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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:15,448 --> 00:00:18,068 - They call it the Magnificent Mile. 2 00:00:20,033 --> 00:00:21,448 - What all this new tech... 3 00:00:21,516 --> 00:00:23,068 - It's the last real big summer weekend 4 00:00:23,137 --> 00:00:24,620 before Labor Day, and Chicagoans 5 00:00:24,689 --> 00:00:27,481 by the thousands went out and enjoyed it. 6 00:00:27,550 --> 00:00:29,205 - With Wonder in a balanced diet, 7 00:00:29,274 --> 00:00:32,137 good nutrition doesn't have to be whole wheat. 8 00:00:32,206 --> 00:00:35,240 - But, you know, we're going to have a fantastic year. 9 00:00:37,067 --> 00:00:39,310 - They are the unemployed, the Illinois 10 00:00:39,378 --> 00:00:41,792 rate soaring to 12.5%. 11 00:00:41,862 --> 00:00:45,103 - When you have unemployment, the highest that it 12 00:00:45,171 --> 00:00:48,103 has been since the Depression. 13 00:00:48,171 --> 00:00:49,792 - I hereby declare my candidacy 14 00:00:49,862 --> 00:00:51,758 for mayor of Chicago. 15 00:00:53,481 --> 00:00:55,655 - Chicagofest has become the largest outdoor 16 00:00:55,723 --> 00:00:57,448 music festival in the world. 17 00:01:21,724 --> 00:01:24,379 - It almost caused a national panic. 18 00:01:24,448 --> 00:01:26,007 - These deaths have been associated with 19 00:01:26,033 --> 00:01:28,171 the presence of cyanide in two containers 20 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,724 of extra-strength Tylenol. 21 00:01:31,793 --> 00:01:33,655 - Do not take Tylenol until further notice. 22 00:01:33,722 --> 00:01:36,758 - Cyanide is so deadly an amount the size of a pea 23 00:01:36,826 --> 00:01:37,896 can kill you. 24 00:01:37,965 --> 00:01:39,861 - This was a stone-cold mystery. 25 00:01:39,930 --> 00:01:43,861 People died, and many of them were in the same family. 26 00:01:43,930 --> 00:01:45,930 - I just knew something was wrong. 27 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,343 - Paula was murdered. 28 00:01:47,412 --> 00:01:49,896 She was just murdered. 29 00:01:49,965 --> 00:01:51,286 - We know that there's somebody out there 30 00:01:51,310 --> 00:01:53,033 trying to poison people. 31 00:01:53,103 --> 00:01:55,793 - How could he pull off the crime of the century perfectly 32 00:01:55,861 --> 00:01:57,343 and not get caught? 33 00:01:57,412 --> 00:01:59,551 - We're actively pursuing this investigation. 34 00:01:59,620 --> 00:02:01,275 This is not collecting dust on a shelf. 35 00:02:01,343 --> 00:02:02,516 - This could be our guy. 36 00:02:02,585 --> 00:02:04,379 - Do you think you know who did it? 37 00:02:04,448 --> 00:02:05,965 - Yes. 38 00:02:06,034 --> 00:02:09,275 - Are you going to let a murderer just go? 39 00:02:10,413 --> 00:02:12,861 - Hi. 40 00:02:26,723 --> 00:02:28,068 - Good morning, everybody. 41 00:02:31,205 --> 00:02:33,240 Good morning, Wisconsin Dells Middle school. 42 00:02:33,310 --> 00:02:37,723 Today is Wednesday, June 1, 2022. 43 00:02:37,793 --> 00:02:39,758 Our quote of the day is this. 44 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:42,378 "You can't go back and change the beginning, 45 00:02:42,448 --> 00:02:46,930 but you can start where you are and change the ending." 46 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,620 That's by CS Lewis. 47 00:02:51,137 --> 00:02:54,516 - My name is Isabel Antoinette, 48 00:02:54,586 --> 00:02:57,206 and I am 12 years old. 49 00:02:58,896 --> 00:03:01,723 Tylenol's a thing that everyone uses. 50 00:03:01,793 --> 00:03:05,931 It's like, "Hey, I'm sick. 51 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,240 "I'm going to take Tylenol. 52 00:03:07,310 --> 00:03:09,861 Maybe I'll feel a little bit better." 53 00:03:09,931 --> 00:03:11,586 Our family took it. 54 00:03:11,655 --> 00:03:13,688 Adam took it. 55 00:03:13,758 --> 00:03:16,068 He died first, and then Stanley and Theresa 56 00:03:16,137 --> 00:03:17,896 took it, because they had a headache. 57 00:03:17,965 --> 00:03:20,550 Later on, passed. 58 00:03:20,620 --> 00:03:23,310 If not in my mother's time, I will continue 59 00:03:23,378 --> 00:03:25,965 to try and help my family find answers 60 00:03:26,033 --> 00:03:30,343 to this horrible tragedy. 61 00:03:30,413 --> 00:03:35,378 Maybe I might even solve it one day. 62 00:03:35,448 --> 00:03:40,343 My grandpa deserves to know. 63 00:03:40,413 --> 00:03:45,861 - We had the small farm with two cows, a couple of pigs, 64 00:03:45,930 --> 00:03:47,793 chickens in Poland... 