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THE CRIME SCENE THE 1982 TYLENOL MURDERS - THE STORES Investigators determined that the poisoned Tylenol found after the 1982 tampering came from seven pharmacy outlets.  A.) Dominick’s Finer Foods - 424 W Division, Chicago, IL 60614 The "seventh" bottle of cyanide laced Tylenol was returned here, unopened, within a week of the Tylenol murders. B.) Walgreen Drug Store - 1601 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60614 Paula Prince bought the cyanide laced Tylenol that killed her at this store on the evening of September 29. C.) Jewel-Osco - 122 N Vail Ave, Arlington Heights, IL 60005 The cyanide laced Tylenol that killed Adam, Stanley, and Theresa Janus was purchased here around noon on September 29. D.) Jewel Foods - 948 Grove Mall, Elk Grove Village, IL 60005
The cyanide laced Tylenol that killed 12-year-old Mary Kellerman was purchased at this store on the evening of September 28. E.) Osco Drugs Store - Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, IL 60173
Two bottles of un-sold cyanide laced Tylenol were pulled off the shelves of this Osco Drugs store on September 30. F.) Frank’s Finer Foods - N40 Winfield Rd, Winfield, IL 60190
Mary Reiner was said to have purchased the poisoned Tylenol that killed her at Frank's Finer Foods. But this is not true. G.) Frank’s Finer Foods - 1101 W. Butterfield Rd. Wheaton, IL 60187
MODUS OPERANDI I say one or more local truck drivers following their normal delivery routes, unknowingly distributed the poisoned Tylenol to outlets in the Chicago area. Someone is lying to you. ROUTE 83 CORRIDOR Two weeks before the Tylenol murders, Mark Husted died in Des Plaines,IL, of Cyanide poisoning; the source of the cyanide was never determined/revealed. His Father, former Illinois State's Attorney Richard Husted, suspected murder.
 A.) Poisoned Tylenol was delivered to Jewel-Osco in Arlington Heights on Monday, Sept. 27, 1982. B.) Poisoned Tylenol was delivered to Osco Drugs at the Schaumburg Mall on Monday, Sept. 27, 1982. C.) A pile of white powder and hundreds of empty Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules were found in the Howard Johnson parking lot by Lake county Sheriff Deputies on Tuesday Morning, Sept. 28, at 2:32 am. D.) Poisoned Tylenol was delivered to Jewel Foods in Elk Grove Village on Monday, Sept. 27, 1982. E.) Poisoned Tylenol was delivered to Dominick’s in Villa Park on Monday, Sept. 27, 1982. F. ) Poisoned Tylenol was delivered to the "Undisclosed Location" on Monday, Sept. 27, 1982.
(A) Elk Grove Village Jewel Foods; (B) Schaumburg Jewel-Osco; (C) Arlington Heights Jewel Foods; (D) Louis Tedesco home; (E) Osco Drug Distribution Center Roger Arnold, a dockworker at Jewel Foods distribution center in Melrose Park, lived in Villa Park for some period of time. It's unclear when he moved to the S. Hoyne avenue home on the southside of Chicago that was searched by Chicago Police on October 11 and 13, 1982. Maybe he moved around the time of his divorce in July 1982. Roger Arnold (October 1982) Arnold frequented Lincoln Park taverns on the north side of Chicago. One evening he produced a bag of white powder and made some barroom chatter about the Tylenol murders that gave observers pause. Someone dropped a dime. A.) Lincoln Park tavern B.) Walgreens where Paula Prince bought cyanide laced Tylenol  Items confiscated during search of Roger Arnold's home 
Evidence confiscated included survivalist magazines, unconventional warfare manuals, chemistry and chemical agent manuals, chemicals, laboratory equipment, The Anarchist Cookbook, weapons, and ammunition. 
