we're gonna find out yeah exactly uh you could follow us

    0:38.4

    online at um crime and coffee two on instagram or twitter again that's crime and coffee too

    0:43.8

    or um if you could be so kind um give us a five-star review on apple podcasts or a good pod or any of

    0:50.1

    those podcast networks helps us um just to spread a little bit more.

    0:54.8

    Exactly.

    0:56.0

    It'd be appreciated.

    0:56.7

    Exactly.

    0:58.5

    So how's your week going, my love?

    1:00.6

    Getting back in the swing of things.

    1:01.7

    We got back from Chicago.

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