65 00:03:47,861 --> 00:03:50,896 very small city. 66 00:03:50,965 --> 00:03:53,240 My father was here already, because he came 67 00:03:53,310 --> 00:03:57,000 early, about six months early. 68 00:03:57,067 --> 00:04:02,826 Then, he brought us, you know, after that. 69 00:04:02,895 --> 00:04:08,448 Because first, he want to see how is Chicago, 70 00:04:08,516 --> 00:04:10,861 how is the United States. 71 00:04:10,931 --> 00:04:15,481 When we came to United States, I went to Wallace High School. 72 00:04:15,550 --> 00:04:18,826 My brothers and sisters went to a Catholic school. 73 00:04:18,896 --> 00:04:23,172 Even one of the priests paid for the Catholic school 74 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,516 for my brother. 75 00:04:24,586 --> 00:04:30,689 Paid, because my parents were kind of poor, so... 76 00:04:33,689 --> 00:04:38,274 - Well, these are some really old photos. 77 00:04:38,343 --> 00:04:42,240 There's a lot of photos missing here. 78 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,793 This is when they came to America. 79 00:04:48,862 --> 00:04:55,067 My father, Joe, Adam, my grandpa, my grandma, 80 00:04:55,137 --> 00:05:00,274 Stanley, and my Aunt Sophie. 81 00:05:00,343 --> 00:05:03,103 Adam... he had a very soft heart. 82 00:05:03,172 --> 00:05:05,516 He was very kind, caring. 83 00:05:05,586 --> 00:05:07,930 I remember when I had my tonsils removed, 84 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,826 when I opened my eyes after surgery, 85 00:05:09,896 --> 00:05:11,654 the first person I saw was my Uncle Adam 86 00:05:11,723 --> 00:05:13,000 with a bouquet of flowers. 87 00:05:13,067 --> 00:05:15,654 He was always that type of person. 88 00:05:15,723 --> 00:05:19,103 He'd always bring flowers. 89 00:05:19,172 --> 00:05:22,274 There's Stanley in the middle. 90 00:05:22,343 --> 00:05:24,240 Uncle Stanley was the one you noticed out 91 00:05:24,310 --> 00:05:25,793 of the whole entire family. 92 00:05:25,862 --> 00:05:27,689 So he was very tall. 93 00:05:27,757 --> 00:05:31,240 He had a beautiful smile, very funny guy. 94 00:05:31,310 --> 00:05:33,240 Theresa was the sweetest. 95 00:05:33,310 --> 00:05:34,930 All us cousins would fight. 96 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Who does Aunt Theresa like more? 97 00:05:37,067 --> 00:05:40,000 Do you like me more than this cousin, 98 00:05:40,067 --> 00:05:41,620 than that cousin? We loved her. 99 00:05:41,689 --> 00:05:42,620 She was the sweetest. 100 00:05:42,689 --> 00:05:44,067 She was like an angel. 101 00:05:44,137 --> 00:05:48,413 And this is their honeymoon literally 102 00:05:48,481 --> 00:05:52,481 right before they took Tylenol. 103 00:05:54,103 --> 00:05:57,413 So they had their future here in America. 104 00:05:57,481 --> 00:06:01,379 My grandpa thought that this was the best thing for them, 105 00:06:01,447 --> 00:06:05,516 is to come to America, so they could have a better life. 106 00:06:05,586 --> 00:06:07,930 And then, later, after they died, 107 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,654 my grandpa said he made the worst mistake of his life. 108 00:06:20,033 --> 00:06:21,723 - My name is Joseph Janus. 109 00:06:21,793 --> 00:06:23,000 Janus. 110 00:06:23,067 --> 00:06:28,516 My brothers, Adam Janus, Stanley Janus. 111 00:06:28,586 --> 00:06:30,481 - So do you remember what that day, 112 00:06:30,550 --> 00:06:33,137 the day in September, what it was like? 113 00:06:33,206 --> 00:06:34,586 - It was beautiful weather. 114 00:06:34,654 --> 00:06:38,516 It was nice and sunny, nice and warm, no rain. 115 00:06:38,586 --> 00:06:40,413 It was a gorgeous day. 116 00:06:40,481 --> 00:06:42,620 I was at the company working at Schwinn. 117 00:06:42,689 --> 00:06:45,067 Because I got a phone call. 118 00:06:45,137 --> 00:06:48,067 I know it was around 2:00 or 3:00. 119 00:06:48,137 --> 00:06:49,689 My foreman called me up. 120 00:06:49,757 --> 00:06:52,654 He said, "Joe, you got a phone call." 121 00:06:55,620 --> 00:06:57,172 Something like that. 122 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,033 And then... I didn't know Arlington Heights. 123 00:07:01,103 --> 00:07:04,826 I didn't know where the hospital was, you know. 124 00:07:04,896 --> 00:07:08,793 I called my brother, Stanley. 