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The Tylenol Murders: Idaho Names the 'Unknown Wanderer', Illinois Investigators Say No, and the Seven Victims Nobody Names
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Mary Kellerman was twelve years old when her parents gave her an Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule on the morning of September 29, 1982. She died that morning. Within three days, six more people in the Chicago area were dead: Adam, Stanley and Theresa Janus, Mary McFarland, Paula Prince and Mary Reiner. Seven people, poisoned by potassium cyanide packed into capsules on a drugstore shelf, and no one has ever been charged. The foil seal on every bottle in every American medicine cabinet exists because of them. Forty-four years later, a sheriff's office in Idaho has identified the "Unknown Wanderer," a man who died by cyanide poisoning under a church pew in Boise two months after the killings, and laid out circumstances it says warrant scrutiny — while stating plainly it is not naming him a suspect and cannot place him in Chicago that week. Illinois investigators who worked the original case say the cyanide was a different compound, the DNA did not match, and the task force ruled him out decades ago. Garret Fisher on what actually happened in 1982, why no one was ever prosecuted, and what it costs to name a man who cannot answer.
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