The Chicago Tylenol Murders: Cyanide in Painkillers on Store Shelves, Seven Dead, the Youngest 12

Unclosed | True Crime · Nov 10, 2026 · 24m

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On the morning of September 29, 1982, in a small town northwest of Chicago, a twelve-year-old girl with a sore throat took a Tylenol from the bottle her family always kept in the house. A little later, she collapsed on the bathroom floor. In just three days, seven people were dead, three of them from the same family, ranging in age from twelve to thirty-five. More than forty years later, this case has changed how medicine is packaged all over the world. But for those seven deaths, no one has ever been charged.

This episode is about the Chicago Tylenol murders. Seven people…