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Modus operandi and evidence needed to solve the Tylenol murders are on this website PEOPLE LIE, STATISTICS DON'T: THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF BOTTLES OF CYANIDE LACED TYLENOL The Tylenol bottles linked to the deaths of Kellerman and Prince each reportedly contained 5 cyanide laced capsules. The bottle linked to the Janus deaths contained 12. The Kellerman and Janus bottles contained 50 capsules, and the Prince bottle contained 24. All three Tylenol bottles were brand new and the first capsule poured out of each bottle contained cyanide. What are the odds that the first capsule poured from each of these three bottles would contain cyanide? Statistically, there’s a 10% chance that the first capsule poured from Kellerman’s 50-count bottle would contain cyanide, a 24% chance that the first capsule poured out of the 50-count Janus bottle would contain cyanide, and a 21% chance that the first capsule poured out of the Prince bottle would contain cyanide.
Odds that the first Tylenol capsule poured out of these three bottles would contain cyanide: 10% x 24% x 21% = 0.5% The odds that the first capsule poured out of each of these three victim’s bottles would contain cyanide are 0.5%, or said another way, 1 in 200. Statistics and a little bit of common sense tell us that there were many more than 8 bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol capsules. On average, each of these three bottles contained 7.33 poisoned capsules and the average number of total capsules per bottle is 41.33. Assume you have an endless supply of Tylenol bottles with 41.33 capsules per bottle and that 7.33 capsules in each bottle contain cyanide. Take one bottle at a time and pour one capsule out of each bottle until you accumulate 3 poisoned capsules. It would take on average 17 Tylenol bottles to accomplish this feat (Odds that capsule poured out is poisoned = 17.74%; [(100% / 17.74%) x 3 = 17 bottles)]. Statistics indicate that around 17 bottles of poisoned Tylenol were purchased whereby one or more capsules were consumed. Individuals who consumed capsules from 14 of the 17 bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol were fortunate enough to avoid the poisoned capsules. How many bottles of contaminated Tylenol were purchased but not opened? Assuming that at least one capsule was consumed from 25% of the contaminated Tylenol bottles purchased on September 28 and 29; there were 68 bottles of poisoned Tylenol purchased (17/ 25% = 68). Total bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol capsules purchased = 68 Video footage of Jewel stores in the days following the murders showed shelf displays with about 1 to 3 dozen bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol capsules; the front row typically consisting of 6 to 12 bottles. Jewel store managers said they were selling about 1 or 2 bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol capsules per day. How many bottles were sitting on store shelves that were not purchased? Using the statisticaly generated estimate of 68 purchased bottles of poisoned Tylenol, and assuming stores were selling 1 or 2 bottles per day and only the front row of 6 to 12 bottles contained poisoned Tylenol; the front row of the Extra Strength Tylenol displays in maybe 30 to 60 stores each contained about 4 to 12 bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol. Assuming there were 8 unpurchased bottles of poisoned Tylenol on the shelves of 45 stores; there were 360 unpurchased bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol (45 x 8). Total bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol capsules on retail store shelves = 428 (360 + 68)
Could a lone madman put hundreds of bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol on the shelves of 30 to 60 stores in just one day and not get caught? There was no lone madman stalking Chicago area stores with cyanide laced Tylenol capsules.
