In 1982, seven people were murdered in the Chicago area after unknowingly taking Tylenol pills that were spiked by a killer. Now, investigators are looking at DNA evidence to try to identify who did it.
Laura Morgan was only 3 years old in 1982 when her mother, Linda Morgan, bought a bottle of Tylenol from her local grocery store to ease the pain of an aching leg.
"I had the bottle open. I looked at one of the capsules," Linda, now 75, told Savini in her first interview since the events."And then I thought, no, I'll just take aspirin instead. I could have been the eighth victim."On Oct. 28, 1982, CBS Chicago's Terry Anzur reported that Linda and her husband, DuPage County Judge Lewis Morgan, both touched the bottle. Authorities took the judge's fingerprints to eliminate him as a suspect.
That same day, Laura also provided to police one of her dad's old smoking pipes to obtain his DNA. He died in 2018."I'm assuming there's got to be some other DNA on that bottle," Laura said of the bottle her mother purchased in 1982."They have something. If they need DNA, if they need my cheek swabbed, if they need evidence from the past people, from the past DNA, they must have something that they are running or retesting.
Kristen Mittelman, the chief development officer at Othram, agreed to an interview on the condition that she would not discuss cases the company is working on, like the Tylenol murders. "And when we look at all these markers … we're able to get really distant relationships," she said."So we can get a fifth cousin here or a fourth cousin here and a third cousin here. Not the relatives you see or you know, but all these really distant relationships. And then you can figure out how far this piece of the puzzle is from all these relationships and fit it onto a family tree exactly where it belongs.
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