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...poisoning in his apartment last April 3. His death had been ruled a suicide, largely on the strength of a note Pascual had mailed to his mother in Arlington, Va. ("Dear Mom: It wasn't your fault. It was mine, all mine"). At the time, analysis of three Tylenol capsules from a bottle found in a shoe in the closet uncovered no poison, but analysis last week of the remaining capsules, which were still in police storage, did turn up cyanide. For a day or so hope grew that the case might become an important lead to the Chicago...
...Elgin, Ill., police returned to the parking lot of a Howard Johnson's restaurant and motel where two officers had discovered discarded bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol a day before the poisonings. The policemen in the Interval had become mildly ill with symptoms that were similar to those of cyanide poisoning. Elgin officers found that the bottles had been broken by the wheels of cars, and powder was scattered on the ground...
...Fort Washington, Pa., a letter turned up at the offices of McNeil Consumer Products Co., the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that makes Tylenol; it had been forwarded from the Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J., because the word Tylenol had been written on the envelope. The letter demanded that the manufacturer pay $1 million into a postal box at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. in Chicago, and according to Chicago newspapers it implied that there would be more poisonings if this were not done. Investigators identified the sender as a Chicago stockbroker, name undisclosed, who had been...
Doughty also determined that Mitchell's mother had bought Tylenol, possibly (her memory is hazy) from a local outlet of the Jewel chain, which also owns one of the Chicago-area stores where poisoned capsules were found two weeks...
Whatever might be done, how long will it take before public confidence is fully restored in nonprescription drugs generally, and Tylenol specifically? Though the Tylenol capsules apparently were poisoned after they left its control, Johnson & Johnson is stuck with a product that has become seared into the public mind as a cause, however innocent, of death. The company is offering to take back all 22 million bottles of Tylenol capsules now in stores and homes and exchange them for pills or liquid...