Mary Ann Kellerman News Today

Paramount+'s Painkiller: The Tylenol Murders chronicles the names of the victims who were part of the murders that happened in Chicago in 1982.

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Investigators are still searching for the person responsible for killing seven people by poisoning bottles of Tylenol with Cyanide in 1982.

James Lewis was found unresponsive at his residence in Cambridge, Mass. His death was determined to be not suspicious, police said.

Chicago Tribune, Oct. 1, 1982: With several deaths blamed on tainted Extra-Strength Tylenol, the FDA warned against use of the popular pain reliever.

Investigators are still searching for the person responsible for killing seven people by poisoning bottles of Tylenol with Cyanide in 1982.

Four decades ago, a sense of panic that began in Cook and DuPage counties -- where contaminated Tylenol capsules killed seven people in three days -- spread through the country and changed communities forever.