125 00:07:08,862 --> 00:07:11,757 And he says, "Well, I wait for you." 126 00:07:11,826 --> 00:07:13,240 He says, "We're going to go together 127 00:07:13,310 --> 00:07:15,137 to Arlington Heights Hospital." 128 00:07:16,793 --> 00:07:18,206 So I got to the hospital, 129 00:07:18,274 --> 00:07:21,689 and then all the family was there. 130 00:07:21,757 --> 00:07:25,586 And they said that Adam died of heart attack. 131 00:07:26,793 --> 00:07:28,274 - He was a healthy man. 132 00:07:28,343 --> 00:07:29,826 He was a postal man. 133 00:07:29,896 --> 00:07:31,723 He was always on the go, 134 00:07:31,793 --> 00:07:34,689 and he had no issues with his heart 135 00:07:34,757 --> 00:07:36,723 from what the family members knew. 136 00:07:36,793 --> 00:07:40,654 So when they told my family that he 137 00:07:40,723 --> 00:07:43,689 died from a heart attack, they couldn't believe it. 138 00:07:45,620 --> 00:07:48,103 - Yeah, it didn't make sense to us. 139 00:07:48,172 --> 00:07:53,310 So meantime, my mother asked us to come to her house. 140 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,620 My brother, Stanley, he says, "No, we're going to go 141 00:07:58,689 --> 00:08:01,033 to the house to lie down." 142 00:08:01,103 --> 00:08:03,447 But my mother says, "No, why don't you come with us?" 143 00:08:03,516 --> 00:08:04,930 You know. 144 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,310 So when he came in, then we start talking. 145 00:08:08,379 --> 00:08:11,862 Like, he was sitting here in front of us, 146 00:08:11,930 --> 00:08:16,067 and he just fell down. 147 00:08:21,896 --> 00:08:24,862 And when he fell, 148 00:08:24,930 --> 00:08:27,103 his mouth was... white stuff 149 00:08:27,172 --> 00:08:29,033 was coming out from his mouth. 150 00:08:29,103 --> 00:08:33,687 His eyes turned backwards, I seen, you know. 151 00:08:33,758 --> 00:08:37,033 So they called the ambulance. 152 00:08:42,379 --> 00:08:43,517 - OK, Chuck. 153 00:08:43,586 --> 00:08:49,240 - OK. 154 00:08:49,309 --> 00:08:51,551 I don't think this was a good idea. 155 00:08:57,379 --> 00:09:00,586 - So we dug that up. 156 00:09:00,654 --> 00:09:03,724 - Yeah, this... this is about right. 157 00:09:03,793 --> 00:09:05,274 That was our official report. 158 00:09:05,344 --> 00:09:07,654 I haven't seen it since the night of the incident, yeah. 159 00:09:07,724 --> 00:09:09,654 - And your name on the bottom? 160 00:09:09,724 --> 00:09:10,965 - Lieutenant Charles C. Kramer. 161 00:09:11,033 --> 00:09:13,000 That's me. 162 00:09:15,309 --> 00:09:18,172 It was Wednesday, September 29, '82. 163 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,309 And the first call came in just before noon, 164 00:09:20,379 --> 00:09:23,826 and the second call came in... it was about 5:40, 165 00:09:23,895 --> 00:09:25,895 something like that. 166 00:09:25,965 --> 00:09:27,413 But when we got there, there was 167 00:09:27,481 --> 00:09:29,517 an ambulance, the paramedic squad... a squad car. 168 00:09:29,586 --> 00:09:31,481 There was crowds of people everywhere. 169 00:09:31,551 --> 00:09:33,078 And as they pulled up, I started walking 170 00:09:33,102 --> 00:09:34,793 up to the front of house. 171 00:09:34,861 --> 00:09:37,216 I could hear screaming coming out of the house, so I ran in. 172 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,413 And there was a young man laying on the floor. 173 00:09:39,481 --> 00:09:40,922 This is the brother of the first man. 174 00:09:40,965 --> 00:09:42,447 The first fellow was Adam Janus. 175 00:09:42,517 --> 00:09:43,688 This is Stanley. 176 00:09:43,758 --> 00:09:45,379 He's about 25 years old. 177 00:09:45,447 --> 00:09:47,517 And the paramedics are working on him. 178 00:09:47,586 --> 00:09:49,355 And as I walked in, I had a great deal of faith 179 00:09:49,379 --> 00:09:50,309 in these people. 180 00:09:50,379 --> 00:09:51,418 They were good paramedics. 181 00:09:51,447 --> 00:09:52,481 And I looked up. 182 00:09:52,551 --> 00:09:53,758 One looked up at me. 183 00:09:53,826 --> 00:09:55,216 I could almost see the fear in his face. 184 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:56,700 He said, "This is the same thing as this morning. 185 00:09:56,724 --> 00:09:58,861 We're losing him." 186 00:09:58,931 --> 00:10:02,000 And while I was standing there, a young girl came up, 187 00:10:02,067 --> 00:10:03,274 and she was hysterical. 188 00:10:03,344 --> 00:10:05,206 And her newlywed husband is on the floor, 189 00:10:05,274 --> 00:10:07,067 and she was screaming, "Stanley, Stanley!" 