00:00Someone bought Tylenol from ordinary stores in Chicago, opened the bottles, swapped the pills
00:05for cyanide, then put them back on the shelves. In the fall of 1982, seven people died. They had
00:12headaches, fevers. They reached for something in their medicine cabinet and never recovered.
00:18The victims had nothing in common. Different neighborhoods, different ages. They never met
00:23each other. The only connection was a bottle with a broken seal. Over a hundred federal agents worked
00:29the case. It became one of the largest manhunts in American history. They never found the killer,
00:35never found a motive, nothing. What they did find was a gap in the entire system. Nobody had thought
00:41about it before. Nobody had to. Within months, every consumer product in the country was redesigned.
00:47Sealed caps, foil liners, tamper-evident rings, the kind you peel off every single morning without
00:53thinking about it. That small piece of plastic on your medicine bottle exists because someone
00:58poisoned strangers and disappeared forever. They were never found. The case is still open.
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