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| THE TRUTH ABOUT THE COVER-UP THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIES FROM THE 1982 TYLENOL MURDERS INVESTIGATION Officials relied on numerous deceptions to cover up evidence that proved the Tylenol capsules had been adulterated during distribution. The following claims were made by authorities from J&J, FDA, and the Tylenol task force; all are lies. THE LIES: 1. Only two bottles of Cyanide laced Tylenol went through the Jewel Foods distribution center. 2. The Cyanide laced Tylenol responsible for Mary Reiner's death was purchased at Frank's Finer Foods. 3. Tylenol was bottled and packaged at the manufacturing plant. 4. The Tylenol was poisoned after the bottles were placed on store shelves. Lie # 1 - Only two bottles of Cyanide laced Tylenol went through the Jewel Foods distribution center. The truth is that All 8 bottles of poisoned Tylenol went through the same Illinois distribution center. Bottle #1 - Officials admit that the cyanide laced Tylenol that killed the first Tylenol murder victim was shipped from the Jewel's distribution center in Melrose Park to the Jewel Foods store in Elk Grove Village. Bottle #2 - Officials also admit that the cyanide laced Tylenol responsible for the deaths of the three Janus family members - victims two, three, and four - was purchased at the Jewel Foods store in Arlington Heights and was delivered to the store from the Jewel Foods distribution center in Melrose Park. Bottle #3 - The poisoned Tylenol that killed the fifth victim came from the "Undisclosed location." But I've identified the so-called "undisclosed location," and its Tylenol was delivered from the Jewel's distribution center in Melrose Park. The name of the undisclosed outlet and information linking it to Jewel foods will be revealed in my book. Bottle #4 - At least two unpurchased bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol were remove from the Osco Drug store in Woodfield mall, although the bottle count was later changed, inexplicably, to one. Jewel shipped Tylenol to all of its Jewel Food and Osco stores from its Melrose Park distribution center. Therefore, the poisoned Tylenol removed from Osco went through the same Jewel distribution center as did bottles #1, #2 and #3. Bottle #5 - The cyanide laced Tylenol responsible for the death of Mary McFarland, victim number six, was purchased at Dominick's, and it too appears to have been shipped from the Jewel's distribution center. To show that Dominick's received its Tylenol from Jewel in 1982, I'll need to reference a press release issued after officials learned that the cyanide laced Tylenol responsible for the death of the 1986 Tylenol murder victims had been purchased at the A&P store in Bronxville, NY. Shortly after the 1986 Tylenol murder, Dominick's executive Larry Nauman said: "Dominick's Finer Foods receives shipments from the same warehouse that shipped the capsules to New York. Since there's an element of the unknown we decided to pull the product."
The "same warehouse" referenced by Nauman, was the Melrose Park distribution center. If Jewel shipped Tylenol to Dominick's stores in 1986, then in all likelihood Jewel shipped Tylenol to Dominick's stores in 1982. Both Jewel and Dominick's are headquartered in the western suburbs of Chicago, and the vast majority of Dominick's stores are located in and around Chicago. Bottle #6 - The seventh victim, Paula Prince, purchased her deadly Tylenol at a Walgreens in Chicago's north-side. Walgreens, like Jewel Foods and Dominick's, is based in a western suburb of Chicago. The following information from Wikipedia links Walgreens to Jewel's distribution center (assuming Dominick's received its Tylenol from Jewel's distribution center): Originally, Walgreens stores were connected to local groceries. In Chicago, which is Walgreens primary market, they teamed up with either Eagle Food Centers or Dominick's Finer Foods, usually with a "walkthru" to the adjoining store and often sharing personnel. This concept was instated to compete with the popular dual store format used by chief competitor Jewel-Osco. Eventually, they ended the relationship with Eagle and focused primarily on a connection to the Dominick's stores, which were considered to be of a better quality.
Bottle #7 - The seventh bottle was returned to a Dominick's store in Chicago. Dominick's, as was shown for bottle #5, likely recieved its Tylenol from the same Melrose Park distribution center as Jewel Food and Osco stores. Additional Bottle of Cyanide Laced Tylenol Linked to Jewel Why did the Tylenol Task Force only link two bottles of cyanide laced Tylenol to Jewel?
