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- They call it the
Magnificent Mile.
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- What all this new tech...
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- It's the last real
big summer weekend
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before Labor Day, and Chicagoans
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by the thousands
went out and enjoyed it.
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- With Wonder
in a balanced diet,
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good nutrition doesn't
have to be whole wheat.
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- But, you know, we're
going to have a fantastic year.
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- They are the
unemployed, the Illinois
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rate soaring to 12.5%.
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- When you have
unemployment, the highest that it
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has been since the Depression.
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- I hereby declare my candidacy
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for mayor of Chicago.
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- Chicagofest has
become the largest outdoor
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music festival in the world.
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- It almost caused
a national panic.
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- These deaths have
been associated with
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the presence of
cyanide in two containers
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of extra-strength Tylenol.
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- Do not take Tylenol
until further notice.
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- Cyanide is so deadly
an amount the size of a pea
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can kill you.
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- This was a stone-cold mystery.
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People died, and many of
them were in the same family.
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- I just knew
something was wrong.
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- Paula was murdered.
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She was just murdered.
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- We know that there's
somebody out there
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trying to poison people.
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- How could he pull off the
crime of the century perfectly
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and not get caught?
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- We're actively
pursuing this investigation.
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This is not collecting
dust on a shelf.
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- This could be our guy.
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- Do you think you
know who did it?
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- Yes.
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- Are you going to
let a murderer just go?
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- Hi.
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- Good morning, everybody.
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Good morning, Wisconsin
Dells Middle school.
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Today is Wednesday,
June 1, 2022.
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Our quote of the day is this.
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"You can't go back and
change the beginning,
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but you can start where you
are and change the ending."
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That's by CS Lewis.
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- My name is Isabel Antoinette,
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and I am 12 years old.
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Tylenol's a thing
that everyone uses.
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It's like, "Hey, I'm sick.
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"I'm going to take Tylenol.
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Maybe I'll feel
a little bit better."
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Our family took it.
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Adam took it.
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He died first, and then
Stanley and Theresa
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took it, because
they had a headache.
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Later on, passed.
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If not in my mother's
time, I will continue
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to try and help my
family find answers
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to this horrible tragedy.
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Maybe I might even
solve it one day.
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My grandpa deserves to know.
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- We had the small farm with
two cows, a couple of pigs,
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chickens in Poland...
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very small city.
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My father was here
already, because he came
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early, about six months early.
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Then, he brought us,
you know, after that.
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Because first, he want
to see how is Chicago,
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how is the United States.
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When we came to United States,
I went to Wallace High School.
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My brothers and sisters
went to a Catholic school.
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Even one of the priests
paid for the Catholic school
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for my brother.
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Paid, because my parents
were kind of poor, so...
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- Well, these are
some really old photos.
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There's a lot of
photos missing here.
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This is when they
came to America.
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My father, Joe, Adam,
my grandpa, my grandma,
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Stanley, and my Aunt Sophie.
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Adam... he had
a very soft heart.
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He was very kind, caring.
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I remember when I
had my tonsils removed,
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when I opened my
eyes after surgery,
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the first person I saw
was my Uncle Adam
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with a bouquet of flowers.
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He was always
that type of person.
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He'd always bring flowers.
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There's Stanley in the middle.
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Uncle Stanley was
the one you noticed out
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of the whole entire family.
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So he was very tall.
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He had a beautiful
smile, very funny guy.
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Theresa was the sweetest.
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All us cousins would fight.
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Who does Aunt Theresa like more?
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Do you like me
more than this cousin,
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than that cousin? We loved her.
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She was the sweetest.
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She was like an angel.
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And this is their
honeymoon literally
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right before they took Tylenol.
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So they had their
future here in America.
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My grandpa thought that this
was the best thing for them,
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is to come to America, so
they could have a better life.
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And then, later,
after they died,
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my grandpa said he made
the worst mistake of his life.
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- My name is Joseph Janus.
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Janus.
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My brothers, Adam
Janus, Stanley Janus.
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- So do you remember
what that day,
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the day in September,
what it was like?
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- It was beautiful weather.
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It was nice and sunny,
nice and warm, no rain.
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It was a gorgeous day.
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I was at the company
working at Schwinn.
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Because I got a phone call.
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I know it was
around 2:00 or 3:00.
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My foreman called me up.
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He said, "Joe, you
got a phone call."
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Something like that.
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And then... I didn't
know Arlington Heights.
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I didn't know where the
hospital was, you know.
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I called my brother, Stanley.
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And he says,
"Well, I wait for you."
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He says, "We're
going to go together
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to Arlington Heights Hospital."
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So I got to the hospital,
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and then all the
family was there.
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And they said that
Adam died of heart attack.
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- He was a healthy man.
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He was a postal man.
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He was always on the go,
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and he had no
issues with his heart
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from what the family
members knew.
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So when they told
my family that he
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died from a heart attack,
they couldn't believe it.
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- Yeah, it didn't
make sense to us.
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So meantime, my mother
asked us to come to her house.
