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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I will give some spoilers. It seems very obvious it was the company - the company used cyanide in quality testing to make sure there was no lead in the product so there was cyanide being tested on Tylenol capsules very nearby where the regular capsules were being packaged, and apparently the cyanide was not locked away or separated at all.

Here’s the thing. In 1982 it was very easy to tamper with packaging. But by 1986 more cyanide was found in Tylenol pills and it was absolutely improbable that someone off the street came and tampered it. The outside cardboard packages were glued, which you could probably get through, but then they have these really red thick plastic packaging over The bottle with distinct print, it would be impossible for a person off the street to re-create that exact packaging. Once you get through that packaging, then there was a foil strip when you remove the cap - again impossible to go through all of those layers and keep the packaging intact.

How do you explain more cyanide deaths after those packaging changes? People also think it is quite likely there were a lot more deaths than reported, as they don’t regularly test for cyanide poisoning, and if elderly people had taken it, they would’ve just blamed their death on heart failure or whatever. The only reason these cyanide deaths were flagged because it was all young healthy people who died so they probed for signs of poisoning.

I just don’t see how you can come away from the documentary thinking it wasn’t J&J. Obviously they didn’t do it intentionally but they screwed up in quality control.

Finally, outside of a distribution plant there were tons of Tylenol capsules crushed, and a policeman went to pick them up and got cyanide poisoning. How do you explain that? Someone saw that Tylenol meant for public consumption was being mixed with the Tylenol that was being test tested for lead and tried to trash it.

The company was largely left to investigate itself and said there was nothing to see her and destroyed millions and millions of Tylenol capsules. They obviously knew if an outsider had tested they would find a lot more capsules with cyanide in it. I cannot believe they kept up this for years. I thought it was some maniac running around the streets of Chicago, but that clearly was not the case. I’m really glad the documentary has aired. [/quote]

I believe this too. And I think John Lewis was just a criminal weirdo who capitalized on the news to try to make a buck. The fact he hated J&J probably gave him more motivation to extort them. Based on how poorly he committed his crimes I have a hard time believing he pulled off pill tampering. Although it was weird he was at the store when one of the women who died purchased a bottle. But if they were in lots of bottles around town that could be coincidence.[/quote]

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