UNSOLVED: The Tylenol Murders, Pt. 1
Murder: True Crime Stories
Crime House
4.6 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On September 29th, 1982, 27-year-old Adam Janus died from an apparent heart attack. Authorities quickly determined he'd actually died after taking a Tylenol pill that had been laced with cyanide... and he wasn't the only one. Soon enough, seven people in Chicago were dead from taking poisoned Tylenol -- and the killer was still at large. Murder: True Crime Stories is part of Crime House Studios. For more, follow us on Instagram @crimehouse.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Carter Roy here. |
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| 0:11.7 | Crimes of is a weekly series that explores a new theme each season, from crimes of the paranormal, unsolved murders, mysterious disappearances, and more. Their first season is |
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| 0:41.0 | New episodes out every Tuesday. |
| 0:51.4 | There's a lot of things we take for granted in life. |
| 0:55.5 | Chief among them is that when we take medicine, it'll help us feel better. |
| 1:00.4 | But for at least seven people in Chicago in the fall of 1982, that wasn't the case. |
| 1:08.3 | These people didn't have a rare allergy or take too many pills. They had all taken the |
| 1:14.1 | recommended dosage of a common over-the-counter medicine to alleviate aches or pains or low-grade fevers. |
| 1:21.8 | But instead of making them feel better, the contents of these pills led to their deaths. However, these people weren't medical |
| 1:31.2 | mysteries. They were murder victims. And they'd all been killed after taking one of the world's |
| 1:37.7 | safest, most trusted medicines. Tylenol. |
| 1:48.6 | People's lives are like a story. |
| 1:51.8 | There's a beginning, a middle, and an end. |
| 1:54.5 | You don't always know which part you're on. |
| 1:58.4 | Sometimes the final chapter arrives far too soon, |
| 2:01.2 | and we don't always get to know the real ending. |
| 2:08.0 | I'm Carter Roy, and this is Murder True Crime Stories, a Crime House original show powered by Pave Studios. Every Tuesday, I'll explore the story of a notorious murder or murders. |
| 2:16.7 | I'll be giving a voice and awareness to stories that need to be heard |
| 2:20.6 | with a focus on those who are impacted. |
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