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[Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign it's a normal Wednesday a work day a school day a day in the
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life but you don't feel normal you have a headache a cold or a fever you do the most normal thing in the
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world you take your preferred pain reliever pills with a sip of water knowing that soon you'll feel like
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yourself again only you don't within minutes of taking the pills you experience respiratory failure
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seizure cardiac arrest and death this is what happened in the greater Chicago area in Illinois
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several people took over the counter pain medication for everyday ailments purchased at their neighborhood pharmacy
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only to die inexplicably within hours what in the world happened here How could a medication the very essence
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of something intended to make people better kill them so suddenly and efficiently it is the very rare but very
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real crime of product tampering someone some ones or maybe even a group of people were poisoning the General
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Public killing indiscriminately shopping at the grocery store was like playing Russian roulette
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but what was the motive the how was clear but the why and what for is anyone's guess
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was the motive simply just to kill was this a form of public terrorism or mass extortion or both
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and what kind of monster uses a painkiller as a vehicle for murder this is true crime garage
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and this is the case of the Tylenol murders [Music] September 29th 1982 Mary Kellerman was 12 years old the
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middle schooler lived in Elk Grove Village Illinois she wasn't feeling well that day and had stayed home from school
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she told her dad that she had a headache and a sore throat and he went to the medicine cabinet and brought her an
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extra strength Tylenol capsule he took from a bottle his wife purchased the day before at a Jewel Osco store in Elk
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Grove Village Mary dutifully swallowed the pill went into the bathroom and then she collapsed by the time paramedics
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arrived they found Mary in full cardiac arrest she was rushed to the hospital where she
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was pronounced dead around 10 A.M doctors could only guess that she had suffered an aneurysm she was her parents
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only child