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My brother, Stanley, he
says, "No, we're going to go
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to the house to lie down."
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But my mother says, "No,
why don't you come with us?"
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You know.
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So when he came in,
then we start talking.
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Like, he was sitting
here in front of us,
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and he just fell down.
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And when he fell,
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his mouth was... white stuff
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was coming out from his mouth.
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His eyes turned
backwards, I seen, you know.
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So they called the ambulance.
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- OK, Chuck.
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- OK.
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I don't think this
was a good idea.
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- So we dug that up.
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- Yeah, this...
this is about right.
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That was our official report.
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I haven't seen it since the
night of the incident, yeah.
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- And your name on the bottom?
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- Lieutenant Charles C. Kramer.
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That's me.
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It was Wednesday,
September 29, '82.
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And the first call came
in just before noon,
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and the second call came
in... it was about 5:40,
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something like that.
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But when we got there, there was
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an ambulance, the
paramedic squad... a squad car.
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There was crowds
of people everywhere.
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And as they pulled
up, I started walking
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up to the front of house.
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I could hear screaming coming
out of the house, so I ran in.
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And there was a young
man laying on the floor.
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This is the brother
of the first man.
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The first fellow was Adam Janus.
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This is Stanley.
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He's about 25 years old.
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And the paramedics
are working on him.
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And as I walked in, I
had a great deal of faith
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in these people.
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They were good paramedics.
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And I looked up.
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One looked up at me.
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I could almost see
the fear in his face.
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He said, "This is the
same thing as this morning.
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We're losing him."
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And while I was standing
there, a young girl came up,
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and she was hysterical.
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And her newlywed
husband is on the floor,
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and she was screaming,
"Stanley, Stanley!"
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And she was
grabbing on to my arm.
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And the next thing I knew,
she groaned and collapsed
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right next to me.
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And I bent down,
turned her over.
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And the thing I'll
never forget is,
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the eyes were fixed and dilated
as if they were already dead.
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And they were
not reactive to light.
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She was just a little thing.
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I'll never forget that, when
she grabbed onto my arm
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and then went down.
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So now, I have six paramedics
working on the two people,
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and I'm starting to think,
"This isn't heart attacks.
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This isn't all
heart"... one, I'll buy,
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but I'm not going to buy it
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on the 25-year-old
and a 19-year-old...
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something's wrong.
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We packaged up the
patients in the two ambulances.
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The paramedic
squad said, they said,
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"You got to come too."
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I don't know what
we're dealing with.
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When we got to the hospital,
Dr. Kim came walking out,
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and he couldn't believe it.
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He... they just left.
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They went back to
their house to plan
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the funeral for their brother.
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- I remember my mom wailing
and screaming over the phone.
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It was so scary.
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I thought my dad died.
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And I didn't know what happened.
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And she was just screaming,
because I didn't know who she
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was really, like, talking to.
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And when she got off
the phone, she said,
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"We're going to go
and pray right now.
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"We're going to
go to the bedroom
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"and pray to Jesus
and to God and ask
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"God and Jesus
to help our family,
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because something is happening."
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- We were fortunate
in Arlington Heights.
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We had our own
health department.
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And Helen Jensen was
our village health nurse,
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and she was, I believe,
second-in-command
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in the health department.
- Here you go.
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- All right, so I'm
going to clip it for you.
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- And I had her home
phone number, so I called her.
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- Patience.
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- I have patience.
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I have patience.
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- And I told her,
and she... boom.
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She made sure her husband
and kids had their dinner,
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and she was over there.
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She was over there
in no time at all.
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She only lives about three
blocks from the hospital,
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to begin with.
- OK.
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- Beautiful human
being, wonderful woman.
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- Say your name.
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- I'm Helen Jensen.
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I wanted to be a nurse
from the time I was seven.
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And remember, I'm 84,
almost 85 years old now.
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And there weren't
a lot of choices.
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You were either a nurse
or a teacher or a secretary.
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And I love nursing.
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I've always loved nursing.
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How old was I?
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44, 45.
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I had two children that were,
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well, young pre-teens.
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I lived a suburban
housewife that worked
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full-time, much to the dismay
of many of my neighbors.
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I was in a neighborhood
where I was told,
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when I went back to
work, that our mothers
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do not work in this area.
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I worked.
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I came home from work.
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It was a very warm
September day.
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And in the middle of
dinner, I got a phone call
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from the fire department
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from Chuck Kramer,
who was a lieutenant
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in the fire department.
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He was in charge that day.
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I went to the
emergency room, and I...
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because they didn't know
what they'd picked up.
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They didn't know
if it was infectious.
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They didn't know anything.
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I'm curious.
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Nurses are very curious people.
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And nurses ask
a lot of questions.
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That's the only
way you really know
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how to take care of people,
is if you find out what's
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really wrong with
them, what's really
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going on in their heads.
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And I've always
been good at that.
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So I saw this lady
standing off to one side,
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this young woman,
and I went up to her,
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and she was Adam's wife,
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the young man who
had died in the morning.
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- The neighbor was able...
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she was Polish, and she
was able to interpret for Helen.