The INCENDIARIES, BOOBYTRAPS, UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE DEVICES & TECHNIQUES, and MILITARY CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL AGENTS manuals confiscated from Arnold's home were published in the mid 1960s by the United States Department of Defense for use by U.S. Army Special Forces. Much of the content in these manuals came straight from the "Poor Man's James Bond" (vol. 3), written by right-wing survivalist and former member of the Minutemen, Kurt Saxon (aka Donald Sisco). During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the U.S. Army's 113th Military Intelligence group, located in Evanston, IL, supplied the Legion of Justice with money, electronic surveillance equipment, tear-gas, MACE, training, and training materials. RIOTS, CIVIL AND CRIMINAL DISORDERSWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1970U.S. SENATE,PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONSWashinton DC (IL Sen. Charles Percy sat on this committee)TESTIMONY OF DONALD E. SISCO (KURT SAXON) 
Some of Saxon's manuals were printed for him by Mike Murray, leader of the Arizona branch of the American Nazi Party. "I am not prejudiced by a man's race, creed, or color. I don't care as long as he does a cheap printing job," said Saxon.
THE LOGISTICS PROBLEM Villa Park: the epicenter  Does this look like the random route of a madman? This route covers about 90 miles and has an estimated driving time of 3 hours. Even with a dozen or more delivery stops, this route could easily be completed in one day by a person who had extensive knowledge of the local roads and local stores. On the other hand, it would be nearly impossible for a "madman," without intimate knowledge of the local roads and store locations, to complete this route in one day while also parking his car and entering each store and covertly putting poisoned capsules into 8 or more Tylenol bottles in seven or more stores. A route driver would have driven right up to the stockroom door at each store where a store employee would have helped him quickly unload the shipment. The goal of the truck driver would have been to complete his route as quickly as possible. The overriding objective of a "madman" bent on poisoning capsules in eight or more Tylenol bottles at seven or more stores, would have been to not get caught. This would require the killer to spend a considerable amount of time at each location to carefully park his car, walk into the store, and track down the location of the Tylenol bottles. To avoid suspicion, the killer would have had to wait until no one was within eyesight before replacing the Tylenol capsules with cyanide laced capsules. In addition, this scheme would require the killer to elude security cameras located inside several of the stores. ATM camera footage of Paula Prince buying Cyanide laced Tylenol at Walgreens on Wednesday evening, September 29. Frame 1: Paula Prince. Frame 2: Paula, a store employee, and - in the background - a man the media tried to pawn off as James Lewis. Frame 3: Close-up of the man authorities hoped was James Lewis. Shortly after publicizing the photos of the mystery man, it was determined that the man could not be Lewis. Furthermore, at the time these pictures were taken, Lewis was in New York City. Jewel Foods Distribution Center, Melrose Park, IL (October 1982) The Tylenol Murders Crime Scene J&J shipped Tylenol, later found to have been laced with cyanide, to one of the following two Jewel warehouses (1a, 1b). It was at one of these facilities, probably the first (1a), where the Tylenol was bottled and packaged. It was not bottled and packaged at the manufacturing plant as was claimed by J&J and the FDA. 1a.) Jewel Companies Manufacturing* & Wholesale** Facility - Franklin Park, IL. This building is no longer occupied by Jewel Foods. ** "wholesale" means sale to a person who purchases for the purpose of selling again and includes sale to a hospital or dispensary, or to medical, educational or research institute. Right next to the Jewel Manufacturing & Wholesaling facility is a metal finishing company. The company has been in existence since 1904 and uses potassium cyanide for electroplating various metals as decorative coatings.  Cyanide Compounds for Metal Finishing/Plating: Cyanide compounds are used in plating baths because they accommodate a wide range of electrical current, remove tarnish or other undesirable films from surfaces to be plated, and cause an even metal deposit to form that has lower sensitivity to impurities present in the the bath. Metals coatings of cadmium, iron, gold, and zinc often use cyanide compounds. Cyanide is typically found complexed with plating metals, or as sodium cyanide or potassium cyanide, which is added to the bath. Cyanide exposure pathways include inhalation, ingestion, or absorption through skin or mucous membranes. Most cyanides are acutely poisonous. Overexposure interferes with the operation of the metabolic system and can cause rapid death. Cyanide is not bioaccumulated or stored in humans or animals. 1b.) Jewel repackaging* and distribution center - Franklin Park, IL. * "repacking" means all operations involved in the transfer of a drug from a larger container or packing into smaller containers or packings including filling, packing and labeling with a view to make it ready for retail sale or wholesale, but does not includes any compounding, or processing with a view to formulate it in any dosage form; "retail sale" means a sale other than wholesale 2.) Jewel Foods HQ and Distribution Center - Melrose Park, IL The building in the background is Jewel Foods' (aka Jewel-Osco) main distribution center. The building in the foreground was the Jewel Foods corporate headquarters until the spring of 2008. 