190 00:10:07,136 --> 00:10:08,965 And she was grabbing on to my arm. 191 00:10:09,033 --> 00:10:12,000 And the next thing I knew, she groaned and collapsed 192 00:10:12,067 --> 00:10:13,895 right next to me. 193 00:10:13,965 --> 00:10:17,965 And I bent down, turned her over. 194 00:10:18,033 --> 00:10:19,586 And the thing I'll never forget is, 195 00:10:19,654 --> 00:10:23,274 the eyes were fixed and dilated as if they were already dead. 196 00:10:23,344 --> 00:10:25,000 And they were not reactive to light. 197 00:10:25,067 --> 00:10:26,551 She was just a little thing. 198 00:10:26,620 --> 00:10:28,320 I'll never forget that, when she grabbed onto my arm 199 00:10:28,344 --> 00:10:29,826 and then went down. 200 00:10:29,895 --> 00:10:33,000 So now, I have six paramedics working on the two people, 201 00:10:33,067 --> 00:10:35,413 and I'm starting to think, "This isn't heart attacks. 202 00:10:35,481 --> 00:10:37,001 This isn't all heart"... one, I'll buy, 203 00:10:37,033 --> 00:10:38,240 but I'm not going to buy it 204 00:10:38,309 --> 00:10:40,136 on the 25-year-old and a 19-year-old... 205 00:10:40,206 --> 00:10:43,033 something's wrong. 206 00:10:43,102 --> 00:10:45,688 We packaged up the patients in the two ambulances. 207 00:10:45,758 --> 00:10:46,837 The paramedic squad said, they said, 208 00:10:46,861 --> 00:10:47,965 "You got to come too." 209 00:10:48,033 --> 00:10:49,620 I don't know what we're dealing with. 210 00:10:49,688 --> 00:10:51,734 When we got to the hospital, Dr. Kim came walking out, 211 00:10:51,758 --> 00:10:53,000 and he couldn't believe it. 212 00:10:53,067 --> 00:10:54,447 He... they just left. 213 00:10:54,517 --> 00:10:56,136 They went back to their house to plan 214 00:10:56,206 --> 00:10:58,344 the funeral for their brother. 215 00:10:58,413 --> 00:11:03,033 - I remember my mom wailing and screaming over the phone. 216 00:11:03,102 --> 00:11:04,724 It was so scary. 217 00:11:04,793 --> 00:11:06,067 I thought my dad died. 218 00:11:06,136 --> 00:11:08,000 And I didn't know what happened. 219 00:11:08,067 --> 00:11:10,309 And she was just screaming, because I didn't know who she 220 00:11:10,379 --> 00:11:12,965 was really, like, talking to. 221 00:11:13,033 --> 00:11:17,688 And when she got off the phone, she said, 222 00:11:17,758 --> 00:11:20,206 "We're going to go and pray right now. 223 00:11:20,274 --> 00:11:21,457 "We're going to go to the bedroom 224 00:11:21,481 --> 00:11:25,586 "and pray to Jesus and to God and ask 225 00:11:25,654 --> 00:11:27,447 "God and Jesus to help our family, 226 00:11:27,517 --> 00:11:28,826 because something is happening." 227 00:11:32,067 --> 00:11:33,596 - We were fortunate in Arlington Heights. 228 00:11:33,620 --> 00:11:34,899 We had our own health department. 229 00:11:34,931 --> 00:11:37,033 And Helen Jensen was our village health nurse, 230 00:11:37,102 --> 00:11:39,586 and she was, I believe, second-in-command 231 00:11:39,654 --> 00:11:40,907 in the health department. - Here you go. 232 00:11:40,931 --> 00:11:42,250 - All right, so I'm going to clip it for you. 233 00:11:42,274 --> 00:11:43,596 - And I had her home phone number, so I called her. 234 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:44,551 - Patience. 235 00:11:44,620 --> 00:11:45,654 - I have patience. 236 00:11:45,724 --> 00:11:47,172 I have patience. 237 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,067 - And I told her, and she... boom. 238 00:11:49,136 --> 00:11:51,078 She made sure her husband and kids had their dinner, 239 00:11:51,102 --> 00:11:52,240 and she was over there. 240 00:11:52,309 --> 00:11:53,700 She was over there in no time at all. 241 00:11:53,724 --> 00:11:55,250 She only lives about three blocks from the hospital, 242 00:11:55,274 --> 00:11:56,413 to begin with. - OK. 243 00:11:56,481 --> 00:11:58,379 - Beautiful human being, wonderful woman. 244 00:11:58,447 --> 00:11:59,481 - Say your name. 245 00:11:59,551 --> 00:12:02,517 - I'm Helen Jensen. 246 00:12:02,586 --> 00:12:05,793 I wanted to be a nurse from the time I was seven. 247 00:12:05,861 --> 00:12:09,826 And remember, I'm 84, almost 85 years old now. 248 00:12:09,895 --> 00:12:11,793 And there weren't a lot of choices. 249 00:12:11,861 --> 00:12:17,033 You were either a nurse or a teacher or a secretary. 250 00:12:17,102 --> 00:12:18,309 And I love nursing. 