Chicago Tylenol Murders and GSK?
Jun 8, 2018 16:28:44 GMT
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Post by kemo on Jun 8, 2018 16:28:44 GMT
The Tylenol murders are one of the most interesting TC mysteries of the 20th century.
Scott Bartz is a very good source of information but I think his ultimate conclusion; that the poisoned capsules were introduced somewhere in the supply chain, is wrong. All victims died within a short 24 hour window after taking Tylenol obtained in the same short period. Had the tainted containers been introduced through the rather complex supply chain, they would have arrived on store shelves gradually over a longer period of time.
One of the victims had been issued a small bottle of the pain killer when she left the hospital but purchased a standard sized bottle shortly before her death. The small bottle was found in her purse with a tainted capsule in it when her home was searched after her death. Bartz’ theory is based on the assumption that the poison capsules came from the hospital supply in the small bottle the hospital issued her. Since the source of that supply was totally different from the sources that supplied the retail stores in the area and there was no way some outsider could have accessed them to tamper with them, Bartz concludes that the tampering occurred far up the supply chain. He did not consider the very likely possibility that the victim finished all of the capsules the hospital had given her but retained the small bottle because it was more convenient to carry in her purse, and transferred capsules from the larger bottle she had purchased at the store into the more convenient sized bottle. I think the “ official” version; that a “ reverse shoplifter” went around placing tainted bottles on shelves during the afternoon before people started dying, is probably correct.
Swango is a great suspect; he liked to kill people with poison, but he was living in Southern Illinois and there is no evidence that he was in Chicago at the time. He could have done it, Deangelo could have done it; there is just no evidence.
My own WAG ( wild ass guess) is that the killer had a plan to use the killings as a cover for another crime; perhaps to murder someone he wanted dead, and he failed to follow through with that crime. The poisonings may have been discovered faster than he expected. Then again, someone may have wanted to kill a bunch of strangers or provoke a panic. We will probably never know.
Scott Bartz is a very good source of information but I think his ultimate conclusion; that the poisoned capsules were introduced somewhere in the supply chain, is wrong. All victims died within a short 24 hour window after taking Tylenol obtained in the same short period. Had the tainted containers been introduced through the rather complex supply chain, they would have arrived on store shelves gradually over a longer period of time.
One of the victims had been issued a small bottle of the pain killer when she left the hospital but purchased a standard sized bottle shortly before her death. The small bottle was found in her purse with a tainted capsule in it when her home was searched after her death. Bartz’ theory is based on the assumption that the poison capsules came from the hospital supply in the small bottle the hospital issued her. Since the source of that supply was totally different from the sources that supplied the retail stores in the area and there was no way some outsider could have accessed them to tamper with them, Bartz concludes that the tampering occurred far up the supply chain. He did not consider the very likely possibility that the victim finished all of the capsules the hospital had given her but retained the small bottle because it was more convenient to carry in her purse, and transferred capsules from the larger bottle she had purchased at the store into the more convenient sized bottle. I think the “ official” version; that a “ reverse shoplifter” went around placing tainted bottles on shelves during the afternoon before people started dying, is probably correct.
Swango is a great suspect; he liked to kill people with poison, but he was living in Southern Illinois and there is no evidence that he was in Chicago at the time. He could have done it, Deangelo could have done it; there is just no evidence.
My own WAG ( wild ass guess) is that the killer had a plan to use the killings as a cover for another crime; perhaps to murder someone he wanted dead, and he failed to follow through with that crime. The poisonings may have been discovered faster than he expected. Then again, someone may have wanted to kill a bunch of strangers or provoke a panic. We will probably never know.