Lawrence Foster, the Public Relations Vice President for Johnson & Johnson, said the contaminated Tylenol purchased at the Jewel and Osco stores probably had been shipped directly from Pennsylvania to Jewel's warehouse in Franklin Park, and then directly to the stores. Jewel Foods vice president Jane Armstrong said Tylenol products for all Jewel stores come from the company's central warehouse in Melrose Park. She would not speculate on how many employees might have been in contact with the suspected batches of Tylenol. "At this point we have no reason to suspect any of our employees," she said.
The only reason the Tylenol would have gone through two Jewel Foods facilities (Melrose Park and Franklin Park) is because the Tylenol was distributed through one facility (Melrose Park) after being packaged at another (Franklin Park). It's likely that the actual delivery of the Tylenol to many local stores was contracted out to local companies like The Louis Zahn Drug company, for example. Johnson & Johnson delivered the bulk shipment of Tylenol to the Jewel Foods Manufacturing & Wholesaling facility (A) that was at some point in time laced with cyanide. 
A Cyanide-like substance and empty Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules were found in the Howard Johnson parking lot in Elgin one day before the Tylenol murders. It's a little hard to see, but the name on the shipping container sitting right next to the Jewel Companies Manufacturing & Wholesale facility in Franklin Park (1a), is ELGIN STORAGE & TRANSFER CO. The company, which was founded in 1884 and sold to Allied Trucking in 2000, delivered a variety of products to Chicago area retailers. The company was based in Elgin IL. 
The Elgin Storage & Storage and Transfer Company was headquartered at 300 Brook St. Elgin, IL; just seven miles south of the Elgin Howard Johnson's parking lot where Kane county Sheriff's deputies found boxes of Tylenol bottles, empty Extra Strength Tylenol capsules, and a pile of white powder one day before the Tylenol murders. (A) - Elgin Storage & Transfer Company (B) Elgin Howard Johnson's Kane county Sheriff’s deputies Al Swanson and Joseph Chavez pulled into the Elgin Howard Johnson's in separate patrol cars at 2:32 a.m. on Tuesday September 28, 1982. They were meeting there for breakfast. In 1982 the motel & restaurant was called Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge. It had plenty of parking for large trucks, and was a poplular stopping point for truck drivers. Howard Johnson's was founded in 1925 as a small corner drugstore. 
When the deputies got out of their cars they found the parking lot was littered with two boxes conmtaning dozens of bottles of Extra Strength tylenol capsules. Hundreds of red and white capsules and capsule parts were strewn on the pavement. Between the boxes, was "a big pile of powder that looked as if it was dumped," Chavez would say later. 
The Elgin Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge is now a Days Inn. The Restaurant was demolished, leaving only the parking lot. 
ABC News footage of boxes of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules, filmed at Louis Zahn Drug Co. on October 1, 1982. The boxes "said Tylenol on them and one of them was open," said Chavez. "I picked up the powder. It looked like hundreds of capsules had been emptied. We looked at them and found a couple of capsules had been put together.'' Chavez said he and fellow officer Al Swanson became dizzy and ill about 30 minutes after handling the materials. Officer Chavez became so violently ill that he was relieved from his shift. Officer Swanson also became ill and did not return to work for five days. The symptoms reported by the officers are consistent with cyanide poisoning, said Barry Rumack, of the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center in Denver. On September 30, when the deputies learned about the Tylenol murders, they went back to the parking lot, but the boxes were gone and only a few empty capsules remained. THE 1986 TYLENOL MURDERS THE STORES Two bottles found with cyanide laced Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules came from two stores in Bronxville NY. A&P - 12-14 Cedar St. Bronxville, NY. The cyanide laced Tylenol that killed Diane Elsroth was purchased at this A&P store the first week of February 1986. Woolworth - 86 Ponfield Rd. Bronxville, NY The second bottle of cyanide laced Tylenol was found at the Bronxville Woolworth store on February 13, 1986. Value Drugs now leases the old Woolworth location. Aerial veiw of Woolworth (A) and A&P (B) in Bronxville, NY.
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