Regarding the claim made by numerous officials that some anonymous madman put cyanide laced Tylenol capsules into Tylenol bottles sitting on the shelves of local retail stores; what do the facts reveal? The Tylenol was not adulterated at the retail stores by an anonymous Madman The Tylenol capsules were filled with Cyanide before they were delivered to local retail stores Lie # 2 - The Cyanide laced Tylenol responsible for Mary Reiner's death was purchased at Frank's Finer Foods in Winfield. When investigators went to Mary’s home after she was rushed to the Hospital, they found a bottle of Regular-Strength Tylenol. Printed on the bottle was lot number MB2733. A press-release was quickly sent out to inform the public to avoid Tylenol from that lot. Inside Mary's Regular-Strength Tylenol bottle were five Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules, put there by Mary the previous day. Each of the 5 Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules in the bottle, and the one Mary swallowed before collapsing, were filled with cyanide. None of the Regular-Strength Tylenol contained cyanide. When investigators realized that only the Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules contained poison, a statement was released to correct the initial information. Regular-Strength Tylenol from lot MB2733 had not been poisoned. It was Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules from lot #MB1833 that had been poisoned. The Extra-Strength Tylenol, however, was not purchased at Frank's Finer Foods.
Since officials were able to determine the lot number for the five remaining Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules, even though they found no Extra-Strength Tylenol bottle, they must have retrieved it from the pharmacy outlet that dispensed the Extra-Strength Tylenol. But why didn't officials reveal the name of that outlet to the public? They didn't reveal the identity of that one outlet, because doing so would have destroyed the most important premise of the approved theory. But I know the identity of the undisclosed location, and I know why that important piece of information was covered-up. No Cyanide-laced Tylenol was purchased at Frank's Finer Foods in Winfield. The undisclosed location was kept secret by officials involved in the investigation, and executives from Johnson & Johnson, in order to cover up the fact that all of the Cyanide-laced Tylenol distributed to Chicago area locations was poisoned during distribution, before the Tylenol was delivered to the local retail stores. Regarding the official claim that some anonymous madman put cyanide laced Tylenol capsules into Tylenol bottles that were sitting on the shelves of local retail stores; what do the facts about Reiner's cyanide laced Tylenol tell us? The Tylenol was not adulterated at the retail stores by an anonymous Madman The Tylenol capsules were filled with Cyanide before they were delivered to local retail stores Lie # 3 - Tylenol was bottled and packaged at the manufacturing plant. The Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that the Tylenol killer(s) filled with cyanide were not bottled, packaged, or labeled at J&J's manufacturing plants as Johnson & Johnson executives and FDA officials stated over and over again. Tylenol, like most pharmaceuticals in 1982 and 1986, was bottled, packaged, and labeled by repackagers. FDA and J&J Conflicting Statements: After the 1982 murders, the President of McNeil Consumer Products said, and CEO James Burke agreed, that Tylenol was packaged at the manufacturing plant. "Plastic shrink-wrap was wrapped around groups of six bottles at the MANUFACTURING FACTORY," they said. But after the 1986 Tylenol murder, Johnson & Johnson executives and FDA officials said Tylenol was bottled at J&J's distribution center and "plastic shrink-wrap was wrapped around groups of six bottles at the DISTRIBUTION CENTER."
J&J hadn't moved the packaging process from their manufacturing plants to the distribution centers in 1986; they just told a boldface lie in 1982 when they said the cyanide laced Tylenol capsules had been packaged at their manufacturing plants.
The new story told by J&J and the FDA in 1986 discredited a critical component of their fictional approved theory from 1982, which required the public to believe that Tylenol bottles could not have been tampered with at the J&J distribution centers because they'd been "sealed" in plastic shrink-wrap at the manufacturing factory. In their new version of events, Tylenol was not packaged prior to being shipped from the manufacturing plant to the regional distribution center. Therefore, Tylenol capsules could have been adulterated at J&J's distribution center before they were bottled. J&J and the FDA followed up this revelation with statements that really opened up the number of points in the distribution channel where Tylenol capsules could have been laced with cyanide. Regarding the 1986 Tylenol tamperings, J&J spokesman Robert Kniffen said: “While the two tainted samples were handled at the same place only two weeks apart, the company considered it unlikely that the tainting had occurred there because each bottle was usually safeguarded by five seals.” Kniffin went on to say, “the bottles at the distribution center are typically covered by two additional sealed wrappings: a clear plastic binder that is heat-sealed around all sides of six bottles, and a shrink-wrapped plastic binding around groups of cartons, each of which contains 12 groups of six-packs.”
Also in 1986, FDA Commissioner Frank Young made a statement almost identical to Kniffen's.
"The most plausible explanation is tampering at the local level. In addition to the triple seal on each bottle”, Young said, “the bottles at the distribution center are typically covered by two additional sealed wrappings: a clear plastic binder that is heat-sealed around all sides of six bottles, and a shrink-wrapped plastic binding around groups of cartons, each of which contains 12 groups of six-packs”
Both Kniffen and Young said, “the bottles at the distribution center are “typically” covered by two additional sealed wrappings,” and Kniffen added, “each bottle was usually safeguarded by five seals.”
Their phraseology reveals the obvious; J&J and the FDA knew that some Tylenol was not bottled or sealed at J&J’s regional distribution center. Since some Tylenol was not packaged by Johnson & Johnson, then all of the un-packaged Tylenol shipped from J&J facilities could have been easily adulterated at any point in the distribution channel.