The cyanide laced Tylenol capsules that caused the deaths of seven Chicago area residents in 1982 were poisoned during distribution. Johnson & Johnson covered up the truth so that it would not be held liable for the Tylenol tampering and murders. Johnson & Johnson executives know this is true. When The Tylenol Mafia is released this summer, you’ll know what Johnson & Johnson knows. Johnson & Johnson Vice President and former FBI Agent is on the Job As a former J&J employee, I know the username formatting for email addresses of J&J employees. The following temporary file is from an attachment to an email used by a J&J employee with user name 'kdonova1' to access my post about former J&J Company Group Chairman Wayne Nelson. The “k” is the initial of the employee’s first name and the “donova” is the first 6 digits of the employee’s last name. The “1” means the employee is one of at least 2 employees (or former employees) with a first name beginning with “k” and a last name beginning with “donova”. File:///C:/Users/kdonova1/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary Internet Files/Content.Outlook/MU332815/attachment.html
I know of one J&J employee who fits the username kdonova1; Kevin Donovan. It appears that Kevin Donovan was very interested in what I had to say about former J&J Group Chairman Wayne Nelson when I accused him of making ridiculous allegations regarding the modus operandi of the Tylenol killer. (Background story) Nelson was interviewed for an ABC story about the reactivated Tylenol murders investigation. The article ran on February 4; the day the Tylenol murders investigation was reactivated and James Lewis’s apartment searched. Kevin Donovan is the Vice President in charge of security at J&J. He is also a retired FBI agent. Before Donovan retired from the FBI, he was Director of the FBI's office in New York. Prior to Donovan's NY assignment, he was Director of the FBI's office in Newark, NJ. When I sent an email to J&J in June 2008 requesting contact information for the FBI agent handling the never closed Tylenol murders investigation; J&J forwarded my email to the FBI office in Newark, NJ. A NJ FBI agent subsequently called me twice about the case. Donavan was the first visitor tracked to my post about Wayne Nelson. He was one of only two visitors to the site that day. Whoever emailed the blog post link to Donovan had obviously viewed the post earlier, but apparently accessed my blog in a manner that could not be detected by my website activity monitoring application. Who would have the desire and ability to access my site in this covert manner? The FBI maybe? Did the FBI send Kevin Donovan the email with the link to my Wayne Nelson post? Donovan stayed on that one page for three hours. He was clearly interested in what I had to say. And Kevin Donovan's number one interest is in protecting Johnson & Johnson. The families of the Tylenol killer’s victims should not expect much of an investigation, considering it's being conducted by agents in bed with Johnson & Johnson.
1982 Tylenol Murders: The Media Lies  On October 8, 1982, Tom Brokaw reported on NBC Evening News that officials investigating the Tylenol murders believed that someone, in a deliberate effort, came to Winfield to put cyanide laced Tylenol capsules into a Regular Strength Tylenol bottle at Frank’s Finer Foods. NBC reported that cyanide laced Tylenol purchased at Frank's Finer Foods was responsible for Mary Reiner's death. The NBC report was absurd. Officials had known for eight days that the cyanide laced Tylenol responsible for Reiner’s death didn't come from Frank’s Finer Foods. After purchasing the Regular Strength Tylenol at Frank’s, Reiner dumped six Extra Strength Tylenol capsules into the bottle; all had been filled with cyanide. None of the 50 Regular Strength capsules had been consumed, and none contained cyanide. The cyanide laced Extra Strength Tylenol was traced to its source within hours of Reiner’s death. Officials learned the poisoned Extra Strength capsules were from lot MB1833, but they refused to disclose the identity of the outlet where the capsules were dispensed. Instead, the outlet was referred to as the “unidentified pharmacy.” Johnson & Johnson removed all remaining Tylenol capsules from the "unidentified pharmacy" and destroyed them. The media was easily manipulated into reporting that the cyanide laced Tylenol that killed Mary Reiner came from Frank’s Finer Foods; a falsehood that the media continues to report 27 years later. The name of the unidentified pharmacy (aka; the smoking gun) will be revealed in The Tylenol Mafia, and everything you thought you knew about the Tylenol murders will be turned upside down. Lurking within The Tylenol Mafia is a villain more evil than the Tylenol killer himself.
