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![]() They were given their last rites, but did not die. Moments after taking the disguised cyanide capsules, Stanley and then Theresa collapsed.įearing carbon monoxide poisoning, the rest of the Janus family was taken to hospital for observation. In Adam's bathroom cabinet, they found the same bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol. Stanley, Adam's brother, and his wife Theresa (Adam's sister-in-law), were visiting with family when they complained of headaches and looked for a nearby remedy. He died in the emergency room at Northwest Community Hospital." - SARA OLKON, The Chicago TribuneĪfter the death of Adam Janus, his family gathered at his home to mourn and begin making funeral arrangements. "After taking several capsules, he walked into his bedroom, collapsed and fell into a coma. On his way home from picking up his children from preschool, he stopped at a Jewel grocery store and purchased a bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol. The day of his death, Adam thought he was coming down with a cold. He was the father of two young children, and living in Arlington Heights. Twenty-seven-year-old Adam Janus was the next person to die after taking Extra Strength Tylenol. Mary Kellerman was laid to rest in the Saint Michael The Archangel Catholic Cemetery. She left behind her parents Dennis and Jeanna M. Her death was first assumed to be a stroke, but the toxicology report and connection to other deaths soon proved it to be a murder. ![]() Her parents rushed her to the hospital where Mary was pronounced dead by 9:30 am. At 7 am, her parents found Mary unconscious on the bathroom floor. ![]() Feeling ill, she took an Extra Strength Tylenol to help with a runny nose and sore throat. Mary woke up early in the morning hours of September 29, 1982. She enjoyed horseback riding and earned extra money after school babysitting for neighborhood children. The first victim was 12-year-old Mary Kellerman, a seventh grader at Addams Junior High School in Schaumburg and living in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. There were 7 victims total from the original incident with even more deaths resulting from copycat incidents after the fact. The actions of Johnson & Johnson to reduce deaths and warn the public of poisoning risks have been widely praised as an exemplary public relations response to such a crisis. The incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter substances and to federal anti-tampering laws. To date, no suspect has been charged or convicted of the poisonings. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. We're talking a look at what are called the Chicago Tylenol murders. Once these stories stop getting talked about any chance of solving them goes by the wayside. So, as with all these unsolved true crime episodes, we like to bring these crimes back into the limelight and bring the stories back into the conversation. Today on the train we figured we'd go back to the land of unsolved true crime as we like to do, on occasion.
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