On September 29, 1982, seven people in Chicago died after taking Extra Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Officials have long cited the scarcity of physical evidence and apparent lack of motive to explain why they never solved the Tylenol murders. However, new revelations and information not previously disclosed tell a very different story of a crime that should have been solved.

THE TYLENOL MAFIA: Marketing, Murder, and Johnson & Johnson

 By Scott Bartz

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         Scott Bartz on FOX News  

CRIME Magazine Article on The Tylenol Mafia

Scott Bartz and Michelle Rosen Interview on Deborah Steven's "Rule of Law"

Michelle Rosen and Scott Bartz Interview on Tom Kiely's I.N.N. World Report (Interview begins in the second half of the broadcast)

Scott Bartz on Michael Rivero's "What Really Happened" radio

 Book Pushes New Theory on Tylenol Poisonings - article by Jamie Sotonoff of The Daily Herald

WGN-TV -- Book Explores New Ideas on Tylenol Murders

It was 29 years ago this week that seven Chicago area residents died from cyanide poisoning. A new book points a finger at Johnson & Johnson and claims the company intentionally steered investigators in the wrong direction after the Tylenol murders

It reads like a murder mystery. But the reality is that Scott Bartz's new book The Tylenol Mafia attempts to reveal, the author claims, a corporate cover-up involving a reluctant recall, fears about liability, and the truth about a "madman on the loose theory" that shaped the case we know today. It's a case that  has yet to be classified as closed. Read all...

In a new self-published book, The Tylenol Mafia, author Scott Bartz says he knows why these crimes continue to confound investigators: authorities were steered toward an erroneous madman-in-the-drug-store theory of the crime. A crime Bartz believes never occurred in retail stores. He says the evidence shows the culprit put the poisoned capsules into bottles somewhere along the repackaging and distribution links in Tylenol’s supply chain. A distribution system the police did not understand and the media did not investigate. A multiparty, multifaceted distribution system closely guarded by the makers of Tylenol and Bartz’s former employer, Johnson & Johnson.  Read all...

Tylenol Exposé Hits J&J, Media, PRSA

"The Tylenol Mafia," by Scott Bartz, an exposé of Johnson & Johnson’s manipulation of facts surrounding the murder of seven people in the Chicago area in 1982 via Extra Strength Tylenol, will create a big headache for J&J, the media that went along with this ruse, and authorities such as the FBI, local police and the courts that did flawed and even dishonest work.

There’s no doubt that the public was lied to on a grand scale about the Tylenol murders that drew attention matching that which followed the murder of President Jack Kennedy in 1963.

Also pulled into the wake of this tsunami of spin and lies were the textbooks that invariably praised J&J. A co-conspirator was PR Society of America, which gave J&J a special Silver Anvil in 1983... Read entire book review by Jack O'Dwyer, who has covered the PR industry since 1968 after ten years at two of America's biggest dailies--the Chicago Tribune and New York Journal-American.

The FBI wants to compare the Unabomber's DNA to DNA "evidence" from the Tylenol murders?

ABC News posted a video on May 19, 2011 showing a lab worker handling Tylenol capsules in 1982. He’s wearing gloves so as not to contaminate any possible DNA evidence – Right?

WRONG. DNA profiling (typing) was not invented until late 1984 - two years after the Tylenol murders. DNA testing was not commercially available until 1986, and wasn't used by the FBI until 1988.

In fact, the capsules in the above picture are not even from any of the Tylenol victims' bottles.... The ones below are.

OOPS...

Here, a toxicologist at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office handles the Tylenol bottles containing the cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules that killed Mary Kellerman, Adam Janus, Stanley Janus, and Theresa Janus. He is not wearing gloves.

Here, a lab worker at the Illinois Dept. of Health in DuPage County handles Tylenol victim Mary McFarland’s bottle of cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. He is not wearing gloves.

Here, a lab worker at the Illinois Dept. of Health in DuPage County handles Tylenol victim Mary “Lynn” Reiner’s cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. He is not wearing gloves.

What DNA evidence?

On February 4, 2009, ABC reported: "A drug store surveillance photo captured an image of a bearded man [in a Walgreens store at the time Tylenol victim Paula Prince bought a bottle of cyanide-laced Tylenol] who some said resembled [Tylenol suspect, James] Lewis." -- That was a lie.... The picture below is the one referenced by ABC. However, authorities in 1982 determined that the man in this picture is NOT Lewis.

ABC now cites a website promoting a ridiculous hypothesis that Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, is also the Tylenol killer, and that the above picture of the bearded man standing in the Walgreens store might actually be Kaczynski.

When the above picture was taken, Kaczynski was living in this shack in Montana.

ABC is helping the feds do damage control... Here's why...

 The Tylenol Mafia: Marketing, Murder, and Johnson & Johnson

"This case (the Tylenol murders) won't be solved by deduction," said Chicago Police Lt. August Locallo. "Someone has to come forward and give us the key."

The "key" will be in The Tylenol Mafia: Marketing Murder, and Johnson & Johnson.

"The stuff of mystery novels."

One month into the Tylenol murders investigation, lawmen were beginning to express doubts that they would ever find the Tylenol terrorist. “We have here a case that's the stuff of mystery novels,” said one high-ranking investigator. “I'd love to read it -- but I don't like living it."

 

Bibliography

Tylenol Murders Investigation 2009: Covering up the Cover up?

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