September 29, 2026: The Bottle That Changed Every Bottle

Podcast: bsnsHistory · bsnsBasics

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

(Content note: this episode discusses a historical event involving the death of a child and other family members.) A 12-year-old girl took one Tylenol capsule for a sore throat. She was dead within hours, and six more people would die the same way that week. On September 29, 1982, cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules killed seven people across the Chicago area, including Mary Kellerman and three members of the Janus family, who unknowingly took pills from the same tainted bottle while grieving an earlier death in the family. Johnson & Johnson recalled 31 million bottles nationwide at a cost of...