 Suspect Roger Arnold admitted during questioning on October 11, 1982 that he'd purchased cyanide "some months ago" for unspecified "projects". Arnold's wife said the cyanide was delivered to their home in June. The Arnolds were divorced in July. Arnold said he discarded the cyanide "sometime in August." The Tylenol that at some point in time was laced with cyanide, was shipped by J&J subsidiary McNeil Consumer Products Co. to the Jewel Foods Repackaging & Distribution facility in Franklin Park between August 19 and 26. It was later shipped to local stores from Jewel's distribution center in Melrose park where Arnold had worked for 13 years. While searching Arnold's home, Chicago police found Soldier of Fortune magazines, lab equipment, and large quantities of household chemicals commonly used by terrorists to make explosives. Among Arnold's books were The Anarchist Cookbook, which contains "recipes" for making explosives, and The Poor Man's James Bond, a survivalism manual with instructions for turning capsules into murder weapons by filling them with potassium cyanide. In "late September," Arnold purchased two one-way tickets to Thailand with departure dates of Oct. 15, 1982 (the Chicago victims were poisoned on September 29). Arnold said he goes to Thaliand every year at this time. But his attorney, Thomas Royce, said Arnold had never been to Thailand. Illinois State Police investigator Richard Tetyk wrote a nine-page synopsis of the probe in which he stated: He (Roger Arnold) worked at a Jewel warehouse in Melrose Park, where he reportedly told his supervisor he was "mad at people and wanted to throw acid at them or poison them." Attorney General Tyrone Fahner, head of the Tylenol task force, insisted that Arnold was not a suspect. Fahner described Arnold's arrest as "another one of those (incidents) that are unrelated" to the killings. Chicago Police Sergeant Monroe Vollick, a Tylenol task force member said: "I consider him (Arnold) a goof. One of those macho types who is into guns and making poisons, but not the Tylenol murders." Eight months later, outside of a Lincoln Avenue bar, Arnold ran up to a man he mistook for tavern owner Marty Sinclair. Arnold yelled, "You turned me in," and then shot John Stanisha at point-blank range, killing him instantly.
Items confiscated from Arnold's home included the following manuals: INCENDIARIES, BOOBYTRAPS, UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE DEVICES & TECHNIQUES, and MILITARY CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL AGENTS. The manuals were published in the mid 1960s by the United States Department of Defense for use by U.S. Army Special Forces. Most of the content in the manuals came straight from the "Poor Man's James Bond" (vol. 3), written by a 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 right-wing terrorist group Legion of Justice with money, electronic surveillance equipment, tear-gas, MACE, training, and training materials. One former member of the Legion of Justice currently works for the FAA.
YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TYLENOL MURDERS
There was no madman "salting" Chicago-area stores with cyanide laced Tylenol; the Tylenol was contaminated before it was packaged and was adulterated at a single point in the channel of distribution. The Tylenol murders began months before September 1982; J&J executives and FDA officials lied about the packaging and distribution of Tylenol; Jewel Foods executives did not disclose their role in distributing and packaging Tylenol. The Tylenol task force, J&J executives and FDA officials did cover-up the truth about the 1982 Tylenol murders and 1986 Tylenol murder. 
Latest on the REACTIVATED Tylenol Murders Investigation Tylenol Murders Investigation 2009: Covering up the Cover up? RECENT ACTION OF JOHNSON & JOHNSON EXECUTIVES REGARDING THE TYLENOL MURDERS INVESTIGATIONS On June 13, 2008, I sent an email to Johnson & Johnson stating that I'd uncovered evidence that might lead to the arrest and conviction of individuals responsible for the 1982 and 1986 Tylenol murders. I requested contact information for FBI agents in charge of the never closed investigations. On June 18, 2008, I received the following canned reply: Thank you for contacting Johnson & Johnson. It is always important to hear from our customers and we appreciate the time you have taken to contact us. We have forwarded your message to the appropriate Department. They will contact you directly if interested. Again, thank you for your interest in Johnson & Johnson. 0128736A
On June 24 and 25, 2008, I published two posts on a now defunct blog that linked all of the cyanide laced Tylenol found in 1982 to the Jewel foods distributions center in Franklin Park. During that two day period I received 55 visits to my blog from at least half a dozen IP addresses at J&J headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ. Fourteen of the visits, shown below, lasted at least two hours.
On June 26, 2008, I posted the above chart and asked how it was that J&J was able to spend so much time on my website, but no J&J employee could take a minute to send me contact information for the federal agents in charge of the never closed 1982 and 1986 Tylenol murders investigations? A few hours later, I received the following email from Johnson & Johnson: “Thank you for reaching out to us with this information. As you may know, this case has never been resolved, and since it is not a closed case, we suggest you contact the law enforcement agency that has been involved with this investigation over the years directly. You can call the Newark Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at ###-###-####. Also, with your permission, we will forward your contact information and e-mail directly to the agency and ask that they contact you for further information.”
