On September 29, 1982, seven people in Chicago died after taking Extra Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Officials have long cited the scarcity of physical evidence and apparent lack of motive to explain why they never solved the Tylenol murders. However, new revelations and information not previously disclosed tell a very different story of a crime that should have been solved. In a story both fascinating and dramatic in its warnings, The Tylenol Mafia rips away the facade of an investigation that J&J CEO James Burke labeled "A demonstration without parallel of government and...

Seven people died near Chicago after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules on September 29, 1982. The Tylenol murders case - the most extensively covered news story since the assassination of John F. Kennedy - has perplexed federal, state, and local authorities for 30 years. Now, this riveting expose tells the story not reported in the news media of an inquiry led astray from the start and marred by the mishandling and destruction of evidence. Drawing on thousands of archived news articles, police reports, court documents, interviews with the prime suspects, and interviews with authorities...

The man who led the investigation into the 1982 Tylenol murders says James Lewis - convicted in 1983 of writing an extortion letter demanding $1 million to stop the killings - is probably the Tylenol killer. The U.S. Parole Commission declared that James Lewis was indeed the Tylenol killer. In 2009, the Tylenol murders investigation was reactivated and the FBI searched Lewis's apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Is Lewis a legitimate suspect? Or, has he been unjustly vilified by frustrated investigators seeking a scapegoat? Lewis has repeatedly refused to be interviewed about the Tylenol...

The extraordinary comeback of Tylenol following the 1982 Tylenol murders in Chicago was underscored on February 7, 1986, when Johnson & Johnson received news that Tylenol had captured its largest share ever of the over-the-counter analgesic market. That night, in a home just outside New York City, a young woman took two Tylenol capsules and went to bed. She was found dead the next morning. The woman's Tylenol bottle was brought to the coroner's office and opened by a toxicologist who immediately detected the telltale scent of bitter almonds-the aroma of cyanide. A frightening thought entered...