The Janis Family Was Quarantined at the Hospital

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The surviving Janis family members were all quarantined at the hospital while they waited. One fire lieutenant named Chuck Kramer called his friend who was a nurse and the town of Arlington Heights, only public health official. Helen Jensen found a bottle of extra-strength Tylenol on the bathroom counter with 44 pills left. The same day that three members of the Janus family got sick, a 12-year-old named Mary Kellerman had a sore throat.

On September 29, 1982, Adam Janus suddenly collapsed in his home outside of Chicago. He died within hours. Later that same day, in the same house, his brother also collapsed — then his sister-in-law. All three of them had been healthy. Nobody could figure out what was going on.

Stacy St. Clair and Christy Gutowski reported an investigative series looking back on the Tylenol murders for the Chicago Tribune. You can listen to their podcast here, and read their series in the Chicago Tribune here.

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