Anyone watching The Tylenol Murders

I remember them.

Who would want to kill those helpful little pills???

Jim Lewis is creepy.

There was a podcast a few years ago that went into more detail about the case, I liked it better than this.

I remember the case vividly. I was working part time at a convenience store, and I remember having to come in early one day and remove all the medicines from our shelves and pack in them away in boxes because there was panic over how widespread the contamination of medicine might be.

That's why we have tamper proof packaging today and why it takes ten minutes to open a simple bottle of pills. Before that, you just twisted the cap off, and voila!

Very boring. Never got off the ground. A snooze fest.

I blame the Tylenol scare for my AFib.

[quote]Detective Robert Goren: You put this in the mail.

[quote]Trudy Pomeranski: No!

[quote]Detective Alexandra Eames: We have you on film.

[quote]Detective Robert Goren: It smells like almonds. I bet you know what else smells like almonds?

[quote]Detective Alexandra Eames: You're under arrest.

[quote]Trudy Pomeranski: No! No! Oh no!

[quote]Detective Alexandra Eames: I don't want to hurt you.

On what?

Netflix, R8.

- Not OP.

Thanks!

I made a point out of buying something from that Walgreens when I was in Chicago once — it's right across the street from Second City.

That creep totally ruined Halloween that year. My mom wouldn’t let us go out for fear of being poisoned.

We were in Massachusetts.

Tylenol’s quick response saved them.

R11, that was THE Walgreens? I thought it was out in the suburbs. I used to go to that Walgreens all the time, I worked nearby.

I started watching this and had this sense that I’d seen it before…I remembered some of the people they interviewed. One of those other shows must have covered this. It almost feels like it’s repackaged for Netflix from other shows.

Yes, R4, and I curse him at least weekly.

I just started watching it because I thought it might tell me something new, but thanks to the people above, I'll just abandon it. I was about to, anyway, but I stopped and came here to see if anyone had started a thread on it.

I really hate how this type of documentary is put together. Everything's drawn out and dramatized with music, and if you already know the story, it's beyond boring. Just tell me the story and quit dicking around with it.

Very padded out.

I liked it because i didn’t remember the whole story

R14 when I lived in Chicago I used to stop at that Walgreens all the time too. I know it had happened in the Chicago area but I had no idea it was that particular store either.

I was at Northwestern at the time and remember some RAs running into the cafeteria and screaming at everyone not to take Tylenol.

Yeesh--that must have been scary. It sounds dramatic to run screaming into the dining hall, but when two people just took the same Tylenol that killed their dead relative, every second counts.

Seeing the last victim buying the Tylenol on security camera within hours before her death was haunting.

Were they gay?

Earlier in the month of September 1982, while vacationing in NYC, I was at a party on the Hudson attended also by the flight attendant who died.

R14, the flight attendant bought her Tylenol there. The other victims bought theirs in the burbs.

James Lewis did this shit, yo. Case closed.

I think of it every time I take a painkiller

I thought we learned it was the fault of Tylenol in the last episode. Faulty safety measures in one of the packaging plants. Something about poison in the air filtering system that infiltrated the pills...

Ir’s amazing that pain relievers like Tylenol were sold without a safety seal of any kind for decades; and that this was the first time someone had tampered with bottles sitting on drugstore shelves like this.

We should never complain about pill containers being hard to open.

Wait 'til you get to be my age, R31 -- you'll complain.

I usually just stab the top to break the seal. I have no problem opening the bottle itself

They're easier now. In the beginning you almost needed a jackhammer.

He’s very creepy. I think he’s murderer but I have doubt he actually committed the Tylenol murders

Sickos will always exist.

R30 Agreed. Because when you break it down it’s not as easy at it appears. First of all, I’m pretty sure it has happened before but the cause of death was never linked to the purchase of over the counter medicine. The Tylenol massacre had more victims because the perpetrator filled several bottles in multiple stores with the poison. Nearly every capsule in the bottle had poison. It’s not an easy a task as one might think. I’ll lay it out

The perp had to purchase enough bottles, let’s say about 2 dozen at minimum. Then have the resources to get cyanide and import them in the capsules without crushing it or just generally keeping them intact. Then he had to place said bottles in various stores without going undetected. Also for the crime to work, he had make sure all the pills in the capsule had the cyanide or at least about 50%. If not it wouldn’t happen at once. The probability of them taking a non laced pill would diminish. Some people might die but not all in the same week. And the smell would become more apparent if one was taking a non contaminated pill each time from the bottle and thus not dying. Because cyanide smell gets strong and stronger over time. So strong someone would either throw out the bottle or contact a hospital or maybe even the police.