J&J executives and FDA officials knew full well that the Tylenol shipped to most of Johnson & Johnson's large customers was not bottled or packaged by J&J. The Tylenol that was adulterated with cyanide in 1982 and 1986 was shipped from a Johnson & Johnson distribution center to a customer's repackaging facility, and then bottled, packaged, and labeled by the customer. Regarding the official claim that some anonymous madman put cyanide laced Tylenol capsules into Tylenol bottles that were sitting on the shelves of local retail stores; what do the facts about the packaging of Tylenol tell us? The Tylenol was not adulterated at the retail stores by an anonymous Madman The Tylenol capsules were filled with Cyanide before they were delivered to local retail stores Lie #4 - The Tylenol was poisoned after the bottles were placed on store shelves. THE 1982 TYLENOL CYANIDE DECEPTION Some Chicago area stores received shipments of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules on Monday, September 27. Tylenol from the new shipment was put out on the shelves of Jewel Foods and other Chicago area stores on Monday evening and Tuesday morning. The cyanide laced Extra-Strength Tylenol responsible for the deaths of the first four victims came from the Jewel Foods stores in Elk Grove Village and Arlington Heights. When police inspected the victim's capsules on Wednesday September 29, less than 48 hours after they'd been purchased, they noticed some capsules were discolored; a result of the corrosive effect of cyanide. By dawn on Thursday, 2 1/2 days after the cyanide-laced Tylenol had been placed on the store shelves; the chief toxicologist at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office was at work examining the remaining capsules from the Tylenol bottles that were found at the Janus and Kellerman homes the previous day. “I could smell the cyanide as soon as I opened the containers,” said Michael Schaffer. Schaffer could see immediately that the capsules had begun to deteriorate; ten were slightly swollen and discolored. Testing the Corrosiveness of the Cyanide On September 30, Robert Stein and his staff took some of the cyanide used in the tampering, and put it into Tylenol capsules to determine how long it would take before the capsules would show signs of deterioration. The test capsules showed no corrosion 36 hours after they were filled, Stein said.
Ten days after the test capsules had been filled with cyanide, Stein said that adulteration during distribution could not be ruled out. Ten days after Steins' test capsules were filed with cyanide, they still showed no signs of deterioration. If the victim's capsules showed signs of deterioration 2 to 3 days after they'd been delivered to Jewel Foods stores, and if the capsules were poisoned after they'd been placed on the store shelves, how is it possible that 10 days after Dr. Stein put the killer's cyanide into the new Tylenol capsules, the capsules showed no signs of deterioration? It's obvious that the cyanide used to murder seven Chicago area victims was put into the Tylenol capsules before the Tyenol was delivered to the local retail stores. Robert Stein said on Saturday October 9 that tests indicate cyanide-loaded Tylenol capsules could have been doctored at thelr distribution point or at the plant where they were produced. While Stein emphasized he had no evidence on the origin of the cyanide-laced pills, he said the distribution and manufacturing points could not be ruled out, and criticized investigators for concentrating their search on a "madman," saying the killer strikes him as more of a "a rational evildoer."
The results from Steins' test to determine how long it would take the cyanide used in the Tylenol murders to degrade Tylenol capsules showed that the cyanide would not have caused the capsules to deteriorate quickly, as Attorney General Tyrone Fahner, J&J executives, and FDA officials claimed. The final results of Steins' test were never released. What Steins' cyanide laced capsules test showed, was that the Tylenol capsules could not have been contaminated after they'd been placed on the store shelves. They had to have been adulterated during distribution. That's why Stein knew that "the distribution and manufacturing points could not be ruled out." That's why Stein believed the killer was not some "madman," but was "a rational evildoer." Fahner sharply criticized Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Robert Stein, who said earlier in the day (October 9) that he had completed tests indicating the capsules could have been adulterated at distribution points or at the plant where they were manufactured.
Why did Fahner criticize Stein? It seems that Fahner criticized Stein's accurate assessment, because it didn't fit the approved theory, which required the public to believe that the Tylenol capsules were contaminated after they'd been placed on the retail store shelves. Fahner said he was relying on tests conducted by the FBI and Chicago police. Investigators have said the capsules blamed for the poisonings came from two different factories. Fahner has said there is no indication the capsules "crossed at any time" during distribution.