251 00:12:18,379 --> 00:12:21,413 I've always loved nursing. 252 00:12:21,481 --> 00:12:22,826 How old was I? 253 00:12:22,895 --> 00:12:26,379 44, 45. 254 00:12:26,447 --> 00:12:30,240 I had two children that were, 255 00:12:30,309 --> 00:12:33,724 well, young pre-teens. 256 00:12:33,793 --> 00:12:37,206 I lived a suburban housewife that worked 257 00:12:37,274 --> 00:12:41,965 full-time, much to the dismay of many of my neighbors. 258 00:12:42,033 --> 00:12:44,654 I was in a neighborhood where I was told, 259 00:12:44,724 --> 00:12:48,309 when I went back to work, that our mothers 260 00:12:48,379 --> 00:12:51,551 do not work in this area. 261 00:12:51,620 --> 00:12:52,620 I worked. 262 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,206 I came home from work. 263 00:12:56,274 --> 00:12:58,136 It was a very warm September day. 264 00:12:58,206 --> 00:13:02,000 And in the middle of dinner, I got a phone call 265 00:13:02,067 --> 00:13:03,724 from the fire department 266 00:13:03,793 --> 00:13:06,758 from Chuck Kramer, who was a lieutenant 267 00:13:06,826 --> 00:13:07,758 in the fire department. 268 00:13:07,826 --> 00:13:11,481 He was in charge that day. 269 00:13:11,551 --> 00:13:14,586 I went to the emergency room, and I... 270 00:13:14,654 --> 00:13:16,517 because they didn't know what they'd picked up. 271 00:13:16,586 --> 00:13:18,413 They didn't know if it was infectious. 272 00:13:18,481 --> 00:13:19,654 They didn't know anything. 273 00:13:19,724 --> 00:13:21,309 I'm curious. 274 00:13:21,379 --> 00:13:24,309 Nurses are very curious people. 275 00:13:24,379 --> 00:13:27,447 And nurses ask a lot of questions. 276 00:13:27,517 --> 00:13:29,172 That's the only way you really know 277 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,274 how to take care of people, is if you find out what's 278 00:13:32,344 --> 00:13:34,654 really wrong with them, what's really 279 00:13:34,724 --> 00:13:36,861 going on in their heads. 280 00:13:36,931 --> 00:13:39,758 And I've always been good at that. 281 00:13:39,826 --> 00:13:43,931 So I saw this lady standing off to one side, 282 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,240 this young woman, and I went up to her, 283 00:13:46,309 --> 00:13:49,309 and she was Adam's wife, 284 00:13:49,379 --> 00:13:52,379 the young man who had died in the morning. 285 00:13:52,447 --> 00:13:53,931 - The neighbor was able... 286 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,724 she was Polish, and she was able to interpret for Helen. 287 00:13:57,793 --> 00:14:00,586 Helen did a great job to get that information 288 00:14:00,654 --> 00:14:02,389 out of somebody who can't really speak English. 289 00:14:02,413 --> 00:14:06,067 - And she told me Adam was not feeling well. 290 00:14:06,136 --> 00:14:08,931 He thought he had a cold and had called in sick. 291 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,620 He had picked up his children at about 11:30, 292 00:14:13,688 --> 00:14:15,895 and he went to the... 293 00:14:15,965 --> 00:14:19,724 to Jewel on the way home and picked up some Tylenol, 294 00:14:19,793 --> 00:14:23,067 and then came home and had lunch, 295 00:14:23,136 --> 00:14:29,206 and then went into the other room and died. 296 00:14:31,344 --> 00:14:32,793 I mean, this was a shock. 297 00:14:32,861 --> 00:14:35,344 This was a healthy young man who was suddenly dead. 298 00:14:35,413 --> 00:14:39,895 The family came together to make the funeral plans. 299 00:14:39,965 --> 00:14:44,000 And they were all together at the house. 300 00:14:44,067 --> 00:14:47,206 Stanley had back problems, and he asked his wife 301 00:14:47,274 --> 00:14:50,240 to go get him some Tylenol. 302 00:14:50,309 --> 00:14:54,240 So she went and got the bottle of Tylenol and gave him two, 303 00:14:54,309 --> 00:14:57,379 and then she took two out for herself... 304 00:14:57,447 --> 00:14:59,793 a complete mystery. 305 00:14:59,861 --> 00:15:02,000 What I thought, listening to the story... 306 00:15:02,067 --> 00:15:06,517 the only three commonality between these three people 307 00:15:06,586 --> 00:15:07,586 was Tylenol. 308 00:15:10,688 --> 00:15:13,895 So in my mind, I needed to go out to prove 309 00:15:13,965 --> 00:15:15,724 to myself what was going on. 310 00:15:15,793 --> 00:15:17,113 I had to go and look at the house. 311 00:15:17,172 --> 00:15:18,102 - That night? 