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Helen did a great job
to get that information
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out of somebody who
can't really speak English.
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- And she told me Adam
was not feeling well.
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He thought he had a
cold and had called in sick.
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He had picked up his
children at about 11:30,
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and he went to the...
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to Jewel on the way home
and picked up some Tylenol,
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and then came
home and had lunch,
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and then went into the
other room and died.
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I mean, this was a shock.
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This was a healthy young
man who was suddenly dead.
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The family came together
to make the funeral plans.
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And they were all
together at the house.
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Stanley had back problems,
and he asked his wife
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to go get him some Tylenol.
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So she went and got the bottle
of Tylenol and gave him two,
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and then she took
two out for herself...
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a complete mystery.
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What I thought,
listening to the story...
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the only three commonality
between these three people
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was Tylenol.
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So in my mind, I
needed to go out to prove
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to myself what was going on.
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I had to go and
look at the house.
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- That night?
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- Yes.
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And I went into the bathroom
and found a bottle of Tylenol.
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And I brought it
out to the kitchen.
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I opened it and
counted the pills,
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and there were
six pills missing,
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and there were
three people dead.
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And I said, "It has
to be the Tylenol."
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I also went through
the garbage and found
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the receipt that
had been purchased
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at Jewel that morning.
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- What made you go through
the garbage at this point?
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- I'm nosy.
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I went back to the
emergency room, presented it
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to the medical
examiner and the police,
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and they laughed at me.
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- Because she
said it very quickly.
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She said, "It's got
to be the Tylenol."
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They kind of looked at
her like she had two heads.
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"What do you mean, the Tylenol?"
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- I'm holding
it... the bottle...
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and the receipt.
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And I laid it out in front
of the medical examiner,
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and I counted it again
and told him the same thing.
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"There are six capsules missing.
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"There are three people dead.
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There has to be a correlation."
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"Blah-blah-blah-blah,
no, that's fine.
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The Tylenol is fine."
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- Take me back to that
moment in the hospital.
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You said you stamped your foot.
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- I did stamp my feet.
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- Describe that for me.
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- These idiots
wouldn't listen to me...
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these dumb young men who
don't know beans from apple butter.
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I know people.
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I know this is what's happened.
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I said, "This is it.
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"This is what is causing
these people to die.
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Find out why."
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They're not going
to listen to me.
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I am a nurse, a woman in shorts.
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Why would the men...
all the men standing
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back there listen to me?
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- And they weren't
believing her at that point.
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- Yeah, I was angry.
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I went home.
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I was very upset.
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I was teary.
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- I had a good buddy
of mine, Phil Cappitelli.
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He was also a lieutenant
on the fire department.
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And he called.
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He said, "Chuck,
what's going on?"
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I said, "Phil, we've
had a strange day."
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I said, "We've got one dead
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"and two not doing
very well at the hospital,
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all with the same symptoms."
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And I said, "We don't
know what's going on."
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I said, "The only thing
these people have in common
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is they all took Tylenol."
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He said, "This morning,
my mother-in-law
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"works with a woman
who lost her little girl.
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"She was 12 years old.
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"She had a cold.
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"She wanted to know,
how can a little girl die
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at 12 years old with a cold?"
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When I got a hold
of the nurse, I said,
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"I just got a call from
one of our off-duty guys.
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"A little girl died this
morning in Elk Grove,
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"and she took Tylenol.
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"And it's the same symptoms...
rapid, shallow breathing;
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fixed, dilated pupils;
and unreactive."
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So then they believed
Helen, who was saying,
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"I think it was a Tylenol."
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Well, now they had it.
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The next thing I know
is, in the morning,
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the phone rang, and
they said, "Lieutenant,
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get up to headquarters station."
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So as soon as my
relief got in, I went up,
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and that's when they said,
"It was the Tylenol," you know,
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that they found it.
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- I had a stiff drink and
talked to my husband,
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and I finally went to bed.
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At 5:30 in the morning...
he got up really early...
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and he came in to me.
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He said, "Helen, you're right.
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"They're saying it on the news.
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It was Tylenol."
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- 12-year-old Mary Kellerman
was a student at Jane Addams
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Junior High in Schaumburg.
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And according
to school officials,
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she had a cold, which
is probably why she
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took the contaminated Tylenol.
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She died yesterday morning
at Alexian Brothers Hospital
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in Elk Grove Village.
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- She was a very good
student and a very likeable girl,
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and she did an excellent
job in the classroom.
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And she had an excellent
rapport with her classmates
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and her teachers and so on.
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I think it's a real tragedy.
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- These deaths have
been associated with
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the presence of
cyanide in two containers
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of extra-strength Tylenol.
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- The next morning,
they called the papers.
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All around, the fire
departments and police
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departments went
out with... they
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had loudspeakers on their
cars, driving up and down,
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"Do not take Tylenol."
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00:19:18,826 --> 00:19:20,758
- Cyanide-contaminated
Tylenol has
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been responsible
for three deaths
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in the Arlington Heights area.
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Do not take Tylenol
until further notice.
