Encore - The Tylenol Murders

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent Candice DeLong revisits one of the biggest cases she worked during her years as a rookie agent in Chicago: the death of seven innocent people who ingested poisoned Tylenol in 1982. She reveals the devastating false lead that she and her partner pursued for two weeks, as well as the mind games played by the prime suspect in the murders. Candice also discusses how the killer’s ability to elude capture nearly 40 years later weighs on her to this day.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Killer Sikie add free on Amazon music.
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0:07.6	A listener note.
0:11.3	This episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.
0:15.9	Please be advised.
0:27.6	One day my seven year old son, Seth, came home from school and started crying.
0:32.9	I thought maybe he'd been in a dispute with a kid or something, but that wasn't it.
0:38.2	He was terrified because he heard that school back in the 1980s that a little girl died
0:45.1	after her mother gave her a Tylenol pill for her fever.
0:49.9	I tried to tell him, don't worry about it.
0:52.2	Mommy would never give you anything to hurt you and he looked me right in the eyes and
0:56.2	said, but her mommy gave her the pills.
1:00.3	How was I supposed to reassure him that if I gave him medicine, it was okay.
1:05.4	But her mother unknowingly did.
1:09.7	This is what I was dealing with in my own home.
1:12.0	But outside my house, the entire city of Chicago was just as terrified about what was possibly
1:17.8	in their medicine cabinets.
1:20.6	Someone had tainted Tylenol with potassium cyanide and put poison bottles on shelves and
1:26.8	stores all over Chicago.
1:29.2	The nation was terrified.
1:31.3	They were throwing away their medication or taking it into the police.
1:36.3	Stores, drugstores, grocery stores were taking Tylenol and other things off their shelves.
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