312 00:15:18,172 --> 00:15:19,826 - Yes. 313 00:15:19,895 --> 00:15:23,309 And I went into the bathroom and found a bottle of Tylenol. 314 00:15:23,379 --> 00:15:25,965 And I brought it out to the kitchen. 315 00:15:26,033 --> 00:15:30,033 I opened it and counted the pills, 316 00:15:30,102 --> 00:15:31,965 and there were six pills missing, 317 00:15:32,033 --> 00:15:33,551 and there were three people dead. 318 00:15:33,620 --> 00:15:36,274 And I said, "It has to be the Tylenol." 319 00:15:36,344 --> 00:15:39,517 I also went through the garbage and found 320 00:15:39,586 --> 00:15:42,931 the receipt that had been purchased 321 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,620 at Jewel that morning. 322 00:15:44,688 --> 00:15:47,033 - What made you go through the garbage at this point? 323 00:15:47,102 --> 00:15:48,102 - I'm nosy. 324 00:15:51,688 --> 00:15:55,033 I went back to the emergency room, presented it 325 00:15:55,102 --> 00:15:57,274 to the medical examiner and the police, 326 00:15:57,344 --> 00:15:59,067 and they laughed at me. 327 00:15:59,136 --> 00:16:00,517 - Because she said it very quickly. 328 00:16:00,586 --> 00:16:02,136 She said, "It's got to be the Tylenol." 329 00:16:02,206 --> 00:16:04,009 They kind of looked at her like she had two heads. 330 00:16:04,033 --> 00:16:05,148 "What do you mean, the Tylenol?" 331 00:16:05,172 --> 00:16:07,067 - I'm holding it... the bottle... 332 00:16:07,136 --> 00:16:09,551 and the receipt. 333 00:16:09,620 --> 00:16:12,688 And I laid it out in front of the medical examiner, 334 00:16:12,758 --> 00:16:16,413 and I counted it again and told him the same thing. 335 00:16:16,481 --> 00:16:18,344 "There are six capsules missing. 336 00:16:18,413 --> 00:16:20,067 "There are three people dead. 337 00:16:20,136 --> 00:16:22,965 There has to be a correlation." 338 00:16:23,033 --> 00:16:24,620 "Blah-blah-blah-blah, no, that's fine. 339 00:16:24,688 --> 00:16:27,102 The Tylenol is fine." 340 00:16:27,172 --> 00:16:30,413 - Take me back to that moment in the hospital. 341 00:16:30,481 --> 00:16:32,654 You said you stamped your foot. 342 00:16:32,724 --> 00:16:34,033 - I did stamp my feet. 343 00:16:34,102 --> 00:16:35,481 - Describe that for me. 344 00:16:35,551 --> 00:16:37,895 - These idiots wouldn't listen to me... 345 00:16:37,965 --> 00:16:42,274 these dumb young men who don't know beans from apple butter. 346 00:16:42,344 --> 00:16:43,758 I know people. 347 00:16:43,826 --> 00:16:45,551 I know this is what's happened. 348 00:16:45,620 --> 00:16:47,309 I said, "This is it. 349 00:16:47,379 --> 00:16:50,067 "This is what is causing these people to die. 350 00:16:50,136 --> 00:16:52,067 Find out why." 351 00:16:52,136 --> 00:16:54,274 They're not going to listen to me. 352 00:16:54,344 --> 00:16:59,413 I am a nurse, a woman in shorts. 353 00:17:02,481 --> 00:17:04,654 Why would the men... all the men standing 354 00:17:04,722 --> 00:17:06,067 back there listen to me? 355 00:17:06,136 --> 00:17:08,377 - And they weren't believing her at that point. 356 00:17:08,448 --> 00:17:09,377 - Yeah, I was angry. 357 00:17:09,448 --> 00:17:10,377 I went home. 358 00:17:10,448 --> 00:17:11,689 I was very upset. 359 00:17:11,758 --> 00:17:13,034 I was teary. 360 00:17:13,103 --> 00:17:14,903 - I had a good buddy of mine, Phil Cappitelli. 361 00:17:14,931 --> 00:17:16,895 He was also a lieutenant on the fire department. 362 00:17:16,963 --> 00:17:18,275 And he called. 363 00:17:18,344 --> 00:17:19,689 He said, "Chuck, what's going on?" 364 00:17:19,758 --> 00:17:21,586 I said, "Phil, we've had a strange day." 365 00:17:21,654 --> 00:17:24,103 I said, "We've got one dead 366 00:17:24,172 --> 00:17:26,826 "and two not doing very well at the hospital, 367 00:17:26,895 --> 00:17:28,689 all with the same symptoms." 368 00:17:28,758 --> 00:17:31,654 And I said, "We don't know what's going on." 369 00:17:31,723 --> 00:17:33,492 I said, "The only thing these people have in common 370 00:17:33,517 --> 00:17:34,654 is they all took Tylenol." 371 00:17:34,723 --> 00:17:36,517 He said, "This morning, my mother-in-law 372 00:17:36,586 --> 00:17:40,378 "works with a woman who lost her little girl. 373 00:17:40,448 --> 00:17:41,517 "She was 12 years old. 374 00:17:41,586 --> 00:17:42,862 "She had a cold. 375 00:17:42,931 --> 00:17:44,388 "She wanted to know, how can a little girl die 376 00:17:44,413 --> 00:17:47,034 at 12 years old with a cold?" 377 00:17:47,103 --> 00:17:48,862 When I got a hold of the nurse, I said, 378 00:17:48,931 --> 00:17:50,895 "I just got a call from one of our off-duty guys. 379 00:17:50,964 --> 00:17:53,309 "A little girl died this morning in Elk Grove, 380 00:17:53,378 --> 00:17:55,654 "and she took Tylenol. 