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- And I was an assignment
editor at Channel 2
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in the summer of 1982.
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There was some sort of
bulletin from one of the authorities
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that there was
going to be a press
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conference about a
series of poisoning deaths.
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And many of them
were in the same family,
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but they weren't all
in the same family.
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- A frightening pattern
began to take shape
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some five hours later
in the neighboring
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suburb of Arlington Heights.
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When 28-year-old
Adam Janus was admitted
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to Northwest Community Hospital,
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his heart and
lungs had collapsed.
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He died a short time later.
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A brother, 25-year-old
Stanley Janus, and his wife,
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Theresa, were later admitted
with the same symptoms.
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Stanley Janus died
around 8:00 last night,
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and today, his wife
still is listed in extremely
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critical condition.
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00:20:08,136 --> 00:20:10,654
Meanwhile, in the quiet,
close-knit neighborhoods
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of the two brothers and
little Mary Kellerman,
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00:20:12,931 --> 00:20:16,172
there is shock,
grief, and a feeling
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00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,654
that it couldn't possibly
have happened here.
446
00:20:23,034 --> 00:20:24,433
- Everything
stopped, and all we did
447
00:20:24,481 --> 00:20:26,586
was focus on this one story.
448
00:20:26,654 --> 00:20:28,964
Everyone in the operation
focused on the one story.
449
00:20:29,034 --> 00:20:30,586
- My name is John
"Bulldog" Drummond...
450
00:20:30,654 --> 00:20:33,826
- It was an enormous
pressure situation.
451
00:20:33,895 --> 00:20:36,654
- a retired reporter for
Channel 2 News in Chicago.
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- Dr. Arthur Hull
Hayes says there
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are a number of ways for
citizens to be more vigilant.
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- Those of the years
I worked in Chicago,
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I guess the Tylenol story was
as big a story, a crime story
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that this city's ever
had in recent years,
457
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at least since World War II.
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And of course, as
you can imagine,
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the headlines of the
newspapers, the coverage
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electronically, it became
a major, major story.
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00:20:58,792 --> 00:21:00,275
And for about a
week or so, that's
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all we did in our stories...
was talking about doing
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Tylenol, Tylenol, Tylenol.
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00:21:06,413 --> 00:21:09,344
- The first recorded death
was in Elk Grove Village.
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In Arlington Heights,
three are now dead.
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Last night, the death
of a Winfield woman
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was ruled poisoning.
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00:21:16,826 --> 00:21:18,106
- There's no sense in it at all,
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00:21:18,172 --> 00:21:21,378
and it's just
terribly upsetting.
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Could have happened
to anyone, but I can't
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believe it happened to them.
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00:21:24,758 --> 00:21:26,964
- In Chicago today,
city inspectors
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began checking stores
to be certain all Tylenol
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was off the shelf.
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The supplies are all
being tagged and will be
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taken to the labs for testing.
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The city order came
from the mayor.
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In a midnight news conference,
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she also appealed to the public
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to turn in all Tylenol products.
481
00:21:44,378 --> 00:21:46,586
- We would like them to
get it out of their home.
482
00:21:46,654 --> 00:21:48,448
That's number one.
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It would aid and assist the
police in this investigation
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if they had the time and the
place of purchase of Tylenol
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in the city.
486
00:21:57,344 --> 00:21:58,586
- This is very unusual.
487
00:21:58,654 --> 00:22:00,723
And a person to go out
getting... seeking relief
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from pain and end
up being poisoned,
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you can imagine the
reaction of everybody.
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- At the State Department of
Health Toxicology Laboratory
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today, police from
around the Chicago area
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00:22:09,654 --> 00:22:12,413
brought bottles of
suspected Tylenol capsules.
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00:22:12,481 --> 00:22:15,550
Cyanide is so deadly, an
amount the size of a pea
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can kill you.
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00:22:17,275 --> 00:22:19,078
- It had Ty Fahner, who
was the attorney general
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at that time to Mayor Byrne,
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00:22:20,862 --> 00:22:24,172
and they did not
have an explanation.
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So the first news
conferences were really
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to let people know
something had happened
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but couldn't explain it.
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- So we produced massive
flyers for the projects where they
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may not have television and into
503
00:22:37,586 --> 00:22:39,034
the Spanish and Mexican areas.
504
00:22:39,103 --> 00:22:41,378
And the police department,
community beat reps,
505
00:22:41,448 --> 00:22:43,344
Lenora Cartwright, people
from Human Services
506
00:22:43,413 --> 00:22:46,826
are distributing the flyers
and warning people...
507
00:22:46,895 --> 00:22:50,136
- The "Chicago Defender"
was the weekly newspaper
508
00:22:50,205 --> 00:22:51,378
when I was there.
509
00:22:51,448 --> 00:22:53,723
It was a paper that...
510
00:22:53,792 --> 00:22:57,758
they would send newspapers
on trains in the South,
511
00:22:57,826 --> 00:23:00,758
because they didn't
have Black news there.
