SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Tylenol Murders, Part II

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The panic that began in Chicago spreads and begins to change the world. The investigation into the murders turns up leads and suspects, but still no one has ever been charged with the murders. It remains unsolved to this day. Find out the extent of what we know in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	In part two of our episode on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders, we look at the suspects
0:11.1	in the case and really zero in on one of them.
0:13.9	But to this day, it's not clear if they were behind it.
0:17.1	And although there was a lot of weird evidence around him, it's all circumstantial.
0:22.4	I hope you enjoy finishing up on the Tylenol murders.
0:27.8	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio's How Stuff Works.
0:39.3	Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
0:40.4	I'm Josh Clark.
0:41.9	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:43.7	There's guest producer Josh over there.
0:45.6	I guess enough with the pleasantries.
0:47.7	Let's get back to it, Chuck.
0:49.9	Tylenol murders, part two.
0:50.8	Part two. If you did not listen to the first part in 1982, seven people were murdered by ingesting Tylenol, tainted with cyanide.
1:02.6	All on the same day.
1:03.8	All in the same day.
1:05.0	America and much of the world is super freaked out.
1:09.0	Johnson and Johnson is the manufacturer, and part one of part two has the deal with
1:15.5	Johnson and Johnson and how they handled this in a public relations sort of way.
1:20.2	Right.
1:21.0	Because there were and are a huge company, like you said in the episode one, they held 37% of the market share, which was
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