381 00:17:55,723 --> 00:17:58,205 "And it's the same symptoms... rapid, shallow breathing; 382 00:17:58,275 --> 00:18:00,826 fixed, dilated pupils; and unreactive." 383 00:18:00,895 --> 00:18:03,309 So then they believed Helen, who was saying, 384 00:18:03,378 --> 00:18:04,458 "I think it was a Tylenol." 385 00:18:04,481 --> 00:18:05,723 Well, now they had it. 386 00:18:05,792 --> 00:18:07,481 The next thing I know is, in the morning, 387 00:18:07,550 --> 00:18:09,758 the phone rang, and they said, "Lieutenant, 388 00:18:09,826 --> 00:18:11,550 get up to headquarters station." 389 00:18:11,619 --> 00:18:13,217 So as soon as my relief got in, I went up, 390 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,034 and that's when they said, "It was the Tylenol," you know, 391 00:18:16,103 --> 00:18:18,103 that they found it. 392 00:18:18,172 --> 00:18:21,619 - I had a stiff drink and talked to my husband, 393 00:18:21,689 --> 00:18:23,240 and I finally went to bed. 394 00:18:23,309 --> 00:18:26,240 At 5:30 in the morning... he got up really early... 395 00:18:26,309 --> 00:18:27,550 and he came in to me. 396 00:18:27,619 --> 00:18:28,819 He said, "Helen, you're right. 397 00:18:28,862 --> 00:18:30,136 "They're saying it on the news. 398 00:18:30,205 --> 00:18:33,654 It was Tylenol." 399 00:18:33,723 --> 00:18:36,550 - 12-year-old Mary Kellerman was a student at Jane Addams 400 00:18:36,619 --> 00:18:38,067 Junior High in Schaumburg. 401 00:18:38,136 --> 00:18:39,758 And according to school officials, 402 00:18:39,826 --> 00:18:42,034 she had a cold, which is probably why she 403 00:18:42,103 --> 00:18:44,172 took the contaminated Tylenol. 404 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,413 She died yesterday morning at Alexian Brothers Hospital 405 00:18:47,481 --> 00:18:49,103 in Elk Grove Village. 406 00:18:49,172 --> 00:18:51,964 - She was a very good student and a very likeable girl, 407 00:18:52,034 --> 00:18:54,275 and she did an excellent job in the classroom. 408 00:18:54,344 --> 00:18:58,413 And she had an excellent rapport with her classmates 409 00:18:58,481 --> 00:18:59,964 and her teachers and so on. 410 00:19:00,034 --> 00:19:01,309 I think it's a real tragedy. 411 00:19:01,378 --> 00:19:02,939 - These deaths have been associated with 412 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,448 the presence of cyanide in two containers 413 00:19:05,517 --> 00:19:08,067 of extra-strength Tylenol. 414 00:19:08,136 --> 00:19:10,964 - The next morning, they called the papers. 415 00:19:11,034 --> 00:19:12,826 All around, the fire departments and police 416 00:19:12,895 --> 00:19:14,619 departments went out with... they 417 00:19:14,689 --> 00:19:17,136 had loudspeakers on their cars, driving up and down, 418 00:19:17,205 --> 00:19:18,758 "Do not take Tylenol." 419 00:19:18,826 --> 00:19:20,758 - Cyanide-contaminated Tylenol has 420 00:19:20,826 --> 00:19:22,344 been responsible for three deaths 421 00:19:22,413 --> 00:19:23,792 in the Arlington Heights area. 422 00:19:23,862 --> 00:19:26,448 Do not take Tylenol until further notice. 423 00:19:26,517 --> 00:19:29,103 - And I was an assignment editor at Channel 2 424 00:19:29,172 --> 00:19:30,723 in the summer of 1982. 425 00:19:30,792 --> 00:19:32,837 There was some sort of bulletin from one of the authorities 426 00:19:32,862 --> 00:19:34,147 that there was going to be a press 427 00:19:34,172 --> 00:19:36,448 conference about a series of poisoning deaths. 428 00:19:36,517 --> 00:19:38,078 And many of them were in the same family, 429 00:19:38,103 --> 00:19:39,723 but they weren't all in the same family. 430 00:19:39,792 --> 00:19:41,689 - A frightening pattern began to take shape 431 00:19:41,758 --> 00:19:43,619 some five hours later in the neighboring 432 00:19:43,689 --> 00:19:45,344 suburb of Arlington Heights. 433 00:19:45,413 --> 00:19:47,931 When 28-year-old Adam Janus was admitted 434 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,931 to Northwest Community Hospital, 435 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,344 his heart and lungs had collapsed. 436 00:19:52,413 --> 00:19:54,378 He died a short time later. 