In July 2008 I was contacted by an FBI agent from New Jersey, apparently setting off a chain of events that would lead to the February 2009 reactivation of the Tylenol murders investigation. An investigation that appears to be nothing more than a cover up of the cover up. This is the Jewel Foods Manufacturing & Wholesaling Facility in Franklin Park, IL, shown in my June 24 and 25 posts that drew so much attention from Johnson & Johnson. Why did my posts about this warehouse, which is no longer owned by Jewel Foods, make J&J executives so nervous? 
The clue is in the name: Manufacturing & Wholesaling Facility (J&J executives like to play with words).
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| THE 1982 TYLENOL MURDERS In the autumn of 1982 a sinister assassin terrorized the nation with dozens of simple but lethal devices that were distributed throughout the Chicago area. Some of the heinous weapons were consumed on one fateful day by ordinary folks who thought they were taking a popular pain-reliever manufactured by “the company you can trust.” Just before sunrise on Wednesday, September 29, a 12 year-old girl was found dying on the bathroom floor of her Elk Grove Village home. By days' end seven unsuspecting victims would collapse after becoming nauseated, dizzy and confused. Their deaths had become inevitable minutes earlier when they'd swallowed Tylenol capsules that had been filled with cyanide.
The Illinois Attorney General formed a task force of more than one hundred lawmen from fifteen federal, state and local agencies who worked around the clock in search of the Tylenol killer. The investigation was an unmitigated disaster that fizzled into a database of meaningless leads interpreted as relevant clues by investigators who were easily manipulated by J&J executives and FDA bureaucrats. Johnson & Johnson executives dictated the scope of the investigation and waged a misinformation campaign to obfuscate the facts. J&J was privy to evidence gathered by the Tylenol task force, but it appears that evidence gathered by extremely well-paid ex-FBI agents hired by J&J to privately "investigate" the murders was suppressed by J&J. Covered up in the investigation was information that proved the Tylenol capsules were adulterated during distribution; not at local retail stores as was claimed by J&J, the FDA and FBI. The investigation was corrupted further by local politicians and lawmen who needed to keep hidden their alliance to radical right-wing extremists with a long history of carrying out their dirty work; extremist that should have been suspects in the Tylenol murders. Buried in the cover-up was the shocking truth about the vulnerability of the distribution network, the reliance on mafia controlled companies and workers to distribute medicine, and the utter incompetence of the FDA. 
Those who find it implausible that law enforcement officials and corporate executives would cover up evidence of such a horrendous crime should consider a tampering incident that preceded the 1982 Tylenol murders by seven years. In 1975, at the Marion Memorial Hospital in southern Illinois, lawmen and hospital executives covered up the poisonings of eight people who were given drugs that had been adulterated and turned into lethal weapons by an unknown killer. Two victims, possibly three, died. The 1975 hospital murders cover up was exposed, but the killer was never found and nobody was held accountable. THE 1986 TYLENOL MURDER J&J refused to correct the dangerous packaging flaw that had been exploited by the Tylenol killer in 1982; the use of easily adulterated capsules. In 1986 J&J's reckless process of Tylenol encapsulation was exploited once again. This time cyanide laced capsules turned up in two Bronxville, NY stores. 
Shortly after midnight on February 8, 1986, Diane Elsroth went to bed after taking two Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules from a bottle purchased at the Bronxville A&P store. She never woke up. Upon learning that Elsroth's murder would be covered by national media outlets; J&J, FDA and FBI officials picked up their scripts from the 1982 "approved theory" farce and they used the same tactics to cover up evidence from the 1986 Tylenol Murder. J&J CEO James Burke, when asked if he was sorry he hadn't discontinued the use of capsules after the 1982 murders, replied: "Yes, Indeed I am." But Burke went on the "Donahue Show" and expressed his remorse by promoting to a national audience a ridiculous and false theory that the 1986 murder was a premeditated plot to kill Diane Elsroth. Burke's ludicrous hypothesis led people to suspect that Elsroth's boyfriend had poisoned the capsules.
THE RETAIL STORES - 1982 All of the cyanide laced Extra-Strength Tylenol recovered after the 1982 Tylenol murders came from the following stores (I believe this is the only complete list ever published):
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.
