Tylenol Murders Part 1

Necronomipod

Cool Down Media

Comedy, True Crime

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. We'll start with the morning of September 29th, when a twelve-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village took a Tylenol for a cold and died, and the hours that followed as authorities slowly pieced together that the deaths spreading across the Chicago suburbs weren't a coincidence. We'll walk through the victims, the investigation, and the realization that someone had been pulling bottles off store shelves, lacing capsules with potassium cyanide, and putting them back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.5	In 1982, people across Chicago started dying after taking something found in nearly every home in America.
0:35.5	A trusted over-the-counter painkiller had been weaponized, killing seven
0:39.5	people in just a matter of days. What began as isolated medical emergencies quickly spiraled
0:45.8	into nationwide panic. Tonight, we begin the story of the Tylenol murders. I'm Mike.
0:52.3	I'm Ian. And I'm Dave. If you thought a two-piece gelatin capsule was a great delivery system for headache relief,
0:59.0	stick around.
1:00.0	Because in 1982, someone figured out it was also a pretty good delivery system for murder.
1:05.0	This is Necronomopod.
1:07.0	This is Necronomapod. Well, I said we were good to record, and I have nothing to talk about to start the show.
1:42.9	Nothing at all?
1:43.6	Well, we just blew our load discussing WrestleMania. We were talking a lot off air. That's true. That's the show. Should have taped that. That was it. Yeah. Can we go back and just do a take two? I did not watch much of WrestleMania. I watched half of it, as did I, Ian. Yeah, I watched a little bit. Bits and
2:03.3	pieces. Yeah. First night I completely forgot it was even on. Same. First night I was fucking around
2:09.2	playing bass and shit and just whatever. Second night I watched a little bit. Dave, you caught it all
2:15.7	both nights, I'm assuming. No. Oh, okay. Well, we were out Saturday night. I saw that one match at the bar. It was on at the bar. That's when I was like, oh, that's right, this is happening. And it was, we walked in just as the main event was starting. So that was all right. Had some cheap draft Miller lights. That is true. Hell of of a night what else is going on
2:35.8	what's new
2:36.2	cabs are two and oh
2:38.2	in the playoffs
2:39.0	shout out to that
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