437 00:19:54,448 --> 00:19:57,586 A brother, 25-year-old Stanley Janus, and his wife, 438 00:19:57,654 --> 00:20:00,586 Theresa, were later admitted with the same symptoms. 439 00:20:00,654 --> 00:20:03,517 Stanley Janus died around 8:00 last night, 440 00:20:03,586 --> 00:20:06,619 and today, his wife still is listed in extremely 441 00:20:06,689 --> 00:20:08,067 critical condition. 442 00:20:08,136 --> 00:20:10,654 Meanwhile, in the quiet, close-knit neighborhoods 443 00:20:10,723 --> 00:20:12,862 of the two brothers and little Mary Kellerman, 444 00:20:12,931 --> 00:20:16,172 there is shock, grief, and a feeling 445 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. 452 00:20:36,723 --> 00:20:38,550 - Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes says there 453 00:20:38,619 --> 00:20:41,103 are a number of ways for citizens to be more vigilant. 454 00:20:41,172 --> 00:20:42,826 - Those of the years I worked in Chicago, 455 00:20:42,895 --> 00:20:46,619 I guess the Tylenol story was as big a story, a crime story 456 00:20:46,689 --> 00:20:48,964 that this city's ever had in recent years, 457 00:20:49,034 --> 00:20:51,689 at least since World War II. 458 00:20:51,758 --> 00:20:53,205 And of course, as you can imagine, 459 00:20:53,275 --> 00:20:55,517 the headlines of the newspapers, the coverage 460 00:20:55,586 --> 00:20:58,723 electronically, it became a major, major story. 461 00:20:58,792 --> 00:21:00,275 And for about a week or so, that's 462 00:21:00,344 --> 00:21:02,619 all we did in our stories... was talking about doing 463 00:21:02,689 --> 00:21:06,344 Tylenol, Tylenol, Tylenol. 464 00:21:06,413 --> 00:21:09,344 - The first recorded death was in Elk Grove Village. 465 00:21:09,413 --> 00:21:12,136 In Arlington Heights, three are now dead. 466 00:21:12,205 --> 00:21:14,517 Last night, the death of a Winfield woman 467 00:21:14,586 --> 00:21:16,758 was ruled poisoning. 468 00:21:16,826 --> 00:21:18,106 - There's no sense in it at all, 469 00:21:18,172 --> 00:21:21,378 and it's just terribly upsetting. 470 00:21:21,448 --> 00:21:22,976 Could have happened to anyone, but I can't 471 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,689 believe it happened to them. 472 00:21:24,758 --> 00:21:26,964 - In Chicago today, city inspectors 473 00:21:27,034 --> 00:21:30,413 began checking stores to be certain all Tylenol 474 00:21:30,481 --> 00:21:31,826 was off the shelf. 475 00:21:31,895 --> 00:21:34,205 The supplies are all being tagged and will be 476 00:21:34,275 --> 00:21:35,895 taken to the labs for testing. 477 00:21:35,964 --> 00:21:37,826 The city order came from the mayor. 478 00:21:37,895 --> 00:21:39,275 In a midnight news conference, 479 00:21:39,344 --> 00:21:41,448 she also appealed to the public 480 00:21:41,517 --> 00:21:44,309 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. 483 00:21:48,517 --> 00:21:52,481 It would aid and assist the police in this investigation 484 00:21:52,550 --> 00:21:56,275 if they had the time and the place of purchase of Tylenol 485 00:21:56,344 --> 00:21:57,275 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 488 00:22:00,792 --> 00:22:03,000 from pain and end up being poisoned, 489 00:22:03,067 --> 00:22:04,708 you can imagine the reaction of everybody. 490 00:22:04,758 --> 00:22:07,344 - At the State Department of Health Toxicology Laboratory 491 00:22:07,413 --> 00:22:09,586 today, police from around the Chicago area 492 00:22:09,654 --> 00:22:12,413 brought bottles of suspected Tylenol capsules. 493 00:22:12,481 --> 00:22:15,550 Cyanide is so deadly, an amount the size of a pea 494 00:22:15,619 --> 00:22:17,205 can kill you. 495 00:22:17,275 --> 00:22:19,078 - It had Ty Fahner, who was the attorney general 496 00:22:19,103 --> 00:22:20,792 at that time to Mayor Byrne, 497 00:22:20,862 --> 00:22:24,172 and they did not have an explanation. 498 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,689 So the first news conferences were really 499 00:22:27,758 --> 00:22:29,895 to let people know something had happened 500 00:22:29,964 --> 00:22:31,517 but couldn't explain it. 501 00:22:31,586 --> 00:22:35,413 - So we produced massive flyers for the projects where they 502 00:22:35,481 --> 00:22:37,517 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. 752 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000 It was about revenge. 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