Jewel Foods - 122 N Vail Ave, Arlington Heights, IL 60005 The cyanide laced Tylenol that killed Adam, Stanley, and Theresa Janus was purchased here.
Frank’s Finer Foods - N40 Winfield Rd, Winfield, IL 60190 This is where Mary Reiner was said to have purchased the cyanide laced Tylenol that killed her. In fact, Mary Reiner did not buy cyanide laced Tylenol at Frank's Finer Foods.
Osco Drug Store - Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, IL 60173 Two unpurchased bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol were pulled off the shelves of this store. At some point the story was changed so that just one contaminated bottle of Tylenol was linked to this store.
Walgreens Drug Store - 1601 N Wells St, Chicago, IL 60614 This is where Paula Prince bought the cyanide laced Tylenol that killed her.
The Undisclosed Outlet (The Smoking Gun) One outlet has always been referred to as the "undisclosed location." The cyanide laced Tylenol that killed Mary Reiner was dispensed at the undisclosed outlet.
Authorities kept secret the name and location of this one outlet, because the truth would have destroyed the premise of their theory that the Tylenol capsules were laced with cyanide by some madman after the Tylenol bottles were placed on retail store shelves.
The "Undisclosed Location" is the smoking gun in Tylenol murders cover up. When I reveal the name and location of the outlet that for 26 years has been known as the undisclosed location, the "approved theory" will be exposed as a fraud perpetrated on American consumers by J&J, the FDA and FBI to cover-up the truth about the Tylenol Murders.
Dominick’s Finer Foods - 424 W Division, Chicago, IL 60614 The "seventh" bottle of cyanide laced Tylenol was returned to this Dominick's store and then turned over to the police. Officials were unable to confirm that the poisoned Tylenol was actually purchased at this store. Frank’s Finer Foods - Wheaton, IL 60187 The "eighth" bottle of cyanide laced Tylenol was purchased at this store and then returned three weeks later. This bottle may have been contaminated with cyanide after the murders and then planted into evidence by someone involved in the investigation.
The Unknown Store Investigators supposedly never determined where the cyanide laced Tylenol that killed Mary McFarland was purchased. But I suspect officials do know the identity of the Unknown Store. The Numbers Don't Add-up Officials stand by their claim that cyanide laced Tylenol capsules were found in 8 Tylenol bottles. But they linked cyanide laced Tylenol to 9 outlets. Their numbers don't add up.  THE RETAIL STORES - 1986 A&P - Bronxville, NY
The Cyanide laced Extra-Strength Tylenol that killed Diane Elsroth on February 8, was purchased at the Bronxville A&P. Woolworth - Bronxville, NY
On February 13, a second bottle of cyanide laced Tylenol was found among bottles that had been removed from Woolworths' on February 10. THE DISTRIBUTORS The Louis Zahn Drug Company 
Jewel Co. Manufacturing & Wholesaling, Franklin Park, IL 1982: J&J shipped Tylenol from their manufacturing facility in Ft. Washington, PA, to the Jewel facility in Franklin Park, between August* 19 and August* 26, 1982. The poisoned Tylenol was purchased at Chicago area stores on September 28 and 29, 1982. 1986: J&J shipped Tylenol, lot ADF916, from their regional distribution center in Montgomeryville PA to the Jewel facility in Franklin Park on August* 22, 1985. Jewel then shipped the Tylenol to the Bronxville, NY A&P store where the cyanide laced Tylenol was purchased on February 4, 1986. * Bulk purchasers of pharmaceuticals buy large quantities just before the annual increase of wholesale acquisition prices. Bulk Pharmaceuticals Active pharmaceutical ingredients are typically shipped from the manufacturing plant to repackagers in drums like the one below. 
Price per kilogram and metric tons of bulk acetaminophen powder sold by two US manufacturing plants; Tyco Healthcare and Rhodia: 
Need more than 1 or 2 barrels of acetaminophen? Buy it by the truckload for the best price. Mallinckrodt Chemical Inc., the largest acetaminophen producer, raised its US price early in 1998 and its European price on July 1. The company quotes a price of $8.55 per kilo for truckload quantities of pure powder acetaminophen. The Chicago Outfit in the 1980s
| | THE TYLENOL MURDERS COVER-UP J&J executives, the IL Attorney General, FDA and FBI covered up the truth about the 1982 & 1986 Tylenol murders.
