S21 Ep32: The Tylenol Murders: A Father's Confession To His Son w/Joseph Cibelli
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 177 minutes
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Summary
True Crime Tuesday Presents: The Tylenol Murders: A Father's Confession To His Son with Forensic Psychologist/ Survivor/ Author, Joseph Cibelli!
From the son who would not stay silent, THE TYLENOL MURDERS: A Father's Confession to His Son reveals a confession buried under four decades of fear, complicity, and blue-walled denial. Chicago, 1982. Seven people swallowed Tylenol capsules meant to heal, then they died within minutes. America changed overnight, then the killer vanished into darkness, and that darkness lived in Joseph Cibelli's home.
"I was eleven, and my father was The Tylenol Killer that terrorized a nation. He created chaos and confessed with his last breath. I uncovered the truth and the rot behind his badge. He built lies, and I built a case. I tore the mask from the madness and discovered that each clue led deeper into a labyrinth of deceit. I stripped his name from mine, and I stripped his power too. He found me and threatened my life, but I did not run. Instead, I shone a light into his darkness. "
The truth is not a eulogy. It is an indictment.
On today's TCT, we are joined by Joseph Cibelli who tells us everything from how the military formed his father into the perfect killing machine, to his fascination with Jim Jones and Jonestown, to the bizarre forms of torture and abuse he reigned down on his wife and children as he began to put together a plot more sinister than ianyone in the sleepy town of Lyons, Il. could ever imagine!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the best in true crime podcasting. |
| 0:24.9 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.0 | Got a good show today, folks. |
| 0:28.2 | Jessica Freeberg is on the way in just a little while with dumb crime, stupid criminals. |
| 0:31.9 | But first, our show today has to do with a particularly scary time I know in my childhood. |
| 0:40.1 | I don't know about yours, but I remember time back in the early 1980s. |
| 0:47.4 | A time, let me tell you kids, I'm a little bit older than you, |
| 0:51.5 | when you could go and you could purchase an over-the-counter medication, |
| 0:57.9 | and it wouldn't have that little seal on it, that little protection seal, where you would |
| 1:03.1 | have to peel that off before you could get your medication, before you took the cotton out of |
| 1:06.8 | the bottle and then got to your medication. You could just rip that sucker open, take your pills, and then you were good to go, right? |
| 1:14.3 | Oh, those were the old days, kids. |
| 1:16.2 | Those were the days. |
| 1:17.1 | Those were the days. |
| 1:17.9 | But there's a reason why we had that protection seal there. |
| 1:22.2 | And my guest today, well, his father is the reason why we have that. |
| 1:27.7 | As a matter of fact, there was something that happened with Tylenol back in the early |
| 1:32.5 | 1980s. |
| 1:34.3 | Tylenol had a scare, a poisoning scare, and it happened out of the Illinois area. |
| 1:40.3 | There's a wonderful book out there, a scary book at that, that I had the pleasure of reading this weekend. |
| 1:46.5 | It's called The Tylenol Murders, a father's confession to his son, Joseph Chabelli, is my guest. |
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