The Tylenol case is a decadeslong story of heartbreak, anger and frustration.
Widely regarded as an act of domestic terrorism - a term not in the country’s vernacular at the time - the murders led to tamper-evident packaging, copycat killings and myths about tainted Halloween candy. The 1982 poisonings left seven people dead and panicked the nation. They all know that time is running out to solve the Tylenol murders. Louis area - will attend the meetings, as well.
The head of the Illinois State Police - a former prosecutor from the St. In months that follow, officials from the Cook and DuPage County state’s attorney’s offices will meet twice with the detective. He asks them to set aside the reasons and ways the case has faltered for nearly four decades. The detective implores the prosecutor’s office to look at the totality of his team’s work. And it offers a possible motive never previously disclosed to the public. It explains the complicated tests being done to sort out the DNA profiles discovered on several poisoned bottles. His presentation references undercover FBI recordings, a secretly exhumed body and writings discovered during a raid on the suspect’s home, multiple law enforcement sources say.
The detective knows the odds are steep as he heads into the January 2022 meeting with top criminal investigators from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. They just need prosecutors to agree with them, to take the risky step of indicting a 76-year-old man in a case built almost entirely on circumstantial evidence. Now, he and several other law enforcement officials believe they have solved the killings. The Tylenol murders, as they are commonly known, have been his investigation since he assumed responsibility for the cold case more than 15 years ago. A suburban police detective climbs the steps of the main Cook County criminal courthouse in hopes of ending a 40-year-old mystery.
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