SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Tylenol Murders, Part I
Stuff You Should Know
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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On one terrible day in Chicago in 1982, seven people died suddenly and mysteriously. In just a matter of hours, it becomes clear, someone has poisoned bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol, one of the most trusted and widely-used products in America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | Now Up is one of my favorite of our true crime episodes on the poisoning deaths of at least seven people in the Chicago area back in 1982. |
| 0:15.7 | What makes this case so unsettling is that there doesn't seem to be any connection whatsoever between the victims |
| 0:21.9 | and the killer, the murderer just seems to have been a mad poisoner. Like most good true crime |
| 0:27.9 | mysteries, this one is also unsolved. Enjoy. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of |
| 0:36.9 | IHeartRadio's How Stuff Works. |
| 0:44.2 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh. There's Chuck. There's Josh. Not me twice. |
| 0:50.6 | There's Chuck. Guest producer Josh is back in the house. |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, and there's little Chuck in your pocket. Remember Little Elvis? I was just about saying that. You got that right, Tanya. Oh, man. What a great sketch. It really was. That was Nicholas Cage, wouldn't it? Yeah, man. Did you ever see Mandy? Yes, it was terrible. I don't care what anybody else says. Did you hate it? |
| 1:11.3 | Terrible. |
| 1:13.2 | Terrible movie. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.8 | Noel and I talked about... see Mandy? Yes, it was terrible. I don't care what anybody else says. Did you hate it? |
| 1:26.3 | Terrible. Terrible movie. Yeah, Noel and I talked about it on movie crush. He's seen it like four times. Thinks it's the best thing ever. Come on, Noel. And he was like, people either love it or hate it. And I was like, actually, I was kind of in the middle. Were you really? Yeah, I mean, I told him young Chuck, like 22-year-old |
| 1:27.4 | college, Chuck |
| 1:28.1 | would have probably |
| 1:29.1 | liked it a lot |
| 1:30.1 | more. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.1 | But today, Were you really? Yeah, I mean, I told him young Chuck, like 22-year-old college Chuck. |
| 1:28.2 | Sure. |
| 1:28.5 | Would have probably liked it a lot more. |
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