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MYS294: In 1982, 7 people suddenly died in Chicago, having taken Extra Strength Tylenol just before, and police learned the pills had been tampered with. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what happened, who was responsible, and how these events changed American permanently.

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Links for this episode:

• Scott Bartz’s book Tymurs
• Scott Bartz’s book Tylenol Man
• Scott Bartz’s book Tymurs NYC
• Amazon/Netflix documentary Painkiller: The Tylenol Murders
• Chicago Magazine’s timeline of events
• Chicago Tribune’s timeline of the first day of the events
• Tylenol Murders
• Cyanide
• Cyanide Poisoning
• Michael Solomon article on the murders
• Photo of man in store
• Chicago Reader biography of James Lewis
• James Lewis interview
• James Lewis’s drawings
• Lewis death announcement (video)
• Lewis death announcement (article)
• SciShow video Does Tylenol Actually Do Anything?

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