The suspect's daughter had died in 1974 after a heart surgery. The sutures used to repair a heart defect tour were trademarked by Johnson and Johnson. Investigators have told prosecutors they believe that was the motive behind the killings. There's a podcast it's called unsealed the Tylenol murders.
This year’s fear of rainbow fentanyl in kids’ trick-or-treat bags is just the latest unfounded Halloween candy freakout. But the yearly panic has its roots in a very real crisis: the 1982 Tylenol murders.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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