It was 30 years ago this week that the entire nation lost its innocence. It was in the wake of the Tylenol Murders, a string of seven deaths in the Chicagoland area. All seven victims had taken a Tylenol capsule between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1, 1982 - and died shortly after to potassium cyanide poisoning.
The crime spree, which involved an individual taking Tylenol from the counters and returning it, after tampering and inserting potassium cyanide to five stores in Chicago, has never been solved. James Lewis, an extortionist spent 13 years in prison for the extortion of the crime - but was found to not have actually been responsible for the murders.
The crime spree did spawn several "copycat" killings, most notable in 1986 in Seattle where a woman attempted to cover up her husband's murder by doing the same thing with Excedrin, killing another woman in the process.
The Tylenol case, while handled perfectly by parent company Johnson & Johnson., is the primary reason why tamper-proof packaging exists today.
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