Officials from Johnson & Johnson, FBI, FDA and IL OAG (They) claimed cyanide was put into Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules AFTER Tylenol bottles were placed on retail store shelves.
Truth: Cyanide was put into the Tylenol capsules BEFORE the Tylenol bottles were delivered to the retail stores.
They said the cyanide laced Tylenol DID NOT pass through a common point in the distribution channel. Truth: Cyanide laced Tylenol DID pass through a common point in the distribution channel.
They said Tylenol WAS encapsulated, bottled and packaged at the manufacturing plants. Truth: Tylenol was packaged at repackaging facilities owned and operated by J&J and their Customers. Tylenol WAS NOT encapsulated, bottled, or packaged at the manufacturing plants.
They said the Killer was an unemployed madman. Truth: The Killer was employed; probably by J&J or one of its customers.
They said the Tylenol killer murdered 7 people in 1982. Truth: The Tylenol killer murdered at least 8 people in 1982.
They said cyanide corrodes through gelatin-based capsules in 8 to 30 days. Truth: The shelf life of gelatin-based Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide can be indefinite.
They said the cyanide laced Tylenol that killed one of the victim's was purchased at Frank's Finer Foods. Truth: None of the cyanide laced Tylenol was purchased at Frank's Finer Foods.
They said capsules in the "eighth" Tylenol bottle had been laced with cyanide by the Tylenol killer. Truth: The "eighth" Tylenol bottle was planted into evidence after the murders to keep secret the identity of the Tylenol killer.
They said the killer removed and skillfully replaced the tamper-resitant packaging on both bottles of contaminated Tylenol in 1986. Truth: The cyanide laced capsules were put into both bottles of Tylenol before they were packaged in 3 layers of tamper-resistant seals in 1986.
They said cyanide laced Tylenol was found in 7 Chicago area outlets. Truth: Cyanide laced Tylenol was found in at least 8 Chicago area outlets.
They claim that the adulterated Tylenol did not pass through the same distribution center. Truth: The adulterated Tylenol did pass through the same distribution center.
They claim they don't know who the Tylenol killers are. But I believe they do know who the Tylenol killers are.
Johnson & Johnson's History of Sociopathic Behavior What the great investigative journalist Morton Mintz knew at least twenty years ago; what I learned just recently, and what the American public seems unwilling to learn, is best captured in an important article by Mintz: Drug fiends; even inside J&J, public safety can take a back seat to profits:
“When a corporation freely and repeatedly can do so much harm and then escape meaningful punishment, and when a CEO can stand by while hundreds are injured and some even killed and still be hailed as a champion of corporate ethics, there is something deeply wrong with the way America is doing business.”
Drug fiends was published in 1991, and includes this assessment of J&J CEO James Burke:
“Over the past 15 years, J&J and its subsidiaries have been accused of knowingly and needlessly endangering millions of people. A tour through the inner workings of the J&J empire suggests that, in the case of at least four drugs - Zomax, Suprol, Ortho-Novum birth-control pills, and Retin-A - J&J, under Burke's leadership, willfully disregarded public safety in order to push its products.”
The Tylenol Murders Investigation lies Some officials knowingly made false statements regarding the Tylenol murders; others made false statements out of ignorance. Regarding Cyanide used in the 1986 Tylenol tampering ‘‘We have conviction'' that none of the poison was put in the capsules by a worker at the plant. Cyanide breaks down the gelatin-based capsules and the deterioration becomes evident ''in less than a month.'' - McNeil President, Joseph Chiesa The cyanide must have been added to the Tylenol recently because the poison would corrode through the gelatin capsule “within about two weeks.” - J&J spokesman, James Murray “We have conviction that none of the poison was put in the capsules by a worker at the (J&J) plant.” Cyanide breaks down the gelatin based capsules and deterioration becomes evident “in less than a month.” - FDA spokesman, William Grigg Fact: FBI officials and the FDA's own scientists confirmed that the cyanide used in the 1986 Tylenol murder would not have caused the capsules to deteriorate. The cyanide laced Tylenol capsules had an indefinite shelf life. Regarding the 1986 Tylenol killer's modus operandi
The same person who tampered with the pills that killed Miss Elsroth, later took another ''package off the shelf'' of some store, ''then did a very professional job of putting five capsules in, putting it back on the shelf, probably to mislead people from the first bottle.'' - J&J CEO, James Burke Fact: Investigators had publically dismissed, weeks earlier, the hypothesis Burke presented to a national audience during an interview on the "Phil Donahue Show".
