What if you suspected your father was the infamous Tylenol Murderer?
3/31/20261 hr 2 min
A man grows up in a home defined by violence, secrecy, and fear, and decades later a deathbed confession confirms his belief that his father was responsible for the Chicago Tylenol murders, forcing him to reckon with a lifetime shaped by trauma and silence.
Today’s episode featured Joseph Cibelli. Joe is a former salon entrepreneur turned author, legal scholar, and forensic psychologist. He wrote The Tylenol Murders: A Father’s Confession to His Son, which investigates the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders.
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First 90 secondsWhit Missildine· Host0:00
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Whit Missildine· Host0:19
Hi, listeners. Today we reach an incredible milestone on the show, celebrating our four hundredth episode. When I first started this work, I thought I'd be lucky if I made it to fifty or maybe a hundred episodes. And here we are fourteen years after the show was launched, with still many, many more stories to come. With each episode, each season, and each year, my gratitude for being able to do this work and for all of you only continues to grow. We have a very special episode today to mark this occasion, but it requires a little context as it involves the infamous Tylenol murders of 1982. In September and October of that year, seven people died after ingesting over-the-counter pills of Tylenol that had been laced with potassium cyanide. This led to a nationwide panic, and immediately after, the introduction of sweeping regulations mandating tamper-proof safety seals on all pharmaceutical packaging, which are still required today. Despite extensive investigation, the case of who poisoned the pills remains unsolved, and it's considered to be one of the most consequential unsolved crimes in American history. But today's storyteller, Joseph Cibelli, believes