We’ve become quite good at protective systems - blister packs, video cameras. This was before all the video surveillance we have now, but it does make me wonder, as much as we feel uncomfortable with all the cameras in public places - 1984! - if they had them then, maybe the killer would have been nabbed visiting a few Jewels to return boxes of poisoned Extra Strength Tylenol. Lewis was never charged in the actual killings, however, and not for lack of trying. An approach that Boeing would have done well to emulate when they were tap-dancing and blame-shifting around the 737 Max fiasco. Lewis went to prison for 12 years for trying to extort money from Johnson & Johnson, whose response to the killings became a textbook example of how corporations should react to disaster - they pulled 31 million bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol off the shelves nationwide, writing off some $100 million in 1982 dollars. There is a lot of crazy in the world.īut not a lot of justice. Others just wanted to hurt strangers, for the fun of it. Why? Some were disaffected spouses who saw a chance to murder their mates. That is perhaps the most jarring aspect of the Tylenol killings, one not mentioned in the recent coverage. I guess the justification is that some people don’t know.īecause they would. “Tylenol? Funny you should mention that.” We only need a pretext, a transition, any excuse to unspool the tale once again. Kaczynski died in June, a suicide - finally hurting someone who deserved it - bringing up his crimes all over again. It wasn’t much help his brother ended up turning him in, after recognizing the style of the writing in the rambling manifesto he forced two newspapers to print. Living in a cabin in Montana, he conducted his bombing campaign - 16 bombs over 17 years - while the government fruitlessly tried to track him down, distributing a drawing from a witness who saw him at a post office, a man in sunglasses and a hoodie. Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was a little older - his first bomb exploded, at Northwestern University, two days after his 36th birthday. Yes, it’s sometimes administered unjustly in an overburdened and racist criminal justice system. He was executed in 2001 McVeigh is as eloquent an argument for the death penalty as I can imagine. Timothy McVeigh was 26 when he blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children in a day care center.
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