This story originally published in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 1, 1982: Cyanide-filled capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol were blamed for the deaths of three persons in suburban Cook County, the ...

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A killer panicked the entire nation while nearly destroying one of America's top companies by filling capsules of an over-the-counter painkiller with cyanide. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (WGN) – In 1982, seven Chicagoland residents died out of the blue after taking Tylenol capsules that were laced with ...

The 1982 Tylenol poisonings panicked the nation. Bottles were pulled off shelves across the U.S., and a massive criminal investigation got underway, hunting for the person who tainted the popular ...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced last week it will ban the use of spring-loaded cyanide traps on the public lands managed by the department, which includes roughly 250,000 acres in Eagle ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Nearly 100 environmental groups are calling for a ban in Oregon on the use of cyanide capsules to control predators like coyotes, foxes and wild dogs that can attack and eat ...