Regarding distribution of the poisoned Tylenol in 1986 “A company computer analysis showed the odds were in the ''10 billions'' against two bottles of tainted capsules from plants 1,000 miles apart ending up in stores within a block and half of each other in a two-week period.” - J&J CEO, James Burke Fact: No computer analysis was done. The bulk Tylenol ingredients were manufactured in different plants, but the ingredients from both plants were packaged at the same J&J distribution facility in Montgomeryville, PA. Regarding the packaging and bottling of Tylenol in 1982 Plastic shrink-wrap was wrapped around groups of six bottles at the manufacturing factory." - McNeil President, Joseph Chiesa, while standing next to CEO James Burke. Fact: Tylenol was not bottled or packaged at manufacturing plants. Tylenol was packaged and bottled at repackaging facilities all across the United States. The Tylenol murder fable, as told by former J&J Public Relations Vice President 20 years after the 1982 Tylenol murders
“The unknown murderer went out and bought 8 bottles of extra strength capsules from 5 different drug and convenient stores in a 20 mile radius of Chicago. Then they separated the capsules and took out the acetaminophen which was the analgesic product, mixed it with cyanide, put the acetaminophen and cyanide back into the capsules.
Then they took them back to the exact same five stores they had purchased them from and put them on the shelves so some unsuspecting customer would come by and pick them up, ingest the capsule and die from it. They were very careful because they had to put the packaging back in the exact same store, otherwise, when they got to the checkout counter, there would be a discrepancy. They did it very carefully and there was no suspicion at the checkout counter.” - J&J Public Relations VP, Larry Foster
Fact: Nice story, but not a grain of truth to it. The capsules were laced with cyanide during distribution, before the Tylenol was delivered to the stores. The 1986 Tylenol tamper-resistant packaging ruse “Previously undetected signs of tampering have now been discovered using sophisticated scientific examinations. Our examinations have further determined it was possible to invade the bottles after packaging was complete without detection through conventional means of examination.” (Ahlerich refused to comment further or answer questions from reporters). - FBI chief of public affairs, Milt Ahlerich Fact: The packaging was not tampered with. All the evidence released about the FBI inspection of the tamper-resistant packaging showed the packaging had not been tampered with. The Tylenol capsules were laced with cyanide before they were bottled and packaged, and before the Tylenol bottles were shipped to the retail stores. The "benevolent" James Burke's red herring “A person who would put poison in the Tylenol capsules clearly was a deranged person. Psychiatrists tell us that these people are saying they need help. These kinds of people know they are not well. They don't want to be called kooks; they don't mind being called sick. If that person came forward and asked for help, he would receive it, although that doesn't mean the person would not have to deal with the halls of justice.'' - J&J CEO, James Burke Fact: The killer was employed by J&J or one of its customers. James Burke will never be forced to deal with the halls of justice. James Burke 
Q: Other than what's stated, what do these three murder sprees have in common? When adulterated drugs were used in 1974-75 to poison 8 people and kill two, officials covered-up the facts. The killer was never found. When poisoned Tylenol capsules were used in 1982 to kill 7 people, officials covered-up the facts. The killer was never found. When poisoned Tylenol capsules were used in 1986 to kill one person, officials covered-up the facts. The killer was never found. A: The drugs were poisoned before they ever reached a retail outlet. The killer(s) worked in the pharmaceutical industry. When cyanide was used in the Chicago area to kill 3 people, two weeks before the 7 cyanide laced Tylenol murders, officials covered-up the facts, and the killer was never found. There's a problem with one of these lot numbers. Do you know what it is? 
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