First of all, the location where the bulk Tylenol was manufactured is irrelevant - they were all packaged in the same location - and secondly, why would Fahner rely on tests conducted by the FBI and Chicago Police? They didn't test the capsules to determine how long it would take for cyanide to cause the capsules to deteriorate. Robert Stein did those tests. And Robert Stein believed the capsules were contaminated during distribution. Tyrone Fahner ignored Steins' factual quantifiable evidence, because it didn't fit the approved theory. Attorney General Tyrone Fahner refused to base his investigation on facts gathered from physical evidence. Robert Stein's scientific test most certainly proved the Tylenol capsules couldn't have been laced with cyanide by some "madman" at the local retail stores; the Tylenol capsules weren't in the stores long enough to show the corrosive signs that were seen in some of the cyanide laced Tylenol capsules (the cyanide laced Tylenol capsules used in the 1986 Tylenol murder were proven to have a very long shelf life; indefinite in fact). Fahner ignored physical evidence critical to the murder investigation. He investigated what he was told to investigate. Instead of going after the real killer; the "rational evildoer," Attorney General Tyrone Fahner went after "malcontents and weirdos". Fahner said at a news conference Sunday night, October 3, 1982, that among the task force's suspects are "malcontents ... and weirdos who don't act right or did something extremely out of the ordinary." "We're trying to understand what kind of person could do these things," said Fahner, the chief of a local, state and federal task force with more than 100 investigators looking into the string of deaths. "It is an act of a random murderer who filled the capsules with cyanide and then placed them in the stores," he said.
The goal of Tyrone Fahners' task force was to create "facts" that could be used to indict their chosen suspect; a suspect who they could offer up to the media for public persecution; an innocent suspect like James Lewis. This same flawed investigative technique would be used in later years to wrongly accuse Richard Jewel of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, and to wrongly accuse Steven Hatfill of the Anthrax attacks. Regarding the official claim that some anonymous madman put cyanide laced Tylenol capsules into Tylenol bottles that were sitting on the shelves of local retail stores; what do the facts tell us? The Tylenol was not adulterated at the retail stores by an anonymous Madman The Tylenol capsules were filled with Cyanide before they were delivered to local retail stores Cyanide Page THE 1986 CYANIDE DECEPTION After the death of Diane Elsroth from cyanide laced Tylenol in New York in 1986, officials once again falsely claimed that the Tylenol had to have been adulterated recently, at the local retail store. On February 11, FDA spokesman William Grigg said the FDA inspected the factory where the pills were made and determined that "there were no indications that it (the contamination) could be the result of the manufacturing. How is it possible that the FDA determined on the very same day they learned about the poisoning that "there were no indications that it (the contamination) could be the result of the manufacturing"?
William Grigg went on to say that it was unlikely the drug had been tampered with during manufacturing. ''Everyone involved believes that this is a local situation,'' said Grigg.
The "cyanide would eat through a gelatin capsule in 8 to 10 days," meaning it had been added since the Tylenol left the plant, and that therefore the poison presumably was placed in the bottles within the last 10 days, said Dr. Millard Hyland, Westchester County's chief medical examiner. J&J spokesman James Murray said that based on Hyland's finding that the cyanide would have eaten through the capsules, the company feels the tampering "did not take place at the factory." At a February 11 news conference held at Johnson & Johnson headquarters, McNeil president Joseph Chiesa, while standing next to CEO James Burke, said: ''We have conviction'' that none of the poison was put in the capsules by a worker at the plant. He added that cyanide breaks down the gelatin-based capsules and that the deterioration becomes evident ''in less than a month.''
FDA spokesman William Grigg, at a separate press conference, said: “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 deterioration becomes evident “in less than a month.”
Countering the statements made by Hyland, Murray, Chiesa, and Grigg, was Westchester District Attorney Carl Vergari, who said he'd learned from federal authorities that the cyanide laced Tylenol capsules would not show signs of deterioration in 8 to 10 days; that they may have an indefinite shelf life. Then, on February 14, federal authorities admitted that the cyanide found in a Tylenol capsule that killed a woman could have been put there months ago. "The work we did showed no time restrictions such as were previously reported," said FDA Commissioner Dr. Frank Young.
The cyanide laced Tylenol capsules had an indefinite shelf-life, just as Carl Vergari had said. Therefore, the Tylenol capsules could have been poisoned weeks, months, or even a year earlier. They could have been poisoned at the local distribution center, or at Jewel Foods' Melrose Park distribution center or Franklin Park repackaging facility; or they could have been poisoned at Johnson & Johnson's regional distribution facility in Montgomeryville, PA. The Bronxville, NY A&P store received all of its Tylenol from the Jewel Foods distribution center in Melrose Park, IL. What do the facts tell us about the official claim that some anonymous "madman" poisoned Tylenol capsules after the Tylenol bottles had been placed on the shelves of local retail stores in Bronxsville NY stores in 1986? The Tylenol was not adulterated at the retail stores by an anonymous Madman Tylenol capsules were filled with cyanide before the Tylenol was delivered to local retail stores I'VE SEEN THE FUTURE BROTHER; IT IS MURDER | |
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