512
00:23:00,826 --> 00:23:03,758
It was very important
to the Black community
513
00:23:03,826 --> 00:23:05,619
to have its own voice.
514
00:23:05,689 --> 00:23:07,689
People were afraid
in the community.
515
00:23:07,758 --> 00:23:09,448
They were calling
"The Defender" asking,
516
00:23:09,517 --> 00:23:10,586
"What should we do?"
517
00:23:10,654 --> 00:23:12,654
It was just terrible.
518
00:23:12,723 --> 00:23:16,309
I remember they were
going to CHA buildings.
519
00:23:16,378 --> 00:23:18,044
- I'm here to see if you
have any Tylenol capsules.
520
00:23:18,067 --> 00:23:19,000
- No, I don't have any.
521
00:23:19,067 --> 00:23:20,000
- You don't have any?
522
00:23:20,067 --> 00:23:21,067
No Tylenol at all?
523
00:23:21,136 --> 00:23:22,172
- No, no Tylenol at all.
524
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:23,586
- OK.
525
00:23:23,654 --> 00:23:26,034
- They were looking
for more bottles
526
00:23:26,103 --> 00:23:28,517
that may have been contaminated.
527
00:23:28,586 --> 00:23:34,172
They had to find out, and it
also gave a sense of comfort
528
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:38,413
to the people who were
uptight about possibly
529
00:23:38,481 --> 00:23:40,862
buying contaminated Tylenol.
530
00:23:40,931 --> 00:23:45,136
It was a very
popular drug then...
531
00:23:45,205 --> 00:23:47,964
painkiller, rather.
532
00:23:48,034 --> 00:23:51,689
- This product may be
contaminated with cyanide
533
00:23:51,758 --> 00:23:53,448
and should be destroyed.
534
00:23:53,517 --> 00:23:56,792
- If you have a Tylenol bottle
marked that way, destroy it.
535
00:23:56,862 --> 00:23:58,309
- This affected everybody.
536
00:23:58,378 --> 00:23:59,895
And the amount
of terror... if you
537
00:23:59,964 --> 00:24:03,723
want to have somebody in
terror or scared, frightened...
538
00:24:03,792 --> 00:24:05,964
the community was
very frightened about this.
539
00:24:06,034 --> 00:24:09,034
- We're taking off the shelf
all the Tylenol capsules.
540
00:24:09,103 --> 00:24:12,275
- If you have Tylenol,
bring to school.
541
00:24:12,344 --> 00:24:16,792
Bring it to school, and
we will take it to the police.
542
00:24:16,862 --> 00:24:19,619
- Meanwhile, the
warning process goes on.
543
00:24:19,689 --> 00:24:21,586
At this uptown adult
education center,
544
00:24:21,654 --> 00:24:23,550
Department of Human
Services personnel
545
00:24:23,619 --> 00:24:26,964
were giving out flyers today,
warning of the Tylenol threat.
546
00:24:27,034 --> 00:24:28,931
- Because of the
cyanide poisoning,
547
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,067
people were afraid of,
obviously, taking Tylenol.
548
00:24:33,136 --> 00:24:36,619
But people became afraid
of anything that was out...
549
00:24:36,689 --> 00:24:39,344
security, tamper-proof
caps, which weren't
550
00:24:39,413 --> 00:24:41,103
even barely in existence then.
551
00:24:41,172 --> 00:24:44,103
So you think about
toothpaste, shampoo.
552
00:24:44,172 --> 00:24:47,034
People were freaking
out about buying anything.
553
00:24:47,103 --> 00:24:48,826
There was kind
of like a hysteria.
554
00:24:48,895 --> 00:24:51,000
- And this morning,
the people of Chicago
555
00:24:51,067 --> 00:24:53,826
began turning in
Tylenol at firehouses
556
00:24:53,895 --> 00:24:55,309
and at police stations.
557
00:24:55,378 --> 00:24:56,309
- I think it's terrible.
558
00:24:56,378 --> 00:24:58,550
Somebody... somebody's crazy.
559
00:24:58,619 --> 00:25:02,136
- I think what bothers me
more than just this incident...
560
00:25:02,205 --> 00:25:06,103
if it can happen with this,
what else can it happen with?
561
00:25:06,172 --> 00:25:09,275
That's the part that really,
really gives you the creeps.
562
00:25:09,344 --> 00:25:12,964
- It was a nightmare scenario.
563
00:25:13,034 --> 00:25:14,561
You think about all
the breaking stories
564
00:25:14,586 --> 00:25:16,172
that we've covered...
565
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,205
Paxton Hotel fire, you
know, the American
566
00:25:19,275 --> 00:25:21,792
Airlines jet crashing,
the Plainfield tornado.
567
00:25:21,862 --> 00:25:24,000
Those things were pretty
much known at the time.
568
00:25:24,067 --> 00:25:25,792
This was a stone-cold mystery,
569
00:25:25,862 --> 00:25:28,103
and it went on like this
for days and days and days
570
00:25:28,172 --> 00:25:30,275
without knowing
what had happened.
571
00:25:30,344 --> 00:25:31,550
It was a terrifying moment.
