The Headache Tablet Murders

A bunch of people suddenly drop dead for no reason - the only thing they have in common? They had all just taken tablets for a headache. It doesn't take long for doctors and police to figure out that the painkillers they had taken were laced with cyanide - and the whole world went into a TOTAL PANIC. How did a deadly poison get into tablets that pretty much everyone has in their home? Who put the cyanide in there? And why? The Chicago Tylenol murders and the Excedrin murders of the 1980s are the reason we now sell all medications in tamper-proof packaging, because back then, anyone could open a bottle of headache tablets up, put poison in the capsules, then put it back on the shelf in the pharmacy without anybody noticing. You just had to hope you weren't the one who picked up the headache tablets that could kill you...

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Bitter Almonds by Gregg Olsen: https://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Almonds-Mothers-Daughters-Seattle/dp/0312982003

Forensic Files ep about Stella Nickell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZi3lUmN7FE

Murderpedia page: https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/nickell-stella.htm

Chicago Tylenol Murder info:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/tylenol-murders-1982

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

Contraceptive Pill/Blood Clot articles:https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/the-pill-blood-clots-vs-coronavirus-vaccine/

https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-pill-causes-clots-too-why-no-outrage-20210410-p57i3w.html

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/how-common-are-blood-clots-on-the-contraceptive-pill

Pain and Prejudice by Gabrielle Jackson:https://www.booktopia.com.au/pain-and-prejudice-gabrielle-jackson/book/9781760878665.html

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