Who really laced Tylenol with cyanide? This true-crime series examines alarming theories behind the unsolved killings — and tracks down a key suspect.
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00:01I was eight years old.
00:03I remember my mom coming out of the bathroom and saying,
00:07I feel weird.
00:08They said, my brother Aaron got a heart attack.
00:11I says, what are you talking about?
00:12He's a very healthy person.
00:14Paula was murdered.
00:16She was just murdered.
00:17The next I know, I'm watching my mom go out on a stretcher.
00:21These are not all heart attacks.
00:23Something's killing them.
00:25There were six capsules missing,
00:27and there are three victims.
00:30I said, it has to be Tylenol.
00:33It was a new way for a mass murder.
00:37Tylenol.
00:38Tylenol.
00:39You found cyanide in Tylenol.
00:41Innocent people were poisoned to death for no reason.
00:45There was terror.
00:46There was fear.
00:47This product may be contaminated.
00:50Nothing to this magnitude had ever happened before.
00:53Don't use Tylenol.
00:55What kind of person did this?
00:58James Lewis, he's a real-life boogeyman.
01:01You think I'm going to open this and get my fingerprints all over it?
01:07When it comes to the FBI, he was their obsession.
01:11He was the only one they thought did it.
01:13The investigation was problematic from the start.
01:18Why are we not digging and asking more questions?
01:22There was really only one way out of this crisis.
01:26And that was for them to be seen as a victim of a madman.
01:30So if anyone asks me if I still use Tylenol, my answer is yes.
01:36They're barking up the wrong tree.
01:38They will never solve the Tylenol homicides.
01:42Now the product is triple sealed.
01:45There is absolutely no reason that this could ever happen again.
01:49But it happens.
01:51The entire narrative suddenly looks a little more suspect.
01:56You have to follow the evidence wherever the evidence takes you.
02:21So let me tell you.
02:22It may have been for the environment.
02:24But now, what you've done is?
02:26Now the idea of the evidence is that it's not soluble.
02:27The evidence will be taken so shallow.
02:29And the evidence needs to be found too much.
02:31The evidence is to suggest that it's not causing you.
02:33To get your brain.
02:35And to find your brain.
02:36You have to think that it doesn't puisse me.