572
00:25:31,619 --> 00:25:33,103
- Now an Elmhurst woman is known
573
00:25:33,172 --> 00:25:37,103
to have died from cyanide
after taking Tylenol.
574
00:25:42,619 --> 00:25:44,286
- So my name is John
Millner, M-I-L-L-N-E-R.
575
00:25:44,309 --> 00:25:47,448
And I believe I was Detective
Sergeant at that time.
576
00:25:47,517 --> 00:25:51,448
- My name's Herb Hogberg,
and I was a detective
577
00:25:51,517 --> 00:25:53,103
with the Elmhurst
Police Department
578
00:25:53,172 --> 00:25:56,550
at the time of the Tylenol case.
579
00:25:56,619 --> 00:26:00,895
The assignment was work
with the death investigation
580
00:26:00,964 --> 00:26:02,413
of Mrs. McFarland.
581
00:26:02,481 --> 00:26:03,761
- I believe I was
in the station,
582
00:26:03,826 --> 00:26:05,378
and I don't even
remember who called,
583
00:26:05,448 --> 00:26:07,792
but mentioned
this McFarland lady
584
00:26:07,862 --> 00:26:10,378
who had subsequently passed.
585
00:26:10,448 --> 00:26:13,654
She was poisoned,
they thought, in Lombard.
586
00:26:13,723 --> 00:26:17,275
And then, they advised us,
because she lived in Elmhurst.
587
00:26:17,344 --> 00:26:19,448
So we got permission
from her father,
588
00:26:19,517 --> 00:26:22,000
I believe, at the time
to enter her house.
589
00:26:22,067 --> 00:26:23,769
Because the sooner
we start finding the stuff,
590
00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:25,931
the better it is, the
more we can figure out
591
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,619
where specifically
did she buy this stuff,
592
00:26:28,689 --> 00:26:30,275
where did other people get this,
593
00:26:30,344 --> 00:26:32,205
you know, what
stores are targeted?
594
00:26:32,275 --> 00:26:33,481
Is it just in our area?
595
00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:34,619
Is it local?
596
00:26:34,689 --> 00:26:35,689
Is it national?
597
00:26:35,758 --> 00:26:37,136
I mean, who knows?
598
00:26:37,205 --> 00:26:40,240
So Detective Hogberg
and I went to the home,
599
00:26:40,309 --> 00:26:41,826
and we tried to gain entry.
600
00:26:41,895 --> 00:26:44,931
And we were able to get
entry through the window,
601
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,413
the bathroom window.
602
00:26:46,481 --> 00:26:48,550
And we opened the
window, climbed in there.
603
00:26:48,619 --> 00:26:50,792
First place you went to
was the medicine cabinet.
604
00:26:50,862 --> 00:26:54,862
Popped a Tylenol bottle,
and it didn't look right.
605
00:26:54,931 --> 00:26:57,309
Something just didn't
look right with those pills.
606
00:26:57,378 --> 00:26:59,000
Subsequently, we
learned that they
607
00:26:59,067 --> 00:27:01,205
were tainted with cyanide.
608
00:27:01,275 --> 00:27:02,895
We'd never saw
anything like this before,
609
00:27:02,964 --> 00:27:05,172
never experienced this before.
610
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,309
- The business she
worked at was Illinois Bell
611
00:27:07,378 --> 00:27:10,517
at that time, and they
had fluorescent lights
612
00:27:10,586 --> 00:27:11,586
in the building.
613
00:27:11,619 --> 00:27:14,205
Fluorescent lights blinked.
614
00:27:14,275 --> 00:27:15,964
They worked off
the transformers,
615
00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:19,034
and there was
problems with a lot
616
00:27:19,103 --> 00:27:22,826
of lighting in a lot of places,
where it would get people's...
617
00:27:22,895 --> 00:27:24,205
bother their eyes.
618
00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:26,723
And eventually, they'd
end up with headaches,
619
00:27:26,792 --> 00:27:29,344
and most of the people
that worked with her
620
00:27:29,413 --> 00:27:34,378
took Anacin,
Bufferin, and products
621
00:27:34,448 --> 00:27:37,550
like that for their headaches.
622
00:27:37,619 --> 00:27:39,481
- I'm telling you,
these were scary times.
623
00:27:39,550 --> 00:27:41,205
We didn't know who
the offender was.
624
00:27:41,275 --> 00:27:43,895
We know that there's somebody
out there trying to poison
625
00:27:43,964 --> 00:27:45,862
people, and people
who are getting poisoned
626
00:27:45,931 --> 00:27:48,586
had no clue that
it was happening.
627
00:27:50,481 --> 00:27:52,481
So I'm thinking...
and I think Herb did
628
00:27:52,550 --> 00:27:54,067
as well... we talked about it.
629
00:27:54,136 --> 00:27:56,286
How many other people in
Elmhurst have tainted Tylenol?
630
00:27:56,309 --> 00:27:58,550
I mean, this is a scary thing.
631
00:27:58,619 --> 00:28:01,240
It's like, this is not
just one person.
