CBS Chicago interviewed family members, attorneys, and law enforcement officers whose lives were forever impacted by the murders. The victims' last moments to stories from inside the internal investigation are documented throughout the interviews. Forty years later, the poisoning murders still send a ...
more than anything else, established a basis for trust with their customers. Within a year of the disaster, J&J’s share of the analgesic market, which had fallen to 7 percent from 37 percent following the poisoning, had climbed back to 30 percent. ...
The first letter sent was threatening the white house to continue the poisonings and the second was also threatening the white house that he was going to bomb it. The only problem about this suspect was that he was in New York for about 27 days before the murders. This is a problem ...
Tylenol Poisonings Case Study In the fall of 1982, McNeil Consumer Products, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, was confronted with a crisis when seven people on Chicago's West Side died mysteriously. Authorities determined that each of the people that died, had ingested an Extra-Strength Tylen...
shelves, infected with cyanide and returned to the shelves (Mitchell 1989). In 1982, Tylenol controlled 37 percent of its market with revenue of about $1.2 million. Immediately after the cyanide poisonings, its market share was reduced to seven percent (Mitchell 1989). However the ...
New revelations have surfaced about the origin of the infamous Tylenol poisonings nearly three decades ago.
McNeilab recalled Tylenol from store shelves nationwide after seven people in the Chicago area died from cyanide poisoning in September and October, 1982. McNeilab instituted a $50-million lawsuit against the insurance company in 1982, claiming that the wholesale recall of Tylenol was covered under...
Her mom hid them in storage boxes, hoping to give her kids a normal childhood, as far as possible from headlines warning of fear, poisoning and death. Now those headlines are here on Kasia’s table — a reminder of a tragedy that tore through her family, and of the missing pieces in ...