Do Go On: The Tylenol Murders
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite podcasts.
Do Go On is a fact based comedy podcast hosted by Melbourne comedians Jess Perkins, Matt Stewart and Dave Warneke. Each week they take it in turns to report on a topic and have covered everything from the life of Dolly Parton to the Chernobyl Disaster, Argentina's Heist of the Century to The History of The Penis.
Show notes: In 1982, Chicago was rocked by a terrifying crime. Panic set in as across the city people began to drop dead after taking over the counter Tylenol paracetamol. It soon became apparent that someone had replaced the pills with cyanide. The Do Go On podcast reports on the case.
EPISODE REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5GJlN1F6xQ&t=323s
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/09/us/tylenol-murders-cnnphotos/
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/cold-cases/chicago-tylenol-murders/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tylenol-murders-1982
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.4 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. Hello and |
| 0:43.0 | welcome to another episode of Duga One, my name is Dev Warnerkei and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello David. |
| 0:51.0 | How good is it to be alive? Yeah, and for anybody who's just joining us for the first time we usually start with a question |
| 0:57.8 | That's right to ready for a question. Well I mean do we need to explain the show any further? It's one of the three of us goes away and |
| 1:04.4 | research as a topic usually is suggested by a listener and yeah bring the research back and then tell it to the other two |
| 1:10.7 | kind of like a school report an oral presentation. That might be the best |
| 1:15.1 | that you've ever done explaining it. Really? Yeah. And then we normally get |
| 1:19.7 | on to the topic the report giver gets on a topic with a question this week Jess is doing the report |
| 1:24.4 | that's right what is your question Jeff my question is which over the count of medication was the |
| 1:29.2 | center of a nationwide panic in the US in the early 1980s. I think panic's a clue there |
| 1:34.4 | panadol. Panic doll. panic doll. Well it's ticked I guess it's kind of true it was |
| 1:40.3 | Tylenol which is parasitamol which is panadol right so American panadol is |
| 1:47.9 | Tylenol tall is Tylenol all. Tylenol is just a brand name panadol's just a brand it was just |
| 1:51.8 | paracetamol. Paracet It's just paracetamol. |
| 1:53.0 | Paracetamol. |
| 1:55.0 | It's one of those words that the more you say it, it sounds sound a little ridiculous. |
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