632
00:28:01,309 --> 00:28:02,758
I mean, how many...
633
00:28:02,826 --> 00:28:05,205
Elmhurst is, at the time,
a town of 50,000 people.
634
00:28:05,275 --> 00:28:07,481
How many people have
tainted Tylenol in their home?
635
00:28:07,550 --> 00:28:09,895
- The death of 35-year-old
Paula Prince stunned
636
00:28:09,964 --> 00:28:11,550
her family and friends.
637
00:28:11,619 --> 00:28:13,964
Her body was discovered
last night inside her apartment
638
00:28:14,034 --> 00:28:15,619
on Chicago's Near North Side.
639
00:28:15,689 --> 00:28:17,931
- A contact had call me and
said, "Drummond," he said,
640
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,550
"We've located a woman
who was a Tylenol victim...
641
00:28:21,619 --> 00:28:23,413
"that is, with cyanide...
642
00:28:23,481 --> 00:28:25,481
"who lives, I think, over
in Sandburg Village"...
643
00:28:25,550 --> 00:28:27,664
which was a popular place
for young people back then...
644
00:28:27,689 --> 00:28:29,000
"on the Near North Side."
645
00:28:29,067 --> 00:28:31,586
He said, "She's in the
apartment right now."
646
00:28:31,654 --> 00:28:32,826
I was at the station.
647
00:28:32,895 --> 00:28:34,250
I went over immediately
with the crew.
648
00:28:34,275 --> 00:28:36,723
And we saw the
woman being taken out,
649
00:28:36,792 --> 00:28:38,964
the stewardess being
taken out on a stretcher.
650
00:28:39,034 --> 00:28:40,354
- Investigators
say it appears she
651
00:28:40,378 --> 00:28:42,205
had collapsed into her closet.
652
00:28:42,275 --> 00:28:44,654
Her sister, Carol Prince,
says she last talked
653
00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:46,103
with Paula on Wednesday.
654
00:28:46,172 --> 00:28:47,619
It is believed that Paula Prince
655
00:28:47,689 --> 00:28:49,586
took the Tylenol that
killed her sometime
656
00:28:49,654 --> 00:28:51,240
Wednesday evening.
657
00:28:51,309 --> 00:28:53,250
The cyanide-laced capsules
that killed Paula Prince
658
00:28:53,275 --> 00:28:54,895
were purchased from
this Walgreens store
659
00:28:54,964 --> 00:28:56,550
at Wells and North Avenues.
660
00:28:56,619 --> 00:28:59,034
Store management pulled
all the Tylenol off the shelves
661
00:28:59,103 --> 00:29:02,136
on Thursday, one day
after Paula Prince's death.
662
00:29:02,205 --> 00:29:06,758
- I signed a death certificate
out this morning as follows.
663
00:29:06,826 --> 00:29:10,205
Acute cyanide toxicity.
664
00:29:10,275 --> 00:29:15,586
Manner of death... undetermined.
665
00:29:15,654 --> 00:29:17,723
- Dr. Stein stopped
short of calling
666
00:29:17,792 --> 00:29:19,344
Prince's death a murder.
667
00:29:19,413 --> 00:29:21,517
However, her friends did not.
668
00:29:21,586 --> 00:29:23,931
- I... there's nothing
that I can say.
669
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,517
I mean, it's
just, it's not right.
670
00:29:25,586 --> 00:29:26,792
It's not right at all.
671
00:29:26,862 --> 00:29:27,862
The guy's a maniac.
672
00:29:27,931 --> 00:29:29,964
I mean, Paula was murdered.
673
00:29:30,034 --> 00:29:31,723
She was just murdered.
674
00:29:31,792 --> 00:29:35,275
- Memorial services were
being held for three other victims.
675
00:29:39,344 --> 00:29:41,275
- I remember
being at the funeral,
676
00:29:41,344 --> 00:29:43,931
and I remember seeing my
Aunt Sophie, my Aunt Theresa,
677
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,136
my grandparents.
678
00:29:46,205 --> 00:29:49,136
- 19-year-old Theresa
Janus and 25-year-old
679
00:29:49,205 --> 00:29:51,172
Stanley Janus
were married in this
680
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,172
church just three months ago.
681
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,792
Today, their caskets
were carried by members
682
00:29:55,862 --> 00:29:57,723
of their wedding party.
683
00:29:57,792 --> 00:29:59,619
Services for Stanley's brother,
684
00:29:59,689 --> 00:30:01,413
27-year-old Adam Janus,
685
00:30:01,481 --> 00:30:03,826
were held here, too.
686
00:30:03,895 --> 00:30:05,172
- And then, my grandma...
687
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,009
I just thought she was
going to die right there.
688
00:30:07,034 --> 00:30:10,895
She just, like...
all she did was cry.
689
00:30:10,964 --> 00:30:14,034
I mean, she was, like,
gasping for air and everything.
690
00:30:14,103 --> 00:30:16,964
And it was terrible, and
everybody was getting...
691
00:30:17,034 --> 00:30:18,517
constantly, they
were popping pills.
