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...prepared for bed during an overnight stay with her boyfriend's family in Yonkers, N.Y., last week, Diane Elsroth, 23, complained of feeling ill. Her solicitous companion, Michael Notarnicola, also 23, brought her two capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol from what he said was a previously unopened bottle purchased a week earlier by his mother. Twelve hours later, the stenographer, daughter of a New York State trooper, was found dead of what was later diagnosed as acute cyanide poisoning. Her death touched off a new scare, reminiscent of the still unsolved Tylenol panic of 1982, in which seven people...
Authorities at first described the tampering as a local incident. The cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules were traced to an A & P supermarket in Bronxville, a well-to-do bedroom community (pop. 6,000) adjacent to Yonkers. Officials ordered Tylenol capsules removed from all stores in the area for examination...
Since the poisoned painkiller had been enclosed within Tylenol's three tamper-resistant seals, investigators turned their attention to the plant in Fort Washington, Pa., where they were manufactured by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, McNeil Consumer Products. The poison, with a different chemical makeup from the cyanide involved in the 1982 killings, differed as well from the cyanide stored at the plant for testing. The company also began a review of its storage and distribution facilities and personnel files of about 30,000 U.S. employees...
Better boxes, harsher punishments, and more police won't prevent future Tylenol poisonings--or muggings, murders, and rapes, for that matter. A renaissance of the small community in America will...
...people kill, and what can we do to stop them? Too often, we appeal to unseen forces to explain behavior. A psychiatrist on one of the local news shows suggested that the Tylenol murderer acted out of "feelings of alienation and frustration and great hostility." But that explains nothing. Why does he (or she) feel "alienated" or "frustrated" or "hostile?" The causes of these pseudo-causes lie outside the person, in the environment. And it is the environment we must change if we are to change the individual's behavior...