692
00:30:18,586 --> 00:30:19,664
I think they were
probably, like,
693
00:30:19,689 --> 00:30:21,413
anxiety pills from the doctor.
694
00:30:21,481 --> 00:30:23,448
- In the name of the
Father and of the Son
695
00:30:23,517 --> 00:30:24,895
and of the Holy Spirit...
696
00:30:24,964 --> 00:30:26,586
- You have cardinals and bishops
697
00:30:26,654 --> 00:30:29,309
and, like, all these people,
camera people, and you have...
698
00:30:29,378 --> 00:30:31,550
I mean, this funeral was huge.
699
00:30:31,619 --> 00:30:34,586
So for a child, you're just
like, "Oh, my goodness.
700
00:30:34,654 --> 00:30:36,931
"This is crazy.
701
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,826
This is, like, too
much, almost."
702
00:30:41,413 --> 00:30:42,723
It was kind of hard.
703
00:30:42,792 --> 00:30:44,792
It was kind of like
having paparazzi,
704
00:30:44,862 --> 00:30:46,517
like Kim Kardashian or someone.
705
00:30:46,586 --> 00:30:49,344
And you're walking, and
there's everybody there,
706
00:30:49,413 --> 00:30:50,895
and you can't breathe.
707
00:30:50,964 --> 00:30:53,723
- Each casket was blessed
by Archbishop Bernardin,
708
00:30:53,792 --> 00:30:56,413
who was here to
console the family.
709
00:30:56,481 --> 00:31:00,550
- I remember my father
approaching Adam's coffin,
710
00:31:00,619 --> 00:31:05,654
and he just couldn't take it.
711
00:31:05,723 --> 00:31:10,413
He, literally, threw his
body on top of my uncle,
712
00:31:10,481 --> 00:31:13,205
and the coffin
almost tipped over.
713
00:31:13,275 --> 00:31:14,517
I'll never forget that.
714
00:31:19,758 --> 00:31:24,378
- So it... it really, you
know, killed us, you know.
715
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,413
But...
716
00:31:30,481 --> 00:31:33,654
my brother... my
brothers were...
717
00:31:33,723 --> 00:31:35,000
it was everything to me.
718
00:31:35,067 --> 00:31:36,723
- When you speak of the victims,
719
00:31:36,792 --> 00:31:39,067
you speak of them as family.
720
00:31:39,136 --> 00:31:41,792
- Yeah.
721
00:31:50,619 --> 00:31:53,172
That was real hard.
722
00:32:00,034 --> 00:32:02,826
I'll never forget
that young girl.
723
00:32:07,103 --> 00:32:10,862
This is what happens
when you get old, I guess.
724
00:32:10,931 --> 00:32:14,517
I have several calls
like this that'll get to me.
725
00:32:14,586 --> 00:32:16,067
But we were with that family.
726
00:32:16,136 --> 00:32:20,619
I watched the family be
destroyed by somebody.
727
00:32:20,689 --> 00:32:23,413
- Every time I know...
728
00:32:23,481 --> 00:32:26,826
I think about everything,
it's just... it's terrible,
729
00:32:26,895 --> 00:32:29,964
what I went through my life.
730
00:32:30,034 --> 00:32:34,964
Because everything, we
try so hard in this country,
731
00:32:35,034 --> 00:32:39,931
it was going OK
for us, and one day,
732
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,517
everything fall apart.
733
00:32:52,275 --> 00:32:53,931
- The police were stymied.
734
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,517
- The poison center has been
deluged with telephone calls.
735
00:32:56,586 --> 00:32:59,067
- Well, how could all
these different people
736
00:32:59,136 --> 00:33:02,103
been poisoned by the same
person at the same time?
737
00:33:02,172 --> 00:33:04,723
- Late this afternoon,
the state attorney general
738
00:33:04,792 --> 00:33:09,550
announced that 26 FBI agents
are joining the investigation.
739
00:33:09,619 --> 00:33:12,550
- About two dozen persons are
considered potential suspects.
740
00:33:12,619 --> 00:33:13,862
- There's somebody out there.
741
00:33:13,931 --> 00:33:16,517
I find it difficult to
believe that there
742
00:33:16,586 --> 00:33:18,619
was no trace of anything.
743
00:33:18,689 --> 00:33:21,275
- Why would they use
Tylenol as a murder weapon?
744
00:33:21,344 --> 00:33:24,136
Which was ingenious.
745
00:33:24,205 --> 00:33:26,413
Now, some people may
say, crazy, but ingenious.
746
00:33:26,481 --> 00:33:27,862
Who would think of that?
747
00:33:27,931 --> 00:33:29,758
- The search for the
Tylenol cyanide killer
748
00:33:29,826 --> 00:33:31,862
continues to center
on this photograph.
749
00:33:31,931 --> 00:33:34,136
- Have you ever done
an interview about this?
750
00:33:34,205 --> 00:33:36,758
- No, only with the FBI.
751
00:33:36,826 --> 00:33:37,976
- It was not about